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Type of site | Online marketplace |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | eBay |
| Founder(s) | Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, Ramanathan Guha, Mike Speiser, Dion Lim |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | yes |
| Launched | 1999 |
| Current status | defunct in 2018 |
Epinions.com was a general consumer review site established in 1999. Epinions was acquired in 2003 by DealTime, later Shopping.com, which was acquired by eBay in 2005. Epinions users could access paid product reviews; the company sold advertising on its site and shared the revenue with authors as an incentive for quality content.[1] Competition from sites that crowdsourced reviews for free led to years of financial decline. On 25 March 2014, all community features, and features for submitting and editing reviews, were disabled.[2] Subsequently, in May 2018, the site was fully closed down, and URLs in the epinions.com domain redirect to Shopping.com.
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