Amazon product tester.

onejontwo

This is probably in the wrong group but I have just had an e-mail to be a product tester for an Amazon echo speaker, now I'm tempted as you can keep the product but would like to ask an opinion of the forum as whether there are any catches or worse still some sort of scam! Has anyone else had a similar e-mail or been a tester?

glennamy

If they were being tested they would have been tested before reaching the market... I like many others have had these emails, including ones for Dyson & Samsung S8 testing, I wouldn't reply If I were you... All products have been in the market for months!

sleepyjones

You do sometimes get "Product Tester Competitions", I've posted a couple and did have a couple of winners of a fancy steam iron (I think), so they do exist. Avoid anything (email) that says something like "Testers in your area" ... it's all spam.

If there's a legit competition (or draw) then it'll likely get posted here, otherwise I would tend to ignore anything like this (especially something like this, if Amazon wanted testers or people to review their product they would just contact Amazon Prime members who have bought one and offer them a £10 voucher for a review or something)

hamsterfan1

There is a site where you can buy for a reduced price or try for free which is a specific to amazon but i's not for their own products it's for reviews, can't remember the name though. It seems like it may be a company called product testing, which is linked to a number of companies who then sell your data on so you get spammed

deb2112

There is a site called Product Testers, or something similar which send emails asking for testers for high value items such as you've mentioned. It makes you answer loads of questions and then gives you pages and pages of "offers" that it wants you to sign up to, although none of these are compulsory. It may well be legit and give out a product to someone at the end of it but along the way it harvests (and no doubt sells) one heck of a lot of details from all the other applicants so personally I'd be wary.

Amazon has its own testers program, sourcing its reviewers from those who have received high ratings for reviews left on their site. I am a tester for another big retailer (not Amazon) and was also contacted directly by the company in question, rather than a third party. If Amazon genuinely want you to test something for them, they'll contact you themselves.

jeddentad

I've done a bit of product testing, but they have all come from professional survey/public opinion firms that I already had a relationship with, never from any unsolicited source.

Zanzib

I received this email too, and junked it.

andrew71

I would have thought Amazon would have their own in house testers anyway and even if they did want public to test their products they would be tested by American residents where their products are first released from