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barongreenback wrote: »

Making sure your comments are meaningful and relevant help too. I will not take much notice of someone who writes "good review" on every !!!!!!s opinion. If you tell me what you liked about the review or what you like or dislike about it or the product will get my respect and make me more likely to talk and add you as a friend.

Rating properly and not just VU'ing everything long and SU'ing everything short is also important. I can't abide it when someone VU's a review that is a load of crap about food packaging and nothing else.

Nothing irks me more than people who add all that nonsense just to pad the review out and get their precious 50p.

I also dislike people rating SU/NU just because they don't like the product or your opinion. I have rated U/VU on products I can't stand because the review was informative. Some people don't get that.

barongreenback

mizzy2 wrote: »

My cheque for 50pounds still hasnt arrived and its been 2 weeks of working days since i requested it.ive emailed them but theres been no reponse for nearly a week. does anyone have any ideas what I can do about it?

There is a delay, according to dooyoo cheques are being sent out next week so you should receive yours the week after.

mizzy2

thanks baron theyve emailed me to confirm this. thanks for taking the time to find out for me

sophie131

Hiya!
Jut asking a couple of things.
I know people have had a delay with their cheque being sent, do you think they will sort this out (so we won't have to wait as long!) ?
It's my 18th in 4 weeks and I was going to claim on my birthday so I could take the money on holiday with me...
Also, is Dooyoo safe to order cheques from? I have quite a lot of points on there and wouldn't want the cheque to go 'missing in the post'.
Thanks

alphason

I had a cheque last month no problem, came in about 10 days I think. Much prefer real money to Amazon vouchers.

barongreenback

sophie131 wrote: »

Hiya!
Jut asking a couple of things.
I know people have had a delay with their cheque being sent, do you think they will sort this out (so we won't have to wait as long!) ?
It's my 18th in 4 weeks and I was going to claim on my birthday so I could take the money on holiday with me...
Also, is Dooyoo safe to order cheques from? I have quite a lot of points on there and wouldn't want the cheque to go 'missing in the post'.
Thanks

Quite safe, never known one to go missing and dooyoo not just send another. There are very receptive to their members.

Oh BTW, is anyone interested in me doing a bit of writing on maximising your dooyoo earnings without alienating the community???

mellie_rosie

yes :j please

barongreenback

Will do something today if I can then.

bookguy

Well, I'm something of a newbie over at dooyoo (but not as much of a newbie as I am here!) ...but I thought I would offer some comments on how the site operates, at least from my perspective.

Firstly, I'm a little bemused about some of the comments I see here on post length on dooyoo. There seems to be a suggestion that short entries are somehow inferior to long ones. I used to be a professional copywriter, and I'm now an academic, and I can tell you that in both professions, I have found brevity to be the soul of wit.

It is good writing practice to at least have a soft word limit in mind, otherwise you might find yourself going off on some stream of conciousness, and wind up penning an opaque review. Looking at my own reviews, I find I write about 250 words, on average. I think the longest I have written is about 450 words - although that one contained some autobiography, and the shortest 200, although I must admit these figures are off the top of my head.

Secondly, I'm a little surprised by the emphasis on straight factual content in reviews. I think that reviews are there to adumbrate and complement the reviewed item, rather than cover every little thing. One example is a review I wrote of a discount chain where I said that the delicatessen meats were very good - worth going for, in fact, but that everything else I had tried from the shop was rather poor. A feedback comment I got from that one was that I should have said that they charged for their carrier bags. I didn't know that, as I tend to just put the parma ham and proscuittio in my satchel - and when I do my shopping I use reuseable bags as a matter of course. (If the person who made that comment happens to be reading this - please don't take offence - I'm only illustrating a point!) I saw my review as a slice of experience (and ham!) rather than a step-by-step walkthrough of the store's facilities.

Thirdly, 'churning'. A very fraught point, and I can understand why. People are quite rightly suspicious of large volume producers. That said, though, when I was working full-time as a writer - and bear in mind, I was a bit younger than I am now - I could produce around 10000-20000 words of copy a day, and while it might not all have been great literature, it was at least on brief, grammatically correct and readable. To be honest, I don't think it's a problem for people to consider writing for dooyoo a job, and write a great deal of stuff for it - as long as the stuff is good. Obviously spam is irritating wherever you find it, but if someone is writing 20 good, interesting reviews a day, I don't see why they should be castigated for it. Just for the record, I am not writing large amounts - this is just a hobby for me!

Anyway, I hope my little contribution hasn't ruffled anyone's feathers - please feel free to set me straight if you feel you need to.

barongreenback

I agree that long reviews are not necessarily great reviews. I have had loads of reviews crowned at 500-600 words so 1000s of words is not essential. I am glad you think experience and opinion are the most important thing I would agree. Some members seem to become obsessed with including every factual titbit in a review and for me that is not essential. I prefer to read a review that covers of much of someones shopping experience as possible.

I think the most important thing to remember is that you cannot please everyone. Some readers want long epic reviews whereas others like short and sweet.