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Amazon removes the "Contact Customer" button from the reviews dashboard
Amazon has removed the "Contact Customer" button from the Customer Reviews dashboard, effective immediately, flagged by Vanessa Hung. Unless a reviewer messages the seller first through the Messages system, brands now have no path to reach a reviewer directly.
What changed
Amazon's stated reason is alignment with its communication policies, and review manipulation is a genuine compliance concern the change is meant to address.
The trade-off is operational: legitimate brands used that channel to resolve fulfilment failures, damaged shipments, and product defects before those experiences hardened into permanent listing signals. Removing it closes a structured, traceable route for proactive problem-fixing.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means sellers lose a direct way to resolve issues with reviewers and must rely on reviewers to initiate contact. Worth strengthening pre-emptive customer service through order-based messaging and packaging inserts, so problems are caught before they reach the review stage.
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Amazon removes the "Contact Customer" button from the reviews dashboard
Amazon has removed the "Contact Customer" button from the Customer Reviews dashboard, effective immediately, flagged by Vanessa Hung. Unless a reviewer messages the seller first through the Messages system, brands now have no path to reach a reviewer directly. Amazon's stated reason is alignment with its communication policies, and review manipulation is a genuine compliance concern the change is meant to address.
The trade-off is operational: legitimate brands used that channel to resolve fulfilment failures, damaged shipments, and product defects before those experiences hardened into permanent listing signals. Removing it closes a structured, traceable route for proactive problem-fixing.
For you, this means sellers lose a direct way to resolve issues with reviewers and must rely on reviewers to initiate contact. Worth strengthening pre-emptive customer service through order-based messaging and packaging inserts, so problems are caught before they reach the review stage.
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