Products with more than one listing

I've noticed lately that there are a lot of products with more than one listing. Sometimes a DVD will be listed under several categories as separate items (once under drama, once under action, etc.). Will Ciao do anything if we notify them of these doubles? Will we get in trouble if we place the same review in each place (after all, they are the same product)? What happens if one has placed a review at the less-frequented link?

Just some musings - I've only got one thing I know of that has a double out there, and I've not double-posted the review. On Amazon, it is an acceptable practice to repost reviews to the same product under different links if for some reason the products are not linked together to share reviews; of course, they aren't paying for reviews there, so it isn't costing anyone anything.

Yes you will get shot, hung drawn and quartered if you post the same review twice. Having said that, would anyone notice ?

oh they would...they would!

You would think the database structure would stop this wouldn't you.

What if they didn't post these reviews in succession? Should more be done about products with more than a single listing? There are a number of products with an enumeration rating under one and not the others.

Has it been done that a number of reviews were moved under one listing?

When I posted my latest review, there are 16entries for what appears to be the exact same thing - same model number, same specs, even the same purchase links. It's insane! And yet some of them are 0.5p pay outs, some 1p and possibly even a 2p one ... I don't get it at all!

I don't get it when someone decides to post under the non-paying listing of a product.

"There's money to be made and you're not making it!?"

Sometimes, we as writers, feel that its more important that the public know about a product we feel passionate about than what we get back. I don't even notice any more which are paying categories.

I've noticed this a few times. With one product there was two identical listings, one with a couple of reviews and no £ signs, and one with ££ with no reviews...No prizes for guessing which I put mine under!

Mine always seem to get non-member reads whichever it appears under ~ so I pick the highest paying.

I have only once posted a review in a similar category to a previously posted review, after consultation with another member, and ~ with a totally different review, of a replacement product ~ not the original product.

The new review got a diamond.

Duplicate reviews cross-posted have been removed by Ciao!

One member allowed to rejoin was re-deleted after she posted a review which she had previously posted even though it had been deleted.

Speaking from experience Ive always contacted Ciao when one product has appeared twice - especially in the Music section - and to be fair to Ciao, they only take on info which has been passed to them by consumers through product proposals. This then gets directed to areas where products appear twice or more than twice. Sometimes however Ciao do get it wrong on their own account of taking on info from company websites rather than the actual proposal system.

Ciao have removed several duplicate products which appear in the database but they need to be contacted first!

I expect they auto update a lot of new products, and somehow these duplications creep in..