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How To Remove Negative Reviews On Amazon [The Right Way] — Danan Coleman | How to Handle Amazon Reviews Safely, What Signals Fake Reviews on Amazon, How Competitors Post Reviews to Hurt Ranks, Why Instant Refunds Protect Ratings (#346)
In this episode of Ecommerce Coffee Break, we dive into a strategic approach to managing and removing negative Amazon reviews effectively.
Our guest, Danan Coleman, Chief Revenue Officer at TraceFuse.ai, shares his expertise on how to handle negative reviews that violate Amazon guidelines.
Danan provides valuable insights on maintaining review integrity and trust, improving product ratings, and boosting conversions while staying within Amazon’s policies.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why one negative review equals ten positive ones on Amazon
- How a 1 star rating drop can slash sales by 50%
- Why having some negative reviews builds trust
- What Amazon allows and forbids in product reviews
- How competitors use review bombing to hurt rankings
- What percentage of negative reviews can be removed legally
- Why supplement sellers face more review fraud
- What signals fake review patterns on Amazon
- Why instant refunds can save your product rating
- How to handle reviews without risking suspension
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Welcome to the eCommerce Coffee Break podcast. In today's episode, we discuss the strategic approach to remove negative Amazon reviews the right way. Joining me on the show is Danan Coleman, Chief Revenue Officer at Tracefuse. ai. So let's dive right into it.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the E Commerce Coffee Break Podcast. Today we want to talk about Amazon, specifically we want to find out a strategic approach to remove negative Amazon reviews the right way, focus on the right way. Joining me on the show today is Danan Coleman. He is the Chief Revenue Officer at TraceFuse.ai.
ai, a service that helps Amazon sellers buy and By removing negative product reviews that violate Amazon's guideline. He's passionate about supporting sellers and making a real impact. Danon has co founded e com triage, a consulting firm focusing on improving ROI and helps lead wizards of e com Tampa Bay.
We're talking about this as well. The largest e com seller or Amazon seller meetup group in the world. So let's welcome him to the show. Hey Danon, how are you today?
Good Claus. Thanks for having me on the show. Much, much appreciated. Happy to be here.
Yeah, let's talk Amazon. Let's talk about reviews. Um, obviously no one wants to have negative reviews, but there's also good reasons to have negative reviews.
Yes. Um, give me a good overview of what reviews actually stand for and what the approach the right approach is to handle them.
Cool. So, you know, obviously you don't want a whole bunch of one star reviews. Uh, and based on our experience, What we've looked at across probably hundreds of thousands of reviews at this point is that a single one star Holds roughly the same weight as 10 5 stars It's 7 to 7 to 15, but an average of 10, right?
So if you ask me that weight rating is Sorely, sorely off, right? It becomes so easy for anyone to just drop a one star. And you can, if you get a competitor that does this, and this happens all the time, unfortunately, it only takes one or two, one stars to completely kill a launch, right? So you can be sitting at a 4.
star, whatever, and you get two, one stars. And you go straight down to a 4. 0 and that kills your launch. That kills your conversion rate. You'll lose anywhere between 25 to 50 percent on average. If you go from a 4. 3 rating to a 4. 2, cause you go from that four and a half star to a four star, right? And so that, that just that half star is technically responsible for up to 50 percent of your sales.
So having some three stars, maybe a couple of two stars isn't so bad. If you've got. You know, a hundred reviews and they're all five stars buyers are suspicious. But if you've got a few threes and twos and maybe a one star here or there, then buyers will think it's more of a legitimate product and a legitimate reviews.
Right? Because everybody knows that there's somebody out there that has. How do I put this politely, uh, forget about it. Everyone knows there's people out here that are assholes, that all they want to do is crush everything around them. Right. You know, and, and so they take that into consideration when they're looking at the reviews and they go, cool.
The majority, the vast majority of these reviews, they all say the same thing. They all praise the same thing. I'll buy this too. I've actually got customers that said, yeah, I know that that three star violates, but don't remove that one. So I'll have to manually mark that one as compliant in our system. So we don't go after it because they actually want that one there.
No, it makes total sense. And I think what, what you just said is you want to have a, a real view of people, if they're keyboard warriors or not, um, not everyone might be actually happy, happy with your product that can happen. Um, but what you mentioned is that competitors use the feature as. a tool to harm you.
And that happens more often than people think. Um, obviously you need to have some kind of tool, some kind of strategy to deal with that. And that's where, um, removing negative reviews come in and obviously, um, you should not be able to remove anything to your liking. So there are some routes and guidelines around this from Amazon.
Tell me, how does that look
like? Yeah. So anybody can do a search for, Amazon community guidelines, right? And what you want to pay specific attention to is a section called what's not allowed. And there's a whole list in there of what's not allowed to be in review. Now, as you can imagine, I've gone on a deep, deep dive into Amazon's, uh, policies and.
Uh, and all of their articles and stuff like that about reviews. So I've managed to locate, I think, nine different policies or articles on Amazon. Some of them are public. Some of them are behind the login, uh, wall. So you have to be logged into a seller central account to be able to see them. But they basically say that the purpose of the review is to assist a potential buyer to make a buying decision.
That's the whole, that's the integrity of the reviews. It's okay to leave your opinions. It's okay to tell people why it didn't work, why you think it didn't work. It's not okay to slander the product, to have personal information, to have foul language, to have competitor information. And by the way, having competitor information doesn't necessarily mean that you can't have, you can't mention a competitor product.
You can even put a link, an Amazon link to a competitor product in a listing and. I'll go a little bit more into that on a genius thing that I saw. I think it's mostly, you can't talk about an Amazon competitor, right? Even though that's not how it was written, but just based on experience, any, almost any review that we've submitted where we go, this is clearly talking about a competitor.
That's not what this is. This isn't supposed to be a review on this product. Amazon's like, no, no, that's their opinion. It's fine. But if you, if they talk about target, well, we can cite the same thing. Yeah, exactly. So there's a lot of things you can't talk about and. That's what it's supposed to be like, right?
Now, Amazon does not exactly police their reviews. Sure. We all get the email occasionally where it says, Hey, we removed a review. It was connected to something that we feel is fraudulent. They tell you the ASIN, but they do not tell you the. What the star rating was, they don't tell you what the review was.
They don't tell you any, give you any other data that's actually valuable. And I find, because sometimes we get these forwarded to us by our customers. The majority of the time, it's not a one, two or three star that got removed. It was a four or five star. So, okay.
That's kind of interesting that they remove a five star review and leave the one star review in there.
Now, when you look at bad reviews, um, how do you go through the list on, on what kind of markers do you decide to flag this for removal?
Our Bible on this is Amazon's community guidelines. So we just go, we basically, what we did is we developed a prompt, uh, and kept developing a prompt on GPT to take the review and compare it to the Amazon's community guidelines and say, is this review in violation?
And it turns out somewhere around 30, 40 percent of the reviews that are out there, critical reviews are in violation. In violation in some way, but that doesn't mean that Amazon's going to remove them necessarily. So trace fuses, removal rate of across all of your critical reviews is between five and 15%.
So for every hundred reviews, critical reviews, written, mind you, a critical review is a written one, two, or three star review. So we'll be able to remove between five to 15 of those reviews for every hundred critical reviews you have. And that's that number. That's quite, quite a spread, right? And so there's things like, how many reviews do you have?
How many products are we going after of yours? How many ASINs? Because the more ASINs, the better the chances we're able to find fraudulent reviews, right? Um, and then, and then there's other stuff like how many competitors, what niche are you in, et cetera. There's just so many factors that, that tie into that.
So when it comes to like supplements, That's, uh, that's at our 15 percent because that's a nasty business to be in, right? So there's just tons of fraud, uh, fraudulent reviews and supplements. So that those ones we can get a lot more removed.
Okay. Kind of interesting. So you mentioned before that negative reviews have a massive impact on clicks on sales and everything.
Yeah. Can you give me some success stories or case studies of businesses that you helped with removing these?
Yeah. So without getting any, giving any specifics of these, cause I obviously can't divulge our customers, but so there's a few, few scenarios here. Obviously the ideal scenario is we take someone from a 4.
2 to a 4. 3. We've definitely done that. In fact. One of our better stories is someone went from a 4. 2 to a 4. 6 mathematically. It didn't make sense, but it happened. And we're like, Hey, cool. Don't ask questions. Thanks. Amazon don't know why it went so high, but it did. That's all right by us. Uh, which side thing, Claus, this does give us, uh, a little information to give everyone here is that the math doesn't make sense on the reviews.
It just doesn't. Yeah. Anyhow, we won't go, I won't go into that because it's even complicated for my tiny brain to understand, but, uh, the math never maths out. So we have plenty of people who have gone from a 4. 2 to a 4. 3, right? Um, as to what their sales were exactly afterwards, we don't have that information.
We only know from what I get told from our customers and success stories is that their, uh, conversion rate. At times has doubled, but it always improves. And another thing, which is really interesting, I found this super interesting is that we had a customer, we removed about 30 critical reviews on one of their ASINs and the star rating didn't change.
Mathematically, it should have. But it didn't so he was still at a 4. 2, right? And he he sent me an email saying hey, you know, my my star rating still hasn't changed Do you know why i'm like dude? I it should have it should you should be at a 4. 4 right now, but I asked him, well, what happened to your BSR?
Uh, what happened to your conversion rate? What happened to your ad spent? And it turns out the BSR now BSR is always crazy because it just, it goes wild. You have to look at a trend over time to, to figure out what's going on there. But his BSR improved, meaning it went down. His conversion rate had doubled even though he was still at the same star rating.
So what is, and, and his PPC cost was down by how much I don't know. But, and. And I realized there are other factors that go into this, but overall, if you looked at the, the months BSR was down, conversion rate dramatically improved and PPC cost was down. And the only thing I can think of is that Amazon obviously has an algorithm where there is a rating between the ratings that we see.
Right. So I think that if Amazon is seeing an increase. In the rating overall, algorithmically, it goes, people are loving this product and they're buying it and they're converting, let's display it more. And then you get more, more conversions, right? Now that's not a case study for you. That is my assessments based on all the data that I've seen.
From in bits and pieces from customers. But at the end of the day, we're just, we're just all in a marketing game and we have to employ a little bit of math on like, okay, how much money do I need to spend here to get this? And Amazon runs on ratings and PPC these days. So whatever you can do to improve your ratings and drive that traffic, you'll generally speaking, you'll convert.
You know, and you'll make sales and you'll make profit if you can, if Amazon hasn't stolen all of your profit from you.
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Features come, features go. And I had an interview earlier today, um, where we were talking about, um, AI using for ad spend.
Amazon
ads and basically what you just said, there's so many factors that play in and you need to optimize every single bit of it might be the conversion rate, the page might be the ads, or in this case, optimize the review management.
Now, people might be interested in just doing it then by yourself. So do it yourself. Review and what's the risk there? What can go wrong?
No, there's no risk. There's no risk in this. Even there's no risk, even in, in what Tracefuse does. We're a hundred percent by the books. We're just leveraging what Amazon puts out there for any seller to take advantage of.
The difference between Tracefuse and a seller doing it themselves, besides success rate, right, is the fact that we have spent. Countless hours locating teams to go to for what kinds of reviews, where to escalate, how to escalate, what needs to be in the email to Amazon. Do we send an email? Do we go to seller support?
Do we go to brand registry? Do we go to fraud? Right. And so it's just endless amounts of testing and data. And I truly mean endless, like even today I am testing new methods. With Amazon to improve our rate because for us, Amazon's always changing too. So one thing that they did, uh, can't remember, I don't remember when this was, but maybe you do Claus, um, they, Amazon made it so that you can only see the last 100 reviews.
I think that may have been years ago. I I'm not really sure. It's a while ago. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. Why would Amazon disappear reviews? If they factor into what the star rating is, why would they hide that data? Right? A last week or something like that. They tested cutting that in half only showing 50.
And then it came back and back to a 100. And then again, they made another change where they're hiding it behind hiding reviews behind a login. So you have to be logged into a seller central account. Uh, sorry, to a buyer account in order to see the reviews. That's fair enough. That makes sense. But this is all a.
The point is, is that they are always changing things. They are always testing things and they've got servers around the world. So they'll, they might deploy it over here, but not deploy it anywhere else. Right. Or they may deploy it and it takes time to propagate to all the servers across the planet.
Right. So. We have a moving target just as the sellers do. I would say the differences is that Amazon tells the sellers what's about to change, but that's not necessarily true, but sellers have access to more data on what is changing, has changed, will change than we do. We just get, Oh, that's a surprise.
That got changed, right? So the risk is, is nothing. We just know what to do better than any seller, right? And where to go to, but I'll give you the short version of what you need to do is obviously that report button exists on, on every, um, on every review. Uh, I don't know that that actually does anything.
I've seen no evidence to show that it does a damn thing, but. Always use it. It's there for you. And the community guidelines says to use that button, right? So use that button. And then community dash help and amazon. com is apparently the group that is supposed to be responsible for doing this right for handling the reviews.
Now. You can imagine how many emails we've sent them, right? With hundreds of customers and tens of thousands of reviews. And we, by the way, Claus, uh, we've removed, I think the website says like 12, 000, I think we're over 13, 000 reviews at this point. So for our customers, but you know, when you are writing community help, less is more, right?
These things like the person who's reading it is English as a second language, keep it super simple. Only provide facts, no emotion, right? And you make sure that you're giving them what the data is, what the violation is, and what your proposed solution is.
Okay. Good tip there, but me being an entrepreneur in e commerce and digital marketing for a long time, fighting for instance, with Facebook ads for a long time, same thing.
You have a support email address goes nowhere, nothing. So like, so I reckon that speaks completely for using your service. Because you know how to deal with that, how to address the right department. And at the end of the day for our listeners, time is money. So before you waste your time and try to figure it out and probably ending nowhere, um, use a service like Tracefuse and have someone on the other side who knows exactly what they do.
Now tell me a little bit about the onboarding process of a new user, of a new customer or client. How does it work?
Yeah, easy peasy. Uh, so basically the easiest way is to go to portal. tracefuse. ai and register, throw your merchant token in there, and then we do a free audit. We download all your, uh, active products and how many reviews on each one of them.
And. A lot of people go, well, no, no, no. I've got, I've got thousands of reviews where I've got hundreds of reviews, but you don't have that many written reviews. So we're only downloading the quantity of written reviews from there. Now you've got just your list of ASINs and you check the box on the right hand side, and it will give you an assessment of you've chosen this many products.
There are this many critical reviews. We think we can remove between five and 15 percent of those reviews. Um, another way to do it would be just to look on Amazon and filter your reviews. And. If you've got a hundred reviews, you know, the trace views could probably remove around five to 15%. So once you've done that and you've created the service, we create, we generate a unique email that you invite to brand registry and seller central.
Solely as user, we don't need access to any of your data other than to manage cases. So for seller central, that's literally the permission. You say, manage cases for brand registry. You invite that user as a registered agent. Which just means the same thing. They can manage cases. So, and, and then, and then we get started at once you've done that, your work is now done.
We take it over from there. We'll download every single one of your reviews. We'll run it through our AI. And then before we submit it to Amazon, we manually inspect every single review to make sure that we put it to the right place. So, okay. I know our, I know our, our company says it is. ai. I dare say that's the smallest fact factor of our company.
Uh, everything is human driven when it comes to case management.
Yeah, it makes perfectly sense. I mean, this is a very sensitive area and, uh, we don't want, make sure that you don't, um, wreck a Amazon Excel account by, you Doing things that do not comply with Amazon policy. Totally. Yeah. Um, so I reckon, um, some human, um, brain power is better at this point.
Yeah. Who's your, who's your perfect customer? What kind of industry vertical do you work best with?
Well, okay. So the perfect customer is a supplement seller that has tons of reviews and they almost all do. Um, and, and the reason is, is that, and I haven't gotten into this really, is that we're able to detect fraudulent reviews.
So when we detect fraudulent reviews, we'll wrap that up into one big case and escalate that up to Amazon and say, Hey, look, here's proof of fraud. When we make a claim like that, they've got to take action, right? Because that, that can't just go to a computer and the computer says, beep, boop, boop, boop.
Everything looks fine, you know, and send an automated reply. Um, that, that is more serious. So, and some of the things that we're looking for, by the way, are sudden spikes in the number of critical reviews that you get on any given day. So let's say on average, you get one and one day, and this is a true, this is actually, uh, a real life example.
So someone, their max over 24 months of sales, their max number of critical reviews was five in one day. Then three days in a row, they had 14, 18 and 20 or 22 or something like that. Basically. 15 to 20 reviews over the course of three days, and then back down to normal. That's a huge indicator of, of, of review bomb and attack from a competitor.
And by the way, it doesn't cost a lot to attack a competitor, unfortunately. Right. It's baloney, but it's the truth, right? It does not cost a lot to attack a competitor. So, and you can kill them, right? You can kill them. So this, and this is what happens that this is, I think, where people are vying for position one, two, three, right?
If you spent 10, 000 attacking competitor, well, technically they, you knock them down a peg or two, you take their position. Well, that could be worth 20, 000 a day in sales revenue. So anyhow, we look for that. We look for buyer accounts that all they do is do one stars and there are plenty of them out there.
Um, a picture I use in, in a lot of my meetings is, uh, a screenshot I took of a buyer account where literally every single title said, Do not buy. And every review was arrived, broken and dirty, right? Some, some form of little variation, but the titles were exactly the same on every single review and every review basically said, arrived, broken and dirty, shattered and dirty, dirty and broken.
You know, um, if that's not a clear indicator of, of, uh, a baloney accounts, then,
you know, there's
tons of the
way. Yeah, I can imagine. I think, um, obviously e commerce is highly competitive. If you're in niche like supplement market, it's even more competitive. And there's just bad players on the market and they try everything to get the bit of market share that they can squeeze out of it.
And I think a service like yours is perfect for that. How does your pricing structure work? How do you charge your clients?
Yeah. And so before I answer that, let me actually just tell, tell you one last thing. We can help any Amazon seller. We can help any Amazon seller. That's just where we have the highest success.
But I have, I have sellers that have literally 10 critical reviews that come in as a customer. Now that I will say full disclosure for everyone out there, the chances of us getting a review removed on 10 critical reviews is lower than it is. If you had, then it is, if you had a thousand. But if we get that review removed, it could be a game changer and completely salvage a product.
Right? And we do it. We do it all the time. Um, it's just. The chances of it happening are not as great. So anyone in between I'm starting and I just want trace use trace views as a, uh, as insurance to check my reviews on a, on a daily basis and file. As soon as I get reviews that are in violation to, I have 10, 000 critical reviews and all I want to do is preserve my 4.
3 late rating, right? So when it comes to our pricing structure, it's actually quite simple. We are a pay for performance model. You don't pay for any reviews that were unable to get removed. It doesn't matter how many cases we filed. It doesn't matter any of that. You only pay for the reviews that get removed.
Now there is a one time onboarding fee of 750, but that is the, that is one time that is per, uh, per seller account. It doesn't matter how many products or brands you have in that seller account. That's a one time fee. After that, it's purely performance driven. And we of course, keep track of everything that we're working on and everything that's gotten removed with the original links to those and the original data in, in those reviews.
That makes perfect sense. And I think it's money well spent money well invested because, um, online sellers, specifically if they're on the channel and sell on different platforms, that. Just, just don't have the time to track their reviews all the time. And it has such a massive impact on your revenue, you might just not catch it.
And then, I don't know, two weeks later, you're losing out on massive sales. So I think that's money very well spent. Yeah. So we went through the onboarding procedure, very straightforward. Is there anything else as we come to the end of the coffee break today that you want to share with our listeners that we haven't covered yet?
Providing stellar customer service is your best possible bet on getting someone to change a critical review, right? So the top sellers that I've spoken to that have had the highest success rate on getting reviews, either removed themselves or changed is to provide excellent customer service. So they immediately refund the product.
They offer a replacement. Now, and not every, I understand that not everyone can afford to do this. Right. And I am not talking about just supplement sellers, by the way. In fact, I'm not talking about them at all. Right. So, um, but the top sellers that get reviews removed, refunded, offer replacement, ask them if they want a different one of their products, a different model, a different.
Whatever. Right. And get into communication with that customer to see what can they do to make their purchase experience better. Right. That is the best opportunity that you're going to have to get. The customer themselves to remove the review. Now, if you have someone that is attacking you, well, they're going to give you some bull crap thing like, Oh no, you know, this, I, I bought this frozen pizza and, uh, and it nearly killed my dog.
Right. And it's like, okay, well, all right. I can't help you then because, uh, that's bullshit. Right. But, and let me also say that. Don't ever, and most people know this, but not everyone does. Don't ever ask someone to remove or change a review that can get your seller central account suspended. Right. But I am a big advocate of do everything you can around the lines.
Right and say things where the customer can read between the lines that can't actually incriminate you go full Politician, how could I make your life better? What could I have done to have given you an experience that what you would have expected? Can I do that thing for you? Right that sort of thing. I would always do that first And I'm a seller too.
I I've been selling on Amazon for 14 years. Now, today I don't do private label, but I've done private label. I did camping blankets, right? Nobody made a camping blanket that was long enough for me. I'm only six, two, right? Um, but at six foot two, when I'm camping, I like to wrap the blanket under my feet and still have it go over my shoulders.
So I made that right. And I would have people that would buy the blanket. Return it as damaged after it was muddy with dog hair on it and all kinds of stuff. I'm like, this is bullshit. So I understand for those of you out there. How much emotion a one star two star review can cause you. But you have to take the higher road and say, maybe that person's guinea pig just bit them on the finger before they decided to type this scathing review out.
And every time they typed the letter L, it hurt. And so they were in pain the whole time they were typing this review. Just like, Give them the benefit of the doubt and see how can you make their day better. And that will, that you can convert quite a few critical reviews that way.
Yeah. I'm glad you highlighted this.
Um, I'm an online seller for about eight years and, um, I think everyone listening and has been, or is on the journey of a online seller has been in a situation where exactly this email, this review came in and you are about to make a Bites your nails and go ballistic on it. But you're right. Be a politician, be diplomatic.
Um, at the end of the day, it's your business and you want to get the best out of it and be a spot on. So,
yeah. Think of it as a game of chess and you just need to make the move. Every sale you make, every review you get, it's a game of chess. Like, okay, well, how can I. Make a move to shift this person's mental position on me.
Right. It's a mind game.
As entrepreneurship is overall. Exactly. So where can people go and find out more about you?
So traceviews. ai, that's T R A C E F U S E dot A I. That is where you go to get more data about Traceviews. Portal dot traceviews dot A I is where you go to sign up and get an account. It's, uh, there's no credit card required to start, uh, to start an account and do the audit.
You can just throw your merchant token in there. Cool. Then
thanks so much for giving an overview why it's important to remove reviews and what kind of positive impact that might have on your revenue and on your business. Thanks so much for your time today. Thanks Claus. See you later. Hey Claus here.
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