Asking friends and family to buy your product and then reimbursing them for buying your

product and then having them leave a review is against Amazon's terms and conditions.

You are not allowed to incentivize a review.

But in the past year or two, Amazon has made a huge crackdown on this and they've made it clear that they are not afraid to

shut down even the biggest brands on their platform what's up guys you're listening to

another episode of selling on Amazon with Andy Isom.

In this episode, we're going to talk about Be Careful with Friends and Family product reviews.

I haven't talked about getting reviews for a long time, but I wanted to talk about it today on the podcast

because it's something that's been coming up.

Not a ton, but it's come up from time to time over the past few months

with people, students, podcast listeners who are running into some issues with reviews

for their Amazon products.

Let me make this very, very clear.

Asking friends and family to buy your product

and then reimbursing them for buying your product and then having them leave a review is against

Amazon's terms and conditions. Okay, I'm just going to make that clear. You are not allowed to

incentivize a review. There used to be all sorts of platforms out there, websites

where you could list your Amazon products, people could buy them at an extreme discount,

or even get them for free sometimes in exchange for a review. This was just like a common strategy.

Like there was websites out there. It was wide out right in the open. And in the early

wild, wild west days of Amazon, this was allowed, or at least it was tolerated, I should say.

But in the past year or two, probably around two years, Amazon has made a huge crackdown on this.

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