Bizrate

Ordered the blind date with a book, I got a book cover, stickers, highlighter and bookmark. NO BOOK! Paid $26.35 for this I am such an idiot! 🤬

Bizrate is a partner to Zola, a wedding registery. My elderly & poor-sighted aunt just wanted to send a wedding gift out & was FORCED to pick out 4 magazines she neither wants or can read. Bizrate has her credit card & will bill her for something she didn't ask for. Please stop the shady underhanded moves, Bizrate. You should be ashamed! If your have blackmail people to use your service, what type of service are you?

I signed up to take the Bizrate surveys and once I reached 1,650 points every survey came back that I was not a good fit for the survey. Of course, this is after I had already answered questions that could be used in the survey - such as brand preferences or brand knowledge. They have been promising me a $100.00 gift certificate for months as soon as I reach a certain point level. Their emails always start with an offer to do a survey with 1000 plus points, but after a few questions they tell me that survey isn't available but I can take one of 250 points and as stated above as soon as I answer all their questions, I'm told I don't qualify for the survey. I'm calling BS on this. They use the answers, but offer nothing in return.

They lure you in with something free. Its magazines and you have to pay for them.

The oddest thing about the site is it keeps saying login at the top of the page despite me being logged in.

I did enough surveys to redeem for an Amazon gift card figuring I would only do a few to check if its legit. Its been almost two weeks since I redeemed and I have still yet to receive anything.

I reached out to customer service and I heard nothing back.

This seems more like a scammy data fishing website. Don't use as it will just mine your data.

I was inly able to complete 1 survey. Got bored one night, so figured I'd do a few. I went thru 10 or more surveys answering my demographic info anywhere from 5 to 10 questions only to get the message I do not meet the criteria. Once you open a bizrate account, they ask you all your demo info. What a waste if time. Deleted my account

The bizrate site itself may be safe, but the surveys the site connects you to are dangerous information gathering scum! Directly after joining up, and going to a couple of surveys, I started getting bombarded with SPAM emails. I am smart enough to delete such, "rewards", emails, but I wasn't smart enough to research bizrate before signing up. In my opinion, just avoid bizrate when it pops up at the end of your online order.

Basically spend 10 minutes making a "confidential" review that isnt really confidential. Under the impression you are gettung "up to" 100$ (of course you arent). Then you find out the "reward" is for stuff like a discount on magazine subscriptions and has nothing to do with the merchant you filled out the survey for. Its 2022... Nobody subscribes to magazines. They also collect some pretty intrusive information about you and your household... And they say they dont sell it. Well I made a burner email just for that survey to see what would happen. 2 months later theres dozens of spam emails in there... Bizrate arent scammers, by definition... But by principle, yes, they are scammers.

I placed an order with E. L. f. Cosmetics to be immediately taken to a Bizrate survey. I was promised $100. At the end of the survey I was offered 4 magazine subscriptions totaling $100. What a scam! I don't need magazines! I need $100

I completed a Bizrate survey after an online purchase. As a "$25" reward I was offered "free" subscriptions to various magazines, but with some processing charges. Never give these people any personal information or use their services. Beware of Bizrate.

Unless you are ok with companies receiving your credit card information and being charged yearly for multiple magazine subscriptions without advance notice to opt out of the renewal charges, DO NOT participate in any of these surveys. I made an online purchase last year through a "reputable" company, and figured I'd give them a good review via the Bizrate survey at the end of my purchase. BAD IDEA. The company i purchased from gave all of my information to the company that offers the free magazine subscriptions, and one year later, I get slammed in the bank account to the tune of over $160. What a scam. How is this even legal? Most people can't remember what they ate for lunch yesterday, let alone cancel a "free trial" offer from over a year before. Not only will I avoid Bizrate, I will now avoid any transactions with the company I made the purchase from. Shame, because I really liked that candle company. Damn Yankee.

Many years ago this site was invaluable for finding good online merchants, but something has happened to them. Now they make it difficult to check the ratings of particular merchants by name, and the link to go directly to merchant ratings is very small and near the bottom of their pages. When trying to rate a particular merchant, it brings you all the way through the "interview" process only to tell you at the end that an "internal error" has occurred. They seem more interested in being a shopping portal and directing you to stores that have no ratings (despite being around for a long time)... but of course the "rate" part of bizrate seems to be broken. Some of the most frequently rated (on other sites) online retailers are featured right at the top of bizrate's listings, impervious to the threat of acquiring ratings there themselves. As such, its become almost the opposite of what it was.

Our ecommerce company used Bizrate for years beginning about 2001 until we learned that our paying customers were getting a "reward" for completing a survey. We had no idea this was going on until a customer called asking why they needed to give up their CC # since they had just placed an order with us. Customers were hooked into signing up for a worthless services that included an auto-renew. Our Bizrate rep was unapologetic and said "you folks did sign our Terms of Agreement which allows this."

This website will ask you to give reviews and comments on your recent purchase from another website. Doesn't matter you give a good or bad reviews, they won't post or care about it. I don't know what's the purpose of this website.

I even emailed them my problem with Gifttree.com. They said this is not what they look at. Well, look at their website and still advertising for Gifttree, I know the whole thing is fake.

Most likely just get your email and let you fall into those give crappy gifts but they charge you processing fee. Don't even waste time to do their survey or review. Useless.