Shoe laces for 10 cents

[Euclid]

A package insert ≠ mailing you something AFTER the order

Can a seller add a arbitrary package insert with FBA?

[Yehuda57]

Can a seller add a arbitrary package insert with FBA?

You can add package inserts, but there are rules about what it can say. Offering gift cards for reviews is a serious breach of TOS that would likely suspend the entire account.

[Yo ssi]

You can add package inserts, but there are rules about what it can say. Offering gift cards for reviews is a serious breach of TOS that would likely suspend the entire account.

But I've seen it all the time. Although not much recently and certainly never this.

[Yehuda57]

But I've seen it all the time. Although not much recently and certainly never this.

Plenty of sellers do it, absolutely. They break many other rules as well.

[mevinyavin]

It is possible the seller is collecting positive reviews and will change the listing to something expensive and fake.
Dan wrote something about this possibility when that "free" computer deal was going around.

[Yehuda57]

It is possible the seller is collecting positive reviews and will change the listing to something expensive and fake.
Dan wrote something about this possibility when that "free" computer deal was going around.

I'm interested in knowing how the seller got the buyer's address on a FBA order. That's a whole nother level of scam.

[Redbull3]

I don't understand why they couldn't include this with the original order and saved themselves a bit more than 10 cents.

Got this in the mail today, the QR doesn't seem to work..is it A'sacam?



jiujiangshifenxialingmaoyiyouxiangongsi ain't getting no review from me, sorry!

Hahaha I got this too. I left the review, I'm waiting for it to post, then I'll email them for the $5. I was going to wait until  I got it in hand before I posted here lol. I think it'll work, I got a very similar looking letter from something else and tried it out and they paid out. We'll see

[Redbull3]

I vote scam 

Oh darn. Wish I saw this lol

[sillypainter]

Got the same thing for a neck massager.  Those Chinese never sleep. I wouldn't think it's a scam, it's just simply a way to collect reviews.

[Yehuda57]

Got the same thing for a neck massager.  Those Chinese never sleep. I wouldn't think it's a scam, it's just simply a way to collect reviews.

1) They're collecting reviews to sell a completely different item with the reviews generated by the shoelace "giveaway". That is a scam.
2) Leaving a review in exchange for a GC without disclosing it in your review* is not only against Amazon's rules but it also goes against FTC laws. Doing that is being dishonest and as much as it is nice to get free stuff, it destroys your own ability to trust reviews the next time you want to buy something. It may not be a "scam" in the way people use the word, but it is most definitely dishonest.
3) Was your massager shipped by Amazon? Did you receive the note in the mail *after* you received the item, or was it a package insert?

*The only way to leave a review while disclosing you received it for free is through the Vine program. If you disclosed that you got a gift for the review it would b taken down. So there is no way to *honestly* leave a review on Amazon while receiving compensation from the seller. 

[yuneeq]

I'm interested in knowing how the seller got the buyer's address on a FBA order. That's a whole nother level of scam.

IIRC they request a report from Amazon for "sales tax" purposes, and that report includes addresses.