Update, I had sent an email to Amazon about a week or so ago about a top reviewer who was blatantly soliciting items for review. I had received a reply that they needed some time to review the matter, and I just received another email today stating "I wanted to send you a quick e-mail to let you know that we are still researching the matter regarding a "top reviewer" soliciting items for reviews".
I'd like to be a fly on the wall in those meetings.
And Barbara, you are most courageous to keep on chiming in as you do at HK's reviews. It's getting to be quite a jungle there.
I'm surprised they even responded to that, and even moreso that they are "researching" something.
ReplyDeleteI had in impression that soliciting stuff for review is not against Amazon rules. Otherwise they'd have to ban probably two thirds of their Top Reviewers (and quite a few non-Top ones: for while only the Tops post reviews in huge numbers, a lot of occasional reviewers post jacket-copy-like reviews with high ratings).
It's very interesting that they decided to "look at it" (like it's not obvious what's going on there :-) ). Keep us updated!