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Rating Summary based on 1008 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		550
  • 4 Stars
    		333
  • 3 Stars
    		81
  • 2 Stars
    		20
  • 1 Star
    		24

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  • Ability to customise
  • Customer service support
  • Layout & Design
  • Navigation
  • Prices
  		• 3.7
  		• 4.1
  		• 3.8
  		• 3.7
  		• 4.1

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  • 193 of 193 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    karimkha

    4 Stars My Name is Ami and I'm a Ciao Addict! 21/03/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You get paid, good community spirit and easy to navigate pages.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You should work hard to earn your money and some technical problems.

    This is one of the most exhausting reviews I have ever written . . . but I felt I had to write it because although many people have recently written reviews about ciao.co.uk, I felt that they had misrepresented our site! Most of these reviews have pictured it as the “Diablo’s” site, which is untrue. This site has been, and still is, one of the leading review sites for consumers to read reviews to help them make up their minds about a product . . . whether to buy or not to buy. I have decided to clear the mess and the misunderstanding about this site and point out the good side and the dark ... more
  • 146 of 146 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 torr

    Member since 29/08/2002

    Reviews written: 347

    4 Stars A Ciaoist's Tale 29/08/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A pleasant pastime for a writer, and (one hopes) of some use to readers

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Falling readership, less entertainment value

    Ten years ago today, I received an email from my elder son, who was then living in Japan, instructing me to track down on the web an opinion site called Ciao, so as to read the reviews he was posting there. An ever dutiful parent, I did as I was told, even going so far as to sign on as a member. Before long, being opinionated, I was writing reviews of my own. Ten years later, he has long since lost interest (I see that his last login was in July 2003) whereas I remain pretty active. There must, presumably, be a reason. It is time perhaps to reflect on what has kept me here, and to consider ... more
  • 195 of 196 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 RICHADA

    Member since 20/06/2004

    Reviews written: 241

    2 Stars CIAO'S ABOUT THIS THEN! 17/03/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Community Spirit. Made Many Friends. Attractive Looking Site. Some Superb Writers. Photos.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Constant Technical Difficulties. Maddeningly Slow. No Site Contact. Poor Remuneration. Rubbish Surveys!

    In a sense I rather think of this review as the one that I wish I'd never had to write. I am not, in a fit of pique, sitting down writing this with steam percolating from my ears. Yes, I may be hammering my poor long suffering keyboard harder than ever over this one - but sheer damned frustration built up over the last year or so has brought me to the point where I find myself writing a review on the very site that has been my own literary "vehicle" during the last four years. It is difficult to actually put a date on the climax of my frustrations here, I guess the constant "drip, drip, drip" ... more
  • 189 of 189 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 sghawken

    Member since 31/10/2005

    Reviews written: 993

    5 Stars More Than Just A Consumer Resource. 05/07/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Knowledge, development, friendship and earnings

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Small minded people.

    Last year I wrote a series of opinions on my encounters with Ciao; it's been 7 months since I wrote what I said would be a series of perspectives of the site from my view point. Now 9 months (almost) on from my original opinion I thought it a pertinent time to write a piece on my views of Ciao and what it can give the user. Finding Ciao I first heard of Ciao a few years back, but in honesty I never paid it much attention; you see I was under the impression it was another "Amazon" style website. It was not until last October that in a conversation with someone that frequently uses the internet ... more
  • 58 of 58 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    daisyleex

    4 Stars Easy money & lots of fun! 22/03/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A great site

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not many

    Ciao Ciao is a website very similar to Dooyoo and Epinions.The site can be accessed in several countries including the UK and Italy, and it pays you to submit your opinions on a large variety of items, as long as your reviews and writing skills are of decent standard and get rated helpful or above. Ciao is incredibly easy to use and signing up takes 2 minutes at the most. The home page of Ciao isn't anything special with a simply grey and white colour scheme, but it's easy to navigate and find whatever you are looking for due to the product catergories listed on the right hand side of the ... more
  • 118 of 118 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 Sweary

    Member since 10/06/2003

    Reviews written: 34

    4 Stars It's Ciao for now to the surveys... 25/01/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Can be fun, a handy writing tool and you earn pin money

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Earnings are quite small. Niggles on surveys. Ciao's apparent arrogance and laziness dealing with them.

    Today I'm going to be rated not helpful, off topic and generally slammed by all and sundry. You see, here in this Ciao section, I'm going to concentrate on one particular part of Ciao; the surveys. There is a reason for this, that is, that the chaos fairies seem to have hit Ciao again, or at least the bit that sends out survey invitations. I'm not given to moaning about this site, it's run by an amorphous corporate behemoth and anyone who thinks our views can have the remotest impact on what it does or says is deluding themselves. Yep, we really shouldn't confuse the company as a whole with ... more
  • 154 of 154 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 mattygroves

    Member since 23/04/2001

    Reviews written: 159

    3 Stars Hobgoblin of Little Minds 30/11/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Ability to earn pocket money, meet people, make friends & enemies

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Inconsistent enforcing of T&Cs, community points, ability of abusers to prosper

    It does, perhaps, smack of 'navel gazing' - the idea of writing a review of the site on which you are writing a review. However, given that 924 other folk have done the same, it would seem that we all have riveting navels. If you are reading this, you are probably aware that Ciao is a site with several aims, to wit: 1. to provide consumers with reviews of product written by the very people who use such products - other consumers; 2. to provide to firms feedback on their product or service through the reviews written by consumers; 3. to provide to firms market research information through the ... more
  • 109 of 109 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Reposter78

    5 Stars Ciao For Now 14/08/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Earn money, Make Friends & learn about products and services you may want to buy or use.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Chat side could be better and takes a lot of your time.

    I first came across Ciao about 2 years ago when looking through a 'making money from home' magazine that I had subscribed to. The author of the magazine gave a great review of the site and explained it well. Like most people in life, I wanted to make money as simply as I could without having to work a hard days graft and as the author had explained that it was a consumer review and survey site, I thought it was something I would like to try. Unfortunately I didn't own a PC back then but I soon learnt that you don't really have to as most libraries in the UK now have PC's with Internet ... more
  • 185 of 185 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 ilusvm

    Member since 08/09/2004

    Reviews written: 250

    5 Stars CIAO!!!! 02/04/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages fun, meeting new people, earning money, improving your writing and reading

    Disadvantages Disadvantages the abuse which takes place, ciao addiction!

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ciao ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - This Review - I hope this will be one of the best reviews I have written as I have received so much from Ciao in terms of new friendships, enjoyment and even money that I want to give something back in the form of a good review of the site itself. The review is quite long and I apologize for this but in order to include everything, which I felt necessary it needed to be this length! To make it easier to read I have broken it down into sections. - What Is Ciao? - Ciao is a website which consists of reviews and ratings of ... more
  • 138 of 138 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Claiiiree

    Member since 11/12/2005

    Reviews written: 51

    3 Stars It's not all about the Money 14/09/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Earn a bit of extra cash, self satisfaction from writing

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Effort needed to make any cash. Negative aspects from community

    Ciao is an international web based company predominantly based in European countries, including the UK, but has recently entered into the American market, perhaps in anticipation of its acquisition by Microsoft Corporation. The primary purpose of Ciao is to serve as a place where individuals can upload product reviews in a central location, the purpose being that potential purchasers can read these reviews and factor them into their buying decision. The writers of the reviews (The Members) provide a star rating, with five stars being maximum, and one star being the minimum rating. The benefit ... more
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