Have you seen the most recent news from Amazon on product reviews?!

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Read it also and first thought was to come here and see whats the word.

#4

hmm…this is really going to be tricky now for Power Users. Guess it’s time to start a blog/youtube or something but yeah…

#5

Pity Amazon can’t be as attentive to the negative voting option, such as making the voter select why the review was unhelpful. I’ve had three Anker reviews incur some negative votes because of a five star review (given because the item did what I wanted and what it was designed to do, can’t exactly shaft them for that with lower stars). I’ve even stated in my reviews to check past reviews, as I’ve had three Anker products that have garnered three stars as they did not meet a usable standard (for me).

As far as this will effect Anker, not certain it will completely seeming Amazon are their main distributor, so I imagine that some negotiations have been done to allow sample reviews but probably without a verified purchase tags which sometimes can be listed. Either that of Anker start selling direct (which no doubt will cause Amazon issues in the future if other large sellers follow suit)

Edit - Also it looks at present that this is only for amazon.com not .co.uk, so it will be probably another few months for UK reviewers.

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#6

Thankful if it’s only for .com but to be fair it isn’t long until they mirror their community guidelines elsewhere although I would like to think there are far more reviews on .Com and there are likely to be more false ones.

I too read the news and came here to worry like the rest of us! It’s a bit worrying but no doubt it will follow unless Anker will find somewhere else to write your reviews or so but I usually post mine on my own site.

Quite saddened that some have ruined it for the masses.

#7

I’ve always thought Anker’s power user scheme was quite robust and has led to high-quality reviews far beyond the general quality of what you find on Amazon. I too hope some arrangement is worked out and I would think Anker must have had some prior notice of a change this important.

#8

/sub 567890

#9

Anker… We are all concerned. Please fill us in on how this will effect us Power Users… Are we officially done testing and reviewing your products? Please let us know…

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#10

I don’t believe they’ll ever be done; the way Anker has made it work and how someone else suggested was that they will always somewhat require testing, most if not every product does. No product works fantastic just by selling it from the beginning they always need someone to test it. I’m sure a few companies will ask for further clarification as to what Amazon mean but don’t get me wrong I get a boat load of utter rubbish in my inbox for trials and it’s all stuff I would never touch.

It’s like I said - a handful have ruined it for the masses for either publishing good reviews on rubbish products or getting paid to do them.

#11

To be a “Verified” Review on amazon the consumer has to atleast pay something out of pocket even if only a penny for the review to be considered are verified purchase. So as other companies I review for do, they will send you a coupon code redeemable on Amazon bringing the total down to only .01cent. Another option Anker has is to send power users the total amount of the product via paypal and in turn the individual buys the product with those funds as some comapanies do already that I also review for. Now some will ask what if they dont use those funds to purchase and review the product? Well the company will simply not allow you to review for them anymore. So I am sure Anker will institute something to keep reviewers reviewing their products just more discreetly now unfortunately.

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#14

Hey guys, thank you for following the news and your concern for our Power User Program. Rest assured that we’ll keep Power User Program and stay connected with you in the future. We’ll keep you informed of any actions we might take. :slight_smile:

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#15

Thanks for the update. Will be interesting to see how the Power User program moves forward for users who primarily review via Amazon and not personal blogs/YouTube (where products reviewed are not available for purchase)

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#16

any update?

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#17

No official update for US users however the UK Power User program is still, for the time being, reviewed as before via Amazon.

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#18

You are right, news don’t relate to UK users, as I have just reviewed Anker product on Amazon and it was published without any problems.

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#19

Reviews will still go through here in the US through Amazon as well, we just run the risk of being banned from Amazon so it is NOT advised sadly. Such a bummer.

#20

So when we receive a Power User product, are we still expected to leave a review on Amazon or should we be sending feedback to Anker and posting about the item on social media? This change on Amazon impacts the Power User program as it stands - could we get some clarity please?

I also saw that this morning when I logged in, the Power User program was only linked via the Community page… and all of my review links are gone from my profile.

Thanks for sharing a clear update!
Dave

#21

about a week ago, a friend had told me about this new policy increased by AMAZON could not really believe it, because I think this way are discouraging potential consumers, because thanks to the testers is that the products have their revisions since They are few if any buyers who devote their time to make revisions

#22

wow i bet the amount of reviews drop because of this.

#23

Kinda hope we hear something by now on the new policy on reviewing the product what is acceptable and what’s not.

#24

There’s got to be a better way for Amazon to handle this.