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What Just Happened? Amazon Killed the "Incentivised" Reviews!

Please pardon the voice, I'm sick as a dog right now! As for the sparkle effect on the shirt... gonna use the "sick" card on that, too. Too sick to edit the green screen stuff better... So, this all started with ReviewMeta, who put out a video (   • Data Proves Amazon Reviews with "Free or D...  ) that picked apart the idea of the "incentivised" review - one that was given in exchange for a discounted or free item. They claim that these reviews were massively biased. Since then, Amazon has made a change to their Community Guidelines (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom..., effectively killing this practice. Thanks, ReviewMeta. The troublesome part of all of this is that ReviewMeta stirred up this little controversy so that people would use their service, which claims to block out these "bad" reviews. Of course, when you use their website to shop, and then buy things on Amazon, they get a percentage of those sales, since they are an Amazon Associate. One of those things that might have looked less shady if they'd put some sort of disclaimer in their video... much like these so-called bad reviews were doing. In the end, it's Amazon's world, so we're all just going to have to like it or lump it. But there are a lot of professional reviewers who gave you some great, informative reviews, even when the bias of free products lurked behind them. The world isn't black and white, and neither were these types of reviews. I thought Amazon was doing the right thing in letting the community itself police reviews with their "helpful" voting system, which promoted the best reviewers, and buried the bad ones. So, what's that mean for reviewers like me? Less exposure to new stuff from smaller companies, who will now have to find new ways to advertise, which probably means spending more money. Which means higher product costs. Professional reviewers will still tell you about what they buy and love, waiting ever so patiently for the magical invitation to join the Amazon Vine program. Oh, and ReviewMeta? What does your algorithm filter out going forward? You guys started the ball rolling, but you might have just crushed your business, too.