| bizarrejournali ( @ 2006-03-08 14:49:00 |
| Current mood: | overcoming Amazon |
Amazon reviews
One of my former hobbies was reviewing ludicrous products on Amazon. I had some rules about this game: I never gave an item few enough stars to create a poor average rating (so if I was the first person to review something, I gave it five stars); I tried to be clear through the content of my review that the review was satirical; and there are no rules.
All of the reviews were written in the voice of Smith T. Aames, a fictional character created for this purpose. Smith lives in Washington, D.C. with his seventeen pet dogs. He is polyamorous, and a little weird. Of course.
At some point, Amazon realized that many of my reviews existed only for comedic purposes and removed them from the site. I find that now I am unable to post new reviews without them being quickly reviewed and removed. Fortunately for anyone who wants to read these reviews, I had archived most of them before they were taken down. In the next few weeks, I will add these reviews to my LiveJournal so that they can be read by others, as I intended them to be.