Just for the record

Michael (Admin) | Mar 3, 2010 Website Stuff

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iPhone App Reviews.net does not charge for reviews. We used to offer an unsolicited paid option called “POV” (meaning that we weren’t actively fishing for paying developers) but that has been discontinued.

The reason I’m bringing this up is that I recently got this email from an apparently angry spectator:

—–Original Message—–
Subject: iPhone App Reviews: Thanks

How I found iPhone App Reviews:

http://lonelysandwich.com/post/420825330/iphoneappreview-shakedown

Message:

…for demonstrating the fastest way to drop to absolute zero credibility.

The website featured in that “shakedown” is NOT the one you’re looking at right now. See, this website is called iPhone App Reviews.net… that’s “reviews” plural, as in more than one, and it’s .net not .com, and we don’t use “the” in our URL. I know a lot of iPhone website names sound similar, but if you ever read about an iPhone app review website charging for reviews it won’t be us.

“Thanks”,
Michael

P.S. Kudos to Sandwich Dynamics on the hilarious reply to the shakedown!

http://lonelysandwich.com Adam Lisagor (lonelysandwich)

You are well within your right to point this out. Hopefully, the confusion won’t happen repeatedly, and if it does, I’m very, truly sorry.

LISTEN UP, EVERYBODY! THIS IS NOT THE SITE THAT I RESPONDED TO. THE OFFENDER WAS AN AWFUL, SCAMMY BULLCRAP SITE, AND THE SITE YOU’RE READING NOW IS NOT THAT SITE, IT IS A DIFFERENT SITE WITH CREDIBILITY STILL INTACT.

Sorry for the trouble, Michael. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Michael (Admin)

Haha, thanks for the backup Adam! Charging for reviews is already very murky territory (hence my decision to end our brief trial run at it) but it’s just in poor taste to go around soliciting developers to pay up. Eww.