{"id":6839,"date":"2022-10-25T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T01:43:52","slug":"misc-amazon-vine-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6839","title":{"rendered":"MiSC: Amazon Vine &#8211; End of an Era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6840\" width=\"2979\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563.png 2979w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563-300x95.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563-1024x325.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563-768x244.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563-1536x487.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5563-2048x650.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many years ago now, I was a regular contributor to <em>Drummer<\/em> magazine. One of the things I did was a regular monthly classic album column, called Recycled. I enjoyed this so much I started posting reviews to Amazon&#8217;s UK website. I don&#8217;t know how long that went on for before I was invited to join the Vine programme.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Vine programme lets you have free things in exchange for reviews. And for many years now I&#8217;ve enjoyed being a part of this programme. But today I&#8217;ve discovered I&#8217;ve been booted off the programme for &#8216;violating the terms&#8217; of the programme. It&#8217;s a bit annoying, as I&#8217;m not sure what my &#8216;sin&#8217; is!<\/p>\n<p>But on the other hand, as one door closes, another, hopefully, opens. Over the years the programme evolved, and, having initially been mostly sent books, it shifted towards all sorts of random stuff. And it&#8217;d gotten to be quite overwhelming. So a break from this could be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be sorry if that&#8217;s the total and final end of my involvement. As I got a lot of great stuff over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago now, I was a regular contributor to Drummer magazine. One of the things I did was a regular monthly classic album column, called Recycled. I enjoyed this so much I started posting reviews to Amazon&#8217;s UK website. I don&#8217;t know how long that went on for before I was invited to join &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MiSC: Amazon Vine &#8211; End of an Era?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,89,77,68,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1Mj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7879,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/7879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}