@mikk1 said in BzzAgent Acquired by PowerReviews:
@fivetalents said in BzzAgent Acquired by PowerReviews:
I will NOT be creating a new account unless they prove themselves worthy and much better than what BzzAgent had devolved into in its later years.
Right beside you, couldn’t agree more.
Hey!.. Good to see you.
Well someone around here better join to spill the dirt on how the new owners are doing and if it is worth reconsidering, LOL.
PowerReviews’ other company Viewpoints Sampling offers many more ‘campaigns’ (seems like at least 10 a week) and they don’t make you work hard to build up a score so you get priority on the invite list only to pester/threaten you and lower your score quickly and often if you don’t spend half your life on their site.
If you aren’t familiar with Viewpoints, a few of their deals have been posted here in GPT, so you can click through one of those threads to find out how to sign up. They send you an email notification for each offer that you have to fill out a quick qualification survey for. You only reply to the offers that interest you. Often there are a number of items from the manufacturer that they need tested, so you get to choose only the items that you’re interested in testing and reviewing. If selected, you are sent a confirmation email.
Once you review the product, Viewpoints pretty much expects your review right away/promptly but, unlike Bzz, you only have to submit one review, are not pressured to up load a bunch of pics or do other campaign activities, and there is currently no social media requirement. sometimes you submit review directly to them, sometimes you need to submit it to a retailer’s site (e.g., Target), so you may need to create an account if you don’t already have one. Viewpoints also has a much wider range of product categories, manufacturers, and price points: you might get an invite for a $5 OTC medicine or a $300 piece of lawn/garden equipment on the same day. Once the review is done, the product is yours to keep, give away, or discard.
I don’t get accepted to most of the Viewpoints offers I sign up for, but I do get into a decent number of them, and they’re mostly high quality name brand stuff (I’ve seen a few generic store brand equivalents lately like Walmart or Dollar General, but these aren’t exactly fly by night cheap knockoffs either).