Oh, the hours and hours I have wasted on this sh*te.
Briefly: been amazon prime member since 2003; had written 5,000 reviews (which I thought was a bit high - but that was a number given to me) and had a pretty decent position in however reviewers are rated. (I’ve been trying to forget all this. Really.)
I have never received a penny or a product from any vendor on amazon (or anywhere else .)
In January or so (not gonna look at my large file on the history of this), I innocently wrote a review for a product that I, of course, had bought and used. I liked writing reviews because I love writing and I always tried to make my reviews entertaining but helpful, since I used to rely so heavily on reviews when I was deciding whether to buy or not.
So, on that fateful day back in January, (or whenever) I got my first “something suspicious in your account…..until we blah blah blah…. you can’t review on amazon anymore.”
I took it very personally. I also began a two or three month journey of emailing or calling whoever I was told to email or call, or whoever I could think of to do the same. In return, I got form letter responses and/or directions to chase my tail down one black hole after another.
I finally got an email “We’ve reviewed your account and there’s nothing fishy going on. Go on, you crazy kid, and go back to your reviewing ways.” I’m paraphrasing of course. Went to post a review and ,of course, same angry red lined box - “no reviews for you, Missy. If you have questions, fill out this form(which you’ve already done two or three times) and send it to
amazoncircularfile@hahaha.com.”
Again, I filled out form, wrote emails, made phone calls - nothing.
I also am not allowed to ask questions about products I might be interested in buying. You know what I mean - questions about the fabric of a dress for example. If I try, I get another red lined box telling me that “questions have to conform to community guidelines and your question of “Can you tell me if thie fabric of this dress is blah blah blah…” didn’t adhere to community guidelines so you can’t even ask a question.”
In the meantime, I get many emails weekly from vendors asking me to please post a review of their product that I’ve bought; they’re a small business, reviews mean so much, etc. And I feel like this is where the bots collide. If i’ve been banned from reviewing,why does amazon pass along these requests for me to review by vendors? Don’t they know I’m some sort of nefarious hosebag who can’t be trusted to write five sentences about something I bought for one of my children?
Sorry to be so vague. My father in laws funeral is tomorrow, I feel like our dogs saved up all their shedded hair for months and now have dumped it on our bed and I don’t want to go back and relive all the pointless black holes I’ve been sent down and the continuous trashing of what I thought was a little more then a minor contribution to other potential buyers, as I was a very passionate review reader, myself.
So even though I’ve been cleared - I haven’t been and even though I receive weekly requests from vendors to review a product Ive purchased - I can’t help them because I can no longer review anyones product on amazon.
Sorry to sound so stupid. It’s the dog hair.
