Plenty. But do not take my word for it. Mashable, a popular social networking news blog, reveals following information:

ePerks is a site that offers consumers cash-back incentives, and businesses with a way to get their products in front of potential customers.

Launched by Ben Behrouzi, who also founded Reply.com, ePerks was funded with his own venture fund.

I have to admit. Every time I read the above two sentences I can’t help but wonder if the coward who posted on Yahoo! Answers was paid and who paid him? I may never find answer… But then again, I may just get lucky. There are a lot of good people out there.

But the venture capital and the founder are not only things these to company have in common. They both shared good amount of criticism. One round of criticism took place on my blog. Which, as many of you know, lead to cease and desist notice which eventually misfired- my blog ranks #2 on Google for the term “eperks”.

Reply.com received a share of negative reviews as well. But it was almost two years ago. Reply.com just underwent a major “face lift”, and even embraced the new social media element into their new website- a blog, even though my comments did not stand a chance to survive there. But I don’t blame them. I might have deleted many comments by the “fans” leaving suspiciously positive comments on one of my posts. It this respect I can call it “fair enough”.

I have spoken, if you have anything “juicy” on either company- be my guest help yourself to the comment form below. Positive (if there is any) feedback is also welcomed.

UPDATE: I have had a pleasure of speaking with Mr. Payam Zamani, the Chairman and CEO of Relpy.com. Mr. Zamani had clarified to me that Reply.com has nothing to do with ePerks and that Benham Behrouzi had left the Reply.com back in 2006. I appreciate Mr. Zamani’s transparency, and felt it was my duty to update this post for my readers.

Disclosure: I do not pretend to be fair nor objective when I write about either company- they don’t deserve it as far as I am concerned. Everything written above is my sole opinion. Everything written above is for my own amusement and your entertainment- please don’t take me too seriously. Neither of the company had paid me to write this post- I made that mistake once. I fully reserve the right to pursue legal actions against either of the companies….. blah blah blah blah. You get the picture.