Aukey Kicked Off Amazon After Fake Reviews Scandal

[ChapsTheMatzav]

I'm We're waiting for you to stop trolling.

You made a statement. Back it up. 

[Yehuda57]

Excuse my crude screenshot editing skills. This is one account, and what followed an admittedly not smart Vine strategy, but even then we have over a 50% rate of getting more than 15 reviews.

Now, for the ones that didn't get a lot of Vine reviews, they are ALL rated above 4 stars, usually 4.6+ with at least a hundred reviews. (except for one brand new one). These are all private label products save for 2. Not one single fake review (except perhaps a couple of negative reviews from competitors, though that's tough to prove).

[ChapsTheMatzav]

Excuse my crude screenshot editing skills. This is one account, and what followed an admittedly not smart Vine strategy, but even then we have over a 50% rate of getting more than 15 reviews.

Now, for the ones that didn't get a lot of Vine reviews, they are ALL rated above 4 stars, usually 4.6+ with at least a hundred reviews. (except for one brand new one). These are all private label products save for 2. Not one single fake review (except perhaps a couple of negative reviews from competitors, though that's tough to prove).

So you don't get 30 reviews a product?
Can you post the ASIN or the product link?

[Yehuda57]

So you don't get 30 reviews a product?

What is your contention, that if you only get 27 or 29 reviews on Vine your product won't take off?

Can you post the ASIN or the product link?

For various reasons, I won't post links. Though if you really want to take a deep dive through my post history, you might be able to find the account I work for.

[ChapsTheMatzav]

For various reasons, I won't post links. Though if you really want to take a deep dive through my post history, you might be able to find the account I work for.

It doesn't have to be your product.
You can post the link to any product with 30 Vine reviews.

[Yehuda57]

Just to recap:

What is your contention, that if you only get 27 or 29 reviews on Vine your product won't take off?

No. If you get about 4-5 (which is what I believe most people get.)

over a 50% rate of getting more than 15 reviews.
Now, for the ones that didn't get a lot of Vine reviews, they are ALL rated above 4 stars, usually 4.6+ with at least a hundred reviews.

Which of course doesn't include the other products we launched successfully without Vine or Early Reviewer.

PUOSU, or

You made a statement. Back it up. 

[yerushabubby]

Personally, I always start by reading the critical reviews.  True, many of them are a bit ridiculous (didn't like the color, shipping issue, made a mistake by ordering wrong size etc.) but overall find them to be much more revealing about the product.  I then make a decision about how important the (genuine) flaws are to me, what percentage seem to be lemons, etc. before deciding whether to order.

[yzj]

Seriously?

I’m not going to sit on my high horse and preach that Hashem sends parnassa and he doesn’t need you to help him by compromising on emes and do we just give lip service when we say parnassa is from Hashem etc. etc. because I’m not quite holding there either. To some degree we all have room to improve in this area. So why even bring it up? I guess it’s just a bit disquieting that it became such a lichatchila that no one even bats an eyelash about it.

[Lurker]

I’m not going to sit on my high horse and preach that Hashem sends parnassa and he doesn’t need you to help him by compromising on emes and do we just give lip service when we say parnassa is from Hashem etc. etc. because I’m not quite holding there either. To some degree we all have room to improve in this area. So why even bring it up? I guess it’s just a bit disquieting that it became such a lichatchila that no one even bats an eyelash about it.

I was just a bit incredulous that the thought that an honest livelihood could be made was questioned. I guess nothing should surprise me anymore.

[yzj]

I was just a bit incredulous that the thought that an honest livelihood could be made was questioned. I guess nothing should surprise me anymore.

I misunderstood your post

[yelped]

I was just a bit incredulous that the thought that an honest livelihood could be made was questioned. I guess nothing should surprise me anymore.

That guy is a serious troll.

[lcm]

While this particular poster may be a troll , there are plenty of people who believe the only way to be successful on Amazon is with shtick. As @yuneeq and I have posted many, many times, that is not true. You are better off building a business on a solid "straight" foundation than on a krumeh dreis that will crumble and fall.

Don't worry, I didn't think that just because of that train of thought.

On a different note, aside for reading the critical reviews as mentioned, I've found it helpful to change the sort to most recent, instead of most helpful which can easily be manipulated.

On a different note, what about selling reviews to bash competitors. Does that exist?
Further, it seems like you can rate without leaving a review, and you can't even tell if the rationg came from a verified purchase.

[ChapsTheMatzav]

There are multiple articles on this.

tomsguide

TalkAndroid

Marketplace Pulse



Here's the one that caught the fake review solicitors.

SafetyDetectives



Aukey has been kicked off Amazon after being caught soliciting fake reviews.
(Years ago a family member of mine had gotten a few free Aukey products by leaving a five star review.)

Aukey products are still being sold by other sellers on Amazon, just not the Aukey official store.

We are up to 2 likes! Anyone else?

[ChapsTheMatzav]

Don't worry, I didn't think that just because of that train of thought.

On a different note, aside for reading the critical reviews as mentioned, I've found it helpful to change the sort to most recent, instead of most helpful which can easily be manipulated.

On a different note, what about selling reviews to bash competitors. Does that exist?
Further, it seems like you can rate without leaving a review, and you can't even tell if the *rating* came from a verified purchase.

By the Yidden I don't think that its that common...

[ChapsTheMatzav]

That guy is a serious troll.

Get with the program.

[elihak7]

We are up to 2 likes! Anyone else?

You’ll soon get kicked off ddf for false likes...

[Yehuda57]

On a different note, what about selling reviews to bash competitors. Does that exist?

If you can think of it, it exists. People pay for fake positive reviews, fake negatives, fake up votes, fake down votes (even after Amazon removed the feature, it can still be accessed if you know a couple tricks), and plenty more that I don't know about.

[Lurker]

That guy is a serious troll.

I'm not buying that.

[yungermanchik]

I'm not buying that.

How about if he offers you an Amazon gift card to?

[Lurker]

I'm not buying that.

Changed my mind.