Reply to: Amazon seller wants to pay me to remove review.

[Fraidycat]

Report it to Amazon, send copies of the email etc. This is the only option that might do some good.

This product seems to be the only one they sell on amazon.

So they look like a small outfit.

I could be destroying livelihoods if my grassing them up to amazon ends badly for them.


We are still communicating i hope to post an update here soon

[d000hg]

Report it to Amazon, send copies of the email etc. This is the only option that might do some good.

[SueEllen]

If you aren't struggling for money then write in the review the seller has offered you money to remove the review.

If you do need the cash then ask for more money before removing it.

In the past I've been asked to write good reviews by the seller so that ends up in the review.

[AtW]

Lets say you buy a car and the bumper falls off, in a country where that isnt illegal to drive. The car is still usable.

Correct answer for what to do in such case is in the old movie - The Mask.

[Fraidycat]

Oh, it's "semi broken" now, but you just said - "A bit of the product broke off".

Which one is it then? And how did it break, did you drop it?

Lets say you buy a car and the bumper falls off, in a country where that isnt illegal to drive. The car is still usable. But is also broken. Same for my device.

[Fraidycat]

Were you able to get the broken bit out yourself, or was a trip to A&E involved?

Yes it is an electronic vibrating device. That you use on certain parts of your body. How did you guess

[mattster]

Were you able to get the broken bit out yourself, or was a trip to A&E involved?

[AtW]

If I post a truthful picture or video of the product in it its current semi broken state. That will be much worse for the seller.

Oh, it's "semi broken" now, but you just said - "A bit of the product broke off".

Which one is it then? And how did it break, did you drop it?

[Fraidycat]

You should have written the truth..
Correct ethical action is to apologise to the seller and delete false review.

If I post a truthful picture or video of the product in it its current semi broken state. That will be much worse for the seller.

[AtW]

I didnt want to spend time writing an essay on it. A bit of the product broke off. In the review i said the product broke. Which is factually true.

You should have written the truth, which appears to be "A bit of the product broke off, but it's still useable", but you chose to write the product broke, implying it stopped working.

Correct ethical action is to apologise to the seller and delete false review.

NEXT!!!

[Fraidycat]

Surely, it did not break if it was still usable, as you said.

In effect it follows that you made false review, so ethical thing is to delete it and offer to pay seller some notional compensation for the losses he suffered as the result of your false review.

I didnt want to spend time writing an essay on it. A bit of the product broke off. In the review i said it broke. Which is factually true. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1, because it was still usable.

[AtW]

I would ask the seller to send you another one free of charge, and if it is still unbroken after a month, you'll remove your review.

Yes, then the seller would know his name/address for High Court service purposes

[ravenshaw]

My review was basically 'My one broke pretty quick but maybe you will have better luck than i did'

I would ask the seller to send you another one free of charge, and if it is still unbroken after a month, you'll remove your review.

[AtW]

My review was basically 'My one broke pretty quick but maybe you will have better luck than i did'

Surely, it did not break if it was still usable, as you said.

In effect it follows that you made false review, so ethical thing is to delete it and offer to pay seller some notional compensation for the losses he suffered as the result of your false review.

[Fraidycat]

Or the product is entirely fine (as lots of positive reviews indicate) for the price range it's sold at, but the buyer assumed that his own bad luck somehow means all other items also bad.

My review was basically 'My one broke pretty quick but maybe you will have better luck than i did'