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Every review I’ve left that’s under 5 stars has been rejected for trivial technical reasons. I received a trash can that was heavily scratched and with poor quality hinges. Review rejected because it contained references to “issues that might have occurred during shipping.”

Every product on the site seems to be rated 4.5+, which makes sense if they’re rejecting reviews in this way.

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Agreed. I bought the same item twice from the same seller, and both times a packing label was created but the item was never shipped. I couldn’t leave feedback because it was a shipping issue.

The majority of the products I review are between 1 star and 3 stars. It's rare I'm so happy with something I would bother to review it.

I can only recall ever having one review rejected, and I've reviewed probably hundreds of things.

I wonder if they have an internal system that marked your reviews in particular for more scrutiny.

I’ve left plenty of < 5* reviews. Also seen plenty of < 5* reviews left by other people.

This might be a difference between the U.K. Amazon and their US counterpart but I’ve definitely not had any issues leaving negative feedback.

I'm in the UK and an edit to my original (2-star) review to point out that the seller tried to bribe me was silently ignored (they do not alert you if an edit to an existing published review doesn't pass moderation).

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