🚨 Amazon Kills Off Vine Review Merging 🚨
Right now, everyone is depressed about the tariff war. Well, guess what? You're about to be even more depressed.
For years, Amazon sellers, including my followers and consulting clients, have used Vine review merging as an effective hack to crack 100 reviews in under 30 days. And it was totally TOS compliant!
That all changed today.
😭 Amazon has officially killed off variation review aggregation. Nope, no more signing up 7 variations for Vine, then merging them under one parent.
🤯 From Amazon:
"Each store has the same limits on the number of Vine reviews that can be retained, based on the following enrollment tiers:
Top tier: Enroll 11 to 30 units to retain up to 30 Vine reviews.
Middle tier: Enroll 3 to 10 units to retain up to 10 Vine reviews.
Free tier: Enroll 1 to 2 units to retain up to two Vine reviews.
When you merge two or more separate parent ASINs under a new parent ASIN, only the maximum number of reviews for your highest enrollment tier will be retained. For example, if you merge two products that are enrolled in the top tier with 30 reviews each, your new parent ASIN will retain only the 30 highest-quality reviews."
☠️ RIP, my sweet prince. You were one of my all-time favorite Amazon hacks.
Going forward, I would not be surprised if Amazon goes back in time and mass deletes Vine reviews that sellers attained with this hack. I'm not saying I know this for certain, but if I were you, I would be ready for it.
One clarification. The update implies that you can still merge, but ONLY 30 of the highest quality reviews will stick. But who the heck decides what "high quality" means?!
I'm so glad that Amazon is closing this loophole, but they turn a blind eye to Chinese sellers who purchase thousands of fake reviews. Someone make it make sense!
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