Guest post by Amanda Johnson
So what makes for a good or “valid” review versus
a bad or “invalid” one? Remember, what we want to get at are the people
who have useful information to offer us in making a buying decision.
For most of avid shoppers, we are well aware of the surface information
regarding many rewards programs. What’s important to us is the meat—the experiences
of an honest consumer with the product. An honest consumer is one who
doesn’t have an agenda or even a bias (be it conscious or not) toward a
product and is willing to evaluate the experience objectively on its
merits and shortcomings. So what we don’t want is a consumer who is just
out for a romp on the Web, logging freeshipping.com complaints ,
and not really getting at any crucial information about the product or
the experience with it. A list of grievances is clearly indicative of an
unhappy consumer, but it says very little about a given product. All it
tells us is that the consumer was not pleased. In cases where people
are actively spreading negative information about a rewards program, it
seems more common that the consumer actually had misinformation or
unrealistic expectations about what benefits he or she would receive.
That’s why, as I’ve said here and elsewhere, it is most important to get
the facts first, then take a look at the opinions, and then make your own buying decision.
Freeshipping.com Reviews
Freeshipping.com
is a members-only subscription rewards program that provides consumer
benefits to people who shop online. Subscription rewards programs are a
little different than buying clubs, and in the eyes of most avid online
shoppers they are advantageous. In a buying club, you sign up for a
contract and are then billed monthly for certain merchandise. Most
often the merchandise is sent to you automatically and you don’t have
much choice in the matter. With a subscription based service like
freeshipping.com you can choose from thousands of online stores when,
where, and however often you please.
So
when you are doing your research and deciding whether to subscribe, it
is first good to understand the distinction I have just laid out. There
are some freeshipping.com reviews out
there with misinformation regarding the facts, which could lead you to
miss out on an opportunity that you would have otherwise jumped at. When
you are sifting through reviews on the Internet for this or any other
service, a good way to start will be to first sort out the people who
have the information about the services accurate. You can make sure by
cross-checking the info with what you’ll find on freeshipping.com’s
website. Then, you can see what those people who have their facts right
have to say about the service. It is of no use to read a review about
any service, when the reviewer has clearly never used it and doesn’t
have all the info. Once you’re sure that the reviewer has done his or
her homework, it will be safer to accept the opinion as a valid one.