I just think it's a laugh and fun to enter, who cares about the why's or wherefore's, it's a fun thing for me!

I think it's a bloody cheap way for manufacturers to get quick, fast feedback on their products. The prizes are a joke and doing one every week suggests that we'll seldom get reviews based on extensive experience.

Should Ciao provide a rolling list of every 'product of the week' for the next three months, thus giving members a chance to try out these products and write decent reviews?

It's not as if these products are expensive eletronics or whatever, so if you see they're offering some kind of shampoo at the start of may (as an example), you can go out and buy that shampoo and use it... if you're that way inclined.

Well, so far we had some obscure shampoo with only a handful of reviews and what a surprise, Ciao changed to more popular products the next two weeks, beer and pizza (how very healthy) and reviews keep flooding in for those.

No wonder they haven't got money for more than 10 diamonds, rubbish weekly competitions and video reviews swallowing up good money. Some members must have got hundreds of pounds for their video reviews, I see the same names over and over.

It will be the same for the weekly competitions, the same people over and over who don't use the product pretending they did. It's been made worse by Ciao announcing an overall winner, the more you take part and win the weekly ones the better the chance to win the big price at the end.

Did anybody we know actually make a review ? The only ones I saw were the original guy that I figures worked for ciao.

I've watched a few.

They're as bad as the diamond reviews. The technical one I watched was 80% listing of features and description and about 20% experience/usage.

I watched a few and while one did manage to amuse me, the others I found were poorly filmed indeed. While I certainly wouldn't be any good at doing a video review, I do feel it's important to be able to hear what's being said, to put feeling into your review, and to show the product clearly.
With regards to the 'product of the week' reviews, I doubt I'll enter unless I already own the product and have enough experience of it. There is no way I'll be rushing out tomorrow to purchase the latest product just for the sake of. Also I don't like my guestbook being filled up with messages of "please can you take a look at my latest review" i.e the product of the week. If it's a member who's reviews i read anyway then I'll probably check it out, but I don't want to be bombarded with pleas. Lisa x

I've seen a couple and there are videos which are almost devoid of usage. It's a crime that these are being paid for.

To think, I should have used my bandwidth to watch more 'interesting' videos - some of these are just terrible!

Anyway, Ciao should provide a rolling list, but there is no quality control so I doubt it will happen.

Would a rolling list make any difference? I know it would give members a chance to gain experience of a product, but since when have ciao been concerned about that? I can recall a number of reviews that have clearly stated the product has been owned for all of 2 seconds and still gets rewarded. Lisa x

This really seems to be a bad feature. i had a look at some of the erecent reviews and all we get aew very short, not useful reviews from whitre dots or reviews on basic products such as peanut butter and ice creams which are epics at 2000+ words and longer than my first year university essays. I think i agree with a suggestion the category should be for something more topicl or useful such as an album or film that had been out a month etc.

The recent Peanut Butter Wars were ridiculous - loads of bitchy messages and comments flying back and forth, lots of copying and far too many words about such a stupid product.

I also noticed that at least 2 of last months diamonds were for product of the week categories which just seemed ridiculous - there are only 10 to go round, why give 2 to people you already rewarded for POW?

I've never been tempted in the slightest - the products they choose are mostly just plain silly.

Ha ha in my best Alan Partridge that explains why there have been so many Peanut butter and toblerone reviews on Dooyoo then, another ciao balls up concept.

LOL peanut butter wars!!!
" You are not reviewing super smooth peanut butter"
"Warning this product contns peasnuts" Oh dear.
I've not been tempted either as it is reviewin for reviewing sakes in categories which genuine consumers would not even look at!! (Yes I know I sound sanctimonous)

Loke most of the speakers Corners reviews on Dooyoo I enjoy reading them in a car crash, glutton for punishment way. I like to read them because i know they will be appalling!

I would rather see 'product of the week' scrapped, as reviews on chocolate bars e.t.c are getting unnecessarily long. If they've got this money to pay out on each week and then a bigger payment to the 3 winners at the end of the year, then I'd rather see it being put in the premium fund. Or perhaps it could be spent on some efficient technically minded staff. Lisa x