Leave a Review on Amazon

There are millions of reviews on Amazon.com for books, movies, household products, toys, equipment, and everything else they sell. Leaving a review on Amazon lets the world know what you think about a product. Warn fellow readers about bad products and praise good ones by writing reviews.

Steps

Testing the Product

  1. Be sure to test the product thoroughly before writing your review.
    • Per Amazon's TOS, you should have the product at least 48 hours before writing a review.
    • For supplements or similar products, you should wait until they've had long enough to take effect before reviewing.
  2. Don't intend to review broken or defective products. Instead, try to get a replacement before writing a review.
    • If the seller refuses, you can leave honest seller feedback describing your experience.
  3. Write the review first, if you had to return the product for whatever reason.
    • Amazon is picky about products being in your possession when reviewing.
    • If you're getting a replacement though, wait on that before reviewing.

Locating the Review Page

  1. Open your web browser and visit Amazon, or open the Amazon app.
  2. Locate the product by either searching for it in the search bar, locating the product through your purchasing history, or going to 'Your reviews' under your account.
    • Sometimes the 'write a review' button may not show up in the order details.
  3. Click the item's link, or 'write a review' if locating it through your purchase history.
    • If going through the products page, scroll down until you see the section on the page "Customer Reviews". Click "Write a customer review".
  4. Try using the barcode scanner. With this, you can scan things you bough elsewhere and review them on Amazon.
    • You can also simply search for the item.

Reviewing the Product

  1. Click the honest star rating you would give this item. Keep in mind the positives and flaws of the product when rating it. Once you click a star rating, a box will show up for you to type your review text.
    • If it's perfect and has no flaws, give it 5 stars.
    • If it's good, but has any design flaws, give it 4 stars.
    • If it's okay, but had some design flaws or a lack of features, give it 3 stars.
    • If it works as described, but has flaws and isn't very satisfactory, give it 2 stars.
    • If it is just not a good product and doesn't do what it's supposed to, give it 1 star.
  2. Be sure to be descriptive and personal when writing your review description. Make sure it is at least 75 words long, and without spelling or grammar errors.
  3. Remember who you're reviewing for. Reviews are for potential customers to make a fully informed purchase.
  4. Don't include feedback about the seller, packaging, or shipping, as this belongs in 'Seller Feedback' and 'Packaging Feedback'.
  5. Type a short title that best summarizes your review, and explains your rating.

Adding Extras and Submitting

  1. Consider adding pictures or a video to your review. It will help potential customers and you'll most likely get helpful votes for it.
    • Keep your video under 5 minutes, and don't show yourself unboxing it. If you're unboxing it, you've had no time to test it thoroughly.
    • Be sure to submit your written review first, then add your video/pictures once it's live. This will help it process faster.
      • If you're submitting both a video and pictures, submit written first, then add the video, then add pictures once the video is live.
    • If you're having trouble getting your video to show up correctly, try sending it to yourself via email or Facebook, then saving it to your laptop and submitting it.
    • If your pictures are showing up sideways, try cropping them before adding them to your review.
  2. Click the "Publish review" button. You should get a email confirmation when it is approved.
    • It may take up to 48 hours for the review to get approved.
    • If it doesn't get approved after about 3 days, you can email review-appeals@amazon.com with your profile link and order number and ask them to approve or deny it.
  3. Update your review if necessary. If anything happens and you need to change your review, simply add an update to the top of it.

Tips

  • Be sure your review is accurate and fair.
  • You can review any product Amazon owns. It's not just limited to the items you can edit the database information for.
  • For Amazon Kindle books, you may choose to write a review for the books or apps or games (or any of the Amazon digital purchases) right from your Kindle itself, as writing a review moments after finishing the book, may keep the ideas flowing even when the book concluded.
  • You can read all your reviews you've written, by visiting the page located here (once you are logged in).
  • Sometimes, Amazon may send emails to your email inbox. Look for the address "customer-reviews-messages@amazon.com". The subject line will look something like:" How many stars would you give '(first item's name)'?"

Warnings

  • Actually use the item before you review it. Some people can't resist the urge to get on Amazon and write a glowing review about their purchase as soon as they receive it only to find out a few days after posting that the item did not meet their expectations.
  • Do not use profanity or slander, or your review will not be published.
  • In your review do not say that all products made by such and such company are junk. You are announcing to the world that you were already prejudiced against the item before you bought it and therefore might be more prone to give a negative review.
  • Do not use your review to complain that Amazon or the company who is selling through Amazon was late in delivering your item. Put those complaints on the Leave Seller Feedback on Amazon page. Reviews that start with this complaint are usually skipped over by the more experienced Amazon user who is more interested in researching the quality of the product, and removed via Amazon if they are caught in time (before they enter the reviews that are already present for the item).

Things You'll Need

  • A computer with internet access.
  • An Amazon account with at least one confirmed purchase. New account users have to wait 48 hours after the first purchase until they are authorized to start writing reviews.

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  • Create an Amazon Storefront
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