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In the discussion on a book “The Final Theory” AZ commented that “The claim is that the author has been demanding that Amazon remove any negative reviews (ratings of 1 or 2). Many people have claimed to have written negative reviews only to find them removed when they went back to check on them”
This really caught my attention, as I put a lot of value and credence in the independent reviews on Amazon. Also, I have been submitting reviews to Amazon as long as Amazon has had reviews, and have had only one not published - in which I pointed out fraud by a ‘company’ selling on Amazon. I could see why they might not have published that – though it was true, and the ‘company’ did disappear from Amazon sellers within a few weeks.
In any event, there are 90 reviews of the book on Amazon. Most are breathless with praise. However, there are, in fact, a few negative reviews. Given the quite remarkable claims made in the text, it passeth understanding (if not belief) why there are so few less-than-laudatory reviews.
So, wishing to test AZ’s hypothesis, I submitted a negative review.
It has not appeared. As noted, this makes only the second Amazon review that I have submitted in say what – nearly a decade – that has not been published.
It is possible that my review was considered too lame to publish. Certainly, it was not published for being offensive – I took pains to not be. It was just not laudatory.
More probable seems that AZ is correct: That, either because of avarice, or a personal relationship with the author, very few negative reviews of this book are being published by Amazon.
Amazon: Another of the, very few, companies that I have though well of, proves to have feet of clay. Or, at least, to put Mammon above all.
Has anyone else noticed censorship of reviews (of anything) by Amazon?
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