MYTH: Most of TER’s reviews are “fake” because they give free VIP days for people to write them
FACTS:
1. As of the writing of this message TER has had 801,519 reviews submitted to us. 322 are new and have not been looked at. 9 are contested or have problems and have been elevated to a supervisor. The rest have been read by a real human being and approved or disapproved based upon the rules stated on our GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING REVIEWS found here http://www.theeroticreview.com/reviews/submitReview.asp and our own fraud detection systems. After this screening 530733 have been approved, 270455 reviews have been turned down. NOTE: Many of the turned down reviews may have small errors that the user can edit and resubmit (bad website, details, etc.)
2. According to our demographic information 63% of our member’s households make over $100,000 per year. 85% make over $65,000. Because of the amount of information we ask when submitting a review it takes 30 minutes or more to write one. If they are a new member they have to write 2 of them to become a VIP. Logic would dictate that most of our members are not that excited to spend half an hour just to save $10 by writing a fake review when they make over $100,000 per year. If they write a review it is because they wanted to share their experiences with other members. Maybe to brag. Maybe to protect. But not just to save $10.
MYTH: TER wants so much “juicy details” that we have to lie about what we did to get a review approved.
FACTS
1. If you read our GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING REVIEWS found here http://www.theeroticreview.com/reviews/submitReview.asp it states:
“The Juicy Details section should be used to describe the provider, the experience, and whether or not you enjoyed it in graphic emotional and sexual terms. Don’t make this space a recap of the General section. Instead, go for a blow-by-blow tell-all of your session with the provider from your own unique point of view. Remember, your opinion matters! Both the General and Juicy details should be at least four lines long or (preferably) longer.”
If your session had no sexual acts in it, we still want to know what you did. Watched a movie? Great, what movie? How did you like it? How did she like it? Did you hold hands? Did you cuddle? How did you feel? How do you think she felt? Would you do it again? We want to know blow-by-blow tell-all of your session with the provider from your own unique point of view that is at least 4 lines long. We do not want you to make up sexual acts you did if they did not happen. We only want to know what did happen with as much detail as possible. Simple.
If anyone does not believe this, email me at [email protected] with your username and the provider you reviewed. I will post the EXACT reason why your review was not approved or I will approve it myself. Please be prepared to have your username and any other information that we used to make that decision (IP logs, multiple usernames, relationship to the provider, posting history, etc) posted also. In other words, don’t come to court with unclean hands.
MYTH: TER does not accept reviews from new users.
FACTS:
1. Why would we not want more reviews? We spend over $100,000 per month in advertising to bring new users to TER. We get about 500 new registered users a day. We make money by selling the ability to read the juicy details of reviews submitted to us. There is only one reason we would want to turn down reviews from any member, especially from a new member, we just spent so much money to acquire. Integrity.
2. One of the reasons the TER is the largest and most trusted review site on the internet is because of the integrity of information in our database. No other site we know of spends the amount of time and effort to filter each and every review submitted to us. You would be amazed if you knew all we do to protect our members from fake reviews. Do they sometimes get through? Of course. No possible way to stop them all. The over a quarter million reviews we have turned down should show we catch quite a few.
3. Stop for a minute to consider that every user was at one time a new user. There are now over 1,000,000 registered users at TER. We get 300-400 review submitted per day. 25% to 35% come from relatively new users.
4. Unfortunately over 75% of review fraud we catch occurs in these new accounts. This fact alone would make someone believe we do not accept reviews from newer member. We believe it is better to turn down a suspicious review that might be real then accept a review that is fake. If the provider is working, more reviews will come in for her.
5. Many times it is not new users that are doing this. It is existing users or providers that create these new accounts to promote themselves or the provider involved. Why? Either to establish a new provider on TER that has no reviews or help a provider get more business. Every time a provider gets a review, her name pops to the top of the new reviews list. If the review is good, it could mean thousands of dollars of income to her. Sometimes they get away with it for a while, but eventually most get caught. Thousands of providers and users have been banned from TER for doing this. Almost none of which will admit it even though we can show logs of them doing it.
MYTH: Reviewers seem to embellish the stories when they post it on TER.
FACTS:
1. Imagine a guy telling his best friend about a provider he saw last night. Is he going to tell the exact story of how he could barely get it up, lost it 3 times, and then finally finished? Probably not. Just as anyone telling a story, they tend to embellish it a bit to make themselves look better. Sometimes they go too far. “I made her cum 12 times, and then I took off my pants. After that we went cowgirl and I spun her like a propeller until she was so dizzy she threw up.” We usually will not post those. If you read the reviews keeping that in mind, there is a lot of valuable information to be found.
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