Generally
people browse the website like mouthshut to get an general idea or
overview about a service or product. It is expected that people who
have used that service or a product have had the first hand experience,
and are in a position to explain any problems/ uses that the
manufacturere has failed to highlight. But the case of a buisness
like Goldquest is entirelly a different ball game. One must understand
that a person who writes a review as a USER of Goldquest is not like an
average user of any other product. He is
now practically a shareholder in a buisness and has every interest in
ensuring the sucess of this model. There is a very very big conflict of
interest here.
If you want to know more about Goldquest
system, u can read this:
https://mouthshut.com/review/GoldQuest.com-69912-1.html. But this
review is not about the pros and cons of Goldquest. It is aboutthe
ethics in reviewing. How much can you trust on a review about a service
which is written by the provider of the service. Or say a review on a
product which has been written by its manufacturer.
Here is
an example. Suppose you buy a Hero Honda Bike. The bike is great and
dealer response is always good. You give a positive review for that.
Note that you don’t stand to gain anything by giving a positive review.
You are only directing potential buyers by telling your positive
experience. The dealer stands to gain buisness due to his good
services, that he definitely deserves.
Now come to Goldquest.
Any person who is in this scheme, who is a member of this scheme will
always promote this. Because no matter ’how good’ or ’how big a fraud’
this scheme is, he stands to gain only by promoting it. So he has a
vested interest in making people join this scheme. He is in fact a
STAKEHOLDER here and not a USER by any means. A review by a stakeholder
is purely an advertisement and should be differentiated from a genuine
review written by a USER of a product which is expected to provide a
critical analyses of Pros and cons of a product by users point of view.
Therefore if someone is genuinelly interested in knowing more about
this scheme, a good idea will be to read all the negative reviews and
clear the doubts raised by those before moving ahead. It might be safe
to treat all the positive reviews as a unpaid advertisements, which
they probably are. You must remember that not everything that is there
in a advertisement is right or wrong. But an advertisement never
highlights the negative or bad points.
Imagine, would you
trust every single word in a review on Maruti Car written by a dealer
of Maruti. The problem with Goldquest is that there are no users here,
only dealers. A user who buys a Maruti car may like it or dislike it
and accordingly rate it. But a maruti dealer will always say good about
its brand, he can not afford to say anything else. This is his
buisness. Similarly every dealer/member/ whatever u call them of
Goldquest will always write good things and rate it very highly in any
review on goldquest in the hope to draw more persons into the scheme
and prevent it from collapsing. Because this is the way he ensures to
make more money. All this would be highly misleading for common person
who would think that since users of this scheme are recommeding it so
highly, it might be a good thing afterall.
Forget all the
talk about ’inspirations’ ’leadership’ ’winning attitude’ ’ self
belief’ ’greater the risk greater the achievement’ blah blah. They are just the promotional advertisements from some desperate stake
holders. Use your own judgement and you may realise that the
high rating of this product is an indicator of
proportions of Goldquest Stakesholders from among those writng reviews
on Goldquest.
The people who
might be thinking about getting into the scheme and trying to get some
info about that might find this point of view useful to consider before
getting swayed by all the positive reviews.