My review isn’t showing on Amazon 🕵️

You wrote it, you posted it… and the book page hasn't changed. Don't worry — this is almost always one of a few known things, and most of them fix themselves.

🕰️ First: give it a little time

Amazon doesn’t publish reviews instantly. Most appear within a day, but 48–72 hours is normal — every review goes through Amazon’s own checks first. On our side we check for your review over the next few days, so there’s nothing you need to do while it’s in the queue.

🚧 If Amazon wouldn't take the review at all

The minimum-purchase rule

Amazon only accepts reviews from accounts with a minimum amount of purchases in the past 12 months — about $50 on Amazon.com, with similar thresholds in other stores. If you see “this account has not met the minimum eligibility requirements”, that’s this rule, not anything you wrote.

The wrong regional store

Your purchase history lives in one regional Amazon. If the review page that opened isn’t your store (amazon.com vs amazon.co.uk vs amazon.de…), Amazon may refuse the review. CoReader asks for your region once and sends you to the right store — if you picked the wrong one, the switch is one click away on the book page.

🧹 If a review appeared, then vanished

Amazon’s automated systems remove reviews they find suspicious — and they’re imperfect, so genuine reviews sometimes get caught. The usual triggers:

The free copy wasn’t mentioned. Disclosed free-copy reviews are welcome; undisclosed ones get removed.
The text reads machine-written — generic phrasing, or the same sentences appearing across several reviews.
Off-book content: price talk, links, seller or packaging complaints, replies to other reviews.
Timing: a review minutes after a purchase, or a burst of reviews posted back-to-back.

Sometimes it's simply not you

Amazon runs periodic clean-up sweeps that catch legitimate reviews too. If your review followed the guidelines and still vanished, it may just have been unlucky.

🔁 What to do next

If a few days have passed and your review still isn’t up, write to us at hello@coreader.net with the book’s title — we’ll look at it together and sort out your assignment fairly. And remember: if posting publicly isn’t working out, sending the author your notes privately is always an equally good way to finish a book here.