On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:35:15 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:


wrote in message ...
Is Angie's List a Scam???


(1) Sign-up and Ease of Use

It cost me $10 to sign-up plus a $6.95 monthly recurring fee.

Seems kind of pricey to me. How often will the average person use it for
$84 a year?


I'm surpised that they make money with their business model. The
general idea of most online websites is to make the information free
or near free and derive your revenue from ads. It also skews the
demographics to people that are dumb enough to pay the $6.95 monthly
fee.

Plus, just how meaningful are these ratings? Suppose your competitor
hires his cousin to blacklist you. (They say) your employee told
dirty jokes to your teenage daughter, tracked mud on your white living
room carpet, and went to the bathroom without lifting the toilet seat.
How do you appeal something like that? If you are not a subsrciber,
do you have to pay just to see what dirt that others have written
about you.

Beachcomber