Quote Originally Posted by UrbanSmooth View Post
Wait a minute, waaaiiit a minute. This is terribly backwards. Someone does a review and website wants the reviewer to pay them for doing all of the work? It should be the other way around. You did the work, they should be paying you to use your information on their site. I feel sorry for you that you actually paid them already. I'm glad that I no longer frequent that site.
Quote Originally Posted by rge View Post
He didnt pay them, which is why OCN made him delete all the information in his review thread. But the OCN owner is clearly brilliant, just have to follow his logic.....take all independent reviewers/testers which bring a lot of traffic to the site, charge them and make them hand over rights to their work, which should effectively eliminate all of them from the site, and permanently drive down traffic. Then watch the money come pouring in.
Yeah rge is right. I didn't pay them although Spotswood was kind enough to volunteer to pay the fee. However OCN wouldn't accept the payment even though they had asked for it because I wouldn't give them exclusive access and delete the same info from XS/[H] and my own website lol

I think their theory is that they are big enough to push people around like that. While they do get a lot of views now, it won't be sustainable if there isn't any good content.

BTW anyone know how I close the poll? Seems silly to still have it running.