Amazon perma-bans 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

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I give this article 3.5 stars as slight problem but seller responsive.

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Funny because Amazon uk banned me from reviewing products for around a month after I left a review, including a photo, of a Chinese company which included a product card in the box which would refund in full what I paid if I only just left them a 5 star review.
After a back and forth with Amazon customer support, and only after getting a CS rep from the UK, they finally lifted my review ban.
You're apparently, according to them, not allowed expose products or companies in public for manipulation of reviews and bribery.
Yeah...

The product and the company are still operating on Amazon UK. The product was just a shower head, massive number of 5 star reviews for it, I gave it one star, that's what it was worth, if even, it was totally useless.

Never ever ever trust reviews on Amazon.

Good.

honestly they should just ban all these chinese sellers

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Originally Posted by will19565

honestly they should just ban all these chinese sellers

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Why would/should they do that?

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Originally Posted by will19565

honestly they should just ban all these chinese sellers

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Is it because they're Chinese? Because we have a word for doing things because of where people are from...

I did report one of those "Cash back for review" cards when I bought something but it felt like it was very much ignored. Maybe they were just saving them up for this?

Glad they finally did something, sometimes you want the cheap tat and I usually end up on eBay for that stuff these days. But yeah maybe the net was cast a bit wide. It's not like there will be a right to review the issue.

Funny re then asking their own brand stuff, I guess it's the same in supermarkets. I guess it's just about trust and transparency (or lack of).

600? Lol.

I have access to a site that basically gives you free stuff from Amazon in exchange for reviews. They covered an absolute plethora of "brands" that were likely relabels of each other to attempt to float under the radar.

Just checked this morning and it's basically dead - normally there are bucketloads of products available to order, but today virtually nothing. And half of those are going to dead links.

I think @jimbouk is correct - Amazon have known about this for a while but have been biding their time.

Good stuff tbh, albeit very late....send this lot back to ebay where they belong!

There is no question that you can, on occasion, get some decent products from these resellers - power banks are typically find, most of the cables etc...but the vast majority is cheap tat with poor copy cat products.

I don't expect amazon to simply stop selling products from Chinese resellers - but I do hope this is the start of them trying to instil some form of quality checking and control over their marketplace system. It's been wide open to abuse for years (and still is, despite this recent crackdown) and is damaging for their brand.
They probably won't though, they still make a LOT of profit from marketplace, and thats despite it being a cheaper platform to sell on than ebay at the moment.

Right well had another look there on Amazon and that shower head is still for sale, majority of reviews are 5 star.
The same company offering refunds for 5 star reviews.
Bought back in January 2019.
Still there operating in September 2021, same item.
Still gaming the reviews.

Now look at the price of all the Amazon branded "umi" etc., items which have replaced the other brands they banned recently, all the bluetooth headphones, buds etc., huge price increases compared to Mpow and the others banned.

Something seems fairly fishy here.

I'm all for banning those gaming the review system, absolutely, but it should be across the board, not selectively banning brands competing with Amazon's brands.

Maybe if Amazon made their own showerheads they might consider banning the others who are gaming their review system.

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Originally Posted by Saracen999

If Chna, as a state, wants to avoid a very unwholesome future reputation for ethics.

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Err...I think that ship sailed long before Tiananmen Square...