The ValueStar Customer-Rated Program and ValueStar Verified Ratings & Reviews were previously offered at this website by Service Ratings, LLC, but were discontinued effective June 24, 2011 as the company embarked on a growth strategy emphasizing the licensing of its proprietary ratings and reviews technologies. That strategy precluded Service Ratings from continuing its support for its ValueStar-branded programs.

We are sorry that we are no longer able to support the ValueStar-branded ratings and reviews programs. If you were previously a participant and have questions regarding your participation, please email Support "at" ValueStar.com.

Service Ratings, LLC is a developer and licensor of innovative technologies and business models in the field of ratings and reviews gathered by consumers about local businesses. The company owns patents and pending patent applications of systems for gathering ratings and reviews in ways that are both high-trust and high-volume, and that provide a direct revenue stream for ratings and reviews publishers.

In particular, Service Ratings' patented transaction-driven ratings process solicits feedback from participating consumers based on where they have used their credit cards, and rewards those consumers with benefits such as loyalty points or service guarantees. This proactive approach to gathering ratings and reviews generates larger volumes of feedback from a more representative customer sample than other methods for gathering reviews.

Service Ratings' provides ratings and reviews programs distinguished by:

• Ability to generate substantial reviews for businesses and business categories that historically do not attract significant reviews on their own.
  
  
• High levels of trust and reliability, in that reviews are accepted only from confirmed customers of the business being reviewed, so protecting consumers and the businesses themselves
  
  
• Consumer benefits, such as loyalty points or service guarantees, for participating consumers, and such benefits greatly reinforce publishers' and client businesses' existing loyalty programs.
  
  
• Direct revenue generation, turning the technology and administrative expense incurred by most directory publishers into a more easily managed -and profitable-source of content and competitive advantage.
  
  
• Ease of implementation, given the availability of an Oracle-based ratings and directory engine developed at a cost of several million dollars that can be integrated or components adapted to a partner's existing infrastructure.
  
  

For more information regarding how a Service Ratings program can benefit your business, please email us at Partner "at" ValueStar.com.