Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Web Hosting : Can we relay on RatePoint reviews?

[MrTM]

Are they (I mean more than 90%) genuine?

[kpmedia]

I've seen these abused by obviously shady camera stores.
So no.

[HSJason]

Never used them or read much in reviews, but i'm personally not a big fan of making your reputation a "turn-key" solution. Companies that really want to keep a good rep will actively be out there solving customers issues and posting about their company on the various communities.

[jonessc]

They can be easily faked just as any other site.

The account holder can selectively pick which reviews to display and even hide the negative ones.

[HostXNow]

I signed up for it sometime ago and had a Chinese user post negative comments in Chinese language. I had to use Babelfish just to translate it. He/she was not even a client of ours. No idea what that was about. Guessing it was a competitor or something.

Anyway, it was too much hassle to get RatePoint to remove the negative review. In the end they removed it but we cancelled subscription shortly after.

I suppose you can't beat searching Google with phrases like "webhostingtalk companyname review".

[MannDude]

Originally Posted by HostXNow

I suppose you can't beat searching Google with phrases like "webhostingtalk companyname review".

Thats what I do. Here is an example search term I would type into Google.

site:webhostingtalk.com company-name review

That way, only results from webhosting talk show up and it's much faster/better than using WHT's built in search function.