Comments on: How accurate is ResellerRatings.com? http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/ Writing from behind the scenes at Puget Systems. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Steve Winter http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-18944 Steve Winter Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-18944 See what reseller ratings is so blatantly lying about.  See the actual graphics that reseller ratings is claiming was their whole website.  See what SELLCOM published at  http://reputationpiracy.blogspot.com   Will reseller ratings be able to con Google with a frivolous complaint as they did with Godaddy AKA Wildwestdomains? An inquiring mind is a terrible thing to waste Let's go with this new term REPUTATION PIRACY Steve Winter See what reseller ratings is so blatantly lying about.  See the actual graphics that reseller ratings is claiming was their whole website.  See what SELLCOM published at  http://reputationpiracy.blogspot.com   Will reseller ratings be able to con Google with a frivolous complaint as they did with Godaddy AKA Wildwestdomains?

An inquiring mind is a terrible thing to waste

Let’s go with this new term REPUTATION PIRACY

Steve Winter

]]> By: Steve Winter http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-18931 Steve Winter Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:20:00 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-18931 Dave from reseller ratings has threatened this blogger with a lawsuit for his comments here and on his blog.  They are all for free speech against companies whose reputation they are holding hostage. More details at http://urgentwarnings.blogspot.com Dave from reseller ratings has threatened this blogger with a lawsuit for his comments here and on his blog.  They are all for free speech against companies whose reputation they are holding hostage.
More details at http://urgentwarnings.blogspot.com

]]> By: Steve Winter http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-18922 Steve Winter Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:19:00 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-18922 Reseller ratings is a ripoff.  We made the mistake of paying them for their service.  Then they raised their price from $29 a month to $199 a month so we cancelled.  We put some of the material ABOUT US on our website and the scum filed a frivolous copyright clam and some incompetent at Godaddy actually blocked our website until we removed the disputed materials which were clearly fair use.  Reseller ratings makes a business model of using companies' trademarks without their permission and against their will. To file a DMCA against resellerratings.com here is the link Is your company trademark or copyrighted name being used on resellerratings without your permission? You can file a formal DMCA copyright complaint against them at  http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/contactus/AWSAbuse Reseller ratings is a ripoff.  We made the mistake of paying them for their service.  Then they raised their price from $29 a month to $199 a month so we cancelled.  We put some of the material ABOUT US on our website and the scum filed a frivolous copyright clam and some incompetent at Godaddy actually blocked our website until we removed the disputed materials which were clearly fair use.  Reseller ratings makes a business model of using companies’ trademarks without their permission and against their will.

To file a DMCA against resellerratings.com here is the link
Is your company trademark or copyrighted name being used on resellerratings without your permission? You can file a formal DMCA copyright complaint against them at 
http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/contactus/AWSAbuse

]]> By: Rrisgod2011 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-18843 Rrisgod2011 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:50:00 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-18843 Warning!  Test of 15 years of research and development from resellerrattings.com's ratting system.  This only a test, result of the test should be determined by customers and merchants.  Any one can do this same test and judge the result on their own.Keep in mind all reviews are posted on one email account, one computer, same IP address unchanged and no reboot of the computer system.  And yes we know that RR takes up to 48hrs to post reviews, and give merchant that has an membership the chance to dispute or fix any issue they have with customer before the reviews are posted.1.  Test #1:  Posted 3 5/5 star positive review on 3 merchant that are not member of the resellerrattings.com and has an over all average review of 1/5 stars.  After 5 days none of the review showed up, and only email that was sent by RR was your ratting will take 48hrs to show up...(Some will say, you see the system is working!  Please wait for the second test...)2.  Test #2:  Posted on the same email address after the fist 3 good reviews.  The next 3 reviews are done on new merchant that has 0 ratings or has an average review of 1/5 stars and are still not members of resellerrattings.com.  Those 3 reviews posted are negative with 1/5 stars.  Result was all 3 review showed up almost instantly if not less then 24hrs.  Again this is done on the same computer with same email address and same IP address as the first 3 review.(Surprised?  This was expected before the test was done)3.  Test #3:  Posted 4 review this time on merchant that is an member of resellerrattings.com.  2 negative, 2 positive.  After 48hrs, the 2 positive reviews showed up and the 2 negative review did not.  No email was sent by resellersrattings.com till this day for those reviews.(... use your own judgment on this one  :P)The result seem that merchants that are not members will build up negative reviews much faster then positive reviews and are unable to fix or respond to those reviews until they become a member.  In which RR will then do its job and sent out emails to fix any unreal ratings.We will keep doing those type of test and build up an database with review date, email, and results for public viewing."Please keep in min this is only a test!"  And should not be used to determine any claim or actions. Warning!  Test of 15 years of research and development from resellerrattings.com’s ratting system.  This only a test, result of the test should be determined by customers and merchants.  Any one can do this same test and judge the result on their own.Keep in mind all reviews are posted on one email account, one computer, same IP address unchanged and no reboot of the computer system.  And yes we know that RR takes up to 48hrs to post reviews, and give merchant that has an membership the chance to dispute or fix any issue they have with customer before the reviews are posted.1.  Test #1:  Posted 3 5/5 star positive review on 3 merchant that are not member of the resellerrattings.com and has an over all average review of 1/5 stars.  After 5 days none of the review showed up, and only email that was sent by RR was your ratting will take 48hrs to show up…(Some will say, you see the system is working!  Please wait for the second test…)2.  Test #2:  Posted on the same email address after the fist 3 good reviews.  The next 3 reviews are done on new merchant that has 0 ratings or has an average review of 1/5 stars and are still not members of resellerrattings.com.  Those 3 reviews posted are negative with 1/5 stars.  Result was all 3 review showed up almost instantly if not less then 24hrs.  Again this is done on the same computer with same email address and same IP address as the first 3 review.(Surprised?  This was expected before the test was done)3.  Test #3:  Posted 4 review this time on merchant that is an member of resellerrattings.com.  2 negative, 2 positive.  After 48hrs, the 2 positive reviews showed up and the 2 negative review did not.  No email was sent by resellersrattings.com till this day for those reviews.(… use your own judgment on this one  :P )The result seem that merchants that are not members will build up negative reviews much faster then positive reviews and are unable to fix or respond to those reviews until they become a member.  In which RR will then do its job and sent out emails to fix any unreal ratings.We will keep doing those type of test and build up an database with review date, email, and results for public viewing.”Please keep in min this is only a test!”  And should not be used to determine any claim or actions.

]]> By: Youdontneedthis http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-18824 Youdontneedthis Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:47:00 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-18824 I'll tell you what I don't like about resellerratings dot com. I don't like them automatically creating an account for me, simply because I leave a review for a store I bought from. I'm sick and tired of arrogant companies deciding for me what I want. Nowhere do they ask if you would like an account created. They just tell you that one will be created. And they don't offer an option to close your account either. I left a review of a store because I thought I was doing them a good turn, but thanks to pushy companies like reseller ratings, I won't be leaving reviews for stores anymore. I’ll tell you what I don’t like about resellerratings dot com. I don’t like them automatically creating an account for me, simply because I leave a review for a store I bought from.
I’m sick and tired of arrogant companies deciding for me what I want. Nowhere do they ask if you would like an account created. They just tell you that one will be created.
And they don’t offer an option to close your account either.

I left a review of a store because I thought I was doing them a good turn, but thanks to pushy companies like reseller ratings, I won’t be leaving reviews for stores anymore.

]]> By: Hung Lui http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-14677 Hung Lui Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:19:37 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-14677 I usually do my shopping with bigger online companies, but decided to take a chance to shop from small website. I used ResellerRatings to review the site. The small company had over 700 ratings mostly 5. But I had such a bad experience I couldn't believe the ratings. Only looking more closely, the reviews were posted daily for the last couple of months. I began to suspect the posts are inaccurate because I also learned the company is actually one little store. There were so many good reviews you couldn't see the more accurate bad reviews. I've also find the same type of posts on other review websites. Hundreds of good reviews on multiple sites for one store. However, the bad reviews are all similar to the experience I had. Are there actually companies now that sell ways to fake reviews on reputable sites like Resellerratings? I also don't believe that one little store can write all those good reviews on their own. I usually do my shopping with bigger online companies, but decided to take a chance to shop from small website. I used ResellerRatings to review the site. The small company had over 700 ratings mostly 5. But I had such a bad experience I couldn’t believe the ratings. Only looking more closely, the reviews were posted daily for the last couple of months. I began to suspect the posts are inaccurate because I also learned the company is actually one little store. There were so many good reviews you couldn’t see the more accurate bad reviews. I’ve also find the same type of posts on other review websites. Hundreds of good reviews on multiple sites for one store. However, the bad reviews are all similar to the experience I had. Are there actually companies now that sell ways to fake reviews on reputable sites like Resellerratings? I also don’t believe that one little store can write all those good reviews on their own.

]]> By: Jon Bach http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-13590 Jon Bach Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:37:02 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-13590 Lawson, Matt -- You guys realize that THIS website is not ResellerRatings, right? I just wrote about them. Lawson, Matt — You guys realize that THIS website is not ResellerRatings, right? I just wrote about them.

]]> By: Matt Dawson http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-13589 Matt Dawson Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:56:23 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-13589 This Web site is terrible. The only way to have good FB on this site is to promote it. They essentially hold your business hostage until you work for them by telling your customers to leave feedback there. Take a look at Best Buy for example they don't participate and have a 2 FB. We all know that is BS. If only 2 out of 10 transactions went well they would have been out of business the 1st day they opened. This Web site is terrible. The only way to have good FB on this site is to promote it. They essentially hold your business hostage until you work for them by telling your customers to leave feedback there. Take a look at Best Buy for example they don’t participate and have a 2 FB. We all know that is BS. If only 2 out of 10 transactions went well they would have been out of business the 1st day they opened.

]]> By: Lawson http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-9925 Lawson Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:41:38 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-9925 My webstore is a little over a year old and I am starting to get some reviews on Reseller Ratings. So far so good but what happens when someone makes a complaint about my store and I am not a paying member? Do you offer a free membership that can address complains or do I have to pay to play??? My webstore is a little over a year old and I am starting to get some reviews on Reseller Ratings. So far so good but what happens when someone makes a complaint about my store and I am not a paying member? Do you offer a free membership that can address complains or do I have to pay to play???

]]> By: Jim http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/03/16/how-accurate-is-resellerratingscom/comment-page-1/#comment-9746 Jim Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:50 +0000 http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/?p=317#comment-9746 Nice post. www.pugetsystems.com is amazing. Nice post. http://www.pugetsystems.com is amazing.

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