This is an excellent idea. One could even order a an item or two every month and return it broken.
“even order a an item or two every month and return it broken.”
Or ... order large orders of Chinese junk, and return them all. Do it every day.
I guess it’s an OK idea idea if you are using those services to buy cheap mass produced foreign tat instead of using it to identify new, local, home spun businesses.
I know many small businesses that are on Amazon and Facebook in order to sell niche hand-crafted products further afield than just their immediate community. Without those platforms they wouldn’t have a shop window.
There are already serial negative reviewers (some of whom are doing it as an extortion tactic) in operation, and it’s got to the point where I know local companies who are paying investigators and lawyers to take those assholes down before they trash their good names.
One local firm has been trading for over 70 years multi generation, their millennial decided to set up an online presence and they got a lot of new business but they’re now owed thousands by three customers who are holding them to ransom by spamming the review sites with “rogue trader” reports.
If you start doing this you are going to give yourself a seriously bad reputation and the worst part of it is, you could damage the reputations of perfectly fine businesses.
If I were affected by this I’d not consider “please ditch a proven online marketplace that I don’t approve of, for a nonviable alternative that would kill your online sales, or I’ll spam you with negative reviews” a reasonable (or even coherent) proposition.
Anyone blackmailing me with that would be meeting with my lawyers, or possibly the business end of my baseball bat, before I’d re-engineer my business model to suit them.