BeatThat!

Starting today, BeatThat will be displaying a quality score next to Deal-Finders' names.  It will show as a percentage, indicating the number of approved deals divided by the number of submitted deals over the prior 30 days.

We are displaying this with two goals in mind:

1) To help shoppers feel comfortable with a deal (assuming a DealFinder is nearly 100% accurate in their entries);

2) To impress upon DealFinders how important quality of deal submission information really is.

While there are some extra costs to BeatThat in having to review deals and in particular to ferret out bad ones, the real issue here is making sure that 100% of the visible deals on the site are accurate.  It's bad for all of us if a shopper has a negative experience at BeatThat, so we must all work hard to ensure deals are correct.

If you're a DealFinder and you're wondering how your quality score might affect you, we're not sure at the moment.  The BeatThat staff has discussed various ideas, including prizes for DealFinders with the highest ratings, or punishments for DealFinders who have too many deals rejected.  But for the moment, we're just going to watch the data and see if it affects DealFinder behavior.

Thanks for reading and for helping make BeatThat a great site!

David Parker

Founder/CEO