July Pay Per Post Promotion Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Pay Per Post Promotion is back again for the month of July!
This month members will be paid based on each review per category. A maximum total of 25 reviews can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each review after 25 will not qualify for the promotion or be paid.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion.
Learn more by visiting the Pay Per Post Promotion Official Rules page.
Back To School Write-off Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
There's no time like the present to start preparing for Back to School!
Beginning June 12, 2009 through July 31, 2009, Epinions.com will host a Back to School Write-Off Sweepstakes. Write an essay filled with ideas of what you, your children, or grandchildren will need to prepare for this school year here. Your essay must contain at least 100 words and have an overall rating of "Very Helpful" or "Helpful" or "Somewhat Helpful". Express reviews are not eligible. A maximum total of (1) essay can be submitted per participant to qualify. In your essay, you can link to product reviews you have written on Epinions that are relevant to Back to School.
To complete the submission of your essay as a Write-Off entry, you must register the essay before the end of the submission period. Epinions.com will select 20 winners that will receive $25 in eRoyalties.
June Hot 500 Products Sweepstakes! Posted: Friday, May 29, 2009
Epinions.com needs more review coverage! For the month of June, write a review on any of the products found on the Top 500 Products page and have the chance to win the following:
* The first place winner will receive $300 in eRoyalties
* The second place winner will receive $200 in eRoyalties
* The third place winner will receive $100 in eRoyalties
* Seventeen additional winners will receive $25 in eRoyalties
Father's Day Gifts Write-Off Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009
This is your chance to share your gift ideas for Father's Day!
Beginning May 15, 2009 through June 15, 2009, Epinions.com will host a Father's Day Write-off Sweepstakes. Write an essay about your ideas for great Father's day gift ideas here. Your essay must contain at least 100 words and have an overall rating of "Very Helpful" or "Helpful" or "Somewhat Helpful". Express reviews are not eligible. A maximum total of (1) essay can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each essay on this topic after that will not qualify for the sweepstakes. In your essay, you can link to product reviews you have written on Epinions that are relevant to great Father's Day gift ideas.
To complete the submission of your essay as a Write-Off entry, you must register the essay before the end of the submission period. Epinions.com will select 20 winners that will receive $25 in eRoyalties.
Scheduled Read Only Mode Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Maintenance on Epinions.com is scheduled for Tuesday, May 19, 2009 from 3:00PM PST to 6:00PM PST. At this time members will only be able to read content on the Epinions.com site.
We thank you for your patience.
The Epinions.com Team
Graduation Gift Ideas Write-Off Posted: Friday, May 8, 2009
As new grads enter new phases of their lives, they'll have many needs. Now is the best time to host a write-off centered around Graduation Gift Ideas.
Beginning May 8, 2009 through June 12, 2009, Epinions.com will host a Graduation Gift Ideas Write-Off Sweepstakes. Write an essay about your ideas for Graduation gift ideas here. Your essay must contain at least 100 words and have an overall rating of "Very Helpful" or "Helpful" or "Somewhat Helpful". Express reviews are not eligible. A maximum total of (1) essay can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each essay on this topic after that will not qualify for the sweepstakes. In your essay, you can link to product reviews you have written on Epinions that are relevant to Graduation gift ideas.
To complete the submission of your essay as a Write-Off entry, you must register the essay before the end of the submission period. Epinions.com will select 10 winners that will receive $25 in eRoyalties.
May Pay Per Post Promotion Posted: Friday, May 1, 2009
The Pay Per Post Promotion is Back for the month of May!
This month members will be paid based on each review per category. A maximum total of 25 reviews can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each review after 25 will not qualify for the promotion or be paid.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion.
Mother's Day Gifts Write-Off Posted: Thursday, April 16, 2009
With Mother's Day just around the corner, we thought it would be great to host a write-off focused on great ideas for Mother's Day Gifts.
Beginning April 16, 2009 through May 9, 2009, Epinions.com will host a Mother's Day Write-off Sweepstakes. Write an essay about your ideas for great Mother's day gift ideas here.
Your essay must contain at least 100 words and have an overall rating of "Very Helpful" or "Helpful" or "Somewhat Helpful". Express reviews are not eligible.
A maximum total of (1) essay can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each essay on this topic after that will not qualify for the sweepstakes. In your essay, you can link to product reviews you have written on Epinions that are relevant to great Mother's Day gift ideas.
To complete the submission of your essay as a Write-Off entry, you
must register
the essay before the end of the submission period.
Epinions.com will select 20 winners that will receive $25 in eRoyalties.
New Category Lead Announcement! Posted: Monday, April 6, 2009
We are excited to announce that we have new Category Leads in Online Stores & Services and Books.
MeaganDowney has joined Joubert as a Lead in Online Stores & Services. Dramastef has joined the ranks of Panguitch and Pestyside in Books.
Let's all give them a warm welcome!
We would also like to thank Arianej for all her hard work and dedication to the Books category during her tenure.
The Epinions Team
April 2009 Write for the Good of a Charity Promotion Posted: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
You voted and now the results are in!
Submit a review to Epinions.com beginning April 1, 2009 (12:01 AM Pacific time) through April 30, 2009 (11:59 Pacific time). Epinions.com will donate $1.00 (One US Dollar) for each qualifying review written and submitted. At the end of the Promotion, Epinions.com will donate an evenly distributed dollar amount to these three charities:
We also want to give a big thanks to Psychovant and Pattytherre for their tenure as Category Leads in Movies and Online Stores & Services. Job well done!
A big congratulations to all new Advisors & Top Reviewers as well!
The Epinions Team
Charity Voting Results are in! Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009
For the month of April the Community has selected the following charities to write for:
Thank you all for voting and participating in the write-off!
Christal & The Epinions Team
Charity Voting Begins! Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Epinions.com is allowing our community to vote for the charities they wish to write for in the April Promotion. The poll is open until Wednesday, March 25th. Once the poll closes, we will select the top three charities that the community will write for in the April Promotion. An essay about each charity listed below can be found here.
Please note that we ask that you select a maximum of three charities when voting.
Let the voting begin!
February 2009 Lean & Mean Review Challenge Winners! Posted: Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The first place winner is susidee34 who will receive $300 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
The second place winner is mql1208 who will receive $200 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
The third place winner is talyseon who will receive $100 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
The Community Block and Ratings Recalculation Posted: Monday, March 9, 2009 Community block
The community block feature has been updated. Our apologies for not communicating this before the changes were made. Given the lack of documentation on the feature we were unaware as to how many in the community knew about it or used it.
Recent activities on the site had brought this feature to our attention. After doing some research we felt like this feature was not creating the best user experience, especially for new members. In our continued effort to improve the community experience and transparency of the community we decided to make some changes. In early February the algorithm for the community block was modified, but not disabled. This change was followed up by a recalculation of old blocks based on our modification. The recalculation occurred last week.
You, the community, should continue to rate, trust, and block based on our guidelines. If a member is abusive they should be reported to community care.
Ratings Recalculation
We recently determined that advisor ratings were not being given their correct weight in some categories. We've started to roll out this change and recalculation today, Monday March 9th. It will continue to run throughout the week. Please hold off on reporting any "strangeness" with old reviews and ratings until next week.
Yoel & The Epinions Team
Epinions Charity Write-off 2009 Posted: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Our plans for the April Promotion begin with an Epinions Charity Write-off. We are letting our community help select the charities that we will donate to for the month of April.
March Pay Per Post Promotion Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009
The Pay Per Post Promotion is Back!
For the month of March, participants will be paid based on each review per category. A maximum total of 25 reviews can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each review after 25 will not qualify for the promotion or be paid.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion.
Time: Information session from 2:00:-4:30 PM ; cocktails from 4:30-6:00 PM
Cost: Free! Epinions members may also bring a guest.
Food: Hot hors d'oeuvres with beverages, followed by cocktails.
RSVP: Send an email to Christal if you plan on attending. More detailed information will follow in the weeks to come and the agenda is subject to change.
February 2009 Lean & Mean Review Challenge! Posted: Sunday, February 1, 2009
(Thanks to sleeper54 for allowing us to borrow the name of his write-off.)
Epinions.com challenges you! Write a Very Helpful or Helpful review in 500 words or less and win. The challenge is simple! Continue to write product reviews as you do, but keep it short and to the point. Just the essentials! We want these reviews to be lean, but at the same time informative.
Here is what you can win.
The first place winner will receive $300 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
The second place winner will receive $200 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
The third place winner will receive $100 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
Thirty-two additional winners will receive $25 in eRoyalties.
Updates and Bug Fixes for February 3, 2009 Posted: Friday, January 30, 2009
In this release we've focused our efforts on new users, removing unnecessary and unused features.
We will start rolling this code out on Friday, January 30th and site-wide by Tuesday, February 3rd.
To promote a more open community we are removing the ability to hide usernames when rating content. Old ratings with hidden usernames will stay hidden. The "Opinion Rating Anonymity" setting will cease to function immediately even though present in the site settings page until February 3rd.
To help new users feel more welcome we are removing the "blocked content" text from their profile pages and experimenting with publishing content before it is rated.
Enhancements/Improvements/Fixes
Remove the ability to hide username when rating a review.
Reviews are published and visible to logged-out users before being rated.
Replaced product RSS feeds from product pages with category level feeds.
Removed the "content blocked" message from profile pages.
Resolved the over $600 redemption problem.
New Focus for Epinions Posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 New Focus for Epinions
We have exciting news to share! In 2009, Shopping.com, our parent company, will direct its efforts to help shoppers answer the question, "What to buy?" . This new organizational focus aligns perfectly with the Epinions mission of empowering you, the community, to help shoppers with their buying decisions.
While Shopping.com has always valued the Epinions community and content, beginning this year it will make online community a cornerstone of its business. Shopping.com is committed to building on what Epinions has been successful at for almost 10 years.
New Epinions Staff
To meet our 2009 goals, the team has grown in size. Joining the team are two product managers, Eugene
Mizin(emizin05) and Yu Chen(chenyu), an engineering manager, Jon Handler (epijonhandler), and a Progam Manager, Anthony Perry(aperryoboe). We're in the process of looking to hire more engineers in the coming weeks.
Starting something new
The current Epinions technology platform - legacy code base and infrastructure - does not meet the needs of the community and severely limits our ability to deliver new features and functionality. We are now embarking on the road to re-think and re-build the platform.
This means we'll put little effort into fixing issues with the current Epinions platform. That said, we are
committed to keeping the business running, paying out income share, and investigating critical bugs.
We want to bring back the fun to the community while delivering more opportunities for you to help shoppers. We plan to open our catalog to your input, whether it be ease in adding products, tagging reviews, or flagging mis-categorized products or missing/incorrect images. Our new search engine will do a better job surfacing your content. We will also be expanding globally - launching a simple review writing functionality on the Shopping.com International sites in the next months.
Your feedback is important
Your feedback is important to us. We will create a "feedback" message board forum focused on sharing your ideas in the coming days, it will be posted here. We will continue to have meet &
greet meetings with a focus on getting your feedback. We also plan to bring community members into the office for focus groups/working sessions.
Yoel & the Epinions Team
Epinions Bay Area Meet-Up Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009
Dear Epinions Members,
This is a little short notice, but we have decided to have a small meet-up in the Bay Area. This event will be structured more like a focus group.
We plan on revealing our plans for the future of the site. We also would love to collect your feedback and have you share your ideas as well.
The event will be held on Saturday, January 10th from 1-4pm at the following location:
Steelhead Brewery
333 California Drive
Burlingame, CA 94010
Cost: Free! Epinions members may also bring a guest to this event!
Food: Banquet style lunch with cocktails, beer, wine, and soda bar.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP with
Christal.
Christal & the Epinions Team
Epinions Pay Per Post Promotion Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2008
We're trying something a little different this month.
For the month of January, participants will be paid based on each review per category. A maximum total of 25 reviews can be submitted per participant to qualify. Each review after 25 will not qualify for the promotion or be paid.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion.
Optimizing Your Reviews for Traffic Posted: Monday, December 8, 2008
With the holidays upon us, shoppers are going to rely on sites like Epinions to research and buy gifts for their friends and family. This is a great opportunity for us to provide some tips on optimizing your reviews so they can be easily found.
How do visitors get to your reviews?
Most web visitors get to your reviews in one of two ways:
1. via Epinions product pages
2. from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN
Optimizing for relevance and click through
There are a lot of similarities between how Epinions and external search engines use and present information in your review to readers. We all utilize your review title and summary information (bottom line, pros, cons) in the search results pages. This doesn’t mean that the rest of your review body isn’t important. But the title and summary elements provide the best way for users to quickly scan a review before deciding to read further. Fortunately, these elements of your review are entirely within your control to optimize for relevance and click through.
Tips
* Make sure your title is informative and unique, and refrain from adding HTML tags like bold or italics in your review title.
* Provide descriptive review summaries in the bottom line, pros, and cons section.
* Include keywords commonly associated with the product that you’re reviewing. Put yourself in the shoes of shoppers and think about the keywords they would type when researching products. For example, if you’re reviewing a plasma TV, you might want to mention whether the TV is good for movies, gaming or other common factors associated with plasma TVs
* Users make quick decisions on whether to read your review based on the title and summary information. Make sure that they’re both intriguing and informative to entice readers to click through and read more.
These Tips are brought to you by our very own SEO Specialist-
Johnny Jiang
Epinions December 5 for 5 Promotion Posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
Let's continue writing!
For the month of December, write 5 reviews and earn $5. Your reviews must be submitted on a product in any of these (5) categories: Books, Games, Movies, Music, and Wellness & Beauty in Epinions.com's database, excluding all other categories, editorials, buying guides, comments about Epinions.com, member advice, and the writer's corner. Reviews in the Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Jewelry, Shoes, and Sunglasses categories within the Wellness & Beauty category are ineligible for payment under this Promotion.
Maximum payout is $25 per participant during the promotion period.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion.
Thank You from Epinions! Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Dear Epinions Community,
We wanted to take this time and thank each and every one of you for your continued support.
You may notice a little something special in your Eroyalties account today. We realize that times are tough and wanted to distribute a true holiday bonus this year.
Without our community, the site would not be what it is today. We cannot thank you enough. Let's enjoy the Holiday Season ahead of us!
The Epinions Team
The Epi- Lounge is Live! Posted: Friday, November 7, 2008
Members mentioned that they wanted to have more fun on the site and because of this we have created the Epi Lounge.
Come chat about things other than Epinions.
Check it out here!
Christal & The Epinions Team
New Category Lead in Electronics! Posted: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
We are pleased to announce that we have a new Category Lead in Electronics.
Wsmunch has joined both Howard_creech and Dkozin as a Lead in Electronics. Let's all give him a warm welcome.
We also want to give a big thanks to Symbiosis for his tenure of four years as a Category Lead in Electronics. Job well done!
Epinions November 5 for 5 Promotion Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008
Let's get back to writing!
For the month of November, write 5 reviews and earn $5.
Your reviews must be submitted on a product in any of these (5) categories: Computers and Software, Electronics, Home and Garden, Kids and Family, and Sports and Outdoors.
Maximum payout is $25 per participant during the promotion period.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion.
Updates and Bug Fixes for October 27, 2008 Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008
This will be our last release until 2009. Please note that dates are subject to change.
Enhancements/Improvements
Epinions homepage Most Helpful & Good and Bad now shows reviews from all categories.
Removed "write reviews" button from homepage Most Helpful module.
Updated the homepage navigation links.
Paste as plain text added as an option in the new editor (WYSIWYG).
Select All added as an option in the new editor (WYSIWYG).
Bugs Fixed
Changed messaging in alert emails when product name is unavailable.
HTML tags visible in Just-In and review list pages.
Sort reviews by category (except SAP'd products).
Removed extra paragraph tags in the Pros, Cons, Bottom Line.
New Category Lead Update! Posted: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
We are very excited to welcome our new Category Leads DrFaustus, Pestyside, and Gr8ful!
DrFaustus will join Lambchops as a Category Lead in Music. We want to thank Bob_tomato for all of his hard work during his time as a Category Lead in Music.
Pestyside will join both Panguitch and Arianej to lead the Books Category.
Pearannoyed did a wonderful job during her tenure as Category Lead for Books and we thank her.
Lastly, Gr8ful will join OpalMan in leading the Computer Hardware, Business & Technology and Software Categories. Kudos to Nc10 for all of his time and hard work as a Category Lead in all of those categories.
Again, Congratulations!
The Epinions Team
Meet us in Miami Posted: Monday, October 6, 2008
We are less than two weeks away from the last Meet & Greet of 2008. This is your opportunity to learn more about Epinions and to interact directly with members of the Epinions staff. If you haven't sent in your RSVP, this is your chance to do so.
Updates and Bug Fixes for October 6, 2008 Posted: Friday, October 3, 2008
The big news with this release is the ability to toggle the new review editor (WYSIWYG) on/off. We've also included a bunch of fixes to the editor as well as some other site features. Please note that dates are subject to change.
Enhancements/Improvements
We added a toggle on/off link for the (new editor) WYSIWYG
Created an index page for advice topics
Changed the text of content filter on profile pages
Changed wording on "greyed out" reviews
Removed link to site status details page
Bugs Fixed
The "an opinion on this is bogus" message in alert emails
Alerts sending user to main review page instead of comments, ratings, etc.
An error when editing the short bio in member profile pages
Broken links in category attribute pages
Incorrect "in/out" of stock status on merchant deals
A couple of HTML problems in the editor related to pasting from MS Word
Epinions Staff Update Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008
There have been a number of staffing changes here at Epinions that we want to make sure everyone is aware of. We have some departures to announce, and also some new folks to introduce. And even one former Epinions staffer to re-introduce!
Pehr Luedtke, who led our Epinions team for the past year and a half, left the company in pursuit of new adventures. We want to thank Pehr for all of his hard work and contributions to the site.
Alisa Weiner is the new General Manager of Epinions and also the Vice President of Online Comparison Shopping. Alisa oversees all business operations for the Shopping.com, DealTime and Epinions comparison shopping sites, including strategy, product development, internet and consumer marketing, and business analytics. Some of you may have met her at the Chicago Meet-and-Greet. Alisa joined Shopping.com in 2006 and has been an Epinions member since 2000. She is a very active online shopper and relies heavily on all of your reviews to help her make smart purchasing decisions.
We also want to let you know that Almar Reyes will be leaving the company at the end of the month. Most of you have had the pleasure to communicate and interact with Almar and know that he is very passionate about the community. We wish him well and thank him for all of his hard work and dedication to the site.
The community is our primary focus, so we are extremely happy to announce the return of Christal Calderon, who is re-joining the Epinions team as the Epinions Community Manager. As you all know Christal is an original Epinions employee from way back in 2000. She took a break for a year to venture off and do other things, but is happy to be back working with the Epinions Community.
Finally, we wanted to let you know that Richard Ault has joined Shopping.com as the new Director of Product. In this role, Richard will be responsible for the End-to-End user experience and all aspects of product strategy and product management across our Shopping.com, DealTime and Epinions web sites globally. Richard has worked at several other start-ups including CNET, Napster, and Technorati. He joins our company with a deep understanding of consumer reviews and user-generated content.
The Epinions Team
Epinions September Promotion Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008 Reviews are Good for the Sole Promotion
Tap into your inner good citizen this fall! Epinions is proud to announce a new promotion where your soles can help other souls!
Starting now, and through December, Epinions will donate $5.00 to Sole4Souls™ for every shoe review written on the site. There is no submission process necessary. Just write and your review will automatically count towards the cause!
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Learn more by visiting the Reviews are Good for the Sole Promotion Official Rules page.
Have fun, wear shoes, and write often!
The Epinions Team
Happy Birthday, Epinions! Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008
This week, 9 years ago, on 9/9/99, Epinions made their public appearance to the world. Thank you to all the community members who have contributed to the site over the years. Stay tuned as we begin the countdown to our 10 year anniversary next year.
Happy Birthday, Epinions!
Epinions Site Update Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
We've released some updates to the site and we'd like to call out the following features:
New Content Editor
There's a new WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor on the review and essay forms. We believe this will make it easier for everyone to submit
reviews. There are a few features and changes in this editor that we wanted to call out specifically:
Use the "HTML" button to edit the HTML tags of your review.
Use the "Word" button when pasting your review from Microsoft Word.
The spell checking functionality is now built directly into the editor, so don't forget to use the spell checker!
HTML will no longer be allowed in the title of your review from this point forward.
Message Boards
Additionally, we've added the poster's name to the last reply column of the message boards. This feature is only available at the topic level.
Epinions Community Care
Miami Meet & Greet 2008 Posted: Monday, August 18, 2008
The last Meet & Greet of 2008 is taking place in Miami, Florida!
As you've probably heard by now, we've made some changes to the Meet & Greet format that differs significantly from the ones prior to this year. An information session has been added before the actual "meeting and greeting" portion of the event to give members a more formal venue to voice their questions and concerns. This is your opportunity to learn more about Epinions and to interact directly with members of the Epinions staff. Here are the details:
Time: Information session from 3:30-5:00 PM ET; appetizers, cocktails, and dinner from 5:00-9:00 PM ET
Cost: Free! Epinions members may also bring a guest to cocktails and dinner.
Food: Hot hors d'oeuvres with cocktails, beer, wine, and soda bar, followed by dinner.
RSVP: Send an email to almar@shopping.com if you plan on attending. More detailed information will follow in the weeks to come and the agenda is subject to change.
Epinions Site Update - Additional Read-Only Time Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
We are expecting two more periods of Read-Only time this week. These will take place on Wednesday, August 13 between 3:00PM - 7:00PM PT, and Thursday, August 14 between 3:00PM - 7:00PM PT. During these times, members will be unable to submit reviews, rate, trust, leave comments, redeem, or edit profiles. Also, changes made in the last 24 hours prior to the Read-Only time may temporarily not reflect on the site. They will be restored later.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your continued patience.
Epinions Community Care
Epinions Site Update - Read-Only Time Posted: Tuesday, August 5, 2008
We are expecting two periods of Read-Only time, one this week and another next week. The first one will take place on Wednesday, August 6 between 3:00PM - 5:00PM PT. The second one is next week on Monday, August 11 between 3:00PM - 7:00PM PT. During these times, members will be unable to submit reviews, rate, trust, leave comments, redeem, or edit profiles. Also, changes made in the last 24 hours prior to the Read-Only time may temporarily not reflect on the site. They will be restored later.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Epinions Community Care
Epinions August 10 For 10 Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2008 Reviews are still hot in the August 10 for 10!
Summer is almost over but the August 10 for 10 is just starting! The same rules and criteria from last month still apply:
In addition to the $10 for every 10 reviews you write, you can earn an additional $10 for every 10 reviews that have a 'very helpful' rating. Write 10 'very helpful' reviews and earn $20! Write 50 'very helpful' reviews and earn $100! So for this month, earn up to $200 writing reviews for Epinions! There is no submission process necessary. Just write and you're automatically entered!
The August 10 for 10 is separate from the previous month. Your review count starts from zero.
By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules. Reviews must be 200 words or longer and rated at least 'Somewhat Helpful' by the community to count towards the promotion. Learn more by visiting the 10 for 10 Promotion Official Rules page.
Don't forget to rate!
Take some time to rate others' reviews as well. Rating is vitally important to keeping Epinions high in quality for our visitors. With all the writing going on, there are lots of new authors to read, greet, and welcome to the community. Check out the new reviews page to see what folks are writing about today!
Have fun and write (and rate!) often...
Almar and The Epinions Team
Epinions Site Update - Read-Only Time Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
We are expecting two periods of Read-Only time this week. This will take place on Wednesday, July 30 between 3:00PM - 5:00PM PT, and Thursday, July 31 between 3:00PM - 6:00PM PT. During this time, members will be unable to submit reviews, rate, trust, leave comments, redeem, or edit profiles. Also, changes made in the last 24 hours may temporarily not reflect on the site. They will be restored later. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Epinions Community Care
Epinions Site Update - Media Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008
On Wednesday, July 16th, we were scheduled to migrate the Media Categories to the Shopping.com catalog. We were unable to complete the transition and we were required to put the site into "read-only" mode yesterday evening. As a result, any changes or updates made to reviews yesterday between 3pm and 6pm PT may have been lost. The migration has been postponed and a new date for the migration has not been scheduled at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Epinions Community Care
Epinions Site Update Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
In an effort to communicate more about what is happening on the site, the Epinions Community Care team will begin sharing site updates right here in the Message Center. Here are the latest updates:
June Hits, MPA/MPA, TER
While Income Share for June has been paid out the visit counts are not up to date. We've encountered some delays in updating the hits for June. This has delayed the updates to MPR/MPA/TER. We hope to have everything completed before the end of the week.
Media Category Migration
On Wednesday, July 16th, we are going to migrate the Media Categories (Books, Music, Video & DVDs) to the Shopping.com catalog. You may experience intermittent issues in the Media Category between 3pm and 5pm PT on Wednesday, July 16th. This update does not include Movies in Theaters as this is an Epinions only category (i.e. it's not shown on Shopping.com today). We will work on Movies in Theaters later this year. SAP in Media will be live on July 23rd. That means that all reviews in these categories will start using the /review/ format. The problems associated with this url format will be resolved by the end of this week. Products added via SAP will be in Search.
As a result of this migration, a small number of reviews will not be mapped corrrectly to products. These reviews, however, will still be accessible to the author, community, and shopper. You will see the "Category/Vertical not found" message in your profile pages. We plan to create many of the unmapped products using the Suggest A Product feature, which will be accessible after July 23rd. Please do not take action on the unmapped reviews at this time. The unmapped reviews associated with the new products will be mapped by us. Following the Media migration, our goal is to quickly migrate the remaining categories to ensure system/catalog stability going into the shopping season.
Epinions.com periodically updates pricing and product information from third-party sources, so some information may be slightly out-of-date. You should confirm all information before relying on it.
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