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Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

viewpoints sucks — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:46:12 -0000

Hi Rachel,

So how long have you been working for viewpoints for?

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Rachel — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:29:13 -0000

Now, there's another really interesting consumer reviews website called www.viewpoints.com. Unlike other consumer review sites, I think viewpoints.com really gives a great sense of community. Viewpoints has developed this really interesting hybrid of a reviews website and a community site like Facebook or MySpace.

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

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Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Peso Paul — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:57:04 -0000

It's easy to see that Yelp reviews aren't biased, thanks to the transparency of each reviewer via their profile page.

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Andrew Constantin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:15:39 -0000

True, I am a core investor in Bazaarvoice. My wife and partner is also an Advisor to the company.

That doesn't change anything from my previous post. All those facts are true.

I would think any solid reporter would mention PR's largest competitor.

Bazaarvoice was the main focus of a WSJ article but the reporter still mentioned PR's as a competitor.

This is common sense not sour grapes.

Best of luck to you and PR team.

Sincerely,

Andrew Constantin

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Jay Shaffer — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:17:11 -0000

As a point of fact for the readers out there, Mr. Andrew Constantin is a core investor in Bazzarvoice, which would help explain why he was amazed that they were left out of an article about Buzzillions.com.

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Jay Shaffer — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:56:34 -0000

Thanks for the shout-out! And here is a quick update, we now have more than 500,000 reviews on over 130,000 products - adding more than 1,000 new products with reviews everyday. Enjoy the new way of shopping everyone!

Jay Shaffer
VP Marketing, PowerReviews.com

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Andrew Constantin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:50:02 -0000

I'm amazed that you left out PR's largest competitor: Bazaarvoice. Not only was Bazaarvoice first to market but their clients pay on a subscription basis. Recently, they announced they were cash flow positive and their clients include industry titans like: Walmart, Home Depot, Sears, Dell and QVC.

Re: Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Maggy Young — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:21:29 -0000

All very nice, but with the possible exception of cars, maybe we are making simple things complicated. Is making most(80/20)purchases this complicated? People ask their friends' advice where necessary, do we want to read a book (or page)? Maybe Ebay gets it more right with simple sellers' rating - keeping simple things simple?