In what many have dubbed a flagrant intervention by Amazon itself to seemingly boost the rating of Hillary Clinton’s new book, the Telegraph first reported, and subsequently many others observed first hand, that Amazon has been monitoring and deleting 1-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book “which was greeted with a torrent of criticism on the day it was released.”
Reviews of What Happened have been mixed, with some accusing Clinton of using it as an opportunity to blame others – such as former FBI head James Comey, Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, social media and pretty much everything else – for her failure, rather than herself. Even The New York Times, which supported Clinton’s campaign, wrote that the book is “a score-settling jubilee”.
What is fascinating, is how few one-star reviews have remained on the website amid reports and screengrabs showing that reviewers used the space to criticise the former First Lady. One one-star review, which remained on the website earlier today, read: “Read all the promotional excerpts, which combined come close to book length – pretty good novel. It is fiction, isn’t it? Surely, someone is playing a joke.” Another wrote “Picked this book up at Wal-Mart out of sheer morbid curiosity. Returned it, claiming I bought the wrong book”
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While this is not the first time Amazon has intervened to “adjust” the ratings of its products – in November negative comments under a book by anti-Trump broadcaster Megyn Kelly appeared to be removed by the retailer – it has rarely deleted reviews of such a prominent book so publicly.
Speaking to Fortune, a spokesperson from the company said: “In the case of a memoir, the subject of the book is the author and their views. It’s not our role to decide what a customer would view as helpful or unhelpful in making their decision. We do however have mechanisms in place to ensure that the voices of many do not drown out the voices of a few and we remove customer reviews that violate our community guidelines.”
And for those who find such intervention hard to believe, here is what Amazon’s intervention of Hillary clinton looks like.
First, courtesy of the way back machine, here is the rating breakdown as of 10:31am:
… As of 14:55pm
… and what it looks like right now: over 97% of the reviews are now 5 star.
Readers can observe the historical changes to Amazon’s “What Happened” page on their own thanks to the Way Back Machine.
Fuckers.
Community guidelines.
That’s another of those phrases they are all so fond of.
Do not do business with your abusers.
Deceit, lies, false advertising–does it ever end with these mega companies?
Fuckerburg, Eric Schitt, and Jeff Bozos are crooks.
You ain’t seen shit yet. Just wait till Suckerturd, Bozo or E. Shit purchase the grand poobah’s seat in the White House. They sold their holes to the deep state years ago. They are the perfect candidate too because the can finance their own campaigns plus the sheople just love them for reasons they could never coherently state.
The Cult of Personality
Their entering arguement is that the American public is ignorant and too busy taking selfies and counting likes that they won’t notice this type of deception. They certainly won’t care that zerohedge or TBP call them out because they know the readers of those type of sites already understands who the enemies are and there is absolutely a 0% chance that the msm would report on this story unless it is to mention that it’s fake news and is debunked.
It is beyond pathetic that the tribe still props up this disgusting fag hag. At this point I doubt she even wipes her own ass. As an early beta tester for affirmative action she should be exhibit A on why political correctness should be eliminated with extreme prejudice.
I just tried to review the book on my Amazon account ( a 1 star of course) and was disallowed as they are now only accepting reviews from Amazon verified purchasers. Amazon is a monopoly that should be broken up asap. Out.
Imho,this is false advertising.
While they may be a private company who can do what they please,when they delete negative reviews they are in effect claiming that a large majority of the reviewers like the book,which makes the casual purchaser more likely to buy it.
Why can’t a few good trial attys file class actions against them?
Wouldn’t it be great to see the Dems eating their own?
Amazon deleted the one star ratings so that Hillary won’t blame THEM also for her losing the election.
Slightly off topic,but have any of you heard that California is attempting to pass a law that if you are convicted of hate speech you lose your gun rights?
http://www.speroforum.com/a/ABOPTKGVLG45/81674-California-passes-new-gun-grab?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LRCDRBZFJK57&utm_content=ABOPTKGVLG45&utm_source=news&utm_term=California+passes+new+gun+grab#.WbnjFPmGMdU
TBP POLL #937
How many TBP’ers are going to continue shopping at Amazon?
Bonus question: for those who say they’ll continue shopping there, why?
I’ve never shopped at Amazon. I’m a bricks and mortar guy.
I’ve made about a dozen purchases on Amazon but I’m done. I too prefer bricks and mortar and doubly so when mom and pop own it locally. I’d much rather pay a little more for a product and keep the money local than continue to enrich some corporate entity who only see’s me as a sheep to be shorn.
I/S- I don’t shop at Amazon, I try to buy things local if possible. Dropped my Costco membership a few years ago for a similar reason, they pulled a book from their inventory that was too conservative for their liberal joo agenda.
I do have a prime membership at Amazon for streaming video but I could live without it and now I plan to not renew next month. THEY can have their Hillary and I will watch youtube, screw them.
Has anyone here tried the YouTube TV subscription service yet? If yes, please advise as to the quality of content. Thx
Admin/TBP will lose revenue if folks here stop using Amazon.
That seems like a bad trade-off.
I don’t dispute that Stucky but is sticking with amazon worth the price?
I think so.
I’m going to make up a number. Let’s say TBP makes $100,000 from the purchases made here.
What does $100,000 revenue (or, even $5,000) mean to Admin? A LOT !!
What does a $100,000 loss of revenue mean to Amazon? Not a fucken thing. Not even a rounding error for the day’s expense reports.
Therefore, Admin’s loss is far greater in every conceivable measurable than Amazon’s. So, I hope folks who use Amazon continue to do so here.
I almost forgot to post this-last week I saw a $100 Amazon charge on the wife’s Visa statement.
She does use Amazon sometimes.They automatically enrolled her in Prime.When she called to raise hell,one of the options on the phone menu was to disenroll from Prime,so apparently they are doing this to many people.
Just like the NYTimes “best seller” list, it’s being manipulated by people with an agenda. A psy-ops.
On the day this Bitch finally dies, I will drink champagne.
Vodka, I have a bottle of Johnie Walker blue label I have been saving for a special occasion. Hilary taking a dirt nap would certainly qualify. Unless soros or mccain beat her to it.
Maybe McCain in a desperate attempt to redeem himself will take her out then do himself in before the brain cancer does it. If he were an actual maverick that’s how he’d go down.
Amazon does allow unverified purchasers to review ‘The Art of the Deal”.
I’m going to let my Prime subscription lapse, but I will undoubtedly continue to purchase a few used books, which always have shipping charges added anyway. I have never used Amazon for buying the stuff that keeps my life going. I got a $70 credit by getting a credit card from them, which I will never use again. It’s definitely a love-hate relationship. The trick is to use Amazon for your own advantage while minimizing theirs.
Amazon and eBay are essentially destroying independent retail websites as well as brick and mortar. The sheeple just go Amazoning or ebaying and search for “it” find 27 different China merchants peddling same shit. Reset by “price plus shipping, lowest 1st” and click right thru. Amazon has fulfillment warehouses where they can stow containerloads of cheap goods and Amazon will even ship it for them. My sales on my parts website of over 20 years and 3000 SKU’s is down 30% from last year. My eBay sales of only 50 SKU’s has almost offset this. Unbelievably, I have sold literally hundreds of items there that in the past I sold maybe 10 a year! I was lucky as I saw this coming a year ago and set up my China gateway.
Admin – – Do you actually get 100,000 plus from your amazon links? On 6%?? I get squat myself.
Not even close. I get a few hundred dollars per month. Stucky is a bit of an exaggerator.