All suppliers start equal…its then up to their customers!

In the next few days (we are just uploading additional content and conducting additional testing), shareandcompareplay.com will launch. In the first week, only suppliers of Soft Play equipment will be listed (other non-play equipment suppliers will rollout in the next few weeks) and the first method of rating suppliers of indoor play equipment will be live.

In addition to user ratings / reviews, we also provide an expert overview and provide suppliers with the opportunity to describe their organisations without charge. All of the significant play suppliers have been invited to participate and the door will always be open for them in the future, they will be listed and reviewed by their customers regardless.

The invitations to participate were sent by letter / e-mail (excerpt of communication below) to the Managing Directors of play suppliers around the world on or around the 16th January 2009. Thus far, we have received a description from one supplier which means that this supplier will be listed at the top of the page until users rate their own play supplier. At this point, the star system will take over and the position of each supplier will be calculated by the system; from that point on, nothing except user feedback will change the position of suppliers.

Will be back soon to let you know when we are live.

Excerpt of letter sent to all suppliers

Dear (Managing Director)

Re: Your listing, description and star rating / The World’s First Comparison website for indoor play suppliers


In January 2009, we are launching the world’s first comparison website specialising in supply to the indoor play market…

…As part of our commitment to providing users with impartial and corroborated reviews, we wanted to write to you in advance to advise that our experts have written the following about your organisation for inclusion on www.shareandcompareplay.com:...

…We trust that you feel that this is a fair and accurate representation of your organisation. However, if you believe any of the above information to be misleading or inaccurate, please refer to the enclosed ‘Activation Sheet’.

In addition, we provide suppliers with the opportunity to write a summary of their organisation and to add their logo to the company profile, without charge. If you wish to add your own profile for listing alongside the expert review and those of your customers, please refer to the enclosed ‘Activation Sheet’.

Of course, you are under no obligation to write and publish your own profile or to forward us your logo for listing. However, if you choose not to do so, this may affect your star rating and consequently your position in the listings…

…Please Note: If your opinion is different to that above and can be verified, please refer to the enclosed ‘Activation Sheet’ and we will investigate further before publishing amendments. We may ask that you provide additional information so that we can present only the most accurate information.

The site will also evolve to provide many additional features for both suppliers and (prospective) operators; we believe that it will significantly assist organisations such as yours in the following ways…

…If you are interested in understanding more about our site and potentially partnering with us during its early development stages, (during the Beta Test release, we will be restricting access to certain features to a small number of organisations on a first-come-first served basis), please email us at enquiries@shareandcompareplay.com.

Kind regards
Gareth Lymer