ResellerRatings

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**ResellerRatings**

ResellerRatings home page (March 6, 2007)
URL	www.resellerratings.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	e-Commerce review site
Registration	Optional, Free
Owner	All Enthusiast, Inc.
Created by
Launched	2001
Current status	Active

ResellerRatings is an web service that monitors and rates online retailers by using user submitted reviews and ratings. Rated stores are given two scores - a lifetime score and a six-months score. As of March 6, 2007, the site had 223,489 user submitted reviews for 11,854 stores^[1].

The site also lists deals, special offers, and other sales currently being offered at listed stores, as well as a forum for discussion.

1 History
2 Issues
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

ResellerRatings was launched in 1996 as a subsection of SysOpt.com (sysopt.com/resellerratings, at that time). Its founder sold SysOpt.com and ResellerRatings.com to EarthWeb in 1999 for several million dollars. EarthWeb went defunct and sold all of its properties (except Dice.com) to Internet.com in 2001. Then in 2002, Internet.com shut ResellerRatings.com down, and the founder of ResellerRatings.com bought the site back from Internet.com for cheap.^[2].

[edit] Issues

One of the biggest problems that the site has is business leaving fake reviews in order to inflate their rating. ResellerRatings attempts to discover promotional reviews and posts a notice on the page if any business is caught^[3].

[edit] See also

Better Business Bureau

[edit] References

^ Main page. ResellerRatings (2007-03-06). Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
^ Peter Yang (2002-02-21). Reseller Ratings.com shut down. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
^ ResellerRatings. Seattle Wireless (2006-01-06). Retrieved on March 6, 2007.