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Happened to me when I saw a book on the US site, I wasn't able to see all reviews, but there was a button to sort-of "apply" to get approved for seeing all of them.

It took five days, then I got this email.

Interestingly, they're not doing this on the European site, you can still see all reviews there.

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[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

EU laws probably prevent them from doing shady shit like this.

Hiding a review just makes me not want to buy it

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I also think they're more cautious about the EU. There are less consumer protection laws in the US, so they get fucked first.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

We don’t really have less laws. Just far less enforcement mechanisms. For instance I am supposed to be able to use my own modem, the FCC rules prevent ATT from forcing me to rent a modem. But the FCC hasn’t given a shit about anything since the 80s. So ATT forces me to rent a modem. Laws are only as good as their enforcement.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My favorite example is the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act, which requires manufacturers to honor warranty on products that you or a third party have worked on in the past unless the manufacturer can prove that the specific malfunction for which you're seeking warranty service was caused by the previous repair or modification.

Those "warranty void if removed" stickers are illegal.

It also prohibits manufacturers refusing to repair a product due to unrelated damage.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Interestingly, they're not doing this on the European site, you can still see all reviews there.

I wonder why this might be…

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Took some digging but holy shit yeah this is real

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve used Amazon for many years. I hadn’t written a lot of reviews. Recently I’ve been getting a lot of shitty products. So I started writing bad reviews. Maybe others are doing the same now too.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's a lot of fakes mixed in with regular inventory because individual sellers can send their products to have Amazon fulfill orders for them and Amazon just mixes inventory all together. This is why I don't buy a lot of name brand stuff from Amazon, especially things like shampoo as you don't know what you're getting.

[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

If you want to try it out yourself: This is the book where it happened. Despite that email I can see all of the reviews again, so maybe it's a feature they're testing out.

It's really shady to have a rating system and hide ratings within that system. Why have it at all then?

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Remember Amazon is owned by a billionaire or someone who is a part of the sociopathic class. They only want you to buy they don't give a shit about what you care about just pressing that buy now button. The laws are supposed to force them to care about the shit we care about but, everyone on this planet in politics is a corporate shill so tough luck.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If you're talking about Bezos, he only owns 9% (or possibly even less now) of Amazon.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Huh til, it still is the source of his wealth, and the other 91% probably also goes mostly to rich assholes, however I'm sure the public will be holding the bag if Amazon ever goes down in valuation.

[-] tonyn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I'd bet this is a move to prevent their reviews from being used to train competing AI systems.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

AI prevention?

[-] atropa@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago

Maybe because most Americans don't like to read and reviews are useless.

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