Can You Really Get Paid to do Amazon Reviews?
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Have you seen the ads on Facebook telling you that you can get free items for reviewing products? It thought it was time to look into this and see if it's legitimate or not.
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I find that wholesome. He buys more of the lights because he actually liked them.
I love how he then did a genuine purchase and actually gave them an honest 5* review. It's like being grabbed by a masked guy in an alley who holds a knife to your throat and growls "Take this money!"
@@immortalsofar5314 um, not the same.
@@immortalsofar5314 😏😏
I was hoping he was going to say he liked them, i have the same box sitting on my desk in front of me. And i paid full price lol
it's more like buy 1 get 2
Conclusion:
Not a scam for reviewers.
Just a scam on the Amazon ranking and review system.
Yo your comment is above you
@De Patrick Pixels yo your words are above me
and a scam on the potential buyer
if the items ends up being crap, then it would be a scam on future buyers thinking they are buying something of quality when it's not. I've done this, but luckily the item was great so I didn't feel that bad knowing the next person will not be disappointed.
@@macster1457 If the item was that good they wouldn't need fake reviews
"This is super sketchy. But I got the product.. But I broke the law reviewing it highly.. So I gave a disclaimer that it was a sponsored review.. But the free lights were great so I bought a set." Wild ride.
@Santos Are you really scamming on a channel that exposes scams?
@@bigmac92 he is paraphrasing
i used the money from the scam product to buy another scam product
And that’s what you’re not supposed to do
This was interesting. Mainly because I ignore 4 and 5 star reviews and head straight for the 1 to 2 star reviews. They tell a lot more about the seller and product. A lot of times its people who don't understand modern products and that some can be DOA but other times its a great way to narrow down a product.
Yeah I’ve noticed that many times if it involves tech in any way the buyer doesn’t understand and automatically gives low rating.
I know I'm late to the party (and this video and batch of comments), but I actually do the exact same thing, while also balancing it a little by checking some of the more in depth 3-5 star reviews. It's interesting when a 4 star review elaborates on the issues presented in the other reviews, and offer solutions or work arounds.
i agree, bad reviews are where the good info is, i dont care what a person likes about something........i want to know what they hate about it
Honestly though, its so true. And since doing so its been easier to weed out the (more) legit 1 star reviews and the people grumpy because they didn't read the (sometimes incredibly long) description/disclaimers or just outright had far too high of expectations.
@@Quickicecarreviews123 Saw this on an adapter for I believe DB-15 to USB and a few reviews were just "This is not what I wanted, I needed (less outdated adapter) to USB" like... did you impulse buy this? Lol
I like the lights. They are lighting up your whole office.
*That Onion was compensated for this review
Deadly Chicken don’t tell them. I won’t get the rebate on the vibrator.
I just paid $80 for those light😭
Damn man. This shit is very legit and your blowing up my spot!
Jayson71 ahahaha yo dumbass
Seller: Link is not secure.
Seller then clicks on his IP address extracting link, lol.
Hi, when the seller says link is not secure, the true reason is that when amazon buyer use the link to search the product and place the order, Amazon may know the buyer is a reviewer, then the buyer's review may be rejected by Amazon. The sellers do not want that happen, because it is bad for both store and buyer.
IP belongs to a cloud provider. They were using a VPN.
Didn't follow his own advice lol
The main reason they do this is because if you search for it it's not as suspicious as if you click a link for it searching for it brings actual traffic to the product you are looking for if you don't bring actual traffic then it defeats the purpose of what they're trying to do
also when people search for the product and purchase it, the ranking for the keyword that you searched will go up for them
I once left a bad review on a product I bought and then got an email from the seller telling me that if I deleted my review I would be paid $10 more than what I paid for the item, but in Amazon credit. I told them sure, but if I didn’t get the compensation I would leave another review and mention their proposal. And they actually paid me. The only reason I agreed is because they didn’t ask me to leave a 5 star review instead, just to take down my bad review. I also made them promise to improve the product so others don’t waste their money, and they agreed. I don’t know if they actually did that though. I also got to keep my product.
I got one that beats that. Bought a crappy stereo to test a retrofit, knew the radio was crap but it beat spending the $1500 for the unit I wanted without knowing the outcome
Anyway...
The seller ended up sending me 3 different radios to try and make it "right" and after all was said an done he demanded I leave a 5 star on the item for the refund AFTER paying to ship back the items. Yea naw... two of the units had already been previously sold and I didn't want someone to have to go through this nightmare so I kept them and left an honest review which led to the seller pulling the item off amazon because they couldn't keep up the little scam, so shady lol.
Love the hustle there. Really had a gotcha there and you made sure you got PAID lol
i need to do this xD
I had this, once they sent the gift card over, I put the review back up as the product was shit. Get mugged
The most dodgy thing to watch out for on amazon reviews is when people take an old product listing with a bunch of 5 star reviews, and then edit the listing and sell a different product on the back of the 5 star listings.
A good way to spot this is to look at old reviews and see if they match with the type of product. For example if the listing was for a TV, then you might see old reviews that say stuff like _"It came with free ink, it prints very quickly and the images are great!"_
Which would obviously suggest that the original ratings and reviews were for a printer, and not a TV.
Haha yea, I like the ones where they list a bunch of other items with it too for the same reason knowing lazy people won't even properly describe the item they bought. :P
@@pii-chan8804 Yea, that can be really annoying! They might list a bunch of power supplies from the same manufacturer, 650W, 750W, 850W, 1600W except that maybe the 1600W one has a tendency to explode, but it still has a 5 star rating because people usually only buy the smaller ones.
Yes!! That's what I was thinking too!
I'm thinking Amazon should make it where only a certain percentage of a product page can be changed before recommending making a new product page. At least..i think it would help that issue
It astounds me that Amazon doesn't have a system in place to monitor this! Sellers editing item, esp if all the keywords change (auto flagging system plus a final manual review) -- with a warning & '2 strikes and you're out' type of deal
@@neestovekin8251 Indeed. But you get to know the types of items that this will be done with after a while. It's usually done with stuff from "no name" brands that have no reputation.
When I come across these items I'll always check old reviews and try to find ones that match the description of the current item, and the ratings. Like if it has 1,800 5-star ratings, but the 20 most recent ratings are 1-star then alarm bells start going off.
This is exactly why I’m highly suspicious every time I see a whole bunch of 5 star reviews in a row.
That's why you look at the 3-4 ⭐ reviews 🤔
@@markjacobs1086 Yes I totally agree
@@markjacobs1086 Correct. Any 1 and 2 star reviews I skip unless it's for some homour in the comments.
Everything else I take with a massive grain of salt.
It’s usually pretty easy to spot fake reviews, especially if you know what to look for.
I bought a "tens muscle rehab" device... they said "leave 5 stars and we'll send you 20 more pads."
I did and got 20 more. Heck yeah, I'm going to do that. Screw the damn governments b.s.
As an amazon seller myself, I once gave a free product to the first person that gave me a good review. I didnt ask him to give the review and he fully expected to pay full price. It was a Thank You for a product that I invented myself and manufactured and brought to market. It was my very first review and I got 5 stars. It made me proud of the work I did. So thank you. Reviews are everything and bad reviews will sink the ship. I can understand why it would seem worth it to for a company to pay for good reviews if they cant get them legitimately. You were very likely dealing with a legit import company with some shady ethics but in their defense, Its a dog eat dog world and sometimes you gotta show your teeth. Also fyi, If you clicked the link he sent you it wouldnt be considered a verified purchase and therefore the review wouldn't be accepted. You could have written anything about anything and amazon would approve it as long as its a verified purchase. AND--- I also have those same lights. 5 stars. AND.. love your channel, Keep up the good work.
That's quite nice of you. May I ask what sort of products do you make?
@@thearousedeunuch cocaine
It takes only half a brain to destroy someone with bad reviews on Amazon. I can leave hundreds of 1 star reviews in 1 hour or less.
@@ingo98 can you give good reviews also?
Another way you can thank people for a good review is to ask them if they know anyone else who could also benefit from that product and pay them a referral bonus if someone they refer buys. I also run a business and always offer to pay a commission on any referrals resulting in a sale.
That’s astounding! I thought there was no way they would pay you. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with paying for reviews, but it ought to be disclosed that there was compensation. So, I think you did the right thing here.
Kinda guaranteed to get a Terrible review if you promise to pay and then don't.
Paying for reviews would be alright if they were paying for honest reviews, and not "give us 5 stars even if it's a terrible product."
@@veryberry39 You're still likely to give a higher review than normal, even subconsciously, because they did something nice for you.
So you are really not getting paid for the reviews you are just getting reimbursed for the item so, you're really not making any money.....
My Dad has done some of these reviews. They aren't scams; essentially they sent him the product to try, he was asked to leave an honest review (if it's bad he can say so) and then it's up to the company as to what to do with the product. We've reviewed a speaker and some cool earbud headphones. The speaker was meh, so we said so and we sent it back (they did give us a discount if we wanted to buy it, though), but the earbuds they let us keep. I suppose there are legitimate cases of this but be wary of the fake ones.
Would you like to give review on My products
Probably has some Chinese spy tracking inbeded in the app or electronics.
Didn’t he already post this vid before?
yeah he did
But why?
Yea I'm losted
yup
i think the check scam lord captured him and he is now missing so they posted this video so no one suspects anything.
Edit: Omg i didnt expect this to get so many likes :O
I feel like you scammed them 😂😂
nah he actually helped them
@thesnailcrusher _ why tho Lmfaoo I talked with one of dem and most of them are Indians who are broke
@@seju9959 the people who you talk to are what they call "agents" employed by Chinese companies to do all the talking with the reviewer, they get paid a tiny commission
That 30 dollar review could make 60 dollars
He helped them sell more cheap chinese lights
Noticed that the video is only y minutes and 43 seconds, not 8 minutes so he doesn't get mid-roll ads. This guy is so wholesome.
I have watched almost all of your videos, and this is that one that caught me off guard... Well done. I didn't see that coming!
I bought a wireless keyboard, and the seller said if I leave a 5 star review, I'll get a $30 amazon gift card. The keyboard was $35, so I said sure, and left a positive review. To my surprise, the seller actually sent me an amazon gift card, but it was $28 worth, and I'm guessing it's because he converted from Yuan to USD. So yeah
I did the same thing on Amazon with a pool cue. So yes they pay for the first handful of 5 star reviews so they start off with great reviews making people buy more of their products. It's crazy
@@jorose95 can you help me
@@ayaatbenkabir6072 they seak you out. I have only done one. I was never contacted again. I would have no way to hook you up with a contact. Sorry buddy
@@jorose95 I just need some help not seller 😞 please send your ig brother
@@ayaatbenkabir6072 I don't have Instagram
They wanted you to search for the lights to boost their visibility as well. That's why they didn't want to send a link. :)
I love watching your videos because I learn so much from them and you have a fun way to impart your information.
Disclaimer: I was not compensated to write this comment. Haha
That find definitely sketchy, but many well-known brands do this. I have FIVE 3D printers a couple of feet away from me that I got for free (or heavily discounted) after leaving a review. The reviews I did for them were never "fake". I always would do a comprehensive review, and wouldn't lie. I always added a Pros and Cons section, and would relay issues back to the brand.
Oh, and I think I've received easily 20 spools of PLA and PLA+ the same way. I know it's against Amazon's TOS and frowned upon, but some will legitimately pay you back.
Could you tell me how you got the 3d printers for free?
@@ChrixOfficial I haven't been on them for a while, but you can find tons of manufacturer 3D printer groups on Facebook. They are usually looking for reviewers for new products to get them going. You'd PM them, and likely buy the printer outright, or at a discount from them. Then after you give a review with some pictures, they would PayPal you the remainder of the cost.
I never fluffed up the reviews or lied in them. I won't say the brand name, but I still own 4 of them with two that I run daily for the 2 years. So needless to say, I only would jump on these deals when I know the product is actually good quality.
May you tell me how you found that seller?
I bought the same lights for my daughter and step-son. I was very impressed. In fact, I was so impressed I have thought about getting them for my room because they truly change the atmosphere of a space. If more people would review honestly they wouldn't need to pay for reviews because they truly have an awesome product in those RGB lights.
Reviews are super important these days. The free market has never been freer when we can see thousands of reviews at the click of a button. But we must ensure those reviews are honest. Good products deserve to succeed, the bad ones do not. We have the power as the consumer but only if we are honest. A dishonest review might lead someone to make a purchase they wouldn't have if the reviewer was honest and didn't sell out for a free product.
I'm glad these lights had a 4.7 rating, I just wish it was legitimate...because it could be. The lights have stayed on 24/7 for months, do not increase energy consumption enough to notice, and have stuck to their walls when most things won't. They deserve 5 stars.
Yeah, thansk for your pleasant comments. As amazon seller, honestly to say a good review depends on good product and reality experience, cause we usually offer free product to buyers get some reviews that depend on their favors, if they like the product, we love to show our product to more buyers. We are always on the way to looking for honest buyers to get our product and which is really useful for them.
Would you like to give review on My products
FAKE
Nice
I was wondering where this video went. I was always wondering if a Community strike or Amazon issue.
Wow you commented on pleasant geeens video, I follow you on tiktok
@@Auroramystic Hong Kong is where the stuff is from. Undoubtedly the company's office is in HK SAR or Shenzhen across the border- after all they are running legit business.
Chevy stud
@@Auroramystic what does that have to do eith anything
Amazon ones are lagit
As an Amazon seller, it is undeniable that we all need 5-star reviews, because it is very important to products as if every product needs someone to endorse it. We also hope that these 5-star reviews are objective and can allow others Buyers to benefit from them! Your video is great!!
What do you sell?
Yeah but if you have to get ppl to lie about your product to sell it then it is a piece of shit, point blank. If you have a good unique product it will sell and you don’t have to pay ppl to lie for your product. Do you think thomas Edison had to have people to lie for him to sell a light bulb? Nope I didn’t think so.
I'm sorry you ended up doing that. Amazon seller equivalent to used car salesman.
@@simplybuilt_1708 are you interested in 3C electronic item?
You have become my favorite you tuber , great story telling skills, You are simply amazing.
Amazon is an extremely cut-throat marketplace. Building a brand requires quite some investment, so most smaller sellers will just sell generic products and aim for cost-effectiveness.
Buying review is the most cost-effective route, and they have to do it, because every competitor is doing it, not doing it means a dead business for them.
Very true.
The real test is the longevity of the product. Everything can be 5 stars out of the box but, IMO, if it doesn’t last a year of moderate use then it’s not worth more than the $10 of the novelty you feel with it in the first few weeks.
That's why you get it for free and just stfu.
True. True. True.
Bingo
the lights are really good! They go well with your background.
This guy is entertaining. Glad that RUclips recommended me your video! Subscribed.
Did Pleasant Green misspell "sett" up in his review.
Scammers' bad grammar is rubbing off on him 😂
I thought he did this on purpose to be funny lol
Everyone in the comments:
tHiS iS rEuPLoAdEd
Me:
*I came in looking for memes and facts, but I came out broken*
To be fair tho, this is reuploaded but I don't care, it's entertaining
OK
u/repostsleuthbot
no worries, I didn't see it the first time.
I had a message out of the blue from a Chinese company that makes 3D printers. They said they'd send me a free 3D printer to review. I tried hard to think of a way that this could be a scam - and couldn't think of anything. So I replied that I'd be happy to give them an HONEST review - and a few weeks later, it arrived. No strings attached. I hadn't spent a penny. It turns out that the printer is actually pretty good - but not without problems. I did as I promised and gave them an honest review - and actually mentioned it on a bunch of other 3D printing forums. So these things are not *always* scams - they aren't even *definitely* illegal or dubious in any way. Sometimes, this is a genuine offer from a company who trusted me a hell of a lot more than I trusted them. The printer is probably worth $200. So I encourage people to be open to helping out where it's all honestly done.
Are you interested in smart home elestronic products?
@@theoalex5291 Yeah - we have a bunch of Google Home contraptions - a Ring doorbell - that kind of thing. I'm actually in the process of trying to install a voice activated controller (probably a Google Mini) in a waterproof container so we can voice control the lights, air pump and temperature controls for the Hot Tub that's a part of our pool. But I'm not one for automating things just for the sake of automating them though.
May you can connect me through my home page.we post some new products if you like them.
I’ve noticed your lights in your other videos and think they’re great! I just noticed in the last video I watched how they were a purpley violet color and it looked SO COOL.
need link bro just think lights are cool for 30 $
It's just wish.com shit from China
They’re like $10 on AliExpress
Honestly I bet those stopped working after a week
@@exotic_rich9798 Right not any higher quality than the garbage at Dollar Tree.
nimnim I gotta get some too, looks nice.
I also have multiple LED light strips in my office and gaming/media room, they're great for indirect lighting (giving your space a glow of light instead of a beam of light shining into your eyes).
I thank you for doing a video about this because my wife and I often wondered about this when we buy things online. We look at reviews and question many of them. It is bad that companies do this because so many people depend on honest reviews before buying things online or before doing business with a company.
This 100% is true, but it's against the rules. You'll get your amazon account banned from posting reviews.
1. they don't give you a link because clicking a direct link doesn't help with SEO. If you pick their item from a list of items, it gives them better SEO.
2. Just because amazon approves your review doesn't mean that it's ok. But it's human to leave a shit review on a sketchy product, you get banned if you have a pattern of leaving even high quality reviews on sketchy products.
3. A lot of the products you can get for free are actually really good quality. They use dishonest review methods because IT WORKS. You can't sell a product on page 3, even if it's the best product. Why? Because people do this :P it's a vicious circle
4. How do I know? Because I got banned for doing this. I only left a few sketchy reviews, most of them were honest and I still use most of the items I received. (I also got lights, they're great)
Being banned doesn't actually hurt me in any way, except that I do honestly enjoy reviewing the products I buy, and now I can't, but I guess that's the price I pay since I didn't pay money.
The best practice I've found is to look through the pictures. Fake 5 stars typically don't go through the trouble to take a photo of the object. Real 5 stars usually show it actually being put to use. Also when a product has a lot of fake reviews on it when the product is actually terrible, the picture reviews are almost exclusively of 1 star ratings with broken, malfunctioned, and garbage products.
Not true. i have done the fake reviews and they require photos to refund you.
Definitely not true. I used to do quite a few free items in exchange for reviews and many of them required a picture, some even asked for a video or would give you extra money for a video review. I made it about 8 months until Amazon removed the ability to leave reviews on my account as leaving reviews in exchange for compensation is against their TOS.
@@hailster trust me. It's painfully obvious which products are good versus bad based on the photo/video reviews.
What's more powerful than paying someone to do something? Charging someone money for something that is trash.
The reviews shine through
I've left dozens of reviews in my life that have never included pictures, and all of them were honest. Both positive and negative.
Not having a picture in your review doesn't mean that it's fake.
That, and the fact that other people refuted you on the 2nd half of your comment, means that what you said makes basically zero sense.
@@TheZerok666 the point is you ignore the good reviews and look straight for the bad ones. When a product is bad it will have a disproportionate amount of bad reviews with pictures. More than normal. Plus they show exactly what's wrong, where it's cheap, how it broke, etc.
So what I said still stands. The best way to sift through reviews is to go to the reviews with pictures.
I did this before for a month straight and Amazon banned me from reviewing any more products.
were your reviews bad? did they appear really fake? how did amazon know? Pleasant's first review looked really good to me-it got to the point so i'm not sure why he called it crappy
Yep. Same happened to me
Same here I did this for a few months, go t a LOT of free stuff.. but am BANNED from leaving reviews now lol
@@SdBoy make another account?
@@sweetmelon3365 I dont know if that would work, I just dont bother leaving reviews now. waste of time
When people forget to use the word " the" in their sentences, it's a scam!!!
Trust me, there is an easier way to spot scams.Ok?
I work as a person who calls people all day trying to help them with a Medicare supplement many of the calls people just curse at me say something vulgar or something else. It really lets me see how vile a depraved humanity really is. They don’t even give me the benefit of the doubt and it really messes with my mood.
Except it wasn't a scam. He got his rebate. It was a dishonest way to get reviews but, as he said, it was not a scam.
Not everyone uses the word "the". It is more of a grammar thing. Someone once told me that their Russian friend doesn't care to say "the" because he thinks that it is stupid. Like if you say to get into the car, you can just say, get in car. He said that people must be really stupid if they can't identify what someone is talking about when the don't say "the". Will you suddenly not know which car to get into? No, a minor word, does not change anything.
Dont'cha think that's a bit racist? Some people don't have English as their first language. It's just the fact that their grammar needs working on. It doesn't prove anything
😂😂 this was funny. Made my morning. "Soooo, what do yall think of my lights?" Lol and your reaction to when the lights actually turned on, how shocked you were.
If you are interested in smart home electronic product ,you can connect me through my homepage.
Is this a repost?
Yes
@@okyanusozsahin3439 sen nerden geldin
I leave a lot of Amazon reviews, and I've received a lot of offers like these through mail (no idea how they got ahold of it). Some are like these, where they demand a 5-star review and they'll refund money after, which is something I'm wary of. I wouldn't like to take those chances.
A few, though, have offered the money upfront and genuinely asked for an honest review. Either they have lots of faith in their products or they're terrible scammers.
But one gave me a list of products saying I'd get any for free to review and asked for my "rates". I replied I wasn't going to take money for the product, but I'd take it for free in exchange for a transparent, honest review. They replied asking if I meant I was going to give an honest review according to the product's quality, so I said yes. They never replied again.
uhuh,friend, you are so funny
This is so cool. The lights I mean.
I've known this for a very long time that most amazon reviews are fake, And it makes shopping for good products an absolute nightmare. I end up shopping for hours and hours looking for something that's genuinely good.
Just part of life. That's why there are returns. And some reviews on Amazon are for different styles or model numbers, and after reading all of them and all of the questions, you still don't get an idea of what the product is like. Shopping online is not always easy. But neither is shopping at retail stores, lately. I went to buy a computer at Best Buy and they barely had any inventory. Every question I had about a product, the associate had to go to the web site and look for the specifications (which I had already done) - no answers. So basically, as a buyer, you are responsible for what you buy - buyer beware. At least most places take returns.
No joke, your right. I spent an entire month just deciding on which laptop to get lol
Thank you so much for your honest review and also showing how it works. Thought it was a way to scam people or get into their Amazon account somehow. I really appreciate. I just turned diwn a company,because they said they couldn't give me their company name until they saw if I was approved for doing the testing and review. My sister referred them to me.
I've done one of these before, except they included a note within the item to leave a review and email it to them for a free 20 dollars. I ended up with more money than what I had spent on the product!
from what company?
@@cmaj4887 it's random, I remember ordering jars of spices and the seller sent me a box of them, I left 5 star reviews not just because of the free ones but also they're well packaged and they all tastes good. I find sellers who barely have reviews and sales to be really kind and generous, I got a flashlight which costs about 80 dollars for free along with batteries which are real and protected (most of my flashlight orders have batteries which have fake capacity and fake protective circuit, and yes they're expensive). I don't recommend it but check new sellers out and they might offer you free items.
@@cmaj4887 If you are interested in testing new products, you can connect me through my homepage.
Did i just enter the Twilight Zone...........i swear ive seen this before.
I was just thinking the exact same thing 😂
Same here
I know for a fact I've seen this same video before.
DAJA VU
I've had several companies reach out to me and ask me to review a product on my RUclips. It's always the same, they want me to buy it first, do all the work and then after I've done all that they promised they will pay me. I respond with an email saying how excited I am to partner with them, inform them that they will need to send me the product ahead of time at their expense, inform them that my reviews are honest and I'm in no way obligated to give them an excellent review, and suggest that I'm willing to negotiate my advertising fee since I am still a small channel. That's the point where they ghost me.
Have you seen LIndybeige and his amazing sponsorship ads? Best one might be in his video about beds. Or maybe it is the one about dollar shave club, but I do not remember in which video it is.
@@simonspacek3670 woodworking for mere morals also does a great job of working the ads into the content.
It's really sad to me because I remember less than 10 years ago you could look up things on Amazon and the first search results would be legitimate brand-name products from good companies. Now you have to go to outside websites and do research before buying anything. Amazon is rife with dropshipped Chinese products that are virtually worthless and have ridiculously inflated review numbers. The "companies" (dropshippers) also tend to offer these money incentives for people to give 5 star reviews and Amazon doesn't do anything about ensuring their integrity. Yet I had to repost a review five times before Amazon would accept a 2 star review for an item very clearly having review manipulation.
A quick test you can do is to go on Amazon, look up something, look at the "Amazon's Choice" or "Best Seller" listings and then go to Alibaba or another Chinese wholeseller website and see if you can find that product. I bet you can. Those "Amazon's Choice" listings are literally paid ads. It's deceptive and the entire platform is turning into that.
Also keep in mind that many of these products and wholesale items might even seem legitimate because they're made in the same factories that hundreds of name-brand tech companies also have their items manufactured in. That doesn't mean they're made on the same machines or to the same standards, however.
IP was from UCloud IT HK Limited, so it was most likely a vpn or proxy
That is interesting! I had no idea companies did all that. Reviews are important. Thanks for sharing!
I actually bought a set of lights like that for Christmas for my home office space. I can change the colors with my Google Home Mini, which I love. I change colors to to reflect the emotional state I want to be in while working,
Your RUclips channel’s great. Thanks for your videos.
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I came for the "This is a rerun!" comments.
I've done it before here in the UK, the only downside is, if Amazon find out you are leaving reviews for money your account will be gone.
Yes, exactly!
If you really need something (no top quality needed) it may be good to check if there's a free-after-review one, otherwise buying random things just because "who needs them, but are free" isn't a smart choice imho
Amazon accs are free ship to a buddy adress or po box who cares about a billion dollar company
No your account will not be gone but you can’t review no more, and you can not ask questions either.
After seeing the material, I decided to describe a similar promotional campaign in my country.
One of the stores in Poland carried out a promotional campaign involving the distribution of gift cards in exchange for the opinion about the purchased product. The customer clicked on the received link, entered his opinion in the form, assigned stars in several categories and on the next day he received a gift card by e-mail. The amount ranged from $5 to $10. The gift card contained a barcode that had to be scanned by the seller in order to use the gift card. The card was sent regardless of the rating given to the product. Fast, pleasant and without unnecessary complications.
Finally, I would like to thank you for the interesting videos on the channel. Good job!
I had something similar to this. All of a sudden I was getting products sent to my house from Amazon. I contacted Amazon about it and they said it was a gift from a someone but they could not tell me who it was. After more investigation I found out this was happening to a lot of people so the person ordering it could give a 5 🌟 review for crappy merchandise and make their store look better.
They do it for the "Verified purchase" badge. lol
My ex used to do these reviews. We were getting 2-3 packages every day from amazon. We had piles of amazon boxes in our living room. A pile of stuff she was going to keep and a pile of stuff she intended to sell. Some sellers will even pay you for the positive reviews. We had so much useless/ random crap filling up our apartment.
Hi, Have a nice day , friend. I am seller, offer free product to get 5 star review. I am looking for product tester, I would like to know if you are interested. Thanks.
Did she make a lot of money? How much would she make?
Aren’t paid reviews on Amazon against terms of Service?
I believe they are
Yes, and if you are also an Amazon affiliate, you will be removed from the program and will never asked to join again.
It is because it is a way for sellers to cheat by getting 5 star reviews.
My friend decided to try it, but got banned from leaving reviews later.
And how does Amazon become aware that your reviews aren't legit unless you tell them yourself?
@@stargazer1295 If you do a lot and you always set 5 stars with a similar review, you can "easily" (at Amazon's scale, with ML and all) detect reviews like that.
@@luclu7_ and if you write in the review that you received it for free like this guy does...
You ready uploaded this before what happened to the old video?
Amazon took away my abilities to review products. I think it’s because I clicked on a link sent to me by the seller. I probably reviewed 25 items before Amazon cut me off. I was truthful in my reviews. I only talked about the things I liked and carefully hinted at the things that I didn’t like.
hello, are you still doing review on amazon now?
I like the lights, you should have them on when you talk about scams etc. They bright up your office.
I talked to amazon uk about this and the support person told me it was fine for sellers to bribe customers for 5 stars.
This was huge a few years back and those of us who knew how to do got hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. Back then you had to acknowledge we got the item free or reduced price. But then Amazon changed the rule and they don't allow those rules on a listing. The ones who did it back when it was good are no longer allowed to post. I knew many sellers from Asia, and they would email a list of items they have then supply a code to get them for free.
Can you help me test something?
I wanna know who's paying people to leave reviews I'd be more than happy to participate
Contact me if you are willing to give good comments in exchange for money
Use email to contact me
Email is totallynotsceem@1234medeonchuna
contact me
Did it work
Yes I do that but I’m not giving my seller up y’all gonna report him
Sameeeee, love my Chinese sellers
I was looking for this video yesterday to share it with a friend, but couldn't find it.
Thanks for re uploading!! But what happened here???
Contact sky giveaways page on fb to get
My brother does these kind of reviews all of the time. He returns the item if he doesn't want to leave a 5 star review.
This is why i typically ignore all the 5star reviews and look at the 1-2 star reviews when looking for something i don't know whats good or not
But sometimes are fake bad reviews from competitors trying to undermine each other.
I also find bad reviews more reliable and informative than good reviews.
They do this on a Chinese site called "Taobao" A LOT.
Funny... government saying "incentive reviews are illegal."
Guess they don't want anyone reviewing them.
What are you talking about? Advertising has to be marked advertising so as to not con people. It's been that way for a while now. And let's be honest, paid 5-star reviews are nothing more than advertising.
@@TimoRutanenum... tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot.
Isn’t this a reupload ?
I thought that when I before clicked on the video
Yes.
I get these emails ALLLLL the time. I tell them if they want me to review their products they can send me a free one and I'll give them an honest review, which might be a 1 star if the product sucks. They never respond
hello Friend, we could free send a chess set to you for a test, do you have a interest?
I do
@@aaronwolfer3760 If you are interested in smart home electronic product ,you can connect me through my homepage.
Now I have to check the reviews of reviews.
Bro, marketing is covered with different technics that might shock some people but, you should remember buying and selling is like gambling most of the time
Is this a re-upload?
I'm looking into my own exposing scams using pleasant greens tactics
I almost messed up . I clicked on a email that said my PayPal account had been shut down. I was waiting on a item from China. I payed for it through PayPal. I clicked on it. I stopped pretty fast when it asked for my debit card info. My son says always go to the site itself. I did my PayPal was fine..
That's good advice. Many panic
i did a similar thing in a game. it asked for my login info and i put it in and after 2 seconds i realised it was stealing my account. i was able to change my password in time 😅 panic is one hellofa drug
Excellent advice. I tell people this also. Same with phone calls. If any doubt hang up and search their site (carefully) and call.
I’m laughing so hard😂! I bought these exact lights about 2 months ago and had them in my basement because they were the top result for “(something, maybe 30-90”ft led strip lights. I guess their incentivized reviewes actually worked lmfao
You know it’s not a scam when things actually work as agreed.
Lmao I love that you liked the lights so much that you bought a second set.
If you are interested in smart home electronic product ,you can connect me through my homepage.
Why did you reupload this
So people won’t suspect that Ben is actually missing 😂 oh those hongkongers..
“cover pp fee” 😳
Sussy
I got a scammer that won’t let me go apparently I’m to Inherit loads of money from a dead guy 🤣🤣🤣if u can see this please help me
I see it i hope he does :)
Same
I have here didnt know if he is a scammer or what because until now he is asking for money he said he will get out from syria he is a sailor as he said..but he dont have the shame to ask again and again..can you help me please find this scammere and paid of what he done
See how involved they actually are to tell if they are a bot or not. If its a real person, keep them going a little and be annoying, talk in circles, ask stupid questions. The longer you keep going, the less time they have to scam someone who doesnt know
It’s not a bot he actually responded, but he seems to be rushing a lot
The same think happened to me (with the same brand, company and length of lights) but with a different "promoter". The company was called Aiot and claimed to be promoting "L8stars" lights. (The same ones you got)
Anyway I have enjoyed my lights and even got a smart watch from them!
I would say that not all of them are real though so watch out!
Hope this helped!
cant find Aiot, got a link?
Happens far more than people realize. I get a lot of sellers reaching out to me to review the most random products which 99% of the time I refuse them. I had a seller recently who asked if I would even review face mask extenders and put it on my youtube channel along with an Amazon review. Did you even look to see what types of items I actually review on my channel? lol
How do they know how to contact you, simply through RUclips?
@@TheQuangBang usually yeah, my amazon profile has links to my cooking fb page, my Instagram and my youtube and then my youtube has the contact email I use for this stuff. Also, I have had sellers give my email to other sellers since they will email me telling me their "colleague" recommended me to do reviews for them. Lately, I have been turning down a lot of offers though, some wanting me to do stuff that has no relation to my youtube channel. If I am interested then I might offer to do an Amazon video only but that's it. It seems a lot of companies want me to keep reviewing the same old crap though, had 4 offers in the past week for vacuum sealers which all looked cheap and nothing new, turned them down. Free products and free views but im more about quality.
@@Jakecooks wow your a really successful cooking channel. Do you have any tips for what a 12 year old can do to cook?
@@SpaceStrike im not very successful lol, still small. I started cooking when I was 5. I would say watch some videos, read some recipes and just try to cook along with them. I thought about trying to do a basic learning series, I just do not know where to start with it yet.
@@Jakecooks oh, it would be awesome if you could do a series like that. Keep up the great work. Maybe start off by explaining methods of cooking(boiling, steaming, baking, frying, deep frying) and define the tools and what they do and how to use them to be as effective to as possible
I want to buy some color changing LED light, and I don't even need them.
Wow you convinced me. Buying some of those lights this weekend.
Thanks, Green!
I have left a few dozen reviews - HONEST reviews - on Amazon. Over the past few years I have had a peculiar feeling that there was an explosion of "5 star" reviews. As a result, when I am researching a product I automatically go to the "1 or 2 star" reviews. On the whole, I have found these reviews to be more trustworthy. Also, many of these reviews warn the reader that the surplus of "5 star" reviewers have been paid. This, coupled with what I thought was a strange fact that I was receiving unsolicited emails from organizations specifically asking me to review various products. I ignored those emails because my life was just too busy to assume yet another responsibility. And now it all makes sense. Thank you Pleasant Green. I truly enjoy your videos. And no, Pleasant Green has NOT compensated me!
Tbh, 1 star reviews seem to often be just as unreliable as 5 star reviews. I can't even count that high, for how many times I've seen people rate something terrible, that when I had the product myself, it became apparent that they were just a dumbass who didn't know how to work the product correctly. Or things of that nature, there's several forms of what I consider bad faith 1 star reviews, and there is a lot of them out there. And some products seem to unintentionally set themselves up for it more than others.
I trust mid tier, 2 to 4 stars much better, and that with a grain of salt, and reading.
This is the issues with Amazon reviews -
These reviewers keep giving positive 5 star review so they can keep getting free products.
The more stars the more you get offered bigger expensive items, especially if its and Amazon product.
because yo brought the item, Your review become a 'verified purchase' so it looks more genuine, there is no way of telling if someone just got it for free.
I was in the top 500 reviewers. Had 20 - 30 packages coming every couple days. I got some super nice expensive items. Even offered mattresses a few times .But at first it's junk cell phone charging cables, cases, stuff nobody really needs. Gave it up after a year had such a massive garage sale with all this STUFF I'd accumulated. Ended up making several thousand dollars on the garage sale. But it's not all glamorous.. You gotta work for it to get to the good stuff. Video reviews and solid pictures. It got so time consuming I just didn't want to do it anymore.
I absolutely love your channel. You are amazing and so informative.
If you are interested in smart home electronic product ,you can connect me through my homepage.
Another great video Pleasant Green and Fakespot for Chrome, Firefox, iOS and Android. very useful. those lights look great.
Wow. I’m actually early to pleasant green
:)
This video was a roller coaster for me. On the one hand, I don’t particularly want to do business with companies who break the law or behave unethically. But I also like free stuff. I’m not a fan of liars...but I recognize and appreciate the hustle. Hmm, a conundrum, indeed.
@@stankydummy5846 pinecone research sends you free stuff but they send you stuff that isn't being sold in the market and they want you to do survey reviews on name brand companies that are making a new product. I got to try and review the squeeze peanut butter line before it was sold in store and review only but not receive the clean and clear watermelon line. You only get compensated 3 bucks per review and waiting for the next survey or review can take a week.
Are you interested in smart home electronic products?
I've had some versions of review scamming be offered before. The "light" version was including a small gift card or cheaper product with the one I ordered and including a card asking for a 5 star review.
Then I've contacted sellers about a return and had them email me offering to refund and said don't bother returning the product just review it good and they'll consider us even.
Most recently it wasn't about reviews but I ordered something and the seller emailed me saying due to global supply shortages they couldn't fulfill my order but said they'd throw in a small gift card if I would go into Amazon and request the order be cancelled instead of them canceling it (they said that negatively affects how Amazon boosts their products in search results).
You have a great attitude i wish i could be as calm as you after being scammed keep up the great work and keeping saps like me informed
This happened to me recently, but, the Chinese company literally told me they were in China and paid me up front... I did tell them I'd only leave a real review. Turns out the products were relevant to me, things I'd probably buy, and there was no risk. Did it a couple of times, they were worth 5 stars anyway. I'm literally using one of the back support cushions now and use it every day.
I definitely wouldn't have done it if I was told to buy it myself first.
Wow, they actually did it, damn!
I’ve been using the same lights in my room and I love them
Man I had done something like this a while back, but they were nowhere near as sketchy. They were very upfront, polite and would take a less-than 5 star review but wanted me to check in if there were issues or critiques beforehand if it was less than 5 stars. Everything they had me review was at least good, if not friggin great (at least for the price), and were fine with me putting BOTH the good and bad things about them. Actually still have most of the things I reviewed still kickin, especially a touch-control deskside lamp. Thing kicks ass like 4+ years later lol
I actually do these quite often.
However, the "we'll refund you after you leave a 5 star review" versions I just ignore.
That is 90% of them.
Some, just paypal you the money, and you go order it, and leave an honest review.
It can be 1 star, or 5.
Most of the time it is just random junk I don't really need/want. However, it gives me a chance to get something for the lady or the baby, that we would otherwise never consider buying. This may sounds lame, but it really has been a fun experience.
Same here. If they ask for a 5 star then I just ignore them. Or if they're unhappy about my 3 or 4 star review, I tell them that it looks "more real". You can leverage the fact that you can just give them a 1 star too lol.
Several of my products have arrived with "Incentive" cards included. Asking you to leave a review for whatever the offer.
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