Happened to me when I saw a book on the US site, I wasn’t able to see all reviews, but there was a button to sort-of “apply” to get approved for seeing all of them.
It took five days, then I got this email.
Interestingly, they’re not doing this on the European site, you can still see all reviews there.
Stores everywhere…it’s time to cut out the middleman (again). Getting an ecommerce website is not rocket science anymore.
How bout you don’t use fucking Amazon.
Stop buying anything on Amazon
I haven’t bought much from Amazon in years, but them being so prolific meant there were lots of reviews for me to read before buying the product somewhere else.
Pathetic.
Amazon becoming like the Superstore.
Interestingly, they’re not doing this on the European site, you can still see all reviews there.
I wonder why this might be…
I’ve used Amazon for many years. I hadn’t written a lot of reviews. Recently I’ve been getting a lot of shitty products. So I started writing bad reviews. Maybe others are doing the same now too.
Lots of their electronics options are these really TEMU-tier garbage specs with half a mile of promotional material between the “Buy” button and the details/reviews.
You really need to know what you’re trying to buy, how to use the filters to screen out the crap, and even then its a gamble. Amazing to feel the temptation to just go to Best Buy.
Best Buy is great. They have this thing called a “store”, which I guess is what they use to store all the products? Anyway, you can just drive there and they ship the product directly into your hands! It’s crazy. I hope it catches on.
Best Buy is great.
Never thought I would ever read that. They were famous for their pushy staff. I absolutely hated going there. The last time I was in a Best Buy, Amazon was still a bookstore. I had a cart with $2000 worth of products that I couldn’t buy at Staples, Office Max, or Target. The cashier pissed me off so badly with their persistant warranty upsell that I left everything at the register and walked out.
There’s a lot of fakes mixed in with regular inventory because individual sellers can send their products to have Amazon fulfill orders for them and Amazon just mixes inventory all together. This is why I don’t buy a lot of name brand stuff from Amazon, especially things like shampoo as you don’t know what you’re getting.
They did actually stop co-mingling lately
Too late. That should have never been a thing in the first place. It’s common sense that it would be a problem.
Doesn’t matter much in relation to reputational damage.
AI prevention?
Wooooooow. This is some of the biggest bs i’ve ever seen.
Maybe because most Americans don’t like to read and reviews are useless.
I’d bet this is a move to prevent their reviews from being used to train competing AI systems.
Write product reviews using Amazon reviews, stuff with affiliate link, profit
Cognitive dark foresty
Or possibly if a product gets a lot of reviews in a short time, to prevent review bombing
They’ve been under pressure in the EU to tackle fake reviews. Might be something to do with that.
I saw the same restriction on the Swedish site
There is a lot of stuff where it’s hard to find alternatives to Amazon, but books aren’t really one of those items. Ditch Amazon, support your local book store. Your prime membership pays for Jeff Bezos’ next helicopter ride while his employees are pissing in bottles during shift or just lying around dead somewhere
I’ll hop on down to my local electronics store and buy my ICs and custom li-ion batteries.
thanks!
Here in the UK they’ll sometimes remove negative reviews as “off topic” anyway.
Reviews? Can’t trust 'em.
