Amazon Reviews

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Amazon Reviews is Amazon's system for product reviews.

Review Detail

Amazon provides a permalink that lists all reviews for a product and shows the review summaries. On that page, they have a small area with the product details, compared to product permalinks where the product photo and name is featured more prominently.

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Creating a Review

To begin creating a review for a product you did not buy on Amazon, find the product page and scroll to the review section, and there is a button to "Write a customer review".

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If you have purchased the product on Amazon, then on the page titled "Your Reviews", you will see a list of all your recent purchases, with a prompt to start a review by choosing a star rating.

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When you hover over the stars, it prompts you with text to describe the star rating.

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The complete list of star ratings and their intended meanings is below:

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After you click on one of the stars, the section expands to reveal a field to type a review. It also indicates that your star rating has already been posted with the text "Posted publicly as [your name]".

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When you click in the text box and begin typing, the section expands further to reveal an additional field for a "review headline" and then provides the "submit" button.

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The "insert product link" button opens a modal dialog where you paste a URL to another Amazon product and it converts it to a microsyntax used on Amazon which includes the name and changes the link to the appropriate country's Amazon product URL when viewed.

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The review headline is intended to be a one-line overview/summary of the review. If you do not add a headline here, an Amazon staffer will add one for you, typically using the first few words of the review or based on some other key part of your review.

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When you click submit, the section collapses back to the star summary of your review, and a "thank you" message appears.

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Below is what the review looks like when it's online on the product page.

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