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ACME_MAN User ID: 76782502 United States 01/24/2019 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for the heads up, Enigma. All the same, I along with many others are instructing the incoming malevolent ETs to "eat the Canadians first". ; ) Last Edited by ACME_MAN on 01/24/2019 07:05 PM Dedicated to the brave men who fought and laid down their lives on the beaches of Normandy and the plains of Europe . . . that their sacrifice was not in vain. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |
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ACME_MAN User ID: 76782502 United States 01/24/2019 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for the heads up, Enigma. All the same, I, along with many others, are instructing the incoming malevolent ETs to "eat the Canadians first". ; ) Quoting: ACME_MAN Dedicated to the brave men who fought and laid down their lives on the beaches of Normandy and the plains of Europe . . . that their sacrifice was not in vain. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You’re welcome. The only way to avoid having yelp scam you is if you are a small business owner and they call trying to get you to advertise with them don’t say no just put them on for as long as possible. That’s the only way you won’t be flag and have all your good reviews removed. If you’ve already advertise with Yelp and you stop you’re going to be screwed sooner or later, most likely sooner, like me. Do not trust Yelp reviews. They lie. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77248045 United States 01/24/2019 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yelp will delete or make much less noticeable the bad reviews about businesses IF that business pays them. Once I hired a REALLY bad contractor after looking at his Yelp reviews, and I didn't know at the time that Yelp hid his bad reviews - you had to click another small link at the bottom of the page to view his bad reviews. All his positive reviews remains up on top and visible, so it looks like he is overall good. The contractor I hired turned out to be a NIGHTMARE. Yelp should be shut down - they truly do use extortion against businesses. |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | thanks for the alert. Sad world we live in, no ethics. Hope you can sue & collect. Quoting: brighteyes Believe it or not there’s absolutely nothing I can do. If you research this problem you will see that it’s widespread and many people have sued yelp and haven’t been able to get any good results. Yelp as caused many good small businesses to lose customers. |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Definitely. Quoting: BremertonHardcorePunk Yelp will delete or make much less noticeable the bad reviews about businesses IF that business pays them. Once I hired a REALLY bad contractor after looking at his Yelp reviews, and I didn't know at the time that Yelp hid his bad reviews - you had to click another small link at the bottom of the page to view his bad reviews. All his positive reviews remains up on top and visible, so it looks like he is overall good. The contractor I hired turned out to be a NIGHTMARE. Yelp should be shut down - they truly do use extortion against businesses. I guarantee you he’s a paid advertiser. That’s why only has good reviews are showing. |
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Jake User ID: 76890717 United States 01/24/2019 07:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | thanks for the heads up op Evil controls the ignorant... Climate change is a hoax so is the vax you have been fear-porned into compliance! Definition Satan from the bible: Satan (Rev 12:7) exercising his subtle (indirect) impact on heathen governments (powers) – i.e. accomplishing his hellish agenda from "behind the scenes." |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ohh yes, and the leads are fake, invented just to get your money. I remember I got 2 calls from customers only. They said that around 48 click on my add, they charge me $480 for just 2 real calls and 48 fake. Quoting: The wayshower Exactly! This is another issue with them. There’s a bunch of people on YouTube talking about this. I have been so pissed because I work my ass off to provide my customers with the best service possible and I’ve been in business for 12 years and always try to treat my customers right. And I had a ton of five star reviews and one negative review from some crazy person that I could not help. |
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brighteyes User ID: 77237948 United States 01/24/2019 07:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ohh yes, and the leads are fake, invented just to get your money. I remember I got 2 calls from customers only. They said that around 48 click on my add, they charge me $480 for just 2 real calls and 48 fake. Quoting: The wayshower Exactly! This is another issue with them. There’s a bunch of people on YouTube talking about this. I have been so pissed because I work my ass off to provide my customers with the best service possible and I’ve been in business for 12 years and always try to treat my customers right. And I had a ton of five star reviews and one negative review from some crazy person that I could not help. what's your biz op? we will support you if we can. |
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SpringLeak User ID: 75632946 United States 01/24/2019 07:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Own a restaurant? Go around and do fecal / coliform bacteria tests on other restaurants food. Publish on youtube. Sue health department for not doing it. Publish lawsuit in paper. Make more money from that than from your biz. Send me 5% You need to join my vigilante club. Last Edited by SpringLeak on 01/24/2019 07:29 PM SpamSpamSignatureSpamSpam Force Ghost Void God Zombie Wookie King From Beyond The Stars - Also I'm modest and understated. "Those who know, don't teach. Those who teach, are fucking with you." "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift "Whenever possible be more compassionate. It is always possible to be more compassionate." "Four hearts combined are one." "There is a reason we use brains for thinking and concrete for sidewalks." "God is love. All you need is love...and GALAXY BLASTING SPACE WEAPONS." (I knew there was something wrong with this one, it just took me a while to figure it out) "Women are evil, men are dumb, somebody pissed in the beer." "The thing about smart people is: they seem like crazy people... to dumb people." "He who says it cannot be done should not interrupt he who is doing it." "Humanity has driven off the cliff, now the military is holding their hands over our eyes so we don't see the ground coming." "Some of what you read is wrong because the people who wrote it also did not have a very good education and were groping around in the dark when they wrote it. Lets thank them for trying because without people like them we would have a lot more groping to do in a much darker world" |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You can’t delete anything. You have absolutely no control of your business listing. You can sign up to become an advertiser and then add your business hours and information about your business, but once you do that you’re hooked. All businesses are listed on Yelp whether they want to be or not. |
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_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ohh yes, and the leads are fake, invented just to get your money. I remember I got 2 calls from customers only. They said that around 48 click on my add, they charge me $480 for just 2 real calls and 48 fake. Quoting: The wayshower Exactly! This is another issue with them. There’s a bunch of people on YouTube talking about this. I have been so pissed because I work my ass off to provide my customers with the best service possible and I’ve been in business for 12 years and always try to treat my customers right. And I had a ton of five star reviews and one negative review from some crazy person that I could not help. what's your biz op? we will support you if we can. I’d really love to give you guys the name of my business but at the same time I don’t want any crazies to come out and give me any more negative publicity. I’m already bummed about this. All I could think of doing is to try and get the word out about how they extort small businesses. |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Own a restaurant? Quoting: SpringLeak Go around and do fecal / coliform bacteria tests on other restaurants food. Publish on youtube. Sue health department for not doing it. Publish lawsuit in paper. Make more money from that than from your biz. Send me 5% You need to join my vigilante club. You know, All I want is to be treated honestly and fairly. That’s all I ask. But I am really posted at Yelp and am trying to think of creative ways to hand their ass to them. |
brighteyes User ID: 77237948 United States 01/24/2019 07:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ohh yes, and the leads are fake, invented just to get your money. I remember I got 2 calls from customers only. They said that around 48 click on my add, they charge me $480 for just 2 real calls and 48 fake. Quoting: The wayshower Exactly! This is another issue with them. There’s a bunch of people on YouTube talking about this. I have been so pissed because I work my ass off to provide my customers with the best service possible and I’ve been in business for 12 years and always try to treat my customers right. And I had a ton of five star reviews and one negative review from some crazy person that I could not help. what's your biz op? we will support you if we can. I’d really love to give you guys the name of my business but at the same time I don’t want any crazies to come out and give me any more negative publicity. I’m already bummed about this. All I could think of doing is to try and get the word out about how they extort small businesses. didn't occur to me...glad you are smarter than me |
_Enigma_ (OP) User ID: 77191197 United States 01/24/2019 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Own a restaurant? Quoting: SpringLeak Go around and do fecal / coliform bacteria tests on other restaurants food. Publish on youtube. Sue health department for not doing it. Publish lawsuit in paper. Make more money from that than from your biz. Send me 5% You need to join my vigilante club. You know, All I want is to be treated honestly and fairly. That’s all I ask. But I am really posted at Yelp and am trying to think of creative ways to hand their ass to them. I meant PISSED at Yelp, my autocorrect is never correct. |
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Crypto-Tard User ID: 77295044 United States 01/24/2019 07:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ohh yes, and the leads are fake, invented just to get your money. I remember I got 2 calls from customers only. They said that around 48 click on my add, they charge me $480 for just 2 real calls and 48 fake. Quoting: The wayshower Just like Fakebook. Fake reviews, fake users. When you are afraid of losing your life, you have already lost your life. Don't be afraid. |
The DarkShadow User ID: 41362450 United States 01/24/2019 07:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well, I'll never trust Yelp again. It's sort of like Amazon reviews that are being gamed. You have to look at the reviews or check out fakespot.com to know if the feedback is bogus (pro tip, they're fake a good 70% of the time!) What good is a review service is the reviews aren't reliable? Hope this works out for OP! |
Beyond Perceptions User ID: 77020017 United States 01/24/2019 07:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Beware if you’re a small business owner. Quoting: _Enigma_ When you refuse to advertise with Yelp they will remove your positive reviews and leave only negative reviews. They did this to me. I literally had many five star reviews that were removed and I had one negative review that was bogus and that’s the only review they left for my business. This was done after I refused to pay for advertising on their site. They also flagged this one star review as the first review I received for my business which was an out right lie. They currently have a ton of lawsuits against them and many complaints by businesses who have had this issue with them. You can check out YouTube videos with people having this issue and you can also research it on the Internet. I plan to file a complaint with the federal trade commission once the government opens back up, but I don’t expect any results as many people have brought lawsuits to know avail. I would like to let consumers know that you cannot rely on Yelp reviews. They lie. They allow good reviews if they are getting paid by that business. If you want fair reviews pay attention to Google. Spread the word so we can let the public know, Yelp uses extortion to force businesses to advertise with them. If you have their app one star it and tell them why. It’s a big businesses like this that hurt small business owners and they don’t care. I just told my girlfriend about your experience and she said, "WHAT!?!" and immediately grabbed her phone and deleted the app off her phone... "never again". We support small business. "There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other" -Harriet Tubman |
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