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06-15-2012, 07:20 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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AMAZON - Deleted all my reviews!
I've been an AMAZON Prime Member for 3 years and have spent well over $10k in purchases. I logged in my AMAZON account today to write a review on my Gigabyte Windforce GTX 670 and Turtle Beach z6A Headset and I noticed ALL my reviews were deleted for all my purchases! 
The sad thing is 99% of my reviews are all verified purchases and I've spent a lot of time and thought on them! I was trying to get on their Vine Program!! 
I'm thinking I got caught up in AMAZON's algorithm review sweep... I admit, most of my reviews are quite wordy because I was being real and complete... but still, I didn't get an e-mail, or warning or anything from them... 
Did anyone on ATOT got their AMAZON reviews deleted?
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06-15-2012, 07:22 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: A Warm Place
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so what did AMZ say when you emailed them?
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06-15-2012, 07:23 PM
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Elite Member
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Bellevue, WA
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I was trying to get on their Vine Program!!
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Maybe you were trying a little too hard and raised some red flags. Or your writing was wordy but marked as unhelpful by too many people.
Did you copy any of your review text from other sites?
I've never had reviews deleted but I've only posted a half-dozen of them.
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06-15-2012, 07:24 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
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That would annoy me.
You didn't mention if you contacted them. If so, what did they say?
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06-15-2012, 07:27 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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I haven't contacted them yet... Just found out today a few minutes ago (they were all there yesterday)... Most of my reviews were marked helpful - they weren't bias or anything... All were my own original writing...
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06-15-2012, 07:32 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 8,929
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Destiny
I haven't contacted them yet... Just found out today a few minutes ago (they were all there yesterday)... Most of my reviews were marked helpful - they weren't bias or anything... All were my own original writing...
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Maybe it's just a temporary glitch and it'll reappear later.
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06-15-2012, 07:40 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 15,231
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what is this vine program?
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06-15-2012, 07:44 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: A Warm Place
Posts: 36,765
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Originally Posted by KK
what is this vine program?
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get free shit for writing reviews
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06-15-2012, 07:45 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 18,129
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KK
what is this vine program?
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That's where they send you free stuff to keep as long as you write reviews for it. They seem to be pretty generous too, it's not like a cell phone case or a book. People get some damn expensive items. They also send shit that hasn't officially been released yet.
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They're not usually like hot-hot, but they're like hit it and quit it able.
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06-15-2012, 07:55 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by QueBert
That's where they send you free stuff to keep as long as you write reviews for it. They seem to be pretty generous too, it's not like a cell phone case or a book. People get some damn expensive items. They also send shit that hasn't officially been released yet.
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Yep... I've seen "Vine Reviewers" get HDTVs, Games, Headsets, Media Players, electronics,health and beauty...etc... and alot of them are $100+ ... you just have to write well written reviews and get alot of good "helpful" feedback from them... You get to keep that stuff too!
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Last edited by Destiny; 06-16-2012 at 07:04 AM.
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06-15-2012, 08:08 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 10,799
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At least you had your reviews backed up so you could repost them. Correct?
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06-15-2012, 08:14 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 1,937
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Originally Posted by BladeVenom
At least you had your reviews backed up so you could repost them. Correct?
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Over a 3 year span - I've probably built 3 PCs and clean instealled 5 to 6 times... so sadly they're gone...
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Last edited by Destiny; 06-16-2012 at 07:04 AM.
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06-15-2012, 08:20 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 3,606
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I don't see why you'd care. write new ones? It's not like you'll ever stop buying things from amazon.
Pretty soon, hopefully, we can all do groceries with amazon.
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06-15-2012, 08:21 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Bay Area
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Did you give any negative reviews to Bose products? They are notorious of harassing, suing, and sending cease and desist letters for criticism.
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06-15-2012, 08:26 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 9,296
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Quote:
Originally Posted by borisvodofsky
I don't see why you'd care. write new ones? It's not like you'll ever stop buying things from amazon.
Pretty soon, hopefully, we can all do groceries with amazon.
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I have hundreds of reviews on amazon and would also be upset if they all disappeared. For some products I have the only review, or at least the only review worth jack squat, with a decent overall average of "helpful".
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06-15-2012, 08:31 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Canada
Posts: 7,540
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That does suck... 90% of my Amazon visits are for reviews (in Canada so selection is limited and price is meh).
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06-15-2012, 08:34 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Seattle
Posts: 10,729
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Why is AMAZON capitalized?
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06-15-2012, 08:47 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: A forest in Murovanka.
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AMAZON is just that badass.
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06-15-2012, 09:18 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Newnan, GA USA
Posts: 11,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Destiny
I haven't contacted them yet... Just found out today a few minutes ago (they were all there yesterday)... Most of my reviews were marked helpful - they weren't biased or anything... All were my own original writing...
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FTFY.
Pet peeve of mine.
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06-16-2012, 06:57 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Raleigh. NC
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Reminds me of the time we trolled that lady
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06-16-2012, 07:02 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Imp
That does suck... 90% of my Amazon visits are for reviews (in Canada so selection is limited and price is meh).
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i checked on amazon.ca and actually can't believe what a piece of sh*t it is. A ton of third-party suppliers, it looks like amazon hardly has any of its own stuff in stock, and terrible prices as well.
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06-16-2012, 07:05 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Same price as a Chip-N-Dip!
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lol @ AMAZON, but yeah that sucks.
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I was going to type a serious response, but then I was like, why bother?
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06-16-2012, 07:06 AM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gevorg
Did you give any negative reviews to Bose products? They are notorious of harassing, suing, and sending cease and desist letters for criticism.
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I've written some negative reviews for big brands... but that is after 3 or more months of using the product and giving their customer service a chance to redeem themselves...
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06-16-2012, 10:13 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Seattle
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Don't ignore my question.. I'm seriously interested the thought process behind typing AMAZON in all caps. I wonder what the synapses in your brain were doing to come to that decision, to type it as AMAZON.
It Must Be Related To Why People Sometimes Type Like This. It Absolutely Baffles Me.
I can't be the only one!
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06-16-2012, 10:27 AM
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aka Brandon
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: South Bend
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Quote:
Originally Posted by borisvodofsky
I don't see why you'd care. write new ones? It's not like you'll ever stop buying things from amazon.
Pretty soon, hopefully, we can all do groceries with amazon.
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Did you not read the full OP or the thread? He says very clearly why he cares (trying to get in Vine program)
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