“Buying” A Better Review on Amazon.com

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. In early January I ordered something from Jowow through Amazon.com

I wrote a review on the seller, they didn’t like it too much.

Here’s the email they sent me:

Dear customer,

sorry about the inconvenience.

We will refund $3.00 shipping fee.

Could you please remove your feedback?

3 of 5 Wow, really slow shipping. Jan 16, 2009 10:35:22 PM
here’s the link to remove feedback:

1. Please go to below link or log in to your Amazon account and go to ‘view my orders’

https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/history/view.html/?orderFilter=feedback&link=feedback

2. Locate the order ( your order # is 002-xxxxxxx-xxxx869 ), then scroll to the feedback section.
3. Click *Remove*.

When you have removed your feedback, please email us.

Sincerely,

—
JoWow Sales Team
www.jowow.com

They wanted to buy a better review for $3.00 in shipping. Um, no. At least offer to refund the whole shipping amount, not just a measely $3.00.

Interestingly, I can’t pull up the original order in my order history nor can I find the original item at Amazon to link to it directly.

Oh well.