Amazon is Going After Paid Fiverr Reviewers
By Nelda Hoxie
@NeldaHoxie (1381)
United States
October 19, 2015 8:20am CST
I have always been amazed when I scan through Fiverr and see the number of people who are willing to write fake reviews. It's not so much that they are willing to do it, but that they are telling the world that fact.
Amazon is now going after thousands of them. People are complaining that it won't stop anything. Amazon can only go after US fake reviewers. They can't touch them in other countries. Apparently some countries are already gearing up to take over the task of writing fake reviews.
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@LadyDuck (502867)
• Italy
19 Oct 15
@NeldaHoxie The worst is when the hotel owners pay people to badmouth the other hotels in the area.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
19 Oct 15
Because the hotels want good reviews and people need the money. If it's done well, you won't know that they didn't stay there. The hotel owners give them all the info they need to make it real.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
20 Oct 15
@LadyDuck I know I think that happens on Cape Cod as well. Eventually I think that these sites will lose their credibility or be sued by the people who have been hurt by bad reviews.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
19 Oct 15
I was just over their looking myself. A lot of people just lost a very lucrative and easy livelihood. They must be scrambling to figure out what work to go after next. They'll need the money to pay their legal bills.
@skysnap (20152)
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19 Oct 15
@NeldaHoxie Yes. Though old fiverr memberes who lost only the gig said that on forum. very few of the people have lost accounts as fiverr denied many such gigs in past keeping accout active. now even the review gigs will be gone. most of the video review gigs are next target as people have their face on it. and they cant just run away from legal notice.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
20 Oct 15
@skysnap It will be interesting to see what these folks find to do next. Travel review sites? Yelp etc.
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
19 Oct 15
I don't mind paid reviews if the person discloses it as in "I received this item to review" and then you can tell from the review that they used the product and that they gave an honest appraisal. But the FTC goes after people writing fake reviews, too. I wouldn't want to get involved in it for any money.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
19 Oct 15
Yes, the problem is when they never read the book or write exactly what they are told to do.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
19 Oct 15
I saw this on the news this morning. They went after them several months ago and it slacked off for a while.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
19 Oct 15
I guess if they were stupid enough not to take the warning, they will get even tougher. I notice now that some of the reviews have Verified Purchase after them. That should take some of the steam out of fake reviews.
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@SimplySara (148)
• Temple, Texas
24 Oct 15
I tried the Fiverr thing, but I only ever offered HONEST review. One book was just SO bad, the guy didn't want my review, but obviously still had to pay me for it since I'd spent the time reading his drivel and writing the review!
