Common Blogging Courtesy?!?
So I recently got an angry email from a brand who had said they’d ship me a sample for review, which I never got, and now they were demanding a review, as in NOW! When I explained I’d never received it she tracked it and copied and pasted the stuff that says it was delivered to my town and once again insisted I had received it. And the most rediculous part? She claimed it’s a “common blogging courtesy” for bloggers to promptly write a good review after one gets sent. I am pretty damn sure her little common courtesy BS is against FTC regulations, I blog with integrity and a good review must be legitomately earned, never bought.
Posted on September 28, 2012, in Blogging. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I’ve had the same problem, package tracking says a delivery came right to my door, but I never got it. I would email back and say you hope they know that you would never lie about not getting a product, and that you would also never write a review that wasn’t honest. I would then tell them that if the package does turn up, you’ll let them know if you do write a review. There’s really not much else you can do!
I tried that but they kept insisting I got it and was lying, so I just gave up. It’s also extra frustrating because it’s a company I’ve worked with multiple times without issue and would have liked to work with in the future.