I would never use this but I can see why some devs would. Imagine a situation where there is a "war" on ratings between competitors. All it takes is for one dev to buy 1-star ratings for a competitor. That competitor might then respond by either buying 5-star ratings for himself (to push the 1-stars out of the top three) or 1-star ratings for whichever app he feels is responsible for those fake 1-star ratings (revenge, but not a good solution!).
The problem is, three 1-star ratings can potentially completely kill your sales, no matter how good your app might be. On 30 December 2010 07:53, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mike Wolfson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am very concerned about the companies that allow you to "buy positive >> ratings" (quite a few developers have received an email offering this). >> > > I don't see any reason to be concerned. In fact, this concept of buying > ratings is one of the stupidest things I've heard of. The only people that > would even consider this are people with low ratings. If your app is rated > low after after a reasonable sample size of legitimate reviews, it's safe to > say that's the rating your app deserves. > > If your app sucks and you get a bunch of 1* ratings then you go buy 5* > ratings to offset it, sure, maybe you'll get a few more sales - followed by > more 1* star ratings and refunds once the buyers realize your app is crap. > Now you've wasted money "promoting" your app, pissed more people off, and > garnered more negative reviews. Congratulations. > > Honestly, at the end of the day if your app sucks it sucks - > buying positive reviews is just a waste of money trying to delay the > inevitable. Given how little most of us make on these apps, I think it's > fair to say that if you can afford to do this, you don't have to. And if you > have to, you probably can't afford to do so. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
