Tag Archives: Amazon Shenanigans

False Accusations

Maybe there is some misunderstanding by ‘Liz’, and now ‘Seicolegwr’, as to the purpose of our site? It is not and was never intended to be a FORUM, although they have both, we believe disingenuously and artfully, posted comments on Amazon to the effect that they cannot comment on our site, and by this means they have also evidently managed to plant — through their chosen Amazon avenue — a surprising amount of gratuitous insult and accusation.

As to ‘Liz’, perhaps we were drawing too close by voicing our suspicions in our posts because she claimed her latest comment to be her last: ‘memo to self, “stop feeding the trolls!” so I have.’ And it has just been pointed out to us that ‘troll’ is used pejoratively in internet jargon — by those who know. ‘Seicolegwr’ writes: ‘…but my comments were neither published nor acknowledged (and nor have anyone else’s been)’ — although he cannot know that — and he goes on to pour thorough-going unpleasantness upon us. Incidentally, we have actually responded privately to those whom we believe to be genuine. Continue reading →

Update

Amazon will have thousands upon thousands of contributors and monitoring of their site on a one-to-one basis is, presumably, well nigh impossible: they will rely on their contacts to be — always — honest and honourable.

Therefore we feel that there is considerable leeway for an ill-intentioned person to use this web for their own advantage and by the deceptive practice of entering spurious addresses — with reviews and following comments — to produce threads to weave as their own.

The untangling of these threads would be a task indeed.

Jac’s sisters

Stop Press

Jac’s sisters believe that the author Jim Perrin has been instrumental in having their reviews of his book West, with their other comments, removed from the Amazon website. These will not be ‘lost’ as we have print-outs and will post them here, on our own site, but it is fascinating evidence of how Jim Perrin ‘polices’ the web… (albeit there remain exceptionally favourable reviews which in our opinion he has posted himself — using aliases).

To quote the words of a sister, and which we used in an earlier post: ‘Who else but HE would care, or would be sufficiently interested, or would have the motive?’

Jac’s sisters.