Rentmen Reviews

[Frog]

How often do you post a review on RM after meeting up with a guy?  Kind of intrigued to know what prompts guys to write reviews or not and how much you're influenced by previous reviews. 

Also, how important for you is it to get a response / comment from your review?  Personally, kind of wish more providers would respond when I go to the trouble of writing a review but doesn't seem to be the norm.

Would love to know what you think.

 

[+ Pensant]

I used to write reviews before such required a paid membership, which I refuse to do.

[DMonDude]

Since you have to have a paid membership to leave a review, i think RM reviews are mostly useless now personally. A provider might see hundreds of clients who would speak highly of them but some of those providers have no reviews on RM because those clients aren't paid RM users. Some providers might have one client who has a bad time but that happens to be a client who is a paid member and thus would be more motivated to leave a bad review, making that provider seem worse than they actually may be. So unless it's a provider with dozens of good reviews, or dozens of bad reviews. Showing an actual track record of performance among multiple paid members. I personally think it's not a good enough data point to make any judgements on and i mostly ignore the ratings/amount of reviews unless it's a large amount of reviews. I get that having the paywall would help stop review botting/spamming, but it also makes for a much smaller user base that can leave legit reviews. There's no real good way to handle it.

As far as wanting providers to reply to reviews... Kinda feels a little needy to me personally. You write the review for other people to make use of, not to flatter and get a "thanks" from the provider.

[Cretus]

24 minutes ago, DMonDude said:

Since you have to have a paid membership to leave a review, i think RM reviews are mostly useless now personally. A provider might see hundreds of clients who would speak highly of them but some of those providers have no reviews on RM because those clients aren't paid RM users. Some providers might have one client who has a bad time but that happens to be a client who is a paid member and thus would be more motivated to leave a bad review, making that provider seem worse than they actually may be. So unless it's a provider with dozens of good reviews, or dozens of bad reviews. Showing an actual track record of performance among multiple paid members. I personally think it's not a good enough data point to make any judgements on and i mostly ignore the ratings/amount of reviews unless it's a large amount of reviews. I get that having the paywall would help stop review botting/spamming, but it also makes for a much smaller user base that can leave legit reviews. There's no real good way to handle it.

As far as wanting providers to reply to reviews... Kinda feels a little needy to me personally. You write the review for other people to make use of, not to flatter and get a "thanks" from the provider.

I think that the premium requirement is a good thing. I would conjecture that if anyone could submit a review, without needing to pay for membership, things would be much much worse. As you implied, Providers themselves indeed could then, for free, create new accounts and inflate their own reviews, or target their own competition by writing false reviews.

 

I agree that more reviews per person is a good thing. I personally don’t like to see a guy with 70 reviews and half of them are from the same person. Seems suspicious to me.

 

I agree that expecting thanks for a review is too much.  I bet providers don’t necessarily get a notification that they receive a review.

Edited September 5 by Cretus

[DMonDude]

37 minutes ago, Cretus said:

I think that the premium requirement is a good thing. I would conjecture that if anyone could submit a review, without needing to pay for membership, things would be much much worse. As you implied, Providers themselves indeed could then, for free, create new accounts and inflate their own reviews, or target their own competition by writing false reviews.

 

I agree that more reviews per person is a good thing. I personally don’t like to see a guy with 70 reviews and half of them are from the same person. Seems suspicious to me.

 

I agree that expecting thanks for a review is too much.  I bet providers don’t necessarily get a notification that they receive a review.

Yeah it's better overall than letting any free account say anything and letting people game the system in that way. But on the flip side it makes me wonder what RMs subscriber numbers are. I'd be curious to see the numbers for how many unpaid members are booking providers who can't leave reviews versus how many paid members can leave reviews, and then how many of them actually do leave reviews. The reviews we see on RM post paid member requirement are likely a super tiny fraction of the actual user base and actual amount of people hiring. Though i don't think there's really any way for RM to make that better unfortunately. I guess that's why we come to this forum.

[DMonDude]

At the end of the day it's a largely illicit trade. It's not like i can ask them to verify the reviewer purchased the good like on Amazon 🤣

[+ JamesB]

I used to pay for RM and only bothered writing reviews when things were either amazing or a total disaster. I finally canceled after one of my honest, 100% accurate bad reviews got deleted at the provider's request. No reason for me to pay or trust RM reviews anymore.

[ER12321]

I am a premium member of RM, but since the beginning of this year, you cannot, even as a premium member, publish a review unless you register your phone number for verification. As I do not want RM to call me or send SMS to my phone, this is a total showstopper for me. So I think this reduces even further the number of reliable reviews in RM.

[NYXboy]

9 hours ago, JamesB said:

I used to pay for RM and only bothered writing reviews when things were either amazing or a total disaster. I finally canceled after one of my honest, 100% accurate bad reviews got deleted at the provider's request. No reason for me to pay or trust RM reviews anymore.

I recently had an issue with this. Provider showed up looking nothing like his pics (I saw after they had been uploaded nearly 10 years ago) Also had an awful experience with him. provider blocked me before he even left, and then pretended we had never met as if I didn't show up. I had to get security footage of my building to show we did meet, and show text messages proving provider was lying. Then the provider updated his photos and RM response was 'we are taking the review down as we have confirmed he does look like his pics NOW." 

I had to go back and forth for a long time before getting the review back up - but I did NOT back down until it was up there. They made me change 'not like photos' to 'photos were outdated' or some such nonsense. The provider eventually returned the money he stole and I took review down to be done with it. 

Edited September 6 by NYXboy