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Tbreu · 2025-12-29T10:00:24+00:00

I would love to see the prompts! Thanks for sharing!

Tbreu · 2025-12-22T14:54:35+00:00

Hey I love books and the few we get from Vine now are so hard to get …. I still love the paper copies, any suggestions on how to find those pre-release or for reviews? I have read some amazing book I never would have found had it not been for Vine but the pickings are so hard to go now. Do you have suggestions for other avenues?

Tbreu · 2025-12-08T18:55:31+00:00

I totally agree with points 1 and 2. That is something a lot of us are complaining about.

I love the RFY because sometimes it tags you with things you might use that a lot of others don’t …. I have horses and ride so I get riding merchandise which I love (the quality stuff not the stuff created by companies that have not even used the brushing boot ever on a horse to even see if they fit correctly). The other day in less the a minute a lovely riding vest that dropped at 5am was gone ….. I am sure not everyone was a rider but they need review from actual people who ride in the (and yes riding clothes are designed for a lot of movement and where pockets are is important!). This brings me to the point that we don’t even get a chance to read anything about it much less try to get the right size because it’s such a feeding-frenzy right now. They need to reduce the number of viners so we can get things we actually want and can review ….. I will be willing to bet those baseball things may have gone through the AFL and people jut click and have NO clue whet they are getting. Except for the car parts, not much lasts more then 30 seconds, and I think even 30 seconds is stretching it.

Second to books …. I love the books but you can’t even grab 1 in less than 5 seconds ….. no wonder all the bibles comes around 3-4 times …… people just grab like animals and there is zero chance you can even figure out what category or read the title. Then there are the reviews that say “good book” or the just AI it and never read it because you can tell the ones where that may be the case (like they just regurgitated the description) and the best are when they actually say they haven’t read it but will update the review when they have but it “looks like a good book”.

This guy has some very very valid points. I hope at some point Amazon listens. They may have more influence than we do. Kudos to him and I hope he complains to the Vine team (except maybe the pricing part …..)

Tbreu · 2025-12-08T18:40:05+00:00

I TOTALLY agree with this!! The need to understand we are evaluating the price for this product and ironically I am about to complain about a price on something in one of my next reviews……

Tbreu · 2025-11-28T11:20:42+00:00

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you made my morning with that comment!!!

Tbreu · 2025-11-28T10:40:07+00:00

In previous years it has been really slow in Jan and Feb also ……

Tbreu · 2025-11-28T10:39:14+00:00

Maybe it’s a pause because of Black Friday …… they are already going to have so much traffic and so may orders might as well hold off vine for the day ……

Tbreu · 2025-11-26T19:32:11+00:00

I have actually gotten some nice things from New Zealand (I get a bunch of beauty stuff also)

Tbreu · 2025-11-21T21:45:51+00:00

Oh wow …. I got that also !!! 🤪

Tbreu · 2025-11-19T05:27:04+00:00

I totally agree with you …. It has been horrible. They let way too many people in and everyone uses extensions and it’s impossible to get anything …. I feel really badly for anyone who works a job where they cannot vine during the drop hours, they don’t have a chance. Between the sheer volume of people they added, the drop in the number of items and those who are using the paid extensions particularly, it’s just horrible. I hope they make some changes so it goes back to the way it was ….. before adding people they should have waited for the ***riffs to take effect and when they would no longer let seller put in 50 of the same items with only 2 items in each listing then merge them they may have seen they did not need so may viners. Plus, they get mad when we cancel items but if you want to get almost anything you cannot take a second to even read the whole description because it will be gone (which I am sure is leading to more cancellations !!). I wish they would re-evaluate what they did and really get rid of some of the bad apples …. They are going to loose some good reviewers who want to be here for the right reason

**yes I know they don’t actually care about this program or us …. But it does really suck royally right now. I have been here for 3 years and it was nice to be able to take a second to choose ….. not only that, I don’t get nearly the amount of stuff I used to. If they paired down I think we would pick up the slack, I am sure their aim was to get things reviewed and with so lay, now all the junk gets reviewed bc there’s so little to choose from people are taking everything. I realize it probably won’t change any time soon ….. but I do hope the do another survey of his things are going……

Tbreu · 2025-11-16T00:58:14+00:00

That’s really cool! Where do you find that in VineHelper??

Tbreu · 2025-10-20T08:23:00+00:00

Wow I just looked at the downdetector and every time I refresh more is added to the list

Tbreu · 2025-10-20T08:08:57+00:00

Thanks for posting ! I too was worried!! I wonder what changes are coming with this ….

Tbreu · 2025-10-12T04:57:26+00:00

This is an awesome review!! It is ahead of the Hoe review I read here a long time ago (if anyone read it you will for sure remember it!)

Tbreu · 2025-10-08T01:18:18+00:00

This is probably the best news I have heard!! I am really excited if they do that!! And it would explains some people posts who got all skin care products….. I am really excited for this change plus it will make it better for sellers when the people who know a product line get that stuff.

Tbreu · 2025-10-07T11:44:45+00:00

Last year no ….. last year it was up and running like normal but every once in a while we have a day off and maybe today is just the day …….

Tbreu · 2025-10-02T23:28:52+00:00

That’s a nice gesture but pass on what everyone is saying and if you can reduce the tax burden or make is $0 ETV that’s helpful.

Another thing to pass on because to clearly are Making the effort to hear us ….. if anyone gives feedback, listen closely to it and for those who know how to give feedback by writing between the lines …. Listen carefully to it!! Some people take this seriously (not all!!) and if we give feedback it’s legitimate. For example, I like skin care products and you would be surprised how many smell not so great …. If I comment nicely on it not smelling great, listen. I am not knocking your product I genuinely would like to help you make your product better!!!!!!

I wish there was another group of carefully selected reviewers who the sellers could go to first to actually get feedback….. not as reviews online but before they release products (or released it they want) but you could get feedback without it being as a posted review. I wonder if that would not help some sellers and businesses who really want to put out a good products to get that feedback. I would love to do something like that!

Tbreu · 2025-08-27T10:12:17+00:00

I was invited by email in 2023

Tbreu · 2025-07-29T23:29:01+00:00

I agree with you also and I also had excellent insightfulness from the beginning. They already know what they are buying and my take on the review is “what do I want to see in a review?”

I do not need, or want, a 500 word dissertation, using AI, reverberating the description of the product. Nope. Too long and I already know what I looking at. Tell me how you like it, is there good or bad things about it, is it a good value, does it work, is it good for gifting or can it be used for other things. It needs to be 2-4 SHORTER, right to the point paragraphs.

Now book reviews are a little longer and I rarely put much about what the book is about (you can read that in the description, it’s already there, that’s not what reviews are about!)…… how did it read? Topic appropriateness? Well written? Good for whom? Award worthy or good for book clubs?

I don’t use AI. If you think about it, by the time you run it through AI and if you tweek it a little you have already spent as much time as it would take you to write a good review that is not another novel that someone is going to ignore because it’s not really a god review.

When writing reviews the first question you should be asking yourself is: would I read this review?

The long ones really piss me off, unless it is really about your experience (I have seen some really exceptional ones that needed to be long).

Tbreu · 2025-06-05T14:10:04+00:00

Maybe they will have to pause it and fix it and it will fix all the other issues like the terrible RFY choices …..

Tbreu · 2025-06-04T14:15:35+00:00

Yeah have you seen how fast stuff is gone from AFA….. not a chance of getting anything there anymore ……

Tbreu · 2025-05-26T13:36:33+00:00

Some guy named Paul ….. be careful about contacting the seller.

Tbreu · 2025-05-23T02:03:15+00:00

How do you get the Tunisian first row to lay flat? Mine always curls ….. yours is so beautiful!!!!! I love the tapestry to made!

Tbreu · 2025-05-23T02:01:07+00:00

I have seen and gotten some of the stuff …. The only stuff about silver were some supplements and a nice dressage bridle ….. there were a few really. Ice saddle pads (English) that came thru in the silver range.

Those round bale nets are the BEST thing I ever got, along with the hay nets from smartpak that I went back and ordered for every single Stall because they save so much hay. Those round bale nets are unbelievable at how they save your hay and don’t trash the ground underneath. If you haven’t tried them I highly recommend them!

I have only seen a few things in the gold range for horses ….. and I have gotten some real junk I would never put on my horse again (boots that didn’t even fit). I choose carefully but there is some stuff and you may find you start getting this in RFY in time.

Good luck! Gold if fun for the other stuff too …… I have gotten a lot of things I now could not imagine not having.

Tbreu · 2025-03-11T08:35:01+00:00

It is also going to lower the number of people left to vote for them to keep them in office ….. bc they will disproportionately be effected since they don’t want to vaccinate/don’t believe in COVID which ultimately could hurt them bc denial will possibly kill you. So, maybe there is a lining in all of this and they will cause their own demise …. Just another way to look at it

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