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Originally Posted by ww888

I doubt this thread has the ability to destroy rice bowls, but I do believe it has marginal influence in helping their business. It used to be more influential when Javabean's list was active. I know of MLs who worked towards getting on List 1, because they know its a sure way to generate business. I used to reference the list frequently given its convenience of having all the MRs compiled.

Originally Posted by Johndick

The impact of this forum on an ML is seriously overrated by some bros imo. While it's true that if an ML get mentioned A LOT positively during a certain period it will create slightly more text booking for them from interested bros in this forum, the truth of the matter is like what you said, there are many more customers who don't bother to come this forum coz to them it's unnecessary, many may not even know such a specific discussion thread exist.

Hence the view that an ML ricebowl can be broken by bros bad FR is quite laughable imo. Some ML in SLG never had a glowing FR but is still plying their trade for damn long already, many had ZERO FR but are still around too.

This thread at the end of the day is for us bros to share our experiences, we don't have that kind of POWER to have that much of a say in ML long term success /failure lah, similar if an ML decide to throw in the towel early and RTC, it won't be mainly because of what was written here, more likely is she can't cope with the "demands" of this line or her personal reasons.

All these makes zappers and white knights actions even more silly, because they are of the opinion that they are helping the ML to protect their ricebowl when the fact is in our local market, typically ML are hardly short of text bookings. Those that lament "no business" is because they die die follow blindly their database records to decide on customers to accept

So let's not kid ourselves lah, we don't have that kind of influence on ML business / livelihood ok

Originally Posted by veneze

Well i think what we do here does influence abit of their business. Ultimately to even use a site to visit them means u hav some level of curiosity to go and decide which one u wana go. Means the customers in this industry r tech knowledgeable. We are more prone to try to find the best using whatever info we find online.

So whatever truth or lies we post here are still being read by customers here. I din believe a bunch of china guys know what we write here. Some i wld believe knows. But we look at $$$$$$ as a china organisation. Their fr on net written in chinese likely ie from their ring people. Anyway i believe we hav that bit of influence given the nature of this industry being online business.

Suddenly thought about all these when I see Xiao Bai tu changing her name
Not the 1st time a ML did this change following a negative review

I don’t know about other sites but I do think SBF exerts a greater degree of short term influence on “rice bowls” than many other sites given most negative MRs are deleted elsewhere

So to some extent, many come here seeking honest opinions

But just short term only (Shorter for positive MR; longer for negative MR)
Whether biz stays that way ultimately comes down to the ML effort

You can have a negative MR but improve and someone will reverse it for you (like Annie)
You can have a positive MR but if you don’t cherish the short term biz boost and maintain the standard, it’ll fade soon enough