Feeling left behind

Dear editors,

I have suggested my company's retail website to DMOZ since 2002, once every 1-2 years. Our website is a leading reseller of the products in our industry. We have over 2000 eBay feedbacks from our customers and 100% satisfied eBay and Amazon rating. I have read many forum postings. I've followed DMOZ guidelines but still can not get listed in DMOZ.

I kindly ask if you could help us, we would greatly appreciate a quick look at the URL and let us know if there's an editor in this catagory:

Top: Business: Telecommunications: Services: Phone Cards

I can provide the URL at your request.

Very truly yours,
Edwin Janaslani.

Sorry, but we don't answer staus requests anymore.
Please read Discontinuation of site status checks and our FAQ.

janaslani said:

Dear editors,
We have over 2000 eBay feedbacks from our customers and 100% satisfied eBay and Amazon rating.

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This is not relevant for a DMOZ listing.
Relevant is: do you have unique content on your website

Unique content? It is a retail site. We are authorized resellers of the fastest growing segment of telecommunications in the world, wireless phones.

It seems that getting your site approved on DMOZ is not based on uniqueness of content, but rather by luck of the draw. I can assure you that our competitors did not get listed in DMOZ for their uniqueness, I can provide examples! Our site has history and a large customer base. We are providing a valuable service to the internet community, the very people DMOZ claims to serve. Yet every boiler plate response from the editors of your organization simply brushes off our past and present requests to be reviewed.

IMHO, DMOZ owes it success not to the way it operates, but to first mover advantage. DMOZ should rethink its policies of site inclusion before innovative companies like google that are the true driving force behind the ongoing movement of the world wide web deem it as irrelevant and old.

Respectfully yours,
Edwin Janaslani.

janaslani said:

Yet every boiler plate response from the editors of your organization simply brushes off our past and present requests to be reviewed.

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That probably is caused by the fact that you can not make a request to review a site at all.
You (and anybody else) can only suggest a site to DMOZ. The DMOZ editors can (which does not mean must) use these suggestions to build the directory.
If your site is not listed yet and it has unique content and does not violate the DMOZ guidelines in any other way the most probable situation is that no editor has yet reviewed the site.

Because of the technical problems we had end 2006 it might me possible that your previous suggestion is lost. You are allowed to make one more suggestion (this will not harm you or your site and will not influence the review process).

pvgool said:

Because of the technical problems we had end 2006 it might me possible that your previous suggestion is lost. You are allowed to make one more suggestion (this will not harm you or your site and will not influence the review process).

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I have. I actually re-suggested my site, before joining this forum earlier today, it is my last attempt.

Your comments about eBay feedback suggests that your website is an eBay store. You presumably aren't aware that we don't knowingly list those.

This policy has been re-examined on several occasions and the consensus remains that we don't. It's not likely to change any time soon.

To clarify, my website is not an ebay store, it's a stand alone e-commerce site. We do get customers from ebay however thru auctions.

If there are any clarifications to make, they need to be made for the surfers (or volunteer ODP site reviewers), not the ODP editors who are here to answer questions. And the place to make those clarifications is on the website.

hutcheson said:

If there are any clarifications to make, they need to be made for the surfers (or volunteer ODP site reviewers), not the ODP editors who are here to answer questions. And the place to make those clarifications is on the website.

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Of course. I was simply responding to jimnoble's post.