Amazon is cracking down on product reviews on free and discounted items!
Many of you have gone through clubs that offer free and discounted products for your “honest” review on products sold on Amazon. Unfortunately for you, Amazon is ending this practice. I think it’s a good move on Amazon’s part, because I can’t imagine these “reviewing” companies wanting to keep using you as a reviewer if you are leaving negative feedback. So that would suggest that to stay on and get more free stuff, you would need to leave some type of positive review. In other words, the reviews may not be completely honest.
The exception to this rule is Amazon Vine members – of which the program is ran through Amazon itself. Amazon Vine members even pay income tax on their free items. This is the only totally legit way to get free items and review them on Amazon per Amazon rules. As far as I know, there is no way that I know of to get “picked” for the Vine program – Amazon just sends invitations to people who they feel have helpful reviews.
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