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Default A new community wine site seeking feed back on the site.

On Oct 8, 5:20 pm, Bi!! > wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2:54?pm, wrote:
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> > Hi Everyone,

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> > I need to get some objective feed back from the online wine community.
> > I figure by now alot of you have seen a few hundred wine sites and you
> > know what you like and what you don't. Well after 6 months of
> > development and the choice to build this wine site than buy a house I
> > need some objective feed back. I am not looking for roses or anything
> > I want to know what you really think. Is it good, bad or ok and then
> > if you don't mind "why".

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> >www.grapefoot.comAwine site for everyone. Written by everyone. Share
> > your knowledge. Share your experiences. Share your passion.

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> > Since this is a wine experience posting area I'll share the last wine
> > I tried, it's a super cheap but good Argentinian

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> >http://www.grapefoot.com/wine/Pampas...ay_506_828.htm...

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> It would help if you named the wines in the blurbs instead of forcing
> folks to click on the blurb to find out who the maker is.
> Additionally the site seems very commercial and I would hesitate to
> sign up figuring that I would be asked to buy something at some
> point. Perhaps it was the glowing reviews of Yellowtail (which I had
> to click on to find out that it was Yellowtail) that made me think
> that I was being set-up for a sale.


There is no plan to ask customers to buy something via the site. The
plan is for the site to be a totally free experience otherwise its not
a community wine site.