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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
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  • Layout & Design
  • Navigation
  • Prices
  		• 3.7
  		• 4.1
  		• 3.8
  		• 3.7
  		• 4.1

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  • 86 of 86 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 docpov

    Member since 10/04/2004

    Reviews written: 127

    5 Stars A History 17/01/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages great experience, great friends, a chance to give your opinion

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You aren't going to make your fortune

    A history, well I suppose I should have put my history on Ciao really as I am going to celebrate my fifth Ciao birthday soon. Firstly, Ciao is a consumer website where you can voice your opinion and read the opinion of others. You can also join in a thriving community side to the site. A day of destiny, the day I joined Ciao. I don’t know what decided me to join really, probably the promise of making a fortune on the survey side of the site I think as at that time I was joining a lot of survey sites. This myth was soon to be dissolved and I don’t bother with surveys any more. It ... more
  • 141 of 141 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 jesi

    Member since 17/10/2002

    Reviews written: 149

    5 Stars "(STILL) WANTED - OPINIONATED PEOPLE!" Review with images 23/06/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You can RESEARCH PRODUCTS and EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS (by surveys, reviews and comments on other reviews); develop (virtual) friendships with (opinionated) people and EARN MONEY!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages make yourself vulnerable; never get rich

    "Wanted - Opinionated People" - yes, that was the advert that caught my attention (did it catch yours?) on the17th of October 2002. It arrived in an e-mail from "MyPoints.com" and it was offering both a chance to earn money by answering surveys for "Ciao!com - the voice of the consumer" and to gain "points" with "MyPoints" - truly an offer I could not refuse. [NOTE: * indicates terms with which you may be unfamiliar - I have included a brief glossary after the review - (Not a comprehensive list, but hopefully a helpful one!)] As you are reading this review, you know what my response to that ... more
  • 96 of 96 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 greenierexyboy

    Member since 27/10/2007

    Reviews written: 80

    3 Stars If it isn't (cough) broken... 28/07/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Layout and design decent, community excellent

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Will the technical glitches never end? Does the Pope live in the woods?

    Inspired by the current round of 'technical difficulties'... Hmmm...this probably won't be a review per se: I can't imagine I'm going to bring any more insight to the party than was imparted by the combined wisdom of the previous 965 entries. Consider it a deeply rambling and unfocussed rumination, loosely strung about experiences in a previous job of mine. If any of it seems relevant or merely lands a glancing blow with a hammer in the same postal district as the head of the nail, well, that's great. At least you may gain some insight as to the internal workings of these 'website-based' ... more
  • 122 of 122 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    TheDuke

    3 Stars Supposedly it's "the voice of the consumer". 04/11/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Earn money by writing reviews and taking surveys.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The community, popularity counts more than writing ability

    Ciao is a European-based consumer review site in the same mould as Dooyoo.co.uk or Epinions.com where, in theory, you can post consumer-based reviews based on your own experiences. The UK site has been around for many years now and has undergone numerous changes. During the early part of 2005, Ciao was taken over by Greenfield, an American survey company. Since then, Ciao has suffered from technical issues, customer care issues and a general downturn in member satisfaction. It's likely that the biggest selling point of Ciao (or any other site of this type) is the rewards for participation ... more
  • 115 of 116 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    an_enigmatic_brummie

    3 Stars Cheeow Ciao 27/12/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Can make money, can make friends

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Abuse, premium fund allocation

    -Preamble- It’s funny how you get to the point where you can only cope with so much e-mail about penis extensions, Viagra offers and lonely housewife’s ushering you towards their webcams. Much as you want to not write, you reach the point where you MUST and any old subject will do. Well, here’s one that’s potentially been 3 years in the making and a subject that’s difficult to do justice to with any reasonable word count. I will try my best, of course, but should you glaze over during any phase of this complex debate then feel free to skip a section(s) or simply clear off for another mince pie ... more
  • 202 of 202 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 patriciat

    Member since 22/04/2002

    Reviews written: 85

    4 Stars Ciao's About That Then 27/10/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Learn about lots of new things

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It can be like school with bickering and fighting

    After reading a lot of negative things about Ciao I thought I would put my oar in and have a say for myself. For those new to Ciao who want to find out more about it, I'm no expert on the subject but I do know it's a site for consumers who wish to learn more about a product before they decide to buy it. This is where the members come in and we write reviews for the consumer to read to help make a purchasing decision. Our reviews can be read by all but only rated by other Ciao members which seems a bit silly to me, the people who really know how helpful the review may be are the would be ... more
  • 81 of 82 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    welshwickedone

    5 Stars Ciao.com or Ciao.co.uk The Long One... Review with images 28/09/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Make Friend, Help Consumers, earn cash

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The odd revenge rating or abusive member

    Ciao.co.uk -------------------- Warning This Is A Very Long Review. ----------------------------------------​---------------- Web address:-http://www.ciao.co.uk What is Ciao? -------------------------- Ciao is a free to join worldwide internet site, which enables use, the public to review products and services we use everyday to help influence others, buying decisions and services they use. You are given the opportunity to write what you feel are good and bad about products you have bought or services you have used, places you have visited and best prices available. In return for your opinion ... more
  • 70 of 70 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 sandemp

    Member since 21/10/2002

    Reviews written: 582

    4 Stars Ciao - For the CONSUMER, by the consumer 27/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Find out what real people think about products

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some people forget its a consumer information site

    I first joined Ciao way back in 2002, while I still, rather naively, believed that I could earn a small fortune from filling in surveys. And, indeed I did receive a few surveys, and when I finally decided to check my account 2 years later I discovered I'd earned the grand total of £9. It was then I decided to look at the other ways I could earn money on the site and at what else it had to offer. ~~~What is Ciao?~~~ At the basic level Ciao is a website that offers consumer opinions on a wide variety of products and services. It offers the chance to discover the good and bad experiences of other ... more
  • 57 of 57 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 jo-1976

    Member since 02/07/2009

    Reviews written: 296

    4 Stars Don't Say Ciao to Ciao! 28/04/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good community spirit, Premium Fund payouts help to boost payments from reviews

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Site is difficult to navigate, regular glitches, over-complicated

    My first experience of writing reviews was not with Ciao but with Dooyoo, one of its main 'rivals' Eventually, however, I was persuaded to give Ciao a go and somewhat reluctantly succumbed to cross-posting some of my older Dooyoo reviews on to the site to 'test the water.' Ciao is an established review site and pays ordinary members of the public for submitting consumer product reviews online. Ciao has a (rather misleading) reputation for paying absolute peanuts though, certainly in comparison to Dooyoo's standard upfront payments for each review posted in addition to money per member reading ... more
  • 99 of 99 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Deru

    Member since 23/11/2003

    Reviews written: 145

    4 Stars All About Ciao - Volume 899 12/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fun, Community, Paid opinons, Paid Surveys, Premium Fund

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Disagreements leading to arguments, Plagiarism, Churners, Competition, PF allocation, a few site bugs

    Having been registered on the site for over a year writing reviews, I thought it was about time for me to write about one of my most favourite sites, Ciao but I'm talking Ciao UK, not .com as the topic says. Here goes … SITE BUGS AND DOWN TIME I really like the site and don't usually have any problems with it but roughly around when I first joined the site, the site crashed and was unavailable for a few hours. Newly submitted reviews, comments, guestbook messages were lost, etc. That was the biggest downtime I've ever encountered throughout my time on the site. There was also a time when the ... more
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