ResellerRatings
| ResellerRatings | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Web address | www.resellerratings.com |
| Commercial? | Yes |
Type of site | e-Commerce review site |
| Owner | Answers |
| Launched | 2001 |
Alexa rank |
 9,379 (April 2014)[1] |
| Current status | Active |
ResellerRatings is a web-based business that solicits consumer reviews of online retailers. As of 29 June 2013, the site claimed 1,940,596 user-submitted reviews for 60,229 stores.[2] Consumers use ResellerRatings to check the reputation of online stores before buying.[3]
The site also lists deals, special offers, and other sales currently being offered at listed stores, as well as a forum for discussion.
ResellerRatings operates a freemium business model. Merchants can participate to receive certain features for free, and can subscribe for additional features.[4] According to Google, the stars ratings within AdWords ads, powered by ResellerRatings (among other ratings sites), lift ad click-through rates by 17%.[5]
"Shopping Review" websites like ResellerRatings or Angie's List are immune from civil liability prosecution for what its reviewers write due to the Internet Communications Decency Act protections which shields websites from what their users do or say.[6][7]
History
ResellerRatings was launched in 1996 as a subsection of SysOpt.com (sysopt.com/resellerratings, at that time). Its founder, Scott Wainner, 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.[8]
Today, the site receives about 1.5 million unique users per month [9] and about 4,000 new reviews are submitted to the site daily.[10] 2,000 online retailers such as Barnes and Noble, HomeDepot.com, Newegg.com, Tigerdirect, Wayfair, L'Occitane, Vitacost, and 1800PetMeds, are Merchant Members at ResellerRatings, and can monitor customer reviews to resolve issues.[11]
On 6/25/2010, Microsoft's Bing.com chose ResellerRatings as its first provider of merchant reviews.[12]
In August 2012, ResellerRatings was acquired by Answers.[13]
References
- ↑ "Resellerratings.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ↑ "Main page". ResellerRatings. 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ↑ "How to Shop Efficiently Online".
- ↑ Google Blog http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/04/5-simple-ways-to-improve-your-adwords.html
- ↑ Communications Decency Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act
- ↑ http://www.natlawreview.com/article/california-supreme-court-denies-review-ruling-allowing-restaurant-owner-s-false-adve
- ↑ Peter Yang (2002-02-21). "Reseller Ratings.com shut down". Retrieved 2007-03-06.
- ↑ Quantcast Traffic http://www.quantcast.com/resellerratings.com
- ↑ Homepage Stats http://www.resellerratings.com
- ↑ Participating Members http://www.resellerratings.com/merchant-members
- ↑ Leena Rao (2010-06-25). "Bing Taps ResellerRatings For Merchant Reviews". Retrieved 2010-06-25.
- ↑ Techcrunch: Answers Acquires Online Review Service ResellerRatings http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/answers-acquires-online-merchant-review-service-resellerratings/