--How does this differ from the 'like' feature of Facebook or new eCommerce ventures like ShopMyLabel.com?
- Facebook 'like' lets users show their preferences. ePrio lets users make recommendations
- Preferences are self-centered. Recommendations are friend-centered.
- Experts can privately recommend an excellent car to fit a friend's need they would never buy for themselves.
- Facebook force feeds users their friends' preferences for its own benefit. Rather than acting as a sweatshop, ePrio rewards recommenders.
- ShopMyLabel lets users make public recommendations. ePrio lets users make private recommendations.
- Self-centered, public recommendations invite imitation. True taste and expertise are shared when sollicited in need-centered private requests.
- ShopMyLabel pre-selects its recommenders' offer. Rather than acting as a single supplier, ePrio taps existing affiliate marketing networks.
- ePrio further lets users seek new offers to recommend and join their forces to convince new suppliers to accept their recommendations..
--Won't most users be turned off by the fact recommendations are rewarded?
- If earthly rewards prevented good deeds, non for profit organizations would never pay their employees. Do they?
- What is true is that some recommenders do not want direct monetary rewards. ePrio respects their motives.
- ePrio will let them specify such rewards be forwarded to a worthy cause of their own choosing and propose other types of rewards.
- The status of not for money recommender will be made apparent to their friends but not to merchants.
--Won't users be able to game the system no matter its implementation?
- Recommenders will quickly lose their reputation if their friends find their recommendations bad, be they for money or not.
- ePrivacy forbids forcing recommendations on a user from friends who have lost their reputations with this user.
- What is true is that some merchants may refuse to relay recommendations to avoid paying the corresponding commission.
- ePrio users will understand that merchants are free to hurt themselves by ignoring user-mediated social sales.
--Satisfied with these answers?--
If no, so long. But if so, please look up the challenge before going back to the script.
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