How to Get Free Stuff on Amazon for Reviews

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If you lot're willing to review products from particular sellers, you can get complimentary or securely discounted products for review on Amazon. If you use a web log instead, it is slightly more hard, requires more work.

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   Get familiar with the terms and features you'll be using. There are a few things y'all should know how to find. Production ASINs, review permalinks, and SuperURLs for example.

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   Sympathise what a Product ASIN is. This is the string of characters immediately after the "/dp/" in the product URL.^[1]

   • This is how to identify a product. You can as well search for a production using this.

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   Become familiar with SuperURLs. A super URL is a product link packed full of keywords.

   • Using these manipulates the product's rank, and is confronting TOS.
   • Searching for a product with a few keywords is okay, though.

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   Understand permalinks. This is the permanent link to your review.

   • You can click on the championship of your review, and so click "permalink" on the page. After that, re-create the link in the accost bar.
   • You tin tell a link is a permalink past the give-and-take "perm" in the link.

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   Know what it ways to get wiped. If you lot get wiped, yous will non be able to review on Amazon anymore.

   • You can get wiped for various reasons, by and large which are covered in the TOS.^[two]
   • When you get wiped, you lot will still have prime and be able to order things on amazon.

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   Avoid replying to automated emails. Most sellers send automated emails to people who order items, asking them to review. These are meant for normal customers, and you shouldn't respond to them.

   • Responding to these emails tin can make Amazon flag yous every bit having a relationship with the seller.

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   Build upward your reviews on Amazon. Review whatever products previously purchased on Amazon. If y'all don't have any previous purchases, buy some simple items and review them.^[3]

   • Become familiar with Amazon's TOS and reviewing guidelines.
   • Know the difference between seller feedback, packaging feedback, and production reviews.
   • Familiarize yourself with permalinks and ASINs.

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   Set up your profile. Write upwardly a brusque bio on your profile, expressing the your interests and what kind of products yous like. Including your country, email address, and interest in reviewing in your profile volition encourage sellers contact you direct for products to review. Make certain your profile is set to public as well.^[iv]

   • You tin can as well list your web log or website that you review on.

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   Do not link your social media to Amazon. It doesn't aid y'all in whatever way, and tin can get you lot wiped.

   • If you are friends with a seller on Facebook, and try to mail service a review for their production, Amazon will non mail your review and put a flag on your account.^[5]

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   Don't take PayPal or souvenir codes. This is considered payment, even if it equal to or less than the production's price.

   • You can still employ your own personal souvenir cards, though.

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   Exist honest. If you're rating everything 5 stars, yous're probably lying.

   • Do non allow an admin or seller tell you not to exit a low star review.
     • It'southward against TOS for sellers (or admins, since they are the middleman) to try and influence our ratings or tell us not to leave a review. They must exist open to both positive and negative feedback.^[6]

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   Don't sell your review items. Giving abroad or altruistic review items is okay, as long as you've properly tested and reviewed them.

   • Selling review items online will become you lot banned from reviewing.

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   Don't get Amazon Prime just to get discounts. It is required by near groups, and some sellers, though.

   • You tin can become a complimentary trial, or become information technology cheaper by being a student.
   • They are now selling monthly prime, but information technology'due south cheaper in the long run to get it yearly.
   • Keep buying total priced items and reviewing them, since you lot should review everything you get. Doing this at least once or twice a week volition help protect your business relationship.

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   Don't play the voting game. Voting of other's reviews is a quick manner to get you wiped.

   • Some sellers will ask yous to exercise this, but just tell them no and explicate it is against TOS.

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   Don't forget the disclaimer. Not including this will go your review deleted and maybe cause you to go wiped.^[7]

   • It's best to include the disclaimer at the end of your review, only to continue people from disregarding it at beginning glance.
   • Be clear, yous cannot just say yous got it in exchange for your honest review. You have to land if it was free or if it was discounted.
     • If it was free, say "I received this product for gratuitous in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
     • If it was only discounted, say "I received this production at a discount in commutation for my honest and unbiased review.^[8]

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   Avoid SuperURLs or wish-list review items. SuperURLs, and adding items to a wishlist are all manipulation of the ranking organisation.

   • Searching for a production with a few keywords is okay.

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   Don't inquire for helpful votes. This is considered ranking manipulation and you will become reported and possibly wiped.

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   Don't return a product earlier reviewing. If a product isn't good, and yous want to render it, be sure to review information technology first.

   • If it's a broken or defective product though, attempt getting a replacement before reviewing, since reviewing a broken production doesn't assist customers.

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   Try pitching sellers directly. Search for a product you lot'd similar to review for complimentary (or deeply discounted). Notice a listing that has few to no reviews, or fifty-fifty bad reviews.

   • Choice a seller (if the production has more than i) to send your asking to. Try to observe the sellers email on their folio, or idea Google or Facebook. If y'all can't, just message them on Amazon by clicking "Ask a question" on their folio.
     • Some people propose confronting using your amazon business relationship for this, just a dummy business relationship will have the same IP address. Determine for yourself what is all-time for you.
   • Create your detailed request to review the product. Include the link to your Amazon contour, the product proper noun or ASIN in your request, and what kind of review you volition exercise (detailed, with pictures, seller feedback, etc).^[9]
   • If the seller responds, communicate with them accordingly, but don't keep harassing a seller if they don't answer.
   • Some sellers may want to direct send items to you for complimentary, and they'll demand your address and maybe phone number. Don't worry though, this is completely okay.

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   Join review groups on Facebook. Some groups are better than others.^[10]

   • Read through the group rules. Some crave fellow member forms, review forms, and/or order forms. Beware that some groups will utilise SuperURLs, or gift card codes, both of which can place a cherry flag on your business relationship.
   • Some groups are run by admins who laissez passer out codes, while others allow sellers to mail items, and you'll take to bulletin them.
     • If a seller doesn't respond afterwards a few days, send them a new message. Keep in mind that they probably get tons of messages and might lose one or two.

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   Observe a adept review site through Google and join it. Some sites are email-based, while others accept an interface to choose many different products.

   • Don't bring together review sites that pay you or charge sellers, as it is against TOS, and those are at gamble of being sued.
   • Pay attention to site rules:
     • Some crave you to email your review permalink
     • Some may ask you to verify information technology by submitting in on the website
     • Some have bots or people that search your reviews and don't require you to verify it'due south completed.

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   Order or receive your item. Unless the seller is shipping information technology directly to you, you'll need to order it yourself and apply the promo code to your business relationship at checkout, and pay the difference (if any).

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   Test the product. You should have employ if for at to the lowest degree two days before leaving a review.

   • Some items can interruption after a few uses. Be sure to thoroughly examination it.

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   Make sure your review is at least 75 words long. Don't type just ane sentence, but don't write a book either.^[11]

   • Please, don't make your disclaimer longer than the actual review. You don't have to re-create an entire legal document about it.

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   Type information technology outset. Add pictures and videos after submitting.

   • Calculation pictures and videos subsequently will help information technology procedure faster, and lessen the chance of it not going through.
   • Amazon is crazy sometimes, so make sure y'all backup your reviews as well.

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   Don't give information technology v stars. Unless the production had no flaws, works perfectly, and is beyond your expectations.

   • Remember that reviews are for other customers, non for the seller.
     • Write a review as if you were telling a friend or coworker about it.
   • You are not required to leave a 5-Star review. If it deserves five stars, give it 5 stars; If it deserves 1 star, give it 1 star. Don't let a seller or group keen you into a good review for a bad product.
     • If you lot love it, but it has a flaw, give it iv stars.
     • If it doesn't quite meet your expectations, or has a few problems, requite information technology three stars.
     • If information technology doesn't work too as it should, simply you'd yet use it, requite it 2 stars.
     • If it only plain doesn't work, or breaks with normal use, requite it 1 star.
   • However, if the item is lacking, you should contact the group or seller for a new 1 before leaving a negative review.

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   Be descriptive and personal. Don't just re-create and paste the production clarification.

   • Don't copy other reviews either.
   • Tell near your experience with the product, and how it compared to your expectations, or to similar products you've tried.
   • Compare the pros and cons of the production, and give suggestions almost what would make it better. At that place is near e'er some downside to a product.^[12]

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   But talk about the product. Don't complain nigh the seller, shipping, or packaging in your review.

   • Exit feedback about the seller in 'seller feedback'
   • Go out feedback nearly the box/bag it arrived in in'packaging feedback', if shipped by amazon.
     • If not shipped past amazon, leave this in 'Seller Feedback'

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   Keep your give-and-take. If you said yous'd do a review with pictures, include pictures. If you said yous'd give seller feedback, do it.

   • Don't make excuses, because you'll burn your bridges with the seller or review group; admins are not always agreement. Fifty-fifty if you lot have a good reason, some admins are even so unreasonable.

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   Submit your review . You'll want to write your review directly on Amazon's site. Brand it sound genuine, and exist honest and open. Then submit the review to the group or seller you've been working with.

   • Use a spreadsheet to go along up with your reviews, like Ruhamama's. Know who to give them to and when.
   • Some groups accept review forms, while others want the permalink though chat or electronic mail.
   • If you're working with the seller directly, let the seller know when you received the production, and send them the permalink when your review it.

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   Don't allow yourself exist bullied into changing your rating. Some sellers or admins will beg you lot to make it a higher star, but just ignore or cake them.

   • If they persist, report them to Amazon.^[xiii]

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   Check your reviews occasionally. Sometimes photos, videos, or even whole reviews disappear.^[14]

   • A proficient way of watching for deleted reviews is the plan ARAT.

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   Check your rank. Amazon updates every few days, and your rank volition change.

   • The lower your rank, the better deals you can get. Yous'll likewise get review requests from sellers more than often.
   • Helpful votes, seller feedback, and full-priced product reviews all assistance your rank.

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   Don't contact Amazon. Contacting Amazon brings attention to your account. As a discount reviewer, you desire them to pay every bit picayune attending to yous as possible.

   • If yous contact them, make certain you've been following the TOS exactly, so they have no reason to wipe your account.
   • If yous need to contact Amazon well-nigh a review, you should email review-appeals@amazon.com with the order number and your profile link. That email is manned by existent people who focus on nothing merely reviews, and is much safer than just calling or emailing them through the website.

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   Attain out if your product is broken or lacking. Contact whoever gave you the promo code and explain information technology to them.

   • If contacting an admin, expect 24 hours for a response, and if no response contact another admin.
     • If no response later contacting all admins and waiting a few days, contact the seller.
   • If contacting a seller, await ii-iii business days on a response, if no response, leave your honest review, return the product, and/or leave honest seller feedback.

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   Wait for their answer. If they answer, they'll usually give you a new code to get a replacement. It is okay to purchase an item twice with a lawmaking.

   • • If the replacement has the aforementioned problem, leave your honest review.^[15]
     • If the replacement works, leave your honest review, but mention that the first 1 you received was cleaved.

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   Reach out if yous don't like the production. Most admins inquire that y'all contact them for reviews less than 4 stars. This is but to see if they tin fix the outcome.

   • If the production is just not a good production, don't let an admin tell y'all not to leave a bad review. Customers deserve to know of potential flaws.
   • If yous're just returning a production though, because it is broken, defective, or not the right size, you don't need to leave a review, equally you were unable to exam it to it's full power.

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   Don't use your Amazon affiliate links on review items you've reviewed. It can get you lot wiped for compensation. Total-priced items are fine, though.^[sixteen]

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   Avoid reviewing grouping promotional items under the group affiliate link they're using. If you review a promo under a group chapter link, it'south too easy to become tangled into a seller relationship cake or wipe.

   • Also, groups running affiliate promos are doing it in places where Amazon does not have direct access to (i.e Airtight/Surreptitious groups, PM chats, emails). This is not immune by Amazon.

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   Look out for these links. You tin can identify an affiliate link by checking if the short link has the "tag=UserID" in the query string.^[17]

   • If it is a shortened URL, you can go to a website to bank check short links.

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   Empathise your rank. Helpful votes, and the corporeality of reviews you do will help increase your rank. The lower your rank, the better offers you will receive.^[eighteen]

   • Amazon will pay more attention to you lot if you take a adept rank, so be certain to e'er follow TOS.

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   Know that yous will get downvotes. You'll get them whether yous bought the item total priced or not, but more oft when yous got a disbelieve in substitution for a review.

   • Many people remember discount reviewers are paid in complimentary products to write false positive reviews. Don't be that kind of reviewer.

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   Write unique, honest reviews. Include pictures and personal experience, and don't only copy and paste.^[19]

   • If y'all see someone copying reviews, screenshot the proof and transport it and their profile link to review-appeals@amazon.com

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   Don't publicly share your amazon profile. It can lead to downvotes.

   • If someone does start a downvote attack on your profile, try switching it to private.

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   Accept the situation. If you write quality, helpful reviews, y'all volition get many more upvotes than downvotes.

   • Don't wash your reviews. Washing a review is deleting and resubmitting it to reset downvotes/upvotes.^[xx]

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   Don't ask for upvotes. This is a manipulation of the ranking system and highly against TOS.

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   Never post or annotate in the Peak Reviewer's Forum.

   • Everyone in there hates 'disbelieve reviewers' and they will downvote and written report you lot without reason.

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   Know what causes the 'seller relationship' error. Usually information technology happens when a review is deleted and you try to review information technology over again. Reviews can be delete for various reasons:

   • Pictures with brand names or of wrong product.
   • Too many people ordered and reviewed in the same fourth dimension frame.^[21]
   • Your review was likewise similar to other ones.
   • Any mention of aircraft, the seller, or packaging.
   • Request for helpful votes.
   • Reviews multiple items from i seller besides speedily.
   • Social media is continued on Amazon.

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   Know that reviews tin can too be rejected. If information technology's rejected, you'll be able to edit and resubmit. If it's deleted, you cannot.

   • Don't contact Amazon nearly these situations, every bit they won't aid and it brings more attending to your business relationship.
   • Reviews may also be rejected due to banned words or possible innuendos.

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   But review on your own Wi-Fi. Multiple reviewers under the aforementioned IP volition go yous wiped.^[22]

   • If yous have relatives who review, do not list their accost on your account.
   • Never review nether another reviewer's cyberspace connection.

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• Question

  I've liked a few other reviewers' reviews and constitute them helpful, and have occasionally upvoted those reviews. Is that really an consequence?

  

  That's fine, but only if y'all don't likewise review that detail. If you also review the same item, voting on others' reviews tin can wait suspicious.

• Question

  Is it a good idea to buy something online when the buyer wants a deposit?

  

  I would say that it depends what the eolith is for. If you want a personalized item made to order, then I would say that a deposit is justified. This mode the seller is assured to receive some payment if you then decide you don't want the detail anymore. Other than that, exist careful and wary of sellers asking for deposits.

• Question

  What happens after my account is wiped? Should I create a new account or just proceed the aforementioned ane and piece of work on edifice reviews from scratch?

  

  When your account is wiped you can't do any reviews anymore, but y'all tin can yet club and use your Prime benefits.

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• Promo codes have six characters at the end, while gift card codes have 4.

• Don't forget to buy total toll items and review them as well! It will assist increase your helpful votes, and lessen your risk of getting wiped.

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• Non following Amazon's TOS will cause your reviews to be wiped, and your reviewing privileges to exist revoked.

• Besides many 5 star reviews volition cause people to call back you are dishonest, and can upshot in downvotes.

• Think that reviews are for customers, not sellers. You shouldn't review if you don't honestly have an involvement in informing the customers. Don't review merely to get gratuitous products, even if information technology will exist a plus.

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