Rbate's Services

Rbate offers the following ten services:

1. A search engine for purchasing help, allowing consumers to find the most highly regarded experts and material that can help them choose the most suitable product. Not just product reviews, but product information, recommendations, demonstrations, try-outs, samples, or a complete purchasing service. And the help need not be delivered over the Net, but also by phone or in-person (including full-service retailers).

   Ranking of search results is based on feedback purchasers give about the sources of advice they found most helpful. The search engine is also sensitive to the locality of searchers, providers, and products.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/pr/3 http://rbate.com/consumers/faqs#what_is_rbate http://rbate.com/consumers/faqs#why_use_rbate_search http://rbate.com/find_help

2. A way for product makers to encourage, and reward with cash bonuses, the provision of such purchasing help. This gives product makers an alternative to advertising, and gives help providers an alternative to fees, advertising, or direct or affiliate sales — done in a way that allows helpers to preserve and promote their editorial independence.

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   http://rbate.com/pr/1 http://rbate.com/makers/faqs#how_rbate_works http://rbate.com/helpers/faqs#bonus_benefits http://rbate.com/consumers/faqs#alternatives http://rbate.com/consumers/faqs#trust http://rbate.com/helpers/faqs#contributors

3. A rebate payment agency, which makes it cheap & easy for product makers to pay cash rebates to those who purchase their products, without the need for the purchaser to contact the maker.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/makers/faqs#rebate_labels

4. A way for rebate claimers to support the work of helpers who assisted them through both donations and deferred fee payments.

   More:
   http://localhost:3000/consumers/faqs#claim_credit http://localhost:3000/consumers/faqs#deferred_fees

5. A purchaser survey system that not only allows product makers to easily survey those who buy their products, but also to survey those who buy competing products, allowing the makers to find out why they lost those sales.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/pr/2 http://rbate.com/makers/faqs#surveys http://rbate.com/makers/faqs#qbids

6. Product makers are able to track which sources of consumer advice are covering each of their products, which are most popular, and which have been most helpful to purchasers. Consumer helpers are able to see how each of their works, services, and employees ranks in popularity and helpfulness, both relative to each other and to those of other helpers.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/makers/faqs#intelligence http://rbate.com/helpers/faqs#claim_credit

7. A product search engine that allows both consumers and helpers to stay abreast of new products in particular categories.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/find_products

8. A way for consumers to bookmark their favourite online and offline sources of help, adding notes and ratings, which provides them with a repository of their product research. Help that's on the Web can be automatically bookmarked just by visiting that page.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/consumers/faqs#rmarks

9. Consumers are able to submit suggestions for particular purchasing help they are unable to find, lists of which help providers can browse or search.

   More:
   http://rbate.com/consumers/suggest_help

10. Consumers are able to submit product reviews. Registered Rbate consumers do this in the form of an Rblog, Rbate provides a search engine for these reviews, and seeds them to general search engines, while Rbate Helpers are able to freely use these reviews in their own work. Rebate claimers are prompted to write a review sometime after their claim. These reviews are marked as originating from verified purchasers. The independent prompting also makes these reviews better balanced than those prompted solely by problems with the product.

    More:
    http://rbate.com/consumers/submit_review http://rbate.com/consumers/search_reviews http://rbate.com/consumers/faqs#rblogs

Together Rbate aims to provide an ecosystem that offers an alternative to advertising, increases communication between consumers and businesses, and makes comparison shopping less frustrating.

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