tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63699205884742264412012-02-01T21:06:31.602-05:00Malleusnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-35905257127721661932012-01-31T09:46:00.011-05:002012-02-01T21:04:57.486-05:00

So far, 0 of 41 3 of 101 3 of 125 3 or 150 found it helpful (here's the link to it). I wanted to preserve it here before she deletes it on Amz. Malleus, maybe sometime you could show me how to put the links in like the others you post?? or, modify this one?? Thanks!! [Done! Always glad to help. Great job as always, buck210!] 0 of 41 people found the following review helpful: exciting

buck210http://www.blogger.com/profile/01936955780142460885noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-71401871860988801552012-01-29T10:59:00.003-05:002012-01-31T21:23:19.304-05:00

Denise Karen says:They need to change their policy! If everyone called up and complained, Amazon would be forced to make changes. It is physically impossible for one person to read over 26,000 books in 11 years. I actually took the exact number the other day and divided by 4015 (11 years x 365 days); and she would have to have read approximate 6.5 books a day, EVERY DAY, for the past 11 years! No

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-75243425638454789382012-01-25T05:01:00.006-05:002012-01-25T05:44:16.718-05:00

As always, Amazon doesn't like people talking about Amazon's shills (like Klausner) on Amazon. Nothing new, and here it goes again:L. Donner says:Well this is interesting. I posted a comment on this review yesterday calling Harriet a fraud and an idiot (can't even get facts right) and apparently my post was taken down by Amazon (I called out Amazon for continuing to allow these false reviews).

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-8104359227285422932012-01-14T17:37:00.003-05:002012-01-14T17:47:09.016-05:00

Once again Hurried Klausner neglects to read the book prior to reviewing it ("reviewing", that is).Initial post: Jan 13, 2012 11:28:46 PM PSTTina says:as usual, ms. klausner's "synopsis" of the book has absolutely NO resemblance to the actual plot of the story... the actual story written by anne gracie is so much better, too bad ms. klausner didn't read the book.Hahaha. Harriet, time to retire,

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-89176216542025021372012-01-05T13:56:00.005-05:002012-01-05T14:33:01.513-05:00

Poster "C. Temple" wrote in a comment under a Klausner review:Posted on Jan 4, 2012 7:55:18 PM PSTC. Temple says:Two things I do not understand -1. What purpose does a person get out of posting fake reviews? Honestly I do enjoy writing reviews but only after I finish reading the books.2. WHy does Amazon seem to "reward" an obvious fraud?Well, C.Temple, let's think of it. We'd have to guess 'cause

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-87039552442323191512012-01-03T13:19:00.003-05:002012-01-03T17:48:14.942-05:00

Posted today on her latest fake review:A very fast start for Hattie in 2012, 67 fake reviews just today!And, after a very slow month of December for the Fraud Known as HK, (157 fake reviews in a month is slow for Hattie anyway) here is the year of 2011 for your viewing pleasure:185 fraudulent reviews in Jan 2011 5.97 per day 5.97 YTD 5.79 Overall 23678 Reviews to date 229 fraudulent reviews in

buck210http://www.blogger.com/profile/01936955780142460885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-26233595519212213672012-01-01T22:00:00.002-05:002012-01-01T22:07:02.093-05:00

We're sure in this new year our goddess Harriet will give us loyal admirers — also known as "subgenre fans" — much reason to relish. Over the top of the Empire State Building and Mount Everest! Oh joy without end that is Harriet. Hold on to your seats, boys and girls, it's getting better and better. Cheers!

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-63227557854724300132011-12-21T02:41:00.003-05:002011-12-21T02:52:14.090-05:00

I see someone named "Don Reed" has just suffered a traditional mass wipeout "by Amazon", an awful lot of posts all blown away at the same time. Did anyone catch these posts while they still were present? What were they about?

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-38350983404111891612011-12-16T17:26:00.003-05:002011-12-16T17:38:14.702-05:00

What a month. [...] Christopher Hitchens, the outspoken author, writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor, died on Thursday from complications related to esophageal cancer. He was 62. Below, some of his opinionated prose. [...] Christopher Hitchens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-42891637972271643562011-12-15T23:24:00.002-05:002011-12-15T23:34:27.826-05:00

(Title courtesy of Maestro Harp, an internal joke of sorts). Born in 1913 in East Orange, N.J, George Whitman, founder of legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co, dies at 98 in Paris. [...] Though eventually an economic success, attracting book lovers from all over the world and writers such as Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the running joke was that the

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-30424647427446805792011-12-15T15:30:00.003-05:002011-12-15T15:39:09.441-05:00

(Courtesy of the awesome poster buck 210):buck210 says:This is your 26,000th "review" Hattie, congratulations! 12+ years of averaging just under 6 fake reviews per day, just how do you do it Hattie? I mean, really, you put out 63 reviews just today alone, how is that possible to read that many books in just one day? Oh, and lets not forget about actually writing these "reviews", just to write 63

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-39882271018069853552011-12-11T21:00:00.002-05:002011-12-11T21:16:19.581-05:00

President Obama: The economy, the Congress, the futureSteve Kroft: We have a new CBS poll, which is out this weekend. And I'll give you the news that's good for you first. People like you. They respect you. They think that you're working hard. And they realize that you faced an enormous amount of trouble and problems, many of them inherited. And you're [sic!] approval rating is four times higher

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-88789033146659673362011-12-09T13:36:00.007-05:002011-12-09T14:33:28.118-05:00

Unless it's a bug that will soon be fixed, Amazon removed the "classic" reviewer ratings: what used to be called "new reviewer ranks" is now the only rank displayed on the site. Aaaaand, our dear Harriet is no longer No.1 however you look at it. She's the proud owner of the rank 815 (as of this moment). This is still about a million times too high, but, well, wow, come on, let us celebrate what

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-26909640217804495732011-11-19T16:55:00.003-05:002011-11-19T17:19:32.337-05:00

Courtesy of poster "Guy the Gorilla":Guy the Gorilla says:Standard Disclaimer for Harriet Klausner Reviews:If you are a bona-fide Amazon customer sufficiently interested in this specific book to be reading reviews about it, as well as appended comments, please be advised that you should disregard this particular "review," seemingly "written" by one Harriet Klausner, Amazon's "Classic Number 1

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-63020667495042912282011-11-17T18:12:00.005-05:002011-11-17T19:30:34.018-05:00

We got mail:11/16/11 3:23:41 PM, [our correspondent; name withheld] wrote:Interesting discussion about plagairism among writers after a debut novel was debunked as a massive fraud. The book was reviewed and raved about by, you guessed it, Harriett Klausner.Check out the discussion:http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229396And thanks for this info, dear Correspondent (we never use

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-26434963204439315152011-11-15T02:57:00.002-05:002011-11-15T03:09:34.045-05:00

I found the old link (that used to be on the Help page; it is no longer there, but it still works). Here it is (click on it to log off Amazon): http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/sign-out.html/There also is (yes, there is still) an official log-off link, only it's on a different page now: it used to be on the Help page, whereas now it's on the "Your Account" page. Go there and look at the

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-36952856558175857842011-11-11T00:17:00.003-05:002011-11-11T00:25:59.187-05:00

A query from a friend I was unable to answer: how to log off Amazon? Amazon likes to get you to log in (log-in link on every page), but they appear exceedingly reluctant to let you ever log off (no log-off link, ever). Does anyone know where the log-off link can be found on Amazon? All sites I know has a "log off" link on every page you visit; not Amazon. My friend's problem was that she logged

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-1487956529815344432011-10-02T16:21:00.002-04:002011-10-02T16:25:38.881-04:00

Very nice characterization (courtesy of Thomas E. Davis):Thomas E. Davis says:insightless charlatan dunce Reply to this postPermalink | Report abuse 2 of 2 people think this post adds to the discussion. Do you? In reply to an earlier post on Oct 2, 2011 5:03:23 AM PDT Tommy D says:I always wondered what her middle names might be - thanks Thomas! Reply to this postPermalink | Report abuse 1 of

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-64186273022799211462011-09-10T12:30:00.001-04:002011-09-10T12:30:39.833-04:00

"Remarkably cynical" tactics from Bezos and Company? I'm shocked. Shocked! http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-taxes-20110910,0,4223155.story

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-45794796354806830392011-09-01T21:52:00.003-04:002011-09-01T22:06:30.237-04:00

Thanks to the awesome poster "buck210", we now have Harriet's updated statistical profile going over this past half a year:buck210 says: Stats so far this year, with a max of 306 in April and a low of 171 in May and an average of over 7.5 books per day for the year that Fraud Hattie fraudulently claims to have read and "reviewed". 185 fraudulent reviews in Jan 2011 5.97 per day 229 fraudulent

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-78273408275380004422011-08-26T11:29:00.005-04:002011-08-30T07:18:03.888-04:00

This article is from The New York Times online August 19, 2011. The author is David Streitfeld. It includes quotes from a freelance writer, Sandra Parker, who was hired this spring at a review factory for Amazon to pump out fake reviews at $10 a pop. The reviews were supposed to be five star and gushing...that sounds so familiar. Which leads me to wonder what Harriet Klausner's net worth is.

Barbara Delaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935335104800848336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-77536141878274175522011-07-14T21:15:00.002-04:002011-07-14T21:20:18.304-04:00

I can't find my Shopping List anymore -- the link I had now gets redirected to my Wish List. What the hell is going on? Did Amazon just quietly blow the shopping lists away? (That'd be rather low... at least they should have warned us ahead of time so that we could have saved the contents for future use.)Anyone sees what I see? Any way to recover our shopping lists?

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-26166724460658677032011-05-17T18:35:00.003-04:002011-05-17T19:02:03.512-04:00

Our old friend Vic Mikunas revisits the topic, asking what's up with our Goddess. On March, 29, 2007 I wrote a blog post here titled THE MYSTERIOUS HARRIET KLAUSNER. That was over 4 years ago. Over the past week there have been a couple of hundred page views of that particular post. Weird? I wonder what’s up with Harriet? ... C'mon, Vick! What could be up with Our Lady of Fauxreview? You know

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-47173276622091238772011-05-01T14:31:00.005-04:002011-05-01T14:52:38.625-04:00

First time I see that. Here Harriet posted two absolutely identical reviews, first time as Harriet Klausner and then as "A Romance Reader". Both times five stars (no surprises here). It's a great way to increase a book's average rating, of course... How many more sock-puppet accounts does she have, I wonder? Anyway, here's a shapshot (just in case the original page gets changed; click to see

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-89689728888002928972011-05-01T14:19:00.002-04:002011-05-01T14:27:59.558-04:00

Thanks to poster Guy the Gorilla we now have another update of Klausner stats for the last half a year. Guy the Gorilla says:Congratulations Harriet - I never thought I'd live to see it, but you came through with a last day mini-surge and upped your already prolific tally for the month to an amazing 301 "reviews" of books you could not possibly have read for the month of April. It has been a

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-88941036258149723872011-04-08T20:55:00.004-04:002011-04-19T19:20:11.252-04:00

This message is for the readers of this blog who are not memebers who write to us (we welcome such correspondence, of course). We get a good amount of email, and finally I want to address some recurring issues: basically, a few suggestions for our potential correspondents. Sorry for the fake-friendly, corporate style, but: in order to make our interaction more rewarding, please:1. State clearly

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-23860035900094029332011-04-01T14:23:00.006-04:002011-04-01T14:42:46.685-04:00

That is, she posted sixty-eight (68) "reviews" today, but surely Harriet wouldn't post a review of a book she didn't read, would she? As far as I could see, all of them five and four stars. When you work intensively like that, errors are inavoidable: Harriet confused a couple of books posting wrong blurbs under wrong books. And the funniest thing of all, someone found one such review "helpful"! "

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-57042052516665187742011-03-29T09:12:00.002-04:002011-03-29T09:16:01.417-04:00

What would be nice is to see someone decide to file a lawsuit against Amazon with the FTC regarding their review system. If we as reviewers technically have to reveal any association with the product that might influence our review, then a case could be made that either 1) HK might be in violation of that rule, and/or 2) Amazon is fraudulently manipulating sales via their review system,

Thomas "Duffbert" Duffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17363184376915863229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-4286235816242798992011-03-29T04:44:00.012-04:002011-03-29T09:40:08.816-04:00

Another day, another news. Well, a new victim rather, but nothing really new: Amazon wipes out yet another commenter who dared to talk about the fraud that Harriet Klausner is. Everyone knows Simon Davis (he's been around for quite some time). He's been intermittently active in the Klausner "trenches", and we all know that this means asking for trouble. Today is the day: he just got wiped out by

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-73507185258082076952011-03-28T02:23:00.022-04:002011-03-29T06:09:27.889-04:00

Hurried Klausner "reviews" something called One Night Is Never Enough, which produces a number of comments, one of which, by "Johnny Boy", is especially right on the money. Johnny says (click to enlarge):The only things I'd add are:(1) most likely, Klausner did not read even in 1999 when her current account starts, and that I suspect because she'd worked in a similar area earlier — she had

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-87339677134375909382011-03-27T01:38:00.008-04:002011-03-27T07:35:44.239-04:00

Someone "Joel, Holden" writes (comments) under a Klausner review of Other Kingdoms:Now, two things. First, "Joel, Holden", perhaps unwittingly, breaks the code here: this Klausner excretion is (as all of them are) a preview, not a review. Second, when I see someone praising Harriet ("Thank you, Ms. Klausner for a wonderful, intriguing preview. My copy is on the way."), I kinda feel funny. Is it

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-84733274311604897482011-03-27T00:56:00.003-04:002011-03-27T01:08:42.663-04:00

Following up on the previous post: Harriet has now posted another review there; now it's probably what it should have been, and it's now rated five stars rather than four. Both reviews got a positive vote (probably from the author: why are the authors even allowed on the site?). Here's a snapshot (just in case the saga hasn't eneded here) — compare and contrast!

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-76523342733070324952011-03-25T14:19:00.020-04:002011-03-27T00:55:00.967-04:00

Our Lady of Fauxreview has reviewed Golden Vampire by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, but, um, it seems there's a problem! Author does not recognise the book she wrote in this valuable Klausner review! Ouch. But then, Linda, please be reasonable: Harriet doesn't read no stinking books (and you knew that, 'cause everyone knows that, 'cause how can anyone read (and review) six books a day, every day for

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-73166266322056445402011-03-25T07:17:00.003-04:002011-03-27T00:47:46.182-04:00

We've received a note from someone claiming to be one of the Amazon (top?) reviewers, who wishes to let us (and the world? :-) know that not everyone on Amazon is a phony PoS like our dear Harriet, or — very distant, of course! — W.Boudville, Maestro Harp, John Matlock "Gunny", Midwest Book Reviews, Mark-O, Dr.Maraio, "Respected Leatherman" Roubel, etc., etc. Well, we can believe that! (Not that

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-82340527513239567782011-03-25T01:30:00.019-04:002011-03-26T03:34:49.172-04:00

One Robert J. Rubel wrote a book that's been published by Nazca Plains Corp., and is sold on Amazon under the title of Squirms, Screams and Squirts: Going from Great Sex to Extraordinary Sex (looks like one of those books Harriet denominates as "heated"). The book has received a good number of reviews, most of them five-star (naturally; though it's got some one-starrers too). One of the positive

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-78225043040396580852011-03-21T22:11:00.009-04:002011-03-22T03:40:10.896-04:00

A new reviewer has just made her entrance into the holy space of Amazon reviewing by posting twenty-five (25) absolutely identical, five-star (natch), reviews for twenty-five different books, all on the same day, March 20, 2011. Goes like this: Oceanside, CA Doc says:This is a great book to even introduce my regular HMO pts to natural healthy treatments., March 20, 2011 As a female medical doctor

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-35603647612076416732011-03-21T11:32:00.002-04:002011-03-21T11:37:23.286-04:00

Interesting nuance (oldie but goodie): on the same Consumerist, Alex Chasick writes:After buying an anti-snoring mouthpiece from a third-party seller on Amazon, reader Bob received an email from the company offering him a free mouthpiece in exchange for a five-star review. He noted this attempted bribe in his Amazon review, and Amazon deleted it. Twice. [...]This is totally new to me. Check it

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-25015172535867776002011-03-20T18:29:00.012-04:002011-03-20T19:32:21.816-04:00

Poster "Helen" added a very insightful comment. Notice that the comment is closed due to a large number of negative votes on it. Here's how it looks when you first arrive to this page (click on the image for a full-size picture):Now, let's open it (click on the image for a full-size picture):An eminently reasonable comment, well articulated — read it: what is there so offensive that ten people

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-1997168455758589282011-03-18T22:44:00.003-04:002011-03-18T23:31:14.279-04:00

From MediaBistro: Dianna Dilworth writes:[...]Author Thomas Hertog authored a book on how he worked the Amazon rankings system to get an inflated ranking. [...] called The Day the Kindle Died [and sold as eBook, it] was allegedly removed from the Kindle store earlier this month [...]The removal got the book a lot of attention on Twitter [,] and Amazon took the opportunity to e-mail their

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-45530320467231322342011-03-14T17:53:00.007-04:002011-03-25T07:59:23.115-04:00

On something called Consumerist, an obviously intelligent fellow by the name Chris Walters writes in an article called The Fakery Behind Amazon's "Top 10 Reviewers":Amazon reviews, especially the effusive ones, have always been suspect—you never know when a five-star review came from an employee, publicist, or marketing type. Slate describes the dishonest world of Amazon's "Top 10 Reviewers,"

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-56962957251824611022011-03-14T16:11:00.006-04:002011-03-29T10:30:15.474-04:00

On March 8 Amazon poster Manny R. Brooklyn added a comment with a link to an article on this blog (right below: Klausner Protection Squad negs comments but doesn't vote for review itself). This comment was immediately deleted by Amazon (Manny got blown off the site too). Why? Needless to say, Amazon never offers an explanation. But based on past experience, it's never been a problem to add a link

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-74715165093406158542011-03-13T20:05:00.003-04:002011-03-14T15:52:52.976-04:00

Thanks to an inquisitive poster we now have exact numbers for Harriet Klausner's contribution to Amazon reviews system during the last half a year.[...]on Mar. 10, 2011 4:59 AM PST Guy the Gorilla says: [...] For those keeping track, here's a quick summary of her latest activity:- 228 "reviews" in September 2010- 296 "reviews" in October 2010- 187 "reviews" in November 2010- 192 "reviews" in

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-4573782604855272232011-03-08T18:57:00.009-05:002011-03-14T17:26:48.223-04:00

Poster Guy the Gorilla raises an interesting issue:Guy the Gorilla says:It's either 22 mentally deranged people, or the same mentally deranged person circling back for the 22nd time.I wonder if it may be Harriet herself, like I said earlier. If you'll notice, not one of these 22 "defenders" has thought to vote Harriet's original review itself as helpful. That is very odd. Makes me think it's her,

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-62746114833222088122011-03-04T10:44:00.008-05:002011-03-14T17:13:21.460-04:00

Here's America's Creativity Guru Roger von Oech reviewing Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus by... Roger von Oech. Five stars, incidentally. A very good book, he really liked it:Roger's new book is a fun read. [Notice that just like Colonel Gaddafi, Mr von Oech speaks of himself in the third person — this demonstrates the

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-43826066144870828932010-12-11T17:59:00.007-05:002011-03-25T08:54:15.874-04:00

Check this out: Lassen's profile page with reviews now says "We're sorry, but this customer's list of reviews is currently not available. Please check back soon". Amazon probably got many complaints about his blatant plagiarism and the whole "Lassen Oeuvre" got removed. I think it's a shame though: it'd be far more edifying if his good works remained, along with the detractors' funny commentary

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-1324242979526061472010-11-30T00:39:00.002-05:002010-11-30T00:58:27.532-05:00

Not that this represents any material threat to our dear Harriet, but the phenomenon is curious in its own right. Apparently plagiarism is rampant on the sacred pages of Amazon. Our correspondent alerts us about another Amazon top reviewer, someone named Amos Lassen. I haven't looked into it in much detail, but upon a cursory perusement it seems interesting. Here's Amos Lassen's reviews page with

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-2606667626738369102010-09-04T03:09:00.001-04:002010-09-04T03:13:52.108-04:00

Am I losing it or they (Netflix) did just remove the capability of posting a review on their site? That can't be right... what am I missing? I can't see the usual "review this movie" button on the page where it used to be. Enlighten me, please.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-23969323562833343162010-07-13T06:08:00.003-04:002011-03-25T08:37:51.932-04:00

Check this out (italics mine):A customer [formerly known as The Butler] says:[Deleted by Amazon on July 10, 2010 2:39 AM PDT]QED. I told you so. Another Amazon wipeout.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-45995114859195017512010-06-29T16:43:00.004-04:002010-06-29T17:02:09.386-04:00

Here I go to my favorite reviewer's page and -- WHAT?! We're sorry, but this customer's list of reviews is currently not available. Please check back soon.Ouch!What happened with our dear Harriet's reviews, why can't I see them? I can't live, I can't exist, not even one day without reading and rereading Harriet Klausner's valuable reviews, please bring the Klausner

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-65375597599717343812010-06-10T17:56:00.002-04:002010-06-10T18:07:16.629-04:00

I started pointing out that Ms. K writes synopses NOT reviews. Next thing I knew my 4 Listmania Lists went from 100% Helpful to 27% in under 30 days. I believe her fans are clearing behind this and it burns my shorts to have this happen to me (and probably many other people).Does anyone know it there is anything I can do to restore my ratings short of just pulling the lists altogether. I hate

The Butler Did Ithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03259910210691096930noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-69303235259987865292010-06-08T02:08:00.003-04:002010-06-08T02:28:49.218-04:00

How uniquely appropriate! She is the devil.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-60801642793240941662010-06-04T09:20:00.002-04:002010-06-04T09:33:09.757-04:00

Unless my computer is experiencing a glitch, the profile of Our Lady of the Infinite Reviews no longer shows up among the Harriet Klausners listed on the "people" space on Amazon. I have to go to the review of a particular unresd item to find her. Has Amazon actually put its most shameless contributor on the back burner? If so, why? As always inquiring minds want to know

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-22781917182481518642010-05-31T22:02:00.008-04:002011-03-25T08:39:51.375-04:00

Helen says:Interesting. My yes 'votes' counted on the other reviews but since this review was confusing I voted no and my no 'vote' didn't register???Again, I thought I'd test this (again, I remind the reader here that I can't possibly qualify as Harriet's "fan" since I never vote on her reviews, other than for testing -- which is like once a year maybe). Well, I voted, and my vote did not show

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-72507188430455823492010-04-24T09:05:00.003-04:002010-04-24T09:23:40.627-04:00

Who is that handsome chap? Ah but of course, everyone knows it's professor Figes, who has recently decided to wade into the murky waters of Amazon review writing with such effect. ... The future of one of Britain's leading historians was looking increasingly uncertain tonight after he admitted that he was the author of anonymous reviews that praised his own work as "fascinating" and "uplifting"

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-34885051119927504532010-04-10T23:15:00.002-04:002010-04-10T23:20:51.261-04:00

Have you noticed that the Amazon Discussion Board now seems to require logging in even in order to read it? It used to be widely open; you needed to log in only if you wanted to post something. Why such an interesting change? One can't help wondering is some of the action by the house shills there ("not a requirement" and the like) was determined too open for the general reader... Here's one

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-87808600407040544432010-04-03T07:57:00.004-04:002010-04-03T08:37:21.262-04:00

Just bumped into an interesting post, The Harriet Klausner Mythos:Booksquare suggests that Amazon reviewer Harriet Klausner (profiled in today’s Wall Street Journal by Joanne Kaufman) isn’t exactly a discovery of such stunning new finds as Tess Gerritsen, pointing out that Gerritsen’s career kick-started several years before. However, I’m curious why the Wall Street Journal didn’t make an effort

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-64080331065311819422010-04-02T09:24:00.003-04:002010-04-02T09:27:41.817-04:00

I'm sure you all get those solicitation e-mails from Amazon saying, "People who bought or rated books by..." also like books by...In the last few months, I have started getting suggestions that have nothing to do with any books I've read or rated. I have not even heard of the authors or books they claim to be basing the recommendation on.Anyone else notice a change? Until recently, the

Dave IRVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050254435930887507noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-14930948859134338162010-03-27T10:46:00.002-04:002010-03-27T10:56:28.454-04:00

Entirely off topic: Here's a nice blog The Do It Yourself Scholar . I perused it only superficially so far, but it looks like it's interesting. Check it out, you might like it.PS. Oh yeah, and Harriet went to 696 for a few days; then descended to 698. Perhaps voting on her reviews is re-enabled? Has anyone tried lately ?

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-88984801644302894082010-03-20T10:44:00.004-04:002010-03-20T14:44:15.667-04:00

Just a few days back we blogged about Klausner's apparent immunity to votes -- and just look how well this has already worked: she was then 706 and now she's 703. The brilliant intervention worked: Harriet's precipitous fall in ranks stopped and even reversed. All publisher shills giving her thumbs up all the time, she'll be back to No.1 in no time now.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-35923648141254626472010-03-17T01:44:00.004-04:002010-03-17T01:58:59.511-04:00

Is Our Dear Harriett immune not only from Amazon rules (and general accountability) but also from the latest FTC requirement?? In short, the FTC recently announced that reviewers must clearly state that they're getting free review copies (in whatever form) from the publishers. It makes sense. The FTC wants readers of reviews to be able to differentiate "I bought this book with my hard-earned cash

Deborah Hernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10620212640805660684noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-56110409073145177592010-03-12T20:47:00.004-05:002010-03-29T15:17:21.910-04:00

cloudyskye says:This is NOT a helpful review! I'm not a Harriet Klausner hater, but I think it rather weird that my "no" after the question "Was this review helpful to you?" does not register. When reading a review, I want to know WHY someone did or did not like a book, not a very superficial - if wordy - description which reads like the book's back cover.Ronald Craig says:(How can there be no

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-64486591445385784072010-02-23T00:07:00.003-05:002010-02-23T00:16:23.244-05:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday it has notified nearly 100 companies and organizations of data breaches involving personal information about customers or employees.The FTC declined to identify the companies or organizations involved, but said they were both "private and public entities, including schools and local governments."The companies and organizations

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-38244497217586892592010-01-04T20:07:00.002-05:002010-01-04T20:12:14.776-05:00

I have a question perhaps someone here can answer.In years past, I used to order quite a bit from Amazon and do it with free shipping. The stuff shipped quickly and arrived in a week, no more than two. Now, however, when I order and do free shipping, I get a "ship date estimate" that is two, three, four weeks into the future. It takes forever to get my order. My question: Does Amazon now put

Dave IRVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050254435930887507noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-35556096876375874582009-10-06T13:30:00.003-04:002009-10-15T17:40:53.118-04:00

latimes.com/business/la-fi-bloggers6-2009oct06,0,4733519.storyThe link above announces the FTC's long awaited rules concerning its crackdown on misleading endorsements by bloggers. "The post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement...." "Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-67638988858363756162009-09-27T09:04:00.002-04:002009-09-27T09:19:56.654-04:00

I just found out about "text stats" at Amazon. The New York Times even wrote an article about them a couple years ago. But I can't find them when I look. Are text stats something Amazon once had, but discontinued? Anyone know?I noticed Amazon started tagging reviews written by those who bought the book from them. Worth doing, I suppose. Not that it will help at all, but it's something.

Dave IRVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050254435930887507noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-57167392460301459222009-08-20T22:12:00.006-04:002009-08-20T23:22:05.780-04:00

Remember that article in Time by Lev Grossman? The one about "one of the world's most prolific and influential book reviewers" Harriet Klausner? Turns out that the selfsame Lev Grossman is not just some journalist. Turns out that "Lev Grossman is a senior writer and book critic for TIME magazine". And we wondered why he would write such an article! Hmmm... :-)Btw, turns out he's also an author.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-83031072673690228802009-08-18T13:59:00.003-04:002009-08-18T14:16:14.665-04:00

Am I alone in my bewilderment as to how Harriet's number of "helpful votes" is growing by leaps and bounds? Her "reviews" themselves within the last few years have never garnered a suspicious number of "helpfuls" as did, say, those of Grady Harp. In fact, she is winning such little favor among Amazon readers as to be on a definite downward spiral in the New Ratings System. On the other hand, her

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-69466252134221121572009-07-25T06:02:00.003-04:002009-07-25T06:14:13.201-04:00

Jeff Bezos apologizes (after being caught out):Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has issued an apology to Kindle customers after [books] were remotely deleted from their electronic readers. "This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of '1984' and other novels on Kindle," the Amazon chief executive said in a post on Thursday on the Kindle Community discussion forum. "Our '

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-13330072254580845822009-06-28T23:53:00.005-04:002009-06-30T15:06:28.311-04:00

Newspapers recently have reported that the FTC plans late this summer to begin requiring bloggers and websites to identify all entries which have been written for compensation - i.e. by covert shills.A typical newspaper article pointing this out is the following: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-blogging-0622,0,1923444.story.The proposed FTC guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ftc.gov/

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-32244124434833751212009-06-26T12:30:00.009-04:002009-06-26T13:46:32.088-04:00

From the BBC News Magazine: ... the recent actions of science publisher Elsevier caused a storm. The firm offered a $25 (£15) Amazon voucher to academics who contributed to the textbook Clinical Psychology if they would go on Amazon [...] and give it five stars.The perils of five-star reviews by Finlo Rohrer. I hope Jeff "Customer Reviews" Bozos doesn't neglect to read this piece.And of course:"

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-1331266227441566502009-06-05T23:27:00.002-04:002009-06-05T23:30:23.248-04:00

Worse and worse, or actually better and better, Harriet under the new system is now Reviewer # 589. To some degree, justice may be of this earth after all. :-)))

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-8226358909366478662009-06-05T15:50:00.002-04:002009-06-05T16:13:44.171-04:00

Does anyone have an explanation why the outrageous Grady Harp keeps on rising in Amazon rankings -currently he's risen to # 3 Old Style and to # 22 New Style - whereas the website's star Ungeheurer, Harriet Klausner, continues her decline - though still # 1 Old Style, she's descended to # 579 New. The question of the reason for these frankly baffling rankings has been raised on the Amazon comment

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-40090082742661820732009-04-20T11:50:00.002-04:002009-04-20T11:57:30.600-04:00

I don't know if you guys are following this or not, but a quick summary.1. Hugo Chavez gave a book to President Obama about Latin America.2. Matt Drudge provided a link to the book on Amazon.3. Those will political views similar to Matt Drudge are bombarding the reviews with "Not Helpful" votes and frantically writing comments to 10-year old reviews.4. Oh, and of course writing reviews for a book

Dave IRVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050254435930887507noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-70044443042708921262009-04-05T16:52:00.002-04:002009-04-05T17:05:04.492-04:00

So I'm looking at some music on Amazon and I see a book on a page that catches my attention:The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover). Thought I'd read a review or two, just to get a feel for what it covers. Released on November 13, this review hits in less than a week.Money makes the world go round, November 20, 2008 -- Amada Barry.Seemed legit enough until I came to

Dave IRVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050254435930887507noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-34097162315078595552009-04-02T18:59:00.003-04:002009-04-02T19:19:21.960-04:00

Turns out what we call shilling has a politically correct, scientific-sounding name: viral marketing. So, Harriet Klausner, Morris, Gunny, W.Boudville, et al. are not shills, they're viral marketeers. OK. There's a curious article in the Financial Times, Advertisers brace for online viral marketing curbs, check it out:Advertisers in the US are bracing themselves for regulatory changes that they

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-47640417466679431072009-03-14T10:56:00.002-04:002009-03-14T11:00:16.809-04:00

Only the "classic" numbers show up on Amazon anymore. What happened to the new ranking system? "Disappeared" w/o trace?

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-75836706930979792772009-03-13T21:54:00.003-04:002009-03-13T22:05:59.911-04:00

One a site called Romantic Times one Lisa Marie Wilkinson writes in her blog:My debut historical romance novel "Fire at Midnight" was released by Medallion Press on March 1. [...] "Fire at Midnight" was a finalist or winner of more than 40 writing contests in its unpublished form, including the Maryland Writers Association Novel Contest and a Bronze Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-42012965165154424512009-02-12T00:48:00.002-05:002009-02-12T01:11:18.543-05:00

Have you noticed that the prolific Amazon poster S.Tepper has apparently been banished and all his comments wiped out ('deleted-by-Amazon')? On Amazon.com, whenever it comes to a shill vs a guy with enough civic spirit to complain about it, it's the guy who will lose. Another telling nuance is that when such a total-wipeout event happens, all posts marked as 'deleted by Amazon' show different

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-56311721508122919702009-02-03T20:44:00.007-05:002009-02-03T21:14:05.556-05:00

The Bernie Madoff of Amazon reviewing -- I'm talking of Harriet Klausner of course -- has posted no less than 108 reviews today (the day's not over yet). No, you haven't misread: it is one hundred and eight. Somewhat redundantly, I'm sure, let me add that it was not after a couple of years' silence that she did this: her previous batch is but a couple of days old. One of the blurbs is titled

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-57363717229723178072009-02-02T15:44:00.006-05:002011-03-25T09:31:40.637-04:00

I'm somewhat late with this, but it's worth checking out. Apparently a product manager working for Belkin was at some point hiring shills to praise their inferior products (on Amazon, of course). A few links to check out: Exclusive: Belkin’s Development Rep is Hiring People to Write Fake Positive Amazon Reviews (courtesy of The Daily Background), Belkin Employee Sheds Light On Belkin's Supposedly

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-16342622448965076792009-02-01T11:53:00.004-05:002009-02-01T12:47:36.333-05:00

In the event anyone might have thought 2009 would bring about a change in Harriet Klausner's conduct, sorry no kewpie doll.The Queen of Frauds posted -- no, make that excreted -- 243 abominably written phoney reviews on Amazon. Since she regularly dumps her reviews on at least 17 other sites, who knows how many of her reviews were actually inflicted on the human race during the first month of the

STeppernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-12186298164140625872009-01-17T01:37:00.002-05:002009-01-17T01:44:42.323-05:00

Here's a NYT editorial that deals with an issue that is, in my view, relevant to Amazon's running a reviews system reviewing what Amazon sells. ... New York State’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, and UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, have agreed to set up a new system for calculating out-of-network payments. [...] Typically, when patients use non-network doctors,

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-60373828665099114282009-01-11T16:48:00.002-05:002009-01-11T16:51:27.330-05:00

Harriet seems to be gob smacked with Hollywood and celebrities like most people toiling away in Georgia. Thus, when she knows the author is a screen writer she invariably says that what has been written should be produced. She has an affaire de plume with Lee Goldberg that you can understand more fully only by reading her 10 reviews of his books. At the end of the one book that has not been

STeppernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-61811050771132011772009-01-06T18:25:00.007-05:002009-01-06T18:48:10.233-05:00

[error happened]Check this out: this reviewer, S. McDonald "Library World", posts exact copies of "Product Description" as his reviews. Verbatim or near so. I think he deserves a place in our select group of Top Reviewers like Harriet Klausner, W.Bouville, Gunny, and the rest. For example, here's his review of Living God's Politics: A Guide to Putting Your Faith into Action by Jim Wallis; let's

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-66829900615499251552009-01-05T02:50:00.005-05:002009-01-05T16:21:00.436-05:00

After a long hiatus, our old friend topreviewer John Matlock "Gunny" has posted a five-star review that reads, every bit as before, like a hunk of jacket copy. Well, welcome back; we're looking forward to his reviewing some dozen two-thousand-page scientific tractatuses per day, every review five-star and clueless.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-80491874060980694112009-01-03T13:22:00.003-05:002009-01-03T13:38:44.870-05:00

Here's a curious article (from Slate) that, I think, is directly applicable to the pullulating woes of the Amazon "reviews" system. Another failure of an attempt to sell shit-faced corporate skull-duggery as, um... like Amazon would say, "helpful" (despite the obligatory fake friendliness and even an openly stated promise of some cash). Check it out.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-54556583264780653672008-12-29T20:08:00.002-05:002008-12-30T10:15:34.488-05:00

Maybe I'm just late to the party, but I came across this reference to our Queen in a book on malapropisms: Click to visit.

STeppernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-15898680637424360312008-12-26T22:57:00.002-05:002008-12-26T23:12:01.390-05:00

I've raised this issue before, but I've usually been met with skepticism as to its likelihood. Reading the Klausner threads and seeing the proliferating number of readers who document her glaring errors, question her actual reading of just about anything she "reviews," doubt her ability in any event to read so much in so short a time, and express wonder at Amazon's benign neglect of her offenses,

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-39156274927571081622008-12-03T13:07:00.002-05:002008-12-03T13:30:12.404-05:00

Hi, everyone. I'm new to this so bear with me, please.I'm writing about something I first noticed a long time ago, but didn't give much thought to. There is a person who writes reviews solely to hawk his own book. Have you seen this?The book is the "Emotional Intelligence Quick Book." The M.O. is to (1) be one of the first to write a review for a new book, a surefire best seller; (2) Write a

Dave IRVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050254435930887507noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-9640103695368519562008-11-26T00:20:00.004-05:002008-11-26T00:45:30.648-05:00

...and, needless to say, reviewed them all ! Well, before someone like L.E. Cantrell rushes in to remonstrate, précisons-nous: the latest earlier review was posted on the 23rd, so (today's being 25th) maybe W.Boudville spent two days, not just one working over these nine (9) books. I mean at least nine (maybe more reviews are coming? The day's not over yet).PS. Do you think Harp is back at it?

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-75538267271800034162008-11-18T19:25:00.004-05:002008-11-26T00:58:08.947-05:00

For all its huffing and puffing, has Amazon advanced one inch in any honest effort to clean up the improprieties disfiguring its website? True, there's been some reshuffling of Top Reviewers, but Amazon intends to keep BOTH its older, more corrupted classical ranking and its new, pretty baffling one, awarding a reviewer the numerical ranking which is the higher of the two. If honesty has any role

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-11478002804113453602008-10-27T18:45:00.004-04:002008-10-27T18:58:03.949-04:00

People started to notice the overturn of the old rules of ranking on Amazon. First, there's a new post from our old friend Vick Mickunas, a worthy read as always.And then, our other old friend, John (of the old but evergreen "Here's a shocker" thread on sfsignal) had a few words to say about the news: "Klausner's tumble from the top..."."Dear Author" noticed too: check it out.

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-70191860886430647922008-10-26T23:06:00.002-04:002008-10-26T23:38:29.224-04:00

The phrase is Judy K. Polhemus,' a member in good standing of Amazon's possibly most knee-jerk "Friends" voting group, the Guardala Gang. She predicts the departure in their own perhaps sincere, but no doubt bizarre outrage of various personages of the group who've been shockingly reduced in both reviewer ranking and number of countable positive votes. Either Hondo, the HKAS, or now Amazon must

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-6470107064011988702008-10-24T12:53:00.002-04:002008-10-24T13:29:39.067-04:00

On October 23 Amazon changed its method of ranking reviewers. Unfortunately, its explanation of the changes I find largely unintelligible. If anyone has a clear understanding of the changes, a posting to that effect would be much appreciated. Its new way, as far as I can discern, is just about as opaque as was its old one. Apparently the only abuse targeted is positive or negative serial voting

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-76239471155566174062008-10-21T13:08:00.002-04:002008-10-21T13:27:36.737-04:00

On October 20 an Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer named "The Doctor" commented as follows at the foot of several Harriet Klausner and Grady Harp "reviews:""All Amazon customers should know the truth about Amazon's "top reviewers." They are sell outs. They mostly review books they've never even read. They are contacted by authors and their reviews are solicited. Why? It sells products, of course. It has

Stanley H Nemethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614307917754419143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-12863287106459667462008-09-17T01:26:00.007-04:002008-09-30T23:55:28.272-04:00

Steve Guardala's review of Landsknechts, after having accumulated a number of interesting posts about the reasons of what happened to him, has finally been deleted. I guess, having 'deleted-by-Amazon' a number of offending posts by 'Hondo', and despite a number of increasingly unreal but energetic attempts of damage control by friends of the reviewer, it was decided that the commentary still

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-84360169683679249162008-09-08T08:12:00.002-04:002008-09-08T08:17:32.938-04:00

Here's a fantastic new book from Five Star Publishing by Sharon Ervin; the title is I believe Reviewer Harriet Klausner gave MURDER ABOARD THE CHOCTAW GAMBLER a five-star rating, although it shows four on Amazon.com. Will you double check that?.:-))))))))))))

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-8909461294709799182008-09-01T12:55:00.004-04:002008-09-01T13:17:17.398-04:00

Or is she a nutcase whacko? You be the judge. Author Chancery Stone starts a post at the Amazon Romance Forums promoting her Danny books to the romance readers, in part,"The DANNY Quadrilogy is a 4 volume series of novels about the Jackson Moore brothers, part of a Cumbrian (English) farming family.They have a forbidden relationship, thoroughly twisted out of shape by an abusive childhood. Things

Cathynoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-91549513442275732762008-08-27T17:29:00.002-04:002008-08-27T17:32:55.542-04:00

Here it is from the horse's mouth:Another gripe has to do with the low resolution screen captures. Text is hard to read. Also, when the figures are graphs, there are often 2 or more curves. There is a legend at the bottom that indicates what each curve means. But the curves are often hard to distinguish. This is in my copy of the book, which is an Advance Reading Copy. Perhaps in the final

Malleusnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6369920588474226441.post-48261709271311506152008-08-24T01:04:00.003-04:002008-08-24T01:28:24.303-04:00

Some reviewers resort to delete and repost completely shamelessly, without even attempting to hide it:Amy E. Barker says: I don't care for the comments feature that Amazon has provided with the reviews. I've seen too many people abusing it. I had to delete several reviews recently and repost them because of the number of nasty comments attached to the reviews. You can report them as abuse but

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