After Writing 45 Reviews, Comparedby Declined All My Reviews!!!Very Disappointed

Philippines
February 11, 2009 3:11am CST
This was the message that I received from compared by: [i][/i] Dear user, We have completed an editorial review of the content that you submitted. Unfortunately, a majority of the reviews you wrote are not acceptable and do not meet our editorial policy. The editorial policy is fairly simple. We will only pay for reviews which are well written, concise and helpful to our site visitors, and written in English of course. Please find further elaboration below. Well Written: We are not looking for Shakespearean prose here. But the review must be in clearly understandable English that follows basic grammar, sentence structure and spelling rules. Bullet point format is fine, but rambling, misspelled, barely comprehensible trash is not. Concise: Repeating the fact that you think the cell phone looks good 6 times just to get to the 1,000 character mark is likely to get your review rejected. We don’t mind you relating a problem you had with the product. Nor do we mind hearing about a great experience with a product. But please don’t ramble on about your brother’s wife’s niece who bought the product from a friend’s cousin. Helpful: This one is a little more difficult to describe. Essentially, stick to reviewing the usefulness of a product. A list of the product specifications or the album tracks and one line of original text is not helpful, especially when that one line is written in poor English. Try to offer the reader some useful advice on the product. Remember that you are trying to help them decide whether or not they are going to buy this product. We are asking if you would be willing to edit the existing reviews that you have submitted to ComparedBy.Us to correct these types of errors. If you are willing to make these edits we will review the content a second time and if they are acceptable we will approve payment for them. In order for you to edit these reviews we have promoted you to Beginner status. Please be aware that we will not be approving your outstanding payment request at this time. If you are not willing to rewrite these reviews let us know and we will remove them from our site. If you are willing to edit your existing reviews and you pass a second editorial review we will happily pay you for acceptable content. If you edit your content and fail a second editorial review we will ask you to leave the ComparedBy.Us community. Thank you for your interest in contributing to ComparedBy.Us. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns that we can help you with. I was really disappointed with this message, after working so hard, this is the only message that I will get from them. They don't have any considerations. They have mentioned that I can edit the reviews so that they can pay me if I can write a better review. I opened the site and still expecting for a hope to receive a payment from them. But unfortunately, the site does not allow me to access the site. It appears an error. I do not know what they are trying to convey. Why are they doing this to many people. I am a beginner in the site and promise to pay on the 10th of February. I know many of you here also has negative experience with the site. I think we should learn from our mistakes. They are "SCAM".
2 responses
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
11 Feb 09
You please give up that site. I have heard from my friend about the above practice and they are having formal email to send to the reviewers i think. By reviewing 45 sites, you might gathered many things to boost up your knowledge surely.Try to have think, that is the payment you received from and stay away from such sites.Do not get upset for this type of things and you might have entered the 'online earning sites(All Sites)' with thought of "They May Pay"..If you are able to get payment from them its a matter of pleasure. If not, nothing to worry, as you are aware of it.
@sunsham68 (1376)
• India
11 Feb 09
kumar, i really like your way of dealing with it! that is something really good to learn!
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
11 Feb 09
My mother had a saying: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." I know how discouraging it is to receive rejection slips, however, I'm sure that you can rewrite these reviews if you wish. First of all, though, look at recent reviews and notice how they meet up to the criteria that CBU have stated. Then look at your reviews and see if you can restructure them or change the language/phrasing so that they would be as helpful as possible to others thinking of buying the same thing. CBU are very keen that their site should meet certain standards and they have given you a chance to try again. Writing reviews is not, let's face it, everyone's cup of tea and it may not be yours but it is always possible to learn, if you are willing to do so. Please don't call a site a 'scam' merely because you failed to meet their standards this time!