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by badrchoubai 2112 days ago
A family member of mine recently ordered some wireless headphones, in the box was a card asking for a 5-star review in exchange for another pair of the headphones. They also ordered some school supplies with a similar offer in the box.
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I've seen people post photos of these kind of messages along with their 5-star reviews. Once I actually bothered to report it to Amazon (I was about to buy the damn thing until I noticed the image.)

The customer support person seemed genuinely confused - the conversation went back and forth a few times; "We can see that you haven't bought this product", "No, but I'm reporting a problem", "We cannot give you a refund if you didn't purchase it", "I don't want a refund, but this is apparently against your seller ToS", etc. I gave up.

These days I won't buy anything from 3rd-party sellers, and I ignore all 5-star reviews.

Please write a review and report that.