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| The Retrevo Real Time Review and Recommendation |
| Retrevo’s algorithms scour the entire web daily, processing 100M data points, to determine how a product compares in price and features to every other product in its category in the market. Retrevo also analyzes expert and user sentiments across the web to decide if people like this product. The result is the Retrevo Real Time Review - objective, unbiased, and we aim to make it available for every selling consumer tech product.
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| The key elements of the Real Time Review: |
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| Is this product current? – The Product Lifecycle tells you if this product is new or old |
 Our algorithms analyze the age of a product relative to the shelf-life of similar products from a given brand, the velocity of the product through the retail channel and the velocity of user discussion around it on the web and produces the industry's first lifecycle curve of a product that tells a user whether a product is New, Reaching its Prime (right for mainstream buyers), Over the Hill (older product that might work for bargain hunters) or Ready to Retire (almost obsolete). If a product receives a lot of current interest and discussion on the web, it is deemed as Buzzing. |
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| Do people like it? |
| We aggregating ALL the expert and user opinions about a product from all over the web, synthesizing and summarizing them into a single overall community sentiment so you get a good validation before buying a product. We always provide more details so you can read the most helpful reviews if you wish. |
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Is the product a Good Value?
Retrevo's proprietary Mark-to-Model valuation technique analyzes capabilities of all selling products in the retail channel to compute a Fair Price for every one of them. Given prices change frequently in the market, we compute the fair price of every product daily. If a product is selling at a discount to its Fair Price, it is assigned a Good Value rating by Retrevo. |
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The Retrevo Recommendation
The Retrevo recommendation factors in all the data from the Retrevo real time review and produces a recommendation, which can be: |
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A RETREVO PICK
A Retrevo Pick is given only to the best products in their class. A product has to provide exceptional value for its price/features, and be well liked by people to qualify as a Retrevo pick.
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A ‘GOOD BUY’
A product has to provide good value for its price/features, and be well liked by users to qualify as a ‘Good Buy’.
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AN AVERAGE BUY
If a product provides fair value for its price, and neutral customer ratings, it is an Average Buy.
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BUY WITH CAUTION:
A good value item with poor reviews is something we recommend you do further research on.
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A ‘DO NOT ADD TO CART’:
If a product does not provide value for its price/features, or if a majority of users do not like it, we consider it our duty to tell you about it. In such cases, Retrevo will advise you not to buy a product.
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| Is it Time to Buy? |
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Prices for consumer electronics fluctuate in response to new product introductions and merchandising strategies at various retailers. Retrevo strives to help you evaluate products in the best possible way so you have a good experience with them. We monitor all these product and price changes daily and present our findings in Retrevo's Time to Buy analysis that helps you understand (i) the Fair Price to pay for a product based on its feature set, sentiment and comparison to similar products selling in the marketplace, (ii) whether today's price is the best price to pay based on historical prices and projected price swings and (iii) whether you should wait for prices to drop before making a purchase. |
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