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> Amazon has banned giving away free products in exchange for reviews

I didn't realize they banned this practice considering they themselves operate the Vine program. I know someone who receives upwards of a dozen products a week for free to review by Amazon. Everything from robot vacuums to cutlery sets.

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Amazon isn't against paid reviews. They are against paid reviews THEY don't control.

I'm sick of seeing news pieces where they focus on some mommy blogger who made $15k (which they play up like it's a tone of money) by providing conflict of interest reviews, while Amazon does that at 1,000,000x the scale with no one bating an eye.

I'd say it's lazy if not biased and single sided bad journalism to not even mention the Vine program.

Vine reviews are disclosed in the app or on the website, though. I don't really see that as malicious.

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