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Are you Allowed To Use Customer Amzn Reviews

by AffiliatingAlan
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I am affiliating amazon products on my website. When wrting my review, am I allowed to use customer reviews from amazon.com?

example:

What Customers are Saying:

***** (5stars) Enjoyed this book to flick. April 24, 2012
By Angela VanScyocAngela VanScyoc Format: Blu-ray
I enjoyed this movie. Yes, I've read the books. People will always be upset because things are always missing from the story when you take a book and transfer it to film. I thought it was done well.

Can I copy paste or embed or screen shot, customer reviews and put them on my review page?
#allowed #amzn #customer #reviews
  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Nope :-)

    Unless used them exactly :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Internet Undertaking
    I don't think that will be a problem; if you give credit where credit is due. You must link back to the page with the amazon review.

    I think you can also pull them automatically from Amazon using their API.

    But I have not done this myself. Why not contact Amazon Affiliate Program and see what they say. Better safe than sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    I seem to remember someone getting their Amazon account closed for this very reason....
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    • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
      Originally Posted by salegurus View Post

      I seem to remember someone getting their Amazon account closed for this very reason....
      There is tons of those programs that sell instant reviews that use customer reviews.

      I dont understand why amazon would care if you're using amazon customer reviews to generate amazon sales.
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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        No you can't use them unless certain conditions are met. Which is why these WSO themes being sold to authors that have you copy and paste reviews can be problematic.

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        Affiliates can use them with Amazon's product advertising API.
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  • Profile picture of the author laracoates28
    Originally Posted by AffiliatingAlan View Post

    I am affiliating amazon products on my website. When wrting my review, am I allowed to use customer reviews from amazon.com?

    example:

    What Customers are Saying:

    ***** (5stars) Enjoyed this book to flick. April 24, 2012
    By Angela VanScyoc
    Format: Blu-ray
    I enjoyed this movie. Yes, I've read the books. People will always be upset because things are always missing from the story when you take a book and transfer it to film. I thought it was done well.

    Can I copy paste or embed or screen shot, customer reviews and put them on my review page?
    No, you can't actually. You have to follow their rules and conditions.
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    • Profile picture of the author marclove
      Hi, sorry to hijack abit.

      I have setup an online store and the products do not have reviews. I am not an amazon associate. What i would like to do is to at the end of my product description i would like to add "for reviews on this products click here" which will link to the product on amazon and my customers will look at the reviews from there.

      Will this be an issue?
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