There is a lack of good decent websites that list and review American goods or partially Made in America products. I don't want to force you guys onto the sites I've looked at as well as Elton whose idea this whole thing is but let it be known that a good majority of the sites, they are basically in essence straight up advertising or confusing. All in all they are badly made and if they seem somewhat decent they add a little extra punch by using harsh colors.
So on that note of bashing others for their failure to do anything awesome I think right now would be a good time to put a Elton Nuytens quote right. Right here:
"Its a totally new concept to the consumer!"
Of course this was one of the many quotes I wish I could have gotten from him going on about how awesome this might be, but hey its the only one I fully got down word for word from his mouth to my pen.
But anyways since that is up there let me explain what it is we want to do. We want to start a website that offers some political criticism of everything but also, above all else offers consumers an informative look and rating system on both the viability of a product and its economic benefits that come with purchasing. For example, albeit a relatively simple one is an organic Apple from Washington State. Now whether or not this is from Washington or Oregon is irrelevant, however it is fruit which has to be carried long distances and perhaps sprayed, although this would ruin its organic goodness now wouldn't it. So, because this is an American apple, comes from an Certified Organic farm and even comes from Washington state, meaning for me that its literally from my backyard, that this fine apple, as a product, receives the highest rating on our scale. We haven't discussed the complications of our developed scale yet but we want to keep it simple, so a 3 star system (though technically an average) still yields a possibility of 4 ratings including zero. This literally would mean a truly epic failure, though likely missing the epic proportions needed for said epic fail.
But what exactly are we rating on? How do you expect people to take you guys seriously? We only need to get people that make products to come to us or we find them. There is a good amount of sites out there already that just have really bad layouts or products. We’d take a look at some of those products and give it our rating. Also some of what will be on this site with the layout pending would be the sometimes funny political cartoons and ranting of sorts, even perhaps a discussion on home gardening. We’d try to become so common place of a name (again which we have not thought through fully but we’re working on it) that essentially consumers would want to know about us and producers would want us to know them. It’s that simple. We’d just take a look at products, rate them on their value, evaluate and research their methods of production and also rate them on that. To make clear we would not be a certification, we would be a favorable review with a simple easy to follow rating system.
The rating system of course has the three parts I’ve mention before but never together at once. In order for the product to meet a full 3 star rating, it must be produced in the US, be worthy of its price and support families and workers with working wage jobs. If it is a fruit product, which I doubt we see as reviewing but you never know, the organic certification means that it falls under its value, and usually means that is from the US. Countries close to us that provide us with product would be rated on scale and essentially the closer to China you get the more likely a score of zero can be achieved.
And that is how this hopefully will all work. People will look to see our reviews because of our simplicity used. Companies will want to provide us incentive to view their product (not bribes! We’ll refuse to accept cash on the order of higher ratings!) Any ads on the site for products that do get good reviews will be our greatest income provider. Don’t know when the whole process of this will start but I’ll inform you guys without trying to advertise too much for us when it does come around to fruition.
