ReviewMe.com, a ripoff site, claims that you can buy a review on Boing Boing for $500. It ain't true, and if you've given these scumbags $500 for a review here, you got ripped off. If you're planning on suing them for fraud, get in touch with us, we're happy to sign out an affidavit to help you turn these people into a wet smear on the pavement.
Meanwhile, if you would actually like to buy a review on BB, the price is $40,000,000,000, payable in pennies, delivered to our business
address, 1060 West Addison, Chicago, IL. . Here's the contact info for ReviewMe.com:
Patrick Gavin
MediaWhiz Holdings, LLC.
75 Broad Street, 23rd Floor,
New York, NY 10004Phone: 646.442.0074
Email:
Sales: sales@mwcorporate.com
Investor Relations: investors@mwcorporate.com
Public Relations: press@mwcorporate.com
General: info@mwcorporate.com
Update: Here's the proprietor of ReviewMe IMming to Consumerist's Meghann Marco:
patrickgavinTLA: hey meghan its Patrick Gavin from ReviewMe/Text-Link-Ads
Meghann Marco: Hi there.
patrickgavinTLA: just left a comment on your post
patrickgavinTLA: my apologies
patrickgavinTLA: basically we had a loophole where publishers could
submit a site that was not theirs
Meghann Marco: I see.
patrickgavinTLA: it got listed but no advertiser money was taken bc a
review would have to have been completed on the said site
patrickgavinTLA: again it was stupid on our part a mistake but not
malicious
patrickgavinTLA: we are fixing it as we speak and again sorry for the
confusion
Meghann Marco: Can you explain why money was taken for a review on
Lifehacker?
patrickgavinTLA: yes
patrickgavinTLA: money is not taken at checkout, an advertiser's
credit card is pre approved
patrickgavinTLA: it is only charged on completed reviews that we have
to approve
patrickgavinTLA: so i am assuming that was the case with that one,
that the advertiser did go through checkout, their card was pre
approved, but then the review was never completed obviously
patrickgavinTLA: as it would have had to be completed on lifehacker
Meghann Marco: Ok, that makes sense. Would it be ok to post from this
chat?
patrickgavinTLA: definitely and thx for listening
Meghann Marco: No problem. Thanks for the information. We appreciate it.
patrickgavinTLA: cool thx if you ever need me direct my email is
pgavin@text-link-ads.com
Meghann Marco: Great. Thanks so much.
Update 2: Patrick Gavin writes
Hey Cory, we also run ReviewMe.com and want to apologize for our mistake. I also chatted with Meghann over at the Consumerist explaining the error. Basically we had a loop hole where folks who are not the owner of a specific blog could submit that blog into our marketplace. This bug is being fixed as I write this.
As far as folks buying reviews off these fraudulent sites they will not be charged. This is how the process works at ReviewMe….
An advertiser purchases a review off a listed blog. The completed cart just pre approves the advertiser’s card but does not charge it. A charge only occurs when the completed review is submitted into our system and to be approved that review must be located on a url from the matching listing in our marketplace which is of course impossible if you are not the owner of the blog. So yes the advertiser tried to purchase a review off a Gawker site, their card was pre approved, the review was never completed, so their card was not charged.
So we made a mistake and I apologize for that. We are fixing the mistake and it should never come up again. Thx for your understanding.
