$10 Gift Card For Amazon Review

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Look at this pretty postcard I just got in the mail.

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So I took the code from the card and used a bogus email address to register…

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And it turns out the postcard is for a product I recently purchased. The query only cares about the 4-char code to tie it to this particular seller/product.

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I wonder which of these would be the most difficult to get un-suspended from?

  1. Promo domain is AMZ-SPONSORED.COM (leading buyer to believe this process is part of, or sanctioned by, Amazon.
  2. Sending your, I mean Amazon’s customer, direct mail.
  3. Buying reviews in exchange for a $10 gift card.
  4. Allowing my phone battery to fall to 27%.

[mod edit: deactivated link]

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On the OSFE I had started a thread about this. Mods didn’t care at all.

Amazon sometimes shut down the seller, but they would come right back.

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$10 ? Cheapskates!

Fifteen is the absolute minimum to offer – I’d hold out for at least $25

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Email follow-up reply. The plot thickens:

From: Eileen Garcia < >
Date: May 23, 2024 at 4:06:31 AM MDT
To:
Subject: Survey questionnaire - $10 Gift card

Hi friend,

We see that you entered our system to complete the questionnaire, but the review was not completed.
Can you continue to complete the review? And we hope you can leave a five-star review on our product page.
We will send you the $10 gift card after you finish it.

But the Amazon gift card is out of stock now.
Can we send you the $10 via PayPal account ?
Please send us your PayPal account if you agree.

Or can you accept shopping cards from other platforms? Such as Target or Walmart or Ebay shopping cards?

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I would leave a 1 star review then tell them I want $100 to remove it.

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What’s strange, is the review appears to go through their own API, I wonder how I could remove it? I used a non-amazon account email address, so I wouldn’t be able to log in and change it.

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I wonder about the pivot away from the Amazon card. Is it an effort to get out of a card altogether, trying to avoid detection, or is it a longer scam? :thinking:

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I would imagine that at the paltry sum of $10 they’re paying out. That’s an awfully small amount of money for a review, and stiffing people means they might retaliate.

If they were lying about paying I’d imagine they’d offer $50 or something.

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This is about standard. it’s a flat out payout, and not a gift card.

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