Most conversations about paid reviews start with price. Fair enough. Budgets are real. But the bigger issue is whether the service is doing the work it claims to do.

This piece showing proof that IndieReader is publishing AI reviews makes the point better than any generic warning could. It is specific, testable, and grounded in actual review samples rather than vague hand-wringing.

If you are buying a review for marketing copy, retailer pages, or author outreach, the real question is simple: would you still want to use the quote if someone checked it? If the answer is no, the review was never worth buying in the first place.