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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2009-09-03 11:59 pm
reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2009-09-03 11:59 pm
Amazon gives me advice how to review
I sent an enquiry to Amazon wondering why some reviews were not posted. I was replied that there were some forbidden words (as usual, hand job, blow job), and that I was welcomed to post them again without them. But they also give me an advice more... directly from their words:
"Also, please make sure you are providing your opinion on whether the items you are review are good or bad and the reasons why. It appears that the majority of your reviews are just the descriptions of the plots of the books."
Strange, I was very well certain to do exactly the opposite. If I retell part of the story, it's only to point out some side of the characters... but well, they probably know more than me, don't they?
A very pissed off Elisa, who is really wondered why she bothers to post reviews on Amazon (I know why, I do that to promote the books, Amazon is till the main online booksellers, but still...)
"Also, please make sure you are providing your opinion on whether the items you are review are good or bad and the reasons why. It appears that the majority of your reviews are just the descriptions of the plots of the books."
Strange, I was very well certain to do exactly the opposite. If I retell part of the story, it's only to point out some side of the characters... but well, they probably know more than me, don't they?
A very pissed off Elisa, who is really wondered why she bothers to post reviews on Amazon (I know why, I do that to promote the books, Amazon is till the main online booksellers, but still...)
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Because I don't want to do that and it's my choice to not doing that and you have to accept that.
Sorry if you don't read my post, but also that, it's your choice and I accept that.
> Why is it so hard to be more precise with how much you liked a book?
I was thinking to this thing of the rate the other night before sleeping (see, I don't take light suggestion). And then again I find something that make me realize that I don't want to give rate. I read a book some months ago; it was different from the usual books I read, a bit "odd" with an ever odder main character. At first I didn't know if I was liking it, but than the character took me. For me it would have been 5+, but instead I wrote all of above. Just yesterday I read a review on the same book: 1... See? rate means nothing if you don't read the review, and the rate changes according to the people who read the book.
Elisa