{"id":238852,"date":"2022-05-05T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/man-raises-questions-about-amazon-s-ban-on-paid-reviews-after-getting-20-offer-for-5-star-review"},"modified":"2022-05-05T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:29:00","slug":"man-raises-questions-about-amazon-s-ban-on-paid-reviews-after-getting-20-offer-for-5-star-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/man-raises-questions-about-amazon-s-ban-on-paid-reviews-after-getting-20-offer-for-5-star-review","title":{"rendered":"Man raises questions about Amazon&#8217;s ban on paid reviews after getting $20 offer for 5-star review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Lake man raises questions about Amazon&#8217;s ban on paid reviews after getting $20 offer for a 5 03:04 CHICAGO (CBS) &#8212; It&#8217;s fair to say you&#8217;re in the minority if you haven&#8217;t spent time scrolling Amazon reviews to make the perfect purchase. Some of those reviews are bogus. Amazon knows that &#8211; and even took the step of banning sellers from soliciting reviews for money in 2016. That was 6 years ago, but money-manipulated ratings are still a problem. Morning Lauren Victory introduces us to a Crystal Lake man who questions how seriously Amazon takes its own rules. Lonny Stark is a serious cyclist; serious about his McHenry County trail rides and serious about his gear. Also serious: his ethical concerns about a recent Amazon purchase. A month after receiving a bike lock, an unexpected package arrived. &#8220;I opened it and inside was a tracking slip and a card in an envelope that says &#8216;Happy Holidays,'&#8221; said Stark. Inside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (CBS) &#8212; It&#8217;s fair to say you&#8217;re in the minority if you haven&#8217;t spent time scrolling Amazon reviews to make the perfect purchase. Some of those reviews are bogus.Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}