 Hey everyone, Shaber1000 here. Did you know it's illegal for Amazon companies to offer you compensation for a five-star review? Well, it is. I'll get into that here in just a second. Stick around. Okay guys, so as you guys know, I just did a review on these crappy light bulb cameras. They screw into a light socket. There'll be an upcoming re-review on these things. Well, the other day, I got this nice little card from Amazon $25 gift certificate. Claim your $25 Amazon gift card. Okay? And on the back, it tells you how to do that. And yes, that is the camera. And if you've seen, it says Happy New Year on it. Okay, we're, you know, a fourth of the way into the new year, but hey, whatever. Amazon gift card giveaway, $25. Complete the easy steps below. You will get a $25 Amazon gift card. Okay? If you submit photo or video with your comments, you will get an extra $5 bonus. Wow. So I was like, yeah, I'll leave a review, you know, because I normally don't leave bad reviews. I just get a hold of the company, you know, send it back or whatever and let them know their products junk. Now I have given several good reviews on this, good reviews on different things that that I really liked and that are a good product. Okay, so Complete these easy steps. There's six steps to it. Okay. Number one, you signed into your Amazon account. Number two, you find find the correct order ID, which is this, I'll show you here in a minute. Okay. Write a product review. I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll do that. I'll write a product review. Then I read the fine print. Right below that. Okay. Let me read that to you. Click write a product review. Rate five star and share your experience with positive text. It would be awesome if you upload with picture. Now then of course you save the screenshot. You send it to this website there and then you get your twenty five dollar gift code three to business days if it's live on Amazon. Well, the FTC is saying it's illegal to do this. Okay. The F... How much is an FTC fine? Okay. Our prediction came true and we expect this to be continued to be a continued focus of enforcement activity in 2023. With the recent increase, the commission can now seek up to fifty thousand one hundred and twenty dollars in civil penalties per violation of an FTC rule. Okay. Well, let's see. Let's go to this Illegal payment for Amazon reviews can include offering customers money gift cards money goods or services in exchange for a positive review. It also goes on to say this practice is not allowed by Amazon and the company has been known to take strong action against those who violate this rule. This is Amazon right on it. Okay. How can they not know? How can they not know? Okay. I'll tell you where I'm a little jacked off at Amazon right now. So You know write a product review. I went to the thing. There it is. All right. You can buy it again. You can get product support return your items eligible through April 15 2023. How's your item right there? How's your item? You see those? One is write a product review. The second one is add an unboxing or how to video and Then the third one is leave the seller feedback. So let's okay. I did a review on it. Let's do Let's say I want to Do an unboxing and how to video This is what I get it says Before you start to submit videos you need to have spent at least fifty dollars on Amazon in the last 12 months and meet all other community guidelines Well, I can tell you something that This time alone Was over a hundred was over a hundred dollars. It was like a hundred and sixteen by itself And that wasn't too long ago. So yeah, that was within the past 12 months So they're not you know, well, let me do that all right, so let's um Let's just go ahead and write a review right a product review now when I hit write a product review Look what comes up? And I'll read that to you We apologize, but Amazon has noticed some unusual reviewing activity on this account as a result all Reviews submitted by this account have been removed. I mean is any review I've ever done has been removed and I'm pretty sure about 99% of them were good reviews So that's hurting the seller and This count will no longer be able to Contribute reviews and other content on Amazon if you would like to learn more Please say our community guidelines page and I and I've checked it out thoroughly and I know I've never I've never broke any of them guidelines whatsoever To contact us about this decision, please email community Dash help at amazon.com now I was doing some reading on here You know, I do my research the best of my ability before I make these videos They won't they won't get back to you. They just will absolutely not get back to you So Now If you go on To a sheriff department website or a police department website and You leave a review that that makes them but hurt You leave a poor review. You don't like, you know, one star. I don't like the way your officers treat people. Whatever if They take that review down and block you from Leaving a review This is true. This violates your first amendment rate the right freedom of speech Isn't that what they're doing to me Amazon? Why can they get away with it? Why can Amazon get away with walking all over my constitutional rights? You know That's a violation of my first amendment rate, you know You send me this and you want me to write a review, but I can't write a review Even if I wanted to which I wasn't going to do it for the $25 gift card believe me I was going to tell them what kind of piece of crap this was one star. That's it I was going to tell them like I said, there'll be a video coming out about this piece of junk So they're going to be getting sent back So how is it they're getting by with violating my rights so they they not only ban me From my freedom of speech my first amendment, right my freedom of speech to let others know That these things are junk Not only did they violate that but They took away every other review I may have done in the past every one of them Some violation my constitutional right. I don't care who you are if the police departments and the sheriff's departments and the highway patrol departments If they can't do it How can amazon Wouldn't it be great just to get a whole bunch of us together and file a class action lawsuit against that because i'm not the only one hundreds Hundreds of people Are having this problem now With that said Leave leave the seller feedback. Okay. Let's leave the seller feedback Boom. I can leave the seller Feedback But I can't leave an amazon review Hmm That doesn't make sense I don't get it. So I just wanted to let you guys know if you get one of these Be aware it's illegal number one and number two If you're doing this Write in five-star reviews just to get 25 or 30 dollar gift card Which is in fact more than the price of the product itself By like nine dollars your dirt bag Um If you can't leave an honest review, don't leave any review And that's why I always told you my review videos I am brutally honest if I don't like it. I will tell you I don't want my viewers spending their harder money on crap Just ain't gonna do it and I'm not gonna leave I mean, what's 30 dollars really? But yeah, I wanted to leave an actual honest review I was gonna give it one star because that really pissed me off when I seen that I was like, wait a minute I don't even think they're allowed to do that. I think they have tc put a stop to that Buying reviews and they did And right there Click write a review rate five star And share your experience with positive text So they're saying you know what here's 30 bucks send me a picture and Make me a good review. I'll give you 30 bucks So legal It's disheartening, you know because I do Like when I bought this camera when I buy pretty much anything online. I check out the reviews You know It's It's unreal. I I mean it's unreal. Let's go to this Let's see the um, let's go let's go to this item has a four out of five star review. This thing has four out of five stars So let's scroll down here to the review section And let's see What the reviews are like. Okay, there's question customer reviews Customer reviews four out of five stars six hundred and eleven global ratings Okay, so it's got Five star for easy to use 4.6 star easy to install 4.4 star Value for money picture quality 4.3 night vision 4.3 motion detection 4.2 Doesn't seem right. Let's click on the And we got 62 5 star reviews 11 4 star reviews 8 3 star reviews 6 2 star reviews 14 1 star reviews So let's read read, you know one or two of these Okay, like Like if I hit write write a review that comes up again Let's do One star reviews Like here's one right here about this thing, which was april 12th 2023 Today's so this was yesterday I have I have blink Then I bought this one for outside mistake Does not pick up cars coming down driveway people walking out two-car nothing But it will pick up every little bug that flies by don't waste your money Exactly And it will too it will do that Here's one was not able to work it won't work Like one of the problems I have with this thing These are supposed to be side motion sensors Now either there's no side motion sensor in there, which I don't think it is just looks like a piece of plastic Either there's not no side motion sensor in that Where they're not working on either one because If this camera is facing this way and you're walking this way It will not pick you up If you run past This thing It cannot pick you up. It can't find you Nine times out of ten This thing Once it's done picking up the bug or whatever it does It starts turning and it faces the wall Every time no matter how you set your settings every time this thing faces the damn wall And which there was one one in here that talked about it You know, they're they're having uh memory card issues, which like I said Both these they're you know, they'll they'll they'll fall out. They'll pop out. They don't want to work You also that's another review. I'll I'll get into that But right now guys if you're watching this you're thinking about one don't get this don't get them Do not buy Uses tactics to sign up for their Monthly subscription app crashes many times. I've had that problem Uh, I did get a couple hummingbird Uh clips Uh These things only work when they want to there's one no It records nothing naughty, so there's ain't even even recording at all So, you know, I'm I'm probably going to send this back these back because you know Some of the things I can do with that money. I know I know it didn't cost much That's beside the point and see how much was it how much did I give for that thing 25 78 I'll have to make sure but yeah, it was uh it says here I paid 25 78 for it So 26 bucks, right? That's ridiculous 26 bucks for something that you can't use I know a lot of people I get these comments all the time. What do you expect? Well, I expected to do what it says it'll do. I don't care if it's 26 cents or 26 dollars If you say it's going to do something I expect it to do it, you know, that's it And then you go reading all them them good review and I always put the good reviews first right down the line All these good reviews, you know, they're perfect Works flawlessly no issues whatsoever. But like I said, I read so many reviews how that thing will just Turn and face the wall You know, it does not pick up side movement. That's probably supposed to simulate Side sensors because you have to have a side sensor in order for this thing to pick up anything So like if you're down here, let's see, you know, you park up here and you walk down This thing will not move up and down. It only moves left and left and right When it wants to it does its own thing But anyway, yeah, that's illegal. I don't know how Amazon's getting away with it I don't know how Amazon's letting this company get away with that But I'm going to see how I can report that because this is ridiculous, you know They block me from writing reviews, but I get sent this right a review Yeah, whatever. Anyway, be be be aware of reviews guys. They're they're just you can't even believe them anymore You know, frankly, it's quite frankly. It's bullshit You know, people spend their hard-earned money on crap It's ridiculous. So be aware guys stay tuned for More videos on this Or while one more video on that on those And I have something here. It's gonna be another review And that being said, I'm gonna say she bear the myth man legend gone for now. Um, let's say tomorrow's friday Hope you guys have a great weekend. We'll see you soon Be safe and take care everyone. Bye. Bye