SiteAdvisor needs to go down!

[simpleone]

For those who have sent a complaint to SiteAdvisor regarding Dean, has anyone received a response back yet? If not, maybe everyone on this forum should give SiteAdvisor a bad rating as they dont seem to care about protecting publishers from false information made by reviewers. Its sad that just 1 reviewer can give a website a red X.

If a publisher has thousands of customers each month, and one hostile reviewer (who hasnt even purchased the publishers product btw) gives a bad review, how can this make a product red?

First, if they are not a customer of the product, they shouldnt be allowed to put a review.

Second, it's impossible to make every single customer happy, especially when you have thousands of customers monthly. Just one unhappy customer or non-customer, and your site gets the red X. This isn't fair and not accurate for rating a site.

Third, once you get the red ex, hostile reviewers go and check all other sites you're linked to and give them a red X along with giving the company or person a bad reputation as well. These guys havent even purchased the product. Why is this allowed?

Fourth, Its one BIG RED X Virus, because any succesful company will eventually get a hostile reviewer with a score 9/9 and rate it red for whatever reason it may be. Or a competing merchant can hire someone to do this.

Overall SiteAdvisor is going to cash in big on this and leave alot of websites in the dust on many false reviews.

People who use SiteAdvisor like the feeling of "Protection", and SiteAdvisor will allow this spam to go on for awhile until almost everysite gets reviewed.

If you check SiteAdvisor on Alexa, you'll see that alot of people are getting taken in by this.

I wander if Dean got paid on the side by a competing Affiliate Network or even SiteAdvisor to post these 33,000+ reviews? Looks very fishy.


If SiteAdvisor doesnt change, we have the power to take them down by posting a bad review about SiteAdvisor along with their past $150 million lawsuit.

I also wander if its even possible to get SiteAdvisor to turn red...it's probably rigged so that it always stays green no matter what.

Only one way to find out guys!

[simpleone]

For posts created by Dean, where it asks:
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Did you find this post useful?
Yes No
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Select "No".

Maybe if enough of us select no on his reviews they will lower his score?

[Lev]

I have done that, but I don't think it helps much.

This "Dean" character needs to be exposed!

[pixels]

I have done that, but I don't think it helps much.

This "Dean" character needs to be exposed!

Actually it looks like it worked, "Dean" had his account deleted...

http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/search.php?searchid=122491

Unfortunately clickbank remains in the red...

[simpleone]

Deans posts are still up and red flagging thousands of sites.

Its amazing how big of an impact his post can make.

I found a site that actually has many negative reviews, but because its only posted by reviewers with 1/9 score, its still green!

Check it out: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/spywarebot.com/summary/
Thats 44 negative, and 1 good....but this site still gets the green.

How can this site be green when just 1 post made by dean takes out a site...very unfair. And worst of it is he wasnt even a customer to almost all of these sites he put a negative review on. How can a real review be made of not a customer? Most of his comments are not true.

This guy gets thrills out of the power he has of ruining reputation of good sites and people.

Another big spammer who is deans hero is ColoradoChris who has 6/9 score doing the same thing.

I've sent a complaint as well. After sending it they said it will take up to 4 business days for a response.

Did anyone who sent a complaint get a response back from SiteAdvisor yet?

[pixels]

WTF.. his account WAS removed a few hours ago.. now it's back?? .. wtf is macafee doing over there

[darkeralice]

If clickbank say they removed ezmovies.net
how come their buy-page still works??

[basnl]

If clickbank say they removed ezmovies.net
how come their buy-page still works??
I've never read anything about EzMovies being removed, but it looks like they're part of Platinumpartner: movies01.movies01.hop.clickbank.net. They have a huge collection of similar download sites, using ClickBank as a payment processor for almost all of their sites. That's probably a nice revenue stream for CB, so I doubt they're going to ban those download sites any time soon...

Btw, how the $#$ did my awesome custom made payment-options picture end up on their crappy site! :shoot:
ezmovies.net/paymentoptions.gif
http://ezmovies.net/paymentoptions.gif
web.archive.org/web/20070113032612/mypdfcreator.com/images/paymentoptions.gif

[simpleone]

Still no reply from SiteAdvisor...looks like they dont have a support team even when using their complaint form.

[RazorElite]

I remember ezmovies.net being removed. I'm wondering why the hell they're back.

[simpleone]

Clickbank and merchants that are red flagged by SiteAdvisor are in a Catch22: Negative spam reviewers are out to take down Clickbank. No matter what CB does, these reviewers will attack it for whatever reason:

1) High commissions = "bad product"
2) Any product that goes through CB is a "bad product"


3) If CB gets rid of their worst rated publishers...(aka P2P, Survey Sites, Money Making Sites), I doubt it will change a thing since these reviewers have Clickbank branded as bad and will defend SiteAdvisors rating system to the end and take advantage of their 9/9 score power.

4) Reviewers are anonymous = spam reviews (9/9 score)...just one of these reviewers and you're site gets the red.

Once you're branded as Red, its very tough to get out no matter how much you improve your product or service because once the anonymous reviewer has made up his mind that its a bad site, he will come back to knock it down because his ego is involved. It's not about whether the site is now a good site or not, it about the reviewer "winning".

The alternative is to create a new site under new company name and make a great product, oh but wait, eventually these reviewers will find this out and red flag you without even looking at your product. They give the merchant no chance.

If SiteAdvisor doesnt change, what to do? Any thoughts?

[Lev]

Clickbank and merchants that are red flagged by SiteAdvisor are in a Catch22: Negative spam reviewers are out to take down Clickbank. No matter what CB does, these reviewers will attack it for whatever reason:

1) High commissions = "bad product"
2) Any product that goes through CB is a "bad product"


3) If CB gets rid of their worst rated publishers...(aka P2P, Survey Sites, Money Making Sites), I doubt it will change a thing since these reviewers have Clickbank branded as bad and will defend SiteAdvisors rating system to the end and take advantage of their 9/9 score power.

4) Reviewers are anonymous = spam reviews (9/9 score)...just one of these reviewers and you're site gets the red.

Once you're branded as Red, its very tough to get out no matter how much you improve your product or service because once the anonymous reviewer has made up his mind that its a bad site, he will come back to knock it down because his ego is involved. It's not about whether the site is now a good site or not, it about the reviewer "winning".

The alternative is to create a new site under new company name and make a great product, oh but wait, eventually these reviewers will find this out and red flag you without even looking at your product. They give the merchant no chance.

If SiteAdvisor doesnt change, what to do? Any thoughts?


Very good post!