There are 1,245,594,680 Amazon reviews (and counting) in hundreds of languages. Are they all helpful? Are they all human? Are they all honest? No. And yet we rely on them every day use our hard-earned money to purchase items, sight unseen, and have them shipped halfway around the world to our door. This collection of thoughtful, funny, informative, verified-human reviews capture much more than a rigid 5-star system ever could. Our experience with the material world is delightful, fraught, and complicated. Aspects of a product might deserve 5-stars, while another aspect of the same product may deserve 1-star, and for very different reasons. These people went to the trouble to attempt to capture with the written word the intangible feelings that come from using an real-life object, and they deserve recognition for that effort.
How do the people who wrote these Amazon reviews benefit from The Reviewitzer Prizes?
It’s quite simple. All awarded reviews link to the item reviewed on Amazon with an affiliate link. When you, the reader, purchase an item using that affiliate link, The Reviewitzer Prizes receives a small payment. After covering our expenses, we split all profits proportionately with the writers of the awarded reviews.
In other words, we give money to regular people who write excellent Amazon reviews. They are usually not expecting this and are delighted to receive money from their otherwise unpaid work for a giant international corporation.
How do you know the awarded reviews have been written by a regular person?
Many Amazon reviews are fake, either written by paid actors who have an obvious intent to skew ratings or by AI. The Reviewitzer Prizes team does our best to contact the person who wrote the review and verify that they are, in fact, a full-fledged regular person. Usually this is done by a brief video call. If the person seems genuine, we take them at their word that they wrote the awarded review.