Difficult to deal with! Sellers are threatened by review agencies that they will destroy their stores if they don’t return the money?

Amazon sellers use the review platform to obtain real service reviews from Amazon buyers, which are Amazon reviews. It not only allows buyers to understand products more quickly and effectively, but also gives sellers the opportunity to optimize products through buyers' comments to gain more buyers' favor. Therefore, Amazon reviews are to sellers what a beautiful resume is to job seekers, and are very important.

In recent days, sellers have received news that the Early Reviewer Program, which is an official review channel, will no longer accept new applications after March 5 and will stop on April 20. It is not difficult to predict that after this, sellers' demand for unofficial review channels will increase significantly.

However, it is important to note that in this kind of evaluation boom, it is inevitable that someone will "take advantage of the situation" or use the evaluation agency to spoof the link, or the evaluation agency is unreliable and temporarily runs away . Just recently, a seller reported that his link was spoofed by his opponent who hired the evaluation agency.

Recently, a post on the forum sparked heated discussion.

The seller said that his link was spoofed by his competitors who hired multiple agents to sell it, and at least 150 orders were released. Now the agents are asking him for money, or else they are threatening to shut down his store .

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Coincidentally, a seller immediately responded under the post, saying that his store had also been hacked and that orders were placed maliciously without him having placed any orders . He had just started to refund the money to the agents, but the agents kept asking for more, so the boss finally chose to call the police. When he asked for a refund again, they either ignored him or said they had no money .

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One seller speculated that this was probably a prank by a competitor.

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However, some sellers below have bluntly stated that this may not be a prank by their peers. There is a 99% chance that it was directed and acted by the real estate agent , a routine operation to defraud money. Sellers are reminded to be careful in the future and not to be deceived again.

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In addition, there are sellers who stated below that they had encountered similar situations, but the circumstances were different because the evaluation service provider they found was unreliable .

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In fact, in addition to this type of evaluation intermediary who is suspected of directing and acting out a scam to defraud money, there are indeed many sellers who have encountered other types of unscrupulous intermediaries.

In the seller communication group, many sellers reported that they had been deceived by evaluation agencies.

Seller 1: I have already paid for the evaluation, but the agent still came to leave a bad review .

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Seller 2: The biggest pitfall now is that after swiping the brush, the money is refunded, the intermediary runs away , the merchant store receives a message from the site or returns the goods, etc.

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In addition, many sellers post in the review exposure section every day to expose those unreliable review agencies.

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In response to this, a seller joked in the seller communication group: There are traps everywhere. I was trapped by the evaluation, the logistics, and Amazon. If I want to succeed, I have to go crazy first.

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In fact, if sellers encounter such bad intermediaries, sometimes there is no other way except to call the police.

Therefore, what sellers can do is either choose not to use an agency for evaluation, or be careful when choosing an evaluation agency. For the latter, it is recommended that sellers check the evaluation blacklist in the evaluation exposure section of the website before cooperating with an agency to see if the agency has been exposed.

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So, if sellers don’t find a review agency, how can they get reviews?

Here are some recommended methods for finding reviews :

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that if you want to obtain authentic and high-quality reviews and operate a good store, the most important thing is to control the quality of the products. Making good products is the hard truth for the long-term development of the store .

Do other sellers have other ways to identify bad agents? Feel free to share your experience in the comments section.