Company Claims Submitting Negative Yelp Review Violates Contract
from the well,-don't-sign-such-contracts dept
Patty points us to a Reddit post where someone claims that after posting a negative Yelp review, the company being reviewed threatened the reviewer with legal action, claiming that the review violated a contract that the customer had signed. The business apparently is one that repairs damaged hard drives or recovers data off of them. The customer was clearly not satisfied. Where it gets strange though is that the company claims that the negative review violates the signed contract. As per standard Reddit practices, the details of the company are redacted, so it's a bit difficult to dig into the facts here. However, it seems likely that this threat is more about getting the person to back down than any realistic shot at legal action. One would hope the company would realize that if it actually took legal action, that information would spread far and wide across the internet, and would probably do significantly more harm than any single bad review on Yelp...






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Epic Data Recovery Labs
I have never seen a business with this low a rating on Yelp and spend way too much time on Yelp.
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Hell,
Just saying, a couple bad reviews just means you've been around long enough to piss off somebody. Good for you! (Who cares?) Keep doing what you're doing as long as people are willing to pay you for it.
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Streisand HD Repair
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Re: Epic Data Recovery Labs
If you're pissing off everybody, stop doing what you're doing.
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Re: Epic Data Recovery Labs
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Re: Hell,
Also this whole thing is barely post-worthy since it was just a guy emailing a threat.. there was no actual filing, and the actual email looks like it was copy and pasted from a 16 year old and edited by an 8 year old.
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- Owner refuses to respond to customer
- Owner is withholding customer's property
- Owner is threatening to sue for negative Yelp reviews
- Supposed contract states "and/or Anything other than a positive basic Review (anywhere in any form)"
- Owner appears to be posting fake positive Yelp reviews
- Website links to Digg and looks like it was made on Geocities. Epic indeed.
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Lawsuit anyone?
I think a few of the posters on this Page might be the same guy. If you look at them pointing out and doubting the 5 stars yet you don't doubt or mention the fact that all the Negative reviews are posted on the same day. Isn't that fishee? What many people don;t know is that Astro-turfing is illegal theses days. And extortion can land you in jail other than posting false reviews about your competitor on websites. The whole world is being effected by these fake Profiles. If I owned a sight I would have the Members verify themselves with a credit card to keep out multiple false Profiles from being made and catching the criminal if they commit something. Its just too easy to launch a web attack these days... If the company was crooked they be out of business or in jail by now. I shouldn't have to say that, you shouldn't believe everything you read.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/24/yelp-class-action-lawsuit/
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People in over seas pull down dictators by putting their lives on the line, why can't we have an organized demonstration to bring light and attention to this?
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Re: Got Scammed also, please help
I just want my harddrive back at this point.
But he's not responding.
What can I do?
Please help.
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