Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Things I want Amazon Sellers to know

Quality control is super important. If you have only one item offered in vine, and I get it, but it is defective. that does not bode well for the rest of the items in stock. what are the odds that the one thing you listed, and I received is broken junk? If I can fix it I will, but you will still get dinged big time for defective junk.

Don't post shill reviews. You aren't fooling anyone.

I am not referring to shipping damage. also I will not accept an offer to replace, you had one chance. also also don't try to bribe us.

If your product is clothes for men. Just know that not all of us have a gay sex fetish or wear weird bondage stuff. Could you post something that a normal person would wear in public? and why are all the mens clothes that I can find offered in small or child sizes? Same for women. Not every woman is a horny sleazeball.

Could someone offer cotton shirts? or pants? why is that so hard.

If you offer clothes you better give me a choice on size and color.

Same with shoes, you better offer ALL sizes. no one wears a size 9. 

PROOF READ YOU LISTINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS. 

PROOF READ THE PRINTING ON YOUR PRODUCT. There are lots of things sold on vine with sayings or other words where one or more words are not spelled correctly. While humorous to viners not too many people are going to order your product. 

Don't put gloves in with your tools, every tool I have ordered that had gloves included, the gloves seem to be for a small child. Even my wife could not wear them. If you really need to put gloves in they better be American size XL or larger.

Don't lie about your product. don't exaggerate. if your device only has 2000mah batteries in it don't say it has 5000mah I will test this, and I have the equipment to do it properly. if you say it can handle 40 amps and it only has 18AWG wire and a nema 15 plug it CANNOT handle 40 amps even if the relay can handle 40 amps, the wiring and the plug cannot, and I will report this in my review. I will test all aspects of your product and find ALL the flaws. If your product switches a load, then state what loads it is rated for: resistive, tungsten, inductive, and motor loads. These are important and something that can handle 15 amps resistive load, might not be able to handle a large inductive, or tungsten load, or a motor over a certain horse power. If you do not know FIND OUT! I will open your product, I will inspect it, and I will look up the ratings of components like relays, and I will measure traces, and wire sizes to confirm your claims.

Don't put fake UL stickers on your product I will look it up.

Don't put words in the description that do not apply to your product. I despise having products show up in searches that are totally not what I am looking for but has my search words in it.

Make it clear in your listing what we are getting. Bait and switch is not something you want. Don't put a picture in the vine listing of a motorcycle when the listing is for a motorcycle turn signal. 

Don't take down your listing before I can review it.

PROVIDE THE USER MANUAL FOR DOWNLOAD IN THE LISTING WITH ALL THE PRODUCT SPECS. Your listings ALWAYS lack the critical information I need when looking for a product and I will skip yours if I cannot get that information. double check measurements are accurate and in both metric AND imperial. Put measurements of anything and everything, even stuff you think no one cares about, I care! Put measurements on things that are made for some very specific device and you might think measurements are not needed. If you wonder "why isn't my product selling?" well your listing has one badly done picture and absolutely no specs or useful information.

Don't lie about tech support, and all your addresses, websites, phone numbers, and email addresses better work at least for a couple of years. This applies to supplements, vitamins, medicine, and snake oil products. Many of us verify this information.

Don't sell items that I have to register an account or have subscription to use.

Don't post bad photoshopped product images. No one believes that your product is that incredibly fun. Your putting a product in a picture sticks out like sore thumb. You post pictures with light fixtures attached to houses in a way that makes them appear larger than they really are. Animals that are NOT interacting with your product. Fake conversations over cameras that no one has. It's all so cringe. Your pictures indicate that you think the average buyer is an idiot. They are not helping people with uses for a product. EVERYONE on the planet knows how a radio works, and what it can be used for. Just stop with the fake scenes.

Post real pictures of the real product in a real use case with real people, animals, and models. Don't exaggerate the size of your products, they should actually be in the picture. If you cannot afford to do that, then show plain pictures of the product with measurements. We know when you are posting badly photoshopped images. Some of us will dock you stars for that.

Examples of comically bad photoshops:

 Bowl is 4.7" but Macaws are 3 feet long head to tail.
 
badly placed in image, no one in that image is listening to a radio, certainly not having that much fun. We don't need the sound waves emanating from the radio. we know how radios work. 
Size of light on wall is highly exaggerated. that doorway is no more than 3 feet tall based on the size of the light. Blatant false advertising.

Those cats are not actually in the picture nor are they playing with whatever that is. they are also comically small. 

Niche products get niche reviews, or not at all. Sorry not everyone needs a carburetor for a 1935 henway. I might though.

There are products that DO NOT need reviews. All common well known, long standing products DO NOT need reviews. I am never going to read a review for snickers. 

If you are putting an item on vine and it is normally used in pairs then there better be 2 of them offered, I am looking at you single bike pedal.

If your product cannot be opened or seems to be designed to prevent getting it opened without destroying the case, and it has a rechargeable battery inside you will lose stars. I should be able to open all electronics of all types. I may not ding you a star or 2 if the items is really inexpensive, but if it costs a lot and I cannot get in it to fix it... woe be unto you.

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