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Re: Yelp silences reviewers voices. Faces class action suit.

janetreererer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:08:24 -0000

Yelp is a complete racket! I have had eight 5 star reviews removed but one disgruntled associate loses her job and spend the next two months becoming an elite yelper just so she can post a negative review about my business. And, it will never be removed. Now they call weekly to get me to advertise on their site. They want me to pay them money to facilitate a blank bitching board for any peon to write any biased review about my business without any verification or recourse? Oh Yes, now businesses can respond but that doesn't affect the star rating which is what clients see when they do a search. I am astonished that there is no legal recourse. I am so looking forward to Yelp going down. They are greedy bastards and deserve to be sued into oblivion.

Re: Yelp silences reviewers voices. Faces class action suit.

Sam — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:35:52 -0000

Yelp! is operated by a buncha post-nazi's. They preach first amendment but then censor anything they deem inappropriate". Any communication with them is full of FAQ answers, and nothing, nothing is ever written from the heart. I understand that they may get millions of e-mails a day, but hey, they're not in it just for fun. Stop copy and pasting e-mail answers to complaints. They're real smart, though, in leaving just enough negative light on themselves as to not seem "too" good or suspicious. Smart move fella's.
Visit www.yelp-sucks.com. Not as many people know about this place though.

Re: Yelp silences reviewers voices. Faces class action suit.

EdmundL — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:38:40 -0000

Yelp's CEO can deny things all he wants, but proof printed on his own website says otherwise. Below's a thread about someone giving a company a bad review, and then a Yelp employee going out of their way to contact and eventually harass the reviewer. When the reviewer blocks the employee's communications to avoid further harassment, the employee then opens a public thread, and divulges private emails.

The employee at first vehemently denies being paid by Yelp, but later gets caught confessing to the whole thing:
"yelps pays me a lot of money to protect its sponsors. its a good racket. dont blow it for me."
The fact that this same employee who began the harassment has also given the other company a glowing review, is completely unethical to say the least.

See for yourself, and quickly, before Yelp pulls the thread down to cover up their tracks:
http://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-calling...

Re: Yelp silences reviewers voices. Faces class action suit.

kc — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:33:41 -0000

i wrote some reviews on yelp previously and even got 1st to review on one of them that was published in the past. Now that I check back at those retailers/restaurants reviews I don't see the ones I wrote. However I can still see the reviews I wrote on 'My account'. Yelp is scum for not publishing my reviews.