The seller in question was selling items they didn’t have at a nearly 50% markup.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    It’s explicitly against Amazon’s ToS to incentivize reviews, or write/modify reviews in exchange for any kind of compensation. This includes the typical business card included in the box with the product pleading for 5 stars and promising “free gifts” or store credits. When I still used Amazon, any time I got one of those it was the only thing I mentioned in my review.

    I don’t know if anyone actually meaningfully enforces this, but quite a few things I’ve reviewed in such a way seemed to disappear from the site more quickly than usual.

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      20 hours ago

      Amazon doesn’t care because they are making money. Good luck getting them to actually fix the problems.