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This is really fascinating to me!
I didn't know about this Vine program. Maybe that's what his company uses. Or I wonder if it is limited somehow ... If all the sellers use it then perhaps instead of it being an advantage it just gets you up to sea level. I know those guys will do just about anything to get an algorithmic advantage.
They might! A lot of the products they offer through Amazon Vine are clearly Chinese products, through and through. Definitely just seems to be small time sellers trying to get their products seen and get some reviews to get a better head start in exchange for giving some people a free sample.
On Reddit, there’s a subreddit for it and people like to show off their hauls. People sometimes get laptops and cell phones and you can tell because they’re usually Chinese, not the standard Apple or HP kind of laptop. But a free laptop is a free laptop!
Though sometimes we get some non-Chinese stuff like I got a $300 water cooler recently that wasn’t from a small time Chinese shop. Probably made there, but not the same type of thing shipped and sold from there.
If anyone is interested in joining, it’s invite only and the invite seems to get triggered when you do enough Amazon reviews. Not sure the threshold and I don’t think they make it public. It’s probably more so a ratio thing, how many products you receive versus how many reviews you do for those things bought and then you sign into their portal and they have a whole slew of stuff to pick from. You’ll see in the reviews a little green badge that indicates if a review has been done by someone who received it in Amazon Vine for free, so you’ll often see a lot of these small time operations’ listings have tons of Vine reviews.
Not sure how sellers post their stuff, they might not even know the program’s name.