WTF?! Has Amazon ever caught you lot using paid reviews and dropped the banhammer? And so why non gather with several other sellers in the aforementioned situation and launch a class action against the tech giant.

The Verge writes that several Chinese companies filed the form-action complaint against Amazon on September 13. The retailer has long waged war on sellers who apply paid reviews and recently said it had shut downwardly 3,000 online merchants linked to 600 Chinese electronics brands for paid feedback and like activities.

While the companies in this case aren't denying they used paid reviewers, they allege that Amazon is withholding several hundred dollars to several thousands of dollars of their claimed earnings. Just Amazon's Services Concern Solutions Agreement, which covers Fulfilled past Amazon (FBA) businesses such as those in the complaint, states that it can withhold funds if companies violate its policies.

The parties filing the form action—Sopownic, Slaouwo, Deyixun, Cstech, Recoo Directly, Angelbliss, and Tudi—seek "recovery of funds that are being illegally and improperly withheld past Amazon." They too want to "stop whatsoever further misappropriation and misuse of funds that are legally and rightfully due to thousands of Amazon sellers and merchants."

The Chinese firms argue that every bit Amazon is in charge of distribution in an FBA system, it should have been aware that they were offer gift cards in substitution for positive reviews.

With over 300 million active customers and over 1.nine million selling partners worldwide, rooting out simulated reviews isn't an like shooting fish in a barrel task for Amazon. Though, it claims to have removed 200 million of them in 2022 before they were seen by users.

Earlier this year, Amazon blamed the problem partly on social media platforms, used past many organizations to solicit their fake reviews. It said the likes of Facebook and Twitter were slow to act in removing these groups from their respective platforms.