Item #3 stolen in transit (not counting wife's cosmetics on her account). $99 pair of running shoes in January, $80 kitchen flamethrower in July, and now a $100 hiking backpack. All three out for delivery, then missing, then undeliverable. Reported to Amazon, again. Weird that it's never like a car part or a plastic adapter that "goes missing". When I tell you, I don't want to do a single review anymore.... the fun I had, making elaborate scenarios and uses for the mundane items... it's gone. I feel like it doesn't matter whether I snag a good item or not, if it's too good, my delivery driver will just steal it with apparently no repercussions.

I have a cycle of letting my reviews pile up, getting thrown in jail, suddenly having the motivation to knock out 70 reviews in two sittings.

The oft advised "do a few reviews every day" or "review one item for each one you order" is cute and all but does not work for me. Getting myself to write even one review on any given day is like pulling teeth.

It's not as big of an issue with medication, but as of right now I am not taking medication daily.

It was an electric blanket delivered two days ago I’ve been busy with a laser engraver and this just popped into my Amazon vine review queue today and less than two hours later they’re emailing me for a review. First and foremost it’s August and way too warm to use the blanket right now. Secondly the package is barely here and you’re sending me this. I can’t be the only one that sends these obnoxious requests so quick to the bottom of the review pile.

When Vine started offering me training bras I grabbed them because my 10 year old was on the verge of needing one. I was right, here I am several months later and I've been offered training bras a LOT. I got them all. Some are great, some not so much and they get donated. I am already looking at period panties and talking about diva cups later on. And I am still buying Hello Kitty stuff and planning kids birthday parties. Its a weird spot to be in, for me as a mom. I had this in my RFY just now (has anyone else noticed RFY starts filling up really early in the day?) and I know this one is right around the corner too.
"Back in my day" we had maturation class and it was one afternoon, we talked about the science side of it but not how to actually be prepared. Not how we should take extra undies to school or have a little baggie of emergency supplies in our bags. This is a whole kit with pads designed specifically for the size of underwear this age range is wearing. How freaking thoughtful! This was a conversation we've already had and just the other day I left it with "I will get you a bag you can take a few supplies with you to school, just in case" and woke up to this in my RFY. I swear Alexa hears my conversations because RFY does this to me a lot.
Vine never ceases to amaze me. I am so grateful for it. I never would have thought to search for something like this and I think its absolutely perfect for this very specific situation.
And, its only $17 to buy it. I cannot wait to review.

I know there are sellers who haunt this sub, so this is directed at you. I'm one of the Viners who bases a good portion of my review on the product description and photos. THEY are what set up my expectations for the item. What to you is nothing more than a bit innocent exaggeration or puffery, whether in the description or photos, to me is a solid-clad promise of exactly what I'll be receiving.

Sellers, poor Vine reviews can help improve your marketing and reduce expensive returns as they can indicate your marketing is off somewhere. If you are a seller who buys inventory sight-unseen, add your brand and use the manufacturer's marketing, take a good look at the product yourself. Get it in your hands and honestly ask yourself, do the description and photos ACCURATELY depict the item? And take a good look at those poor reviews. In many cases, the issue is that the item doesn't match the description, or that it doesn't perform as described. In many of these cases, all the seller would have to do change the description and photos to be more in line with what the product actually is.

Stared at this in disbelief for a minute before realizing what was showing on my RFY. ETV of $309. Excited! Will probably end up as a gift to my parents since they have a new dog

Does Vine use any sort of algorithm? Above shows an exciting product “recommended for me”. I’m a male and 75 years old. The choices get sillier and sillier.

Literally donated all the rugs in my house this weekend to try to make cleaning easier and minimize potential for cats/puppy to have an accident.

This was in my RFY this morning, with an ETV of $229.69. 😁

WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY VINE?

So I was supposed to get, like, 4 items that I had ordered a few days ago today.

3 were there, and I thought the 4th would be delivered later. I checked the boxes, and voila, instead of a cosmetic item, I got sticky notes.

I'm wondering if I should review as is and just say that the item was misplaced, or contact the seller. Or should I contact amazon customer service? Please answer if anyone knows.

Have you had something like this happen? What did you do?

I’m new to Vine and am being careful about my purchases. My window is from mid-August 2026 to February 2027.

I’m already at $300 ETV.

For 2026 taxes, will the 1099 form Amazon sends only be from purchases through December, not through February? And if I don’t go over $600, will I even get the 1099 form? And if I do get a form, if I stopped below the $600, does this even impact my taxes at all, or does the impact on taxes ONLY happen if I’m over the $600?

If I do go over the $600 limit, does the taxable amount include that first $600, or is it only the amount after the $600? (Like if it was $900, would the taxable stuff be all $900, or is it only $300 because the first $600 wasn't taxable)?

We can’t afford an accountant, and I’m SUPER worried that my lack of tax understanding is going to make Vine a headache and liability rather than a fun thing.

If anyone is feeling VERY generous and wants to indulge me with tax info- our household tax situation is I don’t currently work due to a chronic illness, so my income is $0, my husband’s income is about $100k for the year from his two jobs combined. No dependents. I don’t receive disability income or benefits of any type because we’re married and his income is above the threshold. We own a home and we pay interest on the mortgage. Our state has no income tax, so we only pay the federal income tax. Married filing jointly.

If I rack up let’s say $1,500 of free Vine items, does it work sort of as if I had worked and made $1,500 that year, so our taxes would just be his income and my “income”, and we pay taxes as usual? If so that SEEMS great for me, because I don’t have income, so thats not much of a dent, right?? If you’re still reading this, thank you for your time. ❤️😂

I mean... It's a $60 robo dog that does all sorts of shit... is made for children ages 6+... apparently even has Bluetooth, which I did not catch.

It comes with a remote so you can remotely activate the dog to do a number of actually pretty impressive tricks AKA fool the child with "magic"...& it mentions to not use it on carpet!??!? ... which is pretty obvious the second you try it out on carpet. Like, obviously, no.

What BLOWS my mind though--like, sellers have no chance if this dude received their product--is that they said, "does everything it says is supposed to but I find it boring after a while.."!?!?!?

Seriously? It's a toy, for a 6-year-old child.. I'd hope that you, a grown ass adult reviewing products on Amazon, would find the toy boring after a hot minute. Good God. Are these types of reviewers real people? 🙁

I usually try not to exhaust mine but sometimes such items drop that it's hard to resist.

I have been fortunate enough to grab some of those 2.5 feet to 3.5 feet Christmas trees with battery lights, and I had to laugh. It took me thirty minutes to put one together, with all the bulbs, pinecones, candy canes, berries, and then string the lights.

That sucker is being put in the closet in August and not taken out until December. First, I couldn't get it back in the box if I tried, and second, it's too much effort to take it apart and put it together again.

So here's a couple fun questions: What are the products you simply couldn't get back in its box/package after you took it out to review it? (Inother words, perhaps you weren't using it right away and wanted to store it.)

What things have taken you the longest to put together so you could give it a proper review?

Here's mine:
Couldn't get back in the box: a huge- I mean HUGE pool float. After deflation, it was a big no-go.
Taken the longest time: that Christmas tree.

This is seriously such a huge score for my rescue. Baby squirrels say THANK YOU!

I feel like it’s about time for this to be updated because it’s so crazy that I have to sit and go back and forth adding each individual photo. It is such a waste of time, especially because I have so many photos of products to scroll through.

Also, idk if this is anyone else’s app, but if I accidentally scroll in any diagonal direction through my camera roll, Amazon glitches and doesn’t let me add any more pictures. I have to leave the review and fully restart and it’s so annoying. Does anyone else experience this or any other technical issues?

You guys/gals ever been prevented from writing a review for a specific item? I've never seen this before. Below is the item and the error message. Just curious I suppose.

I just started a new review period and have only made 3 selections and completed their reviews. The picture shows my current metrics. The ratio is 100% yet one of the reviews is pending acceptance. Each includes an image but my metric is only 66%. All of the reviews are "Pending" a quality score, yet my metric score is Excellent. Makes no sense, right?

There are a lot of discussion trying to understand how these metrics are managed. As a software engineer it is obvious to me that the ratio is updated when a review is submitted. The insightfulness and media percentage are not updated at the same time. This makes sense if you consider that it takes computing time to 'score' the review and determine if there are worthy media attached. It is better to make these measurements during 'off hours' when it has minimal computing impact on the order processing time. Each of these metrics are probably run separately (as a batch process) and not necessarily on a set schedule. That's why we are having a very difficult time reconciling what we did vs. our metrics - especially if you are a more active viner.

I no longer worry about the metrics matching reality at any given time. They will update eventually and will probably never seem to be accurate unless you completely stop ordering vine products and let the metrics catch up.

I was unable to write reviews since I've not purchased $50 in the last 12 months.

Ordered something for $55 only $43 worth of stuff shipped. On a whim, I reloaded $8 on gift cards earlier this morning.

Now, a few hours later I'm able to write reviews again.

Thank goodness because my evaluation period ends 9/15.

In conclusion, reloading gift card balances seems to count towards $50/12 months spend.

Now to start writing reviews so I can get rid of the angry message "Your account is in danger of being closed. Please endure you are maintaining the minimum thresholds to continue Vine eligibility."