Posted on behalf of William Closure.
In going through old mail, came across this followup, thought you might
appreciate the comment in item #2:
1) It's Back From The Dead!
"Now you see it; now you don't:" ResellerRatings was there, then was
replaced with a page that said "ResellerRatings.com is being
discontinued. That page then redirected you to an unrelated page on
Earthweb.
But, mysteriously, ResellerRatings is back at its original URL---
http://www.resellerratings.com/ --- and appears to be working normally.
I have no idea what the shutdown/sale/restart was all about (my guess is
that they were unprepared for the howls of protest...), but the service
is back, and that's what's important.
Check it out, not only to see how others have fared with various
vendors, but to add your own ratings, too.
2) Other Ways To Rate Vendors
When it appeared that ResellerRatings was dead, some other sites stepped
up to serve as alternatives. Plus, several readers found other
less-well-
known sites that were already in business offering the same kind of
real-
world/real-people, user-to-user ratings:
Hi Fred, I was saddened by the passing of the
ResellerRatings.com website, I have used it for sometime...The
people at http://www.techimo.com whose co-founder, Scott
Wainner also founded ResellerRatings.com, have announced that
they will launch their own site for hardware/software retailer
evaluations. The new website will be named
http://pricerate.com/ . Regards, Michael Vine
The fate of resellerratings has been mentioned in one of the
other mailing lists I subscribe to, PCBUILD (
http://freepctech.com ). The options mentioned one of the
threads are http://www.bizrate.com , or
http://www.pricegrabber.com [see the "merchant ratings" tab]--
- Gavin Sharp
See http://www.anandtech.com/ratings/index.html -- George Sine
Fred, The loss of this site will truly be a loss to the
buying public As an alternative, if the most current
information is not needed, you can also use the "wayback
machine" http://www.archive.org/ . -- Edward
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