That’s the reason for the policy against certain types of price comparisons. Which didn’t happen here, so it’s not the reason for the OP’s situation.
Yeah, I think it was simple mistake. They fixed it - no harm, no foul.
OP, how did you contact them to reinstate your reviews? Chat, email, phone, a combination of those?
I just had 3 reviews rejected and all past reviews deleted, as yours were, and wondered if it was because I was behind a VPN.
I started with a chat, but the agent couldn’t help. I then went to email, I think.
As it turns out, they are still rejecting some or all of my new reviews. I sent a storm of indignant email yesterday, but no answer yet.
Sorry to hear you’ve got the same problem. I have VPN but I never use it while at Amazon, so it wasn’t a factor in my case.
I’ve given them no reason to do this. It’s got to be a bug in their algorithms.
If someone else already brought this up, I missed it. Is it possible the seller or their sock is busy reporting unfavorable reviews, trying to get them taken down by hook or by crook? They’re depending on the slow semi-automated bureaucracy to work in their favor. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen in other online venues.
There’s no way a regular Amazon customer could know that. Is there?
No, don’t think so.
I wonder if sellers including less reputable ones are reporting “suspicious” reviews more commonly these days, since Amazon eliminated comments on reviews.
“If we can’t defend our product against these criticisms, we’ll cast suspicion on the reviewer.”
All my reviews got nuked. I suspect it was because of this one review I posted for a Trump flag.
I gave this product 5 stars because I’m an incredibly stupid person. The fabric is as substantial as the fabric of Donald Trumps character - it’s incredibly thin (unlike Donald Trump’s rear end, which is very fat) and flimsy. If this fabric was a person it would sell its press secretary to Kim Jong Un for a bag of stale Big Macs.
The pole is as rigid as the ones that hold up the Wall in Pence’s homoerotic fever dreams, the dreams where he wrestles throbbing hordes of naked sweaty muscular migrant men across the border and back to Mexico where they belong, while his Mommy sips gin straight from the bottle and watches from the other bed in the garish hotel room where the red neon flashing sign screams Trump Trump Trump …we were talking about the flag, right? The pole is very stiff.
The big word on the flag rhymes with Chump, Hump, Dump, Rump and Plump and the text is white, as is the subtext. You don’t wave this flag, it waves you.
At night it flutters softly in the breeze and whispers Sean Hannity’s name. Sometimes it speaks Russian, go figure. But it doesn’t collude! No Collusion!
Ironically, it was made in China.
Update 1- It fell completely apart after the first use and it’s now as tattered and droopy as the Trump family jewels but I’m sure that was the fault of a big radical left socialist liberal conspiracy. It couldn’t be that it was weak and incapable of doing its job. So I’m still giving it 5 stars because I continue to be stupid and incapable of learning anything.
Update 2- It’s not waterproof. (accompanied by a photo, viral at the time, of a Trump flag underwater
I submitted the review 4 times before it was accepted and posted. I’m not sure why they accepted it, my thought was that there was a real person somewhere making the judgements and I finally found one with the mindset to let it go up.
Then I got a couple of hundred people to upvote it, making it the top review. It stayed up for at least a year. Now I don’t think I can review anymore, but it was so worth it.
I don’t care about what Amazon thinks about my reviews, but what if my rejected review has a bit of info for potential buyers of that item that could be important to that buyer?
Conversely, what if another customer has a different item that I might be interested in, but their review was rejected?
I contacted them three ways. Chat, email and phone. So far no resolution but that could come after the weekend. I am quite hopeful that the reviews I have left over the months and years will be restored and that J. Bezos will again regain the title as richest person thanks to my reviews.
I don’t get it. My reviews are there to aid buyers of Amazon products to make informed decisions and further enrich the pockets of the site owners , so why summarily cut off a long-time customer from posting reviews unless they are so big and I am so little that I don’t matter?
I’ve been a once in a while reviewer when the product showed an advance or convenience over other items I tried or had experience with. Perhaps #of reviews per time period pops up a red flag?
Side note: I use a Dollar Store spaghetti fork thingy for the itchy back. My wife always carefully washes it before serving company.
C’mon, live a little. Scrounge up a buck and get another one for the kitchen.
Do you think I’m made of money? I’m on a fixed income with an itchy back. They are up to $1.50 now - plus tax. And. Cheaper in construction. It’s a perfectly cromulent solution.
Yup. Last year I was given a 12 hour ban on Twitter for hate speech and I was instructed I must remove my hurtful post to be restored even after that. What horrible term did I use, you ask?
Come on, I bet some of you can guess
“Maine Coon”!!
I of course protested that Maine Coon is in fact the breed name of the cat I was talking about, and has a different origin entirely than the racial slur. This got me a written apology and unbanned within the hour. I wasn’t alone and within a day or so they apparently taught the algorithm that the phrase “Maine Coon” is okay because people stopped getting bans.
I wish I knew what got me banned. Amazon can’t or won’t give me any info.
What I’m getting from this is that the quality of Amazon reviews is likely going downhill.
Facebook has no problem with Maine Coon groups.
I guess I have to take back my praise of Amazon’s customer service. I still think it’s great with respect to actual product issues, but it seems their algorithms for reviews suck and they aren’t doing anything about it.
I take reviews with a grain of salt anyway. They’re useful if one finds a consistent trend among credible reviewers, but otherwise, there seems to be hardly any product, no matter how excellent, that doesn’t have someone complaining about something. One of my remarkable recent experiences when in the market for a new washing machine was reading reviews – not just on Amazon, but everywhere. Judging from these reviews, all washing machines are crap. No good one is made anywhere. I finally bought one of the least bad (but still allegedly horrible) and guess what – it’s just fine!
This is what I basically think of reviews …
… or this:
I’ve discovered that if you plan to leave a detailed review or comment, do it as a separate document first and then copy and paste it from that document. That way, if they yank your review you can still edit the review and copy/paste it again instead of having to re-do the whole thing. I know this because I left a negative review about dealing with a seller and Amazon yanked it because it wasn’t a review strictly about the product.
When Amazon is now rejecting my reviews, they lock me out of attempting to resubmit the review.
Over the last two or three weeks (when this all started), I haven’t written a review that is even remotely sketchy.