Comments on: The case of the disappearing Amazon reviews

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:43:15 +0000

The reason is simple – the more negative reviews Amazon.com deletes, the more sales they have, the more money they make. Be realistic – they simply delete your reviews as they please. Don’t put your head in the sand and don’t think there’s some bug or mystery behind. Do not trust Amazon.com. I bought movies and books that had mainly 5 stars reviews and they are complete garbage, waste of time. I wrote negative reviews on those books, movies and merchandise, but some of those reviews disappeared or never appeared. Amazon.com is not to be trusted, make your own research before purchasing something on Amazon.com.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:38:04 +0000

Suggestion: create your own blog or a website and post all your reviews there. They will be picked up by Google and other search engines and your reviews will always be under your own control.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:36:29 +0000

Some of my reviews have disappeared, some never appeared no matter what I did. Some reviews posted on the same day appeared, while others did not. There was no foul language nor abuse of any rules. All of them were 1-2 or 3 star reviews. One that I posted recently never appeared and i am not allowed to post it again. This happened to me many times, yet I keep on forgetting, so from now on, no more Amazon.com for me!

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:50:24 +0000

UK amazon has recently lost all my dozen reviews, but US amazon still has the eight I saw last time I looked a week or so ago

By: Daf

Daf — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:37:36 +0000

Just happened to me in last 24 hours. Every signle one of my reviews which were nearly all v positive have just completely disappeared.

By: Karen Kelly

Karen Kelly — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:40:46 +0000

Hi Scott – A few days ago all 13 customer reviews of my book, THE SECRET OF THE SECRET disappeared. I have asked Amazon twice about this, and even left a “review” pointing out that the reviews were gone. I have yet to hear an answer. I think there is a story here. It’s bizarre, but somehow I feel better knowing it has happened to other people. I am glad you got all your reviews back, and I hope mine some back as well!

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By: Anne Wall

Anne Wall — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:17:16 +0000

It seems to me that it may be related to Amazon’s new policy of reviews. They won’t allow anyone to publish a review that hasn’t made a purchase with the account they’re logged in with. That way, they’re trying to cull out reviews from trolls and the like.

I may have evidence refuting my own point, though, because the reviews for “Blue Moon Rising” by Simon Green are overwhelmingly positive, but the book itself is complete rubbish. If it weren’t for having read his other work earlier, I would have dismissed him as a hack.

Seriously. Don’t read “Blue Moon Rising.” It’s crap.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:10:42 +0000

Censorship disguised as a database error. Perhaps they’re just running out of space, and have a new policy of deleting reviews that don’t reach a certain amount of votes in a certain time?

By: james

james — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:52:58 +0000

This also happened to me. I wrote an extremely funny, yet extremely scathing review for Stephen Kings “The Dark Tower VII” book. It generated something like 50 helpful votes over about a year, then was removed. I figured it was censorship at the time, but based on your story, maybe Amazon just has software problems?