There are many deceptive tricks used by fake buyers on Amazon, which are really hard to guard against! So how can sellers avoid these risks?
1. Post messages through closed groups
In order to avoid fake buyers as much as possible, sellers can try to choose closed groups to post review messages. It is easy for sellers to add people to open groups, and it is also easy for fake buyers to add people to their accounts. Therefore, it is recommended that sellers choose closed groups recommended by friends. Adding people to closed groups requires review and certification, which is safer than open groups.
2. Strictly review the buyer’s Amazon homepage
How to review the buyer’s Amazon homepage? We can review the buyer’s homepage from the following three aspects:
① Account ranking; ② Number of daily reviews left by the account; ③ Account history time.
The buyer’s Amazon homepage is an important step for sellers to judge whether the Reviewer is worth cooperating with. The homepage has the user’s ranking information. Generally speaking, Reviewers ranked in the top 1 million are relatively trustworthy, but sellers cannot simply refer to the ranking. On the contrary, the risk of reviewing an account that ranks too high is also very high. Buyers who are able to manage Amazon’s ranking to the top must be very professional. We tend to cooperate with ordinary buyers and try not to cooperate with too professional Reviewers. Because professional Reviewers can leave a lot of good reviews, and they are also able to leave a lot of bad reviews. If something goes wrong after the seller cooperates with them, it will be very disadvantageous to the seller’s account. In the history of reviews, accounts that leave more than three reviews a day are often monitored by Amazon and become suspicious accounts. The account may not be dangerous in the short term, but if there are long-term intensive reviews, the probability of the buyer’s account being blocked is very high. Once the account is blocked, all their reviews will be deleted, the seller’s store will also be implicated, and other reviews of the store will also be monitored.
3. Strictly review Facebook accounts
Not only the buyer’s page needs to be reviewed, but the Facebook page is equally important. Fake buyers need many small accounts, so the Facebook timeline content or forwarded content will be relatively small. The content posted by real users is generally family or children. Like the buyer’s Amazon homepage, the longer the time span of the Facebook account, the higher the security and more trustworthy it is.
4. Beware of overly proactive Reviewers
Generally speaking, Reviewers will only contact sellers when they are interested in a product. If they are too proactive and are keen to buy any product, sellers need to pay attention to the Reviewer’s intentions.
5. Check on sharing websites
Before deciding whether to cooperate with a buyer, sellers should first check on sharing websites such as “Seller’s Home” through information such as name and email address. This is essential. Sharing websites contain fake buyers exposed by other peers. Sellers can effectively reduce the risk of being deceived by filtering through web page groups.
6. Make friends with Reviewers and don’t cooperate too many times
When communicating with Reviewers, sellers should be more friendly. This way, it is easier to negotiate when there is a problem with the goods. For example, if the goods are damaged, you can negotiate not to return the goods, and just change the account and place a new order to reduce the return rate. However, even if they are very friendly buyers, sellers should not cooperate with them too many times, because once their accounts have a problem, the seller accounts that have cooperated with them many times will also be in danger.