Back in August I was invited to join The Amazon Vine Program. The program is described by Amazon:

Amazon Vine is a program that enables a select group of Amazon customers to post opinions about new and pre-release items to help their fellow customers make educated purchase decisions. Customers are invited to become Amazon Vine Voices based on the trust they have earned in the Amazon community for writing accurate and insightful reviews. Amazon provides Amazon Vine members with free copies of products that have been submitted to the program by vendors. Amazon does not influence the opinions of Amazon Vine members, nor do we modify or edit their reviews.

In other words, vendors send Amazon a bunch of free stuff and then Amazon sends it to reviewers who have received lots of helpful votes. I missed the free stuff in August because you have to be fast before everything is gone because reviewers are like vultures on a Water Buffalo carcass when it comes to free stuff. But I did manage to get three things for September. I was able to grab the book Run, the DVD of A Christmas Carol, and the web camera. I have now completed reviewing those items which means theoretically I can get more free stuff. But the only things left are some women’s anti-perspirant, a copy of the Washington Redskins Encyclopedia, and some chick-lit about a Pakistani family living in London.

When you submit a review for the Vine program, Amazon sticks the text below in front of it so everyone will know that you got the product for free.

Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program

Amazon Vine ProgramInstead of that text, I am going to put this image along with a link back to this blog entry.

When I started reviewing I never actually thought I would get anything for it but I have scored a couple of hundred dollars worth of free stuff in just the last couple of weeks. Sweet!

 

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