# Amazon wanting me to answer customers questions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858 "2021-06-08T17:35:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/1 "2021-06-08T17:35:07Z")
has anybody else been asked by an amazon customer to answer a question about a product? I am not getting paid by amazon to do customer service work for them . Then when I wrote an email to them stating that the richest man in the world should hire customer service repersantives to handle the questions and to stop bothering me about it. I got a a response of dont talk shit about the might tzar or you will be kicked off . lol what a joke ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/2 "2021-06-08T17:44:28Z")
So you want Amazon to review their _own_ products? ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/3 "2021-06-08T17:50:11Z")
> [@breakneck](#): > > has anybody else been asked by an amazon customer to answer a question about a product? Sure. All the time. If I can answer somebody’s question about a product that I have already purchased, that’s a public service to other potential purchasers. People that answer questions about a product that I am considering benefit me, too. ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/4 "2021-06-08T17:50:30Z")
this was not a review i was nt leaving a review i was being asked a question about the fitment of an engine hone. I am not on amazons salary roll so why should i be answering such questions at all or thought that i should its crazy . hire people for this shit ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/5 "2021-06-08T17:52:14Z")
Amazon is just a storefront. They don’t know anything about what they sell. Fortunately, most people are happy to share their knowledge, to help others. You must not be one of those people. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/6 "2021-06-08T17:52:48Z")
Meh not worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/7 "2021-06-08T17:53:18Z")
I believe you can turn it off somewhere in the settings if you don’t want to get these requests. ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/8 "2021-06-08T17:55:43Z")
its a position that other retailers employee people with its called retail . get it . I am not employed by them to do this service for them and they can easily hire people that would can do this service for them with out a problem . but you know what is keeping him from doing this ? greed that is what . I didnt know after purchasing something on amazon that i would be solicted to answer questions that a qualified reoersative of amazon should . you probally work for them ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/9 "2021-06-08T17:56:42Z")
Maybe you should buy from a different company… ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/10 "2021-06-08T17:58:41Z")
I can’t find a setting in my profile, but I know I stopped them somehow years ago. Take a look at the bottom of one of the emails, maybe there’s an opt-out link there. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/11 "2021-06-08T17:58:45Z")
He should go ask a Walmart floor walker about engine hones. Obviously to work for a company means you have tried and know about every single product of the 100,000s+ products they sell. ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/12 "2021-06-08T17:59:15Z")
Ya from one that has integrity and knowledge of what they sell . And why and how does the person know that i am qualified to answer the questions cuz i just might not be . Having a paid repersantive would insure me as the person asking the questions that i am getting the correct information i need before i purchase . its called retail ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/13 "2021-06-08T18:00:50Z")
You can just ignore the request. ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/14 "2021-06-08T18:02:54Z")
absolutely true. I dont know if i am the only one has bought things from them and they arrive and are nothing as was shown or desribed hiring people top proof read this stuff would be a benifit and the budget allows for it no problem but they dont ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/15 "2021-06-08T18:08:15Z")
If you look below a product at amazon, you will see a Q and A section. People have asked Qs. Some of the answers to those Qs are because Amazon emails out the person’s question to people who have previously ordered the product. This is the email you received. Had you answered the question. You might have showed up as one of the A’s. These answers are screened though, and you didn’t make it through the screening process and got warned for talking smack about Amazon in a way that could have gotten posted below the product had your answer slipped through. ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/16 "2021-06-08T18:09:33Z")
your right that is what i did . because i am not employed by them . employe people for this ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/17 "2021-06-08T18:10:50Z")
Aren’t you doing the very same thing here … to all of us ? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/18 "2021-06-08T18:11:42Z")
for instance about the engine hone. maybe this was the first one i have ever bought how does that qualify me to answer the question of fitment . I have answered rthem before stating i would love to help you out but i am not qualified in doing so and would hate to give you falsi information so you waste your time and money on a product i said would work . thats just dumb ---
**Author:** ![breakneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@breakneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breakneck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/19 "2021-06-08T18:12:44Z")
doing what asking you a question about your own expiernce and what you think of it ? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858/20 "2021-06-08T18:13:14Z")
> [@breakneck](#): > > I got a a response of dont talk shit about the might tzar or you will be kicked off . I think you mean _Night_ Tsar? > **[Night Czar](https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/24-hour-london/night-czar)** > > Meet London's first Night Czar and find out about her work. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-wanting-me-to-answer-customers-questions/943858.md?page=2)