Issue: Ratings over time?

[philba]

I was looking for a good company to buy ddr ram from. I did price watch and then reseller ratings for each possibility. After a couple of real stinkers, I looked at Bunta. Pretty good ratings (8), good price. Hmmmm sounds like a winner but then I read the comments. All the newer comments were really negative and there were a lot of them. OK, so bunta has gone down hill. but they have a good rating.

So, my question is how does Reseller Ratings deal with newer reviews? I believe they do nothing about it. I would like to see some sort of "bias" towards the last 3 months of data (or similar). Maybe a life-time rating vs recent activity (last 3 months, say). This makes sense to me because companies change. The bad get better and the good go down hill.

Thoughts?
Phil

[Admin RR]

Yes we are planning to implement this soon. Only evaluations within the last 60 or so days will be used to determine the overall rating(s) - older evaluations will be accessible in a historical view.

[philba]

thanks for the quick response. And thanks for running this site - its great. I've been using it for at least 3 years.

I think it would be useful to see 2 ratings (recent and longer term). 60 days sounds reasonable for short term but wont you have an issue with the lower volume resellers meeting the min number of reports? Maybe it should be longer because businesses tend to have different behavior at the end of a quarter than the beginning and middle (look at auto dealers, always shop for a car 1 week before the end of a quarter - much better deals). So, 90 days might be better and 120 even more so.