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StevenFromTexas

StevenFromTexas

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Jan 12, 2020
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I just did an Amazon.com review and was then invited to join the Amazon Vine program where partipants can select products to be sent to them for review. I hit the decline button and then got a warning that I would not be offered a chance to join again if I really didn't want to join right then. Well, I declined again so I continue to be a peon reviewer like most others. :oops:

Are you a peon reviewer like me? :idk:
 
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Jidetech emailed me and wanted that bizness....sent me a free dome to review 4-5 years ago.....after I bought the jivetech PTZ as my first IP style camera. I can no longer recall if I followed thru or not, but the dome is still up at the Condo.
 
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StevenFromTexas said:
I just did an Amazon.com review and was then invited to join the Amazon Vine program where partipants can select products to be sent to them for review. I hit the decline button and then got a warning that I would not be offered a chance to join again if I really didn't want to join right then. Well, I declined again so I continue to be a peon reviewer like most others. :oops:

Are you a peon reviewer like me? :idk:
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I hate Vine reviews. They are so full of shit. When I look at a products reviews, I filter it for newest and 'verified purchase only'. One product I was looking at, had like 50 something reviews, 90% approval rating...but when filtered, only two 'real' purchase's and they were less then stellar reviews.
 
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SJGUSMC21 said:
I hate Vine reviews. They are so full of shit. When I look at a products reviews, I filter it for newest and 'verified purchase only'. One product I was looking at, had like 50 something reviews, 90% approval rating...but when filtered, only two 'real' purchase's and they were less then stellar reviews.
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Sometimes the Vine reviews are fantastic and very detailed. But let's face it, when someone is giving you a product for free, you're going to be less inclined to give it one or two stars.

I like to look at the one and two star reviews first. Weed out the ones complaining about delayed shipping, for instance, and often you get a good warning of product problems.
 
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Back then one could comment on reviews. Sometimes people are too dumb to use the product and claim shit product. Then it was possible to comment on all those fake reviews.

Good old times..
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Amazon should not have done away with the comments on reviews. Those comments were often quite helpful.
 
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A beef I have is that it's now required to log in to read all but the first few reviews. More big brother tracking.
 
I've been in it for a while now. It's a great deal. No reason not to do it. Up to 3 items/$300 worth of free stuff every day at the Silver level and 8 items/day at unlimited value for Gold. There's no cost or minimum level of reviews that you need to do once in. I think you have to spend at least $50/year on Amazon otherwise to stay in but that's it. The only downside is that you have to pay tax on the value and they report a 1099 if over $600. I mostly just get stuff that I'd buy otherwise. A lot of it is off-brand crap but some good stuff too. Reviews take more time than you might think to do though and it's easy to waste way too much time looking at it.

I agree that most of the Vine reviews are worthless. I generally just skip past them too. Don't know why some people seem to think that you have to write 6 paragraphs of glowing bullshit for everything. I don't write mine like that. I just do it straight up as I would if I'd bought it. There's no incentive to write good reviews and you're not penalized in any way for negative. They did institute a new "Insightfullness" aspect to get more out of reviewers than "It's good." That does cause people to write more nonsense just to tick off the boxes that they want covered, e.g.; value, quality, functionality, etc. And now you have knuckleheads using AI to generate them so even more long-winded bullshit.
 
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