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Old 07-16-2010, 09:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Reviewfbi.com and Lightinthebox.com link together

Is reviewfbi.com a trustful source?

I was actually thinking it was trustful, but now I can assure you, the answer is negative, they are ABSOLUTELY not independent third party, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR lightinthebox.com, pls see my all review, I will explain.

Is reviewfbi.com a government agency?

It doesn't matter it has a name reads like a government agency, the answer is still no

Who is reviewfbi.com (I would not use the “Who the hell “tone as reviewfbi.com often used)?

whois are always ready to tell the owner of any one domain. According to info given by who.is, the Registrant is DomainsByProxy.com. (WhoIs Search Results)
Then who is DomainsByProxy.com,
The law requires that the personal information you provide with every domain you register be made public in the "WHOIS" database, while DomainsByProxy.com is a business organization who provide paid service to help you get around this. Apparently reviewfbi.com is reluctant to show who they actually are.

Lightinthebox.com and reviewfbi.com link together?
It came to my attention a while ago, one sponsor link on Google will do redirection twice, first redirect to reviewfbi.com, and then to lightinthebox.com (URLs have been listed at the bottom of this review).
The point is only administrator of reviewfbi.com can set up this afore-mentioned "second" redirection part


Other proofs that reviewfbi.com is not third party
The following is part of original review on reviewfbi.com
"Who the hell is TradeMIC
I just used my relationship with other wholesaler suppliers in China to gain more info ..."
Who is the wholesaler supplier reviewfbi.com turn to? What relationship do they have?
Again, reviewfbi.com is absolutely not independent third party.

Who is the predecessor of reviewfbi.com
lightinthebox.cc, they use this blog to attack other online wholesalers, the last activity date back to December 21st, 2009, that is a article named "Lightinthebox Clone-Trademic", you can find lots of other similar publications such as "Lightinthebox Clone-Etemail", 'Lightinthebox Clone – Global-wholesale', etc, now lightinthebox.com have barely abandoned lightinthebox.cc, it seems they prefer reviewfbi.com compare to lightinthebox.cc. The purpose is obvious, they do not want visitors link these two domains together by naming.

Plus: what a coincidence lightinthebox.cc and reviewfbi.com use the same tone - this site copied almost everything from Lightinthebox, that site using the popular Lightinthebox template!
pls check the original quote at the bottom of my review.

Reviews on reviewfbi.com
The bottom line is if you are on the competitor list of lighinthebox, you get review at reviewfbi.com and reviewfbi never 'fails' you, they always manage to think of something "negative", for example, if one wholesaler do not have complain, they concluded that is because it is either too small or a new company.
In one review, the wholesaler has a very high satisfaction record, reviewfbi.com manage to figure out the reason - reference commissions make your mouth sweet.
reviewfbi.com of course have given ligthinthebox a positive review while all others wholesaler marked with either 'negative' or 'neutral'. Reviewfbi.com always ranked lightinthbox as the top 1 popular, meantime, you can always access the lightinthebox review from the top navigation menu bar too, that is one of the reasons why the review about lightinthebox has so many comments, and while others more popular sites have fewer.

IS there a good reason why reviewfbi.com rank lightinthebox as the top 1 popular?
Let’s get start; here I will quote part of the review
Quote
"When you make deals in DHgate, you are making business with its sellers. However, It is completely different here in lightinhebox.com. Lightinthebox is a merchant. It means you are doing business directly with them. You can complaint directly without any 3rd party handling and transferring"

My Opinion
If this is a advantage, then most wholesaler appeared on reveiwFBI got this one too

Quote
"First they have Google payment gateway... The merchant who applies google check out are only limited to merchant has US OR UK bank account. So your money is still under the watch of the USA bank.'

My opinion
Is this an advantage? Many online wholesalers offer PayPal, isn't it as secure as the google payment



Quote
"Lightinthebox are focusing on the wholesaler and dropshiper market. Their products have wholesale prices"

"If you are looking a better sources for ebay business or replace Doba or worldwildbrand.com, Lightinthebox may be your answer because it do support dorpship world wide"

".These copied iPhones are really crazing and cool for the outlook which is the same with Apple Iphone,"

"The other products are cool with competitive prices."

My opinion
Why all this so called “review” read like Promotions, do you agree with me!
When review other companies, reviewfbi.com would search complains about them via Google, that is part of their routine, this time, they just ignore this part. But we can do a quick search ourselves - tons of complains about lightinthebox


Conclusion:
reviewfbi.com is not a independent third party, there is a good chance they are directly responsible for lightinthebox.com, besides, reviews on reviewfbi.com are not accurate but rough ones.

PS
Part 1: URLs
http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=C...inthebox1.html

http://www.reviewfbi.com/Lightinthebox1.html

Wholesale - China Wholesale - Buy Wholesale Products from Chinese Wholesaler


Part2
Reviewfbi.com keep mentioning lightinthebox, below are part of orginal reviews

"There was no surprise in favordeals.com. The familiar lightinthebox template…."

"It was quite crazy for it was a clone cat site, which copied almost everything from Lightinthebox. The design, wording or even site structures, maybe Lightinthebox is just too good"

"Bigboxstore.com had different technical implementation, comparing with actfind.com, which totally copied lightinthebox.com"

"We did not put high ranking on it for Mofeier.com was just another site using the popular Lightinthebox template at the beginning of our research"

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Old 07-16-2010, 10:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
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wholesalereview.net, BTW, this is another so called 'review' site under control of lightinthebox
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Old 11-01-2010, 09:25 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Hi Review 123,

I am one of the Administrator from reviewFBI.com

Resellerratings.com is very good at User generating content , I always turn to here for some idea to develop my site, then I find this interesting post.

For your questions , here are my answers:

Is reviewfbi.com a government agency?
NO, we are just a personal website

Who is reviewfbi.com (I would not use the “Who the hell “tone as reviewfbi.com often used)?
Normal guy with normal wording, most of reviews are posted at will so I always type what is on my mind, so does the other content submitter. I did use privacy protection - I care my privacy. -- when you bulk registered domains, this privacy protection services will be free. You can go to godaddy for more.

Lightinthebox.com and reviewfbi.com link together?
we are one of lightinthebox.com affiliate partners. However, this affiliate partnership only works on traffics, reviewfbi.com keeps its independent on content building, that is why you can see lots of NEGATIVE comments on lightinthebox. you can even see users claimed to be scammed by lightinthebox.com.
in fact. we now also linked to aliexpress , davismicro
(Believed or not, lightinthebox.com never ask me to delete those comments, they just communicate via the 3rd party affiliate program outsourcing manager and then we make some email campaign for better customer care - - that is also a reason why I am its affiliate partner, for I see a company caring its clients.)


Who is the wholesaler supplier reviewfbi.com turn to? What relationship do they have?
hmm~~ , you can also see that I am putting aliexpress, davismicro`s adverts on my sites, more and more would comes. It is not so hard to make friends with those China wholesalers as they will always turn to me for advertising. Just chat and get the info. If you want that list, just visit the China wholesalers list on reviewfbi.com.

Reviews on reviewfbi.com
We has recomment lots of qualified wholesalers : chinavasion, dealextreme, aliexpress ~~~~~ , Most the reviews had already submitted before the advertising relationship.

part1
we also owned by aliexpress, davismicro ?
www.reviewfbi.com/component/banners/click/9
www.reviewfbi.com/DavisMicro.html

"Part2
Reviewfbi.com keep mentioning lightinthebox, below are part of orginal reviews"
But the question was , they are really copying lightinthebox`s template , shall I blur the name of lightinthebox to "some other wholesalers"

PS
Are you from trademic.com ? For that website, it is not a good site, just leave there. if you are the boss Xiao Lai, I would like to said " keeping your clients would be much easier to get them online. "
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