How to stop sellers from harassing you to change reviews
Sellers use emotional manipulation and partial refund offers through direct messages to pressure buyers into revising honest, critical reviews. This harassment leaves buyers second-guessing their feedback and trapped in a cycle of unwanted messages when they only wanted to share a genuine experience.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Ignoring the seller completely
- 2Reporting the seller to the platform
- 3Updating the review to a lower rating
- 4blocking the seller's account from messaging
- 5updating the review to mention the seller's persistent messaging
- 6opening an item not as described case with the platform
- 7reporting the seller for harassment or extortion
- 8Reporting the user multiple times to platform support
- 9Ignoring direct communication demands
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I just got a long message from the seller with a sob story, apologizing that the quality of the packaging was not to my standards (no mention of the quality of the item itself), wanting to "make it right" by offering a partial refund, and asking for a revised review, and I'm second-guessing whether my review was too harsh.”source ↗
“Now, they keep messaging me to update the review when they didn't send me what I was expecting.”source ↗
“The seller has been harassing me and messaging me on iMessage, WhatsApp, email and messaging me on Etsy. She is using all my personal information to message me on.”source ↗
“The seller went ahead and reported me to ic3.gov which I’m not sure what they can do. And is planning to report me to a few other sites if I don’t pay her. This is threatening.”source ↗
“after leaving this honest review of my experience, the seller is repeatedly harassing me in DMs to change my feedback”source ↗
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