Ask HN: An Amazon vendor wrote me a letter asking for reviews
2 by AndrewLiptak | 0 comments on Hacker News.
This was a deeply uncomfortable moment earlier today: I got a letter from the owner of a vendor who sells on Amazon — I purchased something from them a month ago — writing that reviews were crucial to getting notice, that it was hard, they had kids to feed, and they'd invested tens of thousands of dollars in their business, and asked for a positive review. On one hand, I get it: the churn of online selling is brutal, and I can understand where they're coming from. On the other, reaching out to me via mail (physical mail, not email!) is definitely against Amazon's rules for their sellers. I emailed them to tell them how uncomfortable their letter made me, and asked them to delete my info from their databases. Should I report them to Amazon?