This is really simple.
Just to stay in vine all you have to do is once a year buy something from amazon costing $50 or more using a credit card or linked bank account, and have written at least one review.
You also must keep up with the minimum of 90% of reviews of products you have ordered. If you have ordered 10 products you must have reviewed 9 of them in a 6 month period. As of this date you do not have to order anything from vine to stay in vine. that's right if you are caught up on you reviews and want to take a break for a year you can. Some viners have reported not ordering things for at least 2 years. You do need to keep your review rate above 60% during your evaluation period. this is usually not a problem for the base level of Silver tier.
Being gold is a bit more of a problem, and some viners choose not to be gold because of the absurd requirements.
To be gold, you will need:
to order at least 80 items during an evaluation period (6 months).
to review at least 90% of those items.
keep your reviews above 60% for each month during the evaluation period.
As of 9-1-2025 you must maintain an insightfulness score of Excellent (this is where most people will fail).
You may also need to add pictures or videos to your reviews. at this time that is not clear. though I have information that between 20% and 30% of your reviews having media should be enough. Reviews do not always need pictures.
What are the main differences between Silver? and Gold?
Silver can order 3 items per day with values up to $100 (sometimes that will be more).
Gold can order 8 items per day with no value limit.
keep in mind that if your order something, then change your mind, and cancel, or start to order something, and then don't you will lose a pick. So if you had 3 picks, selected an item, went to the request the item, go to checkout, and then do not order the item. You are down one pick for that day. To my understanding picks reset at midnight possibly Atlantic time, but I am not sure. I have never ordered more than 2 items in any 24 hour period.
So whats the catch with being Gold?
If you abide by the rules and do not give away, sell, or donate a product you have received for 6 months (you did read everything didn't you?) you will find that your house/apartment will quickly fill with junk. Why? because in their quest for Gold Tier most people will order as many Zero ETV (Estimated Tax Value) items, and as many cheap items that they can in order to meet this quota. Why is that a problem? Because vine is full of greedy people with self control issues, that order things they do not want/need, and do not know how to review. Meaning that they churn out low quality reviews that help no one. Amazon and the sellers want you to order their junk, and the issue is that most of the items are junk, or of no use to lots of people. With approximately 20,000 viners in the US and at the time of this writing the number of items on vine varies from 28,000 to 33,000 items each day. Vine has had as little as 1500 total items, and as much as 130,000 in my time in the program. Some people think that doing reviews in a timely matter is not their problem, those people are wrong and should not be in the program.
My advice is avoid Gold tier, only order items you can use, and can review within 3 weeks of getting something. There is no time limit in which to review an item (other than the 6 month period of your evaluation). But keep in mind that sellers are counting on us to do a review in a timely manner, and many sellers time their vine posting so that they will hopefully get some good reviews when the product is launched. Also do not cancel an order if at all possible, canceled orders do not go back in to the queue for others, and sellers lose their money, and a review.
What is the reason for the tier levels?
Amazon is trying to encourage people to order things that they normally would not, and are quite often total junk. So they dangle a golden carrot in front of people who have no self control, and while this does get people to order lots of junk, it also means that they write junk reviews, and find themselves facing a large tax burden. Vine used to allow anyone to order anything without quotas, but that meant people weren't ordering enough junk.
Yes you will find that a majority of stuff on vine is cheap chinese junk.
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