The number of 4 or 5 star reviews for each is listed - along with a link to their reviews so you can see for yourself. Here is a list of the Apple usernames I was able to work out that are part of YAR and doing the paid reviews. When I started looking at the reviews it became clear they were anything but honest - IMO. So I started doing some research and was able to figure out who many of the reviewers are that they use and the apps they reviewed. Well first I don't think Apple would be happy with any paid review services - and second he comments that they were "honest" reviews. We don't pay them to post fake positive reviews but to give their honest opinion Apps. Our reviewers are real iPhone and iPod users. YAR response to that was: "As we are not posting fake reviews, it's not something which is conflicting with Apple rules. Which lead me to send the following: " Now you have me a bit concerned - is your service something that our clients should be worried about using? In other words is this something that Apple would throw an app out of Itunes for using?" YAR's response to that question was the following: " As I'm sure you can easily imagine, our customers are not really keen to have there name disclosed." I asked the following question: " Can you give us a few examples of Apps in the app store you have worked with?" Well really I was not posing I was very interested in the service just not in the way they thought. I contacted the person running the site posing as someone interested in this service. This site is claiming to offer paid reviews in iTunes for your Apps.
He was contacted by a site by the name of YourAppReviewed dot com - no I am not going to put the link to said site and from here on out I will just refer to them as YAR. I was forwarded an email from a listener of the show that has an app. That said that is what happened here and I do apologize upfront for the tone of this post. When you start doing research for what you consider shady at best practices and then during that investigation you come across something that really makes you sick to your stomach it is hard not to get emotional when writing the blog post for said story.
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