Status: http://www.teethbleachingkits.com

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emswebs

Should this go into a shopping category, then? Other sites listed in this category are also resellers. Not sure why this one doesn't qualify. (http://www.whitenmyteeth.com/, for example, sells some of the same products that my client does.)

As for the thread attached to this site, I hope the over-zealous web promoter didn't screw up my client's chances of getting listed.
 

nea

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Should this go into a shopping category, then?

It was already submitted to, and rejected from, a Shopping category. I'm sorry, but the site was found not to be listable anywhere in the ODP - and that has nothing to do with the referenced thread but the fact that the site contents are not unique.
 
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emswebs

Well how do I appeal this decision because there are *several* who ARE listed in the ODP that do exactly what this site is doing.
 

lachenm

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Pointing out other sites that violate our guidelines will not make yours more likely to be listed. Consider a person caught spraying graffiti on a building, whose response is "But look at all those other guys tagging your walls!" Do you really expect the building owner to say, "Well, in that case, go right ahead. In fact, lend me a spraycan so I can help!"? Pointing to other violations of our policies does not invalidate the policy.

We will be happy to remove sites that violate our guidelines, but we are not going to add sites just because a few similar ones have slipped through the cracks.

If you know of other listed sites that are in violation of ODP guidelines, you can bring them to the attention of a meta (preferably) or editall editor for investigation -- use editor feedback or a private message here.

If the sites have changed content (e.g. hijacks, dead links), resulting in inappropriate listings, you can report them in http://www.resource-zone.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=34320

You could also submit an update request for the site(s) in question, detailing the problems you found, and an editor should investigate them.

If you believe that the listings are due to abuse by an individual editor, you can report this at http://inelegant.org/report-abuse/ .

However, as for your site, you have been given the status and that's all this forum is designed to do. No site is guaranteed a listing. Your site is a reseller and it will not be listed.
 
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emswebs

Thank you for your very detailed response. I'm not saying that I demand an inclusion because others have been included, I'm just saying that when other sites *just like mine* have been listed, it seems that the policy is inconsistent. Unfortunately this particular category doesn't currently have an editor. I'm not trying to flame anybody here, I'm just explaining that from my point of view it doesn't seem fair.

Thanks for your help and for your time. I'll be happy to report the sites that seem to be in violation.
 
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