Post #143765 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 2:18 PM

...on Amazon. I've been "reporting" this certain review as inappropriate since it appeared, but nobody there seems to give a damn', maybe if a couple of hundred clicks come in they'll take it off.
It cost me my five star rating, and that irks me. Whenever the BOT gets mentioned in the press (which still happens) newbies should not be made to doubt it's top ranking ...

This is the "review", with a "one star" (the lowest) rating:

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful (!?!?-ed):

what the f*** is a "sourcing fee"?!, January 27, 2005
Reviewer: Ryan Khatam (Escondido, CA USA) - (See all my reviews)

This is an EXCELLENT book full of superb vintage photos (my friend owns this book) and I was about to buy it as well until i saw this new "sourcing fee" bullcrap amazon.com is charging.

$11 for a "sourcing fee"??????!!! ELEVEN DOLLARS?? that makes THIS paperback edition JUST AS expensive as the HARDCOVER!!

WTF?

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If you click on "report this" at the bottom of his post
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/382282433X/ref=lpr_g_1/103-8340384-2667867?v=glance&s=books

it will automatically report the rating as inappropriate, which anybody (except Mr. Ryan Khatam) can see it is. Wonder if he did that to all the other books that require a sourcing fee, too. However much that fee might suck, it is certainly not the BOT's doing.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-02-28 14:24 ]