Alright, We too have been waiting far to long for review funcationality on our sites, so we built our own.
click here (click on more info tab)
When a user posts a review it goes into a database we have created and an email is sent to our 'moderator'
The moderator has the ability to approve a review (which publishes it on the page), edit it (to remove vulgarities or whatever) or delete it.
We will be pushign 'average ratings' at the top of the review screen as well so a user can see how many reviews and the average rating of the item very shortly.
Our system knows the itemID of the product (using merge code on the page) and that is what dyanmically pulls the data from our review DB to render on the site.
I know there is significant interest in the forums for this type of functionality, and we are considering providing it to other AC customers, who are not in our particular industry.
I am thinking of a nominal setup fee (we have to build a store ID for you in our review DB adn help implement in your site), but with no monthly fees, since we will not be providing any type of support/enhancemens/maintenace. Instead of a monthly fee, we would want a link back to our website in the footer of every page of your site (including homepage) with text along the lines of
Product Reviews Powered by xxxxxxx
with xxxxxx being the clickable anchor text
You would have your own admin console to manage the approval/denial/editing of your reviews, and they will be exclusive to your site.
... ultimately, I would love to be able to edit the template of my AC backend to include a link to my review administration console , but in the interim we will have the link to the console embedded in each 'review notification' email sent to the moderator
Is there anyone here potentially interested in this type of relationship?