Reunion.com

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**Reunion.com**
URL	http://www.reunion.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Social Network
Registration	Required
Owner	Privately Held
Created by	S. McDougall

Reunion.com is a social networking website founded in 2002 by Jeffrey Tinsley after meeting his wife at their high school reunion. The company began with the acquisition of highschoolalumni.com and PlanetAlumni.com^[1]. The website helps members find and stay in touch with friends, relatives and lost loves.

Reunion.com has more than 25 million active members^[2], mostly in the United States and Canada.

1 Memberships
2 Privacy
3 Ownership
4 Business model
5 Questionable Business Practices
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Memberships

Reunion.com has 2 types of members: Free Members and Premium Members. Free Members can,

create personal profiles for others to find/view
post photos to their own photo albums
search for people that are also members
view photos of other members
send announcements to other members and non-members
add themselves to their high school listings
store information in their own address books
write and read message board postings
read and reply to messages from other members.

Premium Members, who pay an annual fee, can also do the following:

see who has searched for them (a reverse search feature)
see who has visited their profile
send new messages to any member
use website tools for planning reunions and events
read more detailed profiles about other members

[edit] Privacy

Reunion.com members use real names, not screen names. Member privacy is protected through a blind relay e-mail system, so e-mail addresses and contact information are never revealed unless self-disclosed by members one-on-one.

[edit] Ownership

Reunion.com, Inc. is privately held.

[edit] Business model

The company’s business model is based on user generated content and revenue from paid subscriptions and advertising sales.

[edit] Questionable Business Practices

Complaints from customers that were not resolved in a satisfactory manner caused the Los Angeles Better Business Bureau to rate Reunion.com 'F', which is the lowest rating of the eleven they use to rate businesses. This report is available on line here.

Many other complaints are registered at the rip 0ff report site here.