Comments on: Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Shady Business Practices At Yelp Returns From The Dead http://sfappeal.com/2011/05/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court/ SF Appeal: San Francisco's Online Newspaper Sun, 06 May 2018 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24 By: 74911RS http://sfappeal.com/2011/05/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court/#comment-16766 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:30:12 +0000 http://example.org/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court#comment-16766 I have noticed the same thing. I have a buddy who owns Bullseyedent.com and he is the best businessman and car repair guy I have ever met. He gets nothing but 5 star reviews, but for some reason Yelp has (in their infinite wisdom) decided to hide about 30% of these reviews from his main profile page. He knows it’s because he decided not to upgrade his account. Nobody can prove this stuff in a court of law, but everyone knows it’s true.

The guys that own Yelp are unscrupulous and common thieves.

They harm the reputation of businesses by either hiding good reviews, or demoting them in favor of harmful reviews, in order to ‘encourage’ their clients to get on board with their pay-to-play schema.

Disgusting and wrong. It is just abuse, and these guys know it, and so do the judges. They can’t convict because the guys at Yelp probably have slick (expensive) lawyers who know exactly how far to push it, just shy of getting them caught.

Despicable, and not okay.

For comparison, go check out Wheel Techniques own review page here: and you’ll see how great they really are.

]]> By: 74911RS http://sfappeal.com/2011/05/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court/#comment-13037 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:30:12 +0000 http://example.org/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court#comment-13037 I have noticed the same thing. I have a buddy who owns Bullseyedent.com and he is the best businessman and car repair guy I have ever met. He gets nothing but 5 star reviews, but for some reason Yelp has (in their infinite wisdom) decided to hide about 30% of these reviews from his main profile page. He knows it’s because he decided not to upgrade his account. Nobody can prove this stuff in a court of law, but everyone knows it’s true.

The guys that own Yelp are unscrupulous and common thieves.

They harm the reputation of businesses by either hiding good reviews, or demoting them in favor of harmful reviews, in order to ‘encourage’ their clients to get on board with their pay-to-play schema.

Disgusting and wrong. It is just abuse, and these guys know it, and so do the judges. They can’t convict because the guys at Yelp probably have slick (expensive) lawyers who know exactly how far to push it, just shy of getting them caught.

Despicable, and not okay.

For comparison, go check out Wheel Techniques own review page here: and you’ll see how great they really are.

]]> By: Bobnoxious http://sfappeal.com/2011/05/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court/#comment-16765 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:02:34 +0000 http://example.org/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court#comment-16765 We have the same problem over and over again! Attached is my most recent letter to Yelp.

November 5, 2011 By Registered Mail and email

Mr. Jerry Stoppleman
President, Yelp
706 Mission Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco CA 94103

Re: Messing with reviews

Sir:

Thank you for your non response to my previous letter. I repeat; I know you claim it doesn’t happen but it has happened to us again. I know we are targeted because we didn’t buy your advertising.

We were recently contacted by a very pushy salesperson to do marketing with you. Immediately when we turned her down our good reviews started disappearing again and the bad ones stayed. I know you are doing it as the same thing happened before. She made all kinds of “offers” and we explained what we were concerned about what had happened before and didn’t see the value as Yelp removes our good reviews and saves the bad ones forever. She advised we could report the problem (we have many times) but to no avail.

Before we have to take action on this I am requesting you remove ALL the reviews on the Fior d’ Italia. We can then see what happens. You have filtered out many of the good ones so now filter them all out!

Sir, I am not going to drop this. Please advise what you intend to do.

Sincerely,

Bob Larive
President and CEO, Fior d’ Italia, Inc.

Attachment

Cc: Elif Arslan
C. Langel Esq.
Congressman Wally Herger
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Congressman Tom McClintock
Golden Gate Restaurant Association
California Restaurant Association
National Restaurant Association

]]> By: Bobnoxious http://sfappeal.com/2011/05/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court/#comment-13036 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:02:34 +0000 http://example.org/yelp-is-now-the-mayor-of-us-district-court#comment-13036 We have the same problem over and over again! Attached is my most recent letter to Yelp.

November 5, 2011 By Registered Mail and email

Mr. Jerry Stoppleman
President, Yelp
706 Mission Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco CA 94103

Re: Messing with reviews

Sir:

Thank you for your non response to my previous letter. I repeat; I know you claim it doesn’t happen but it has happened to us again. I know we are targeted because we didn’t buy your advertising.

We were recently contacted by a very pushy salesperson to do marketing with you. Immediately when we turned her down our good reviews started disappearing again and the bad ones stayed. I know you are doing it as the same thing happened before. She made all kinds of “offers” and we explained what we were concerned about what had happened before and didn’t see the value as Yelp removes our good reviews and saves the bad ones forever. She advised we could report the problem (we have many times) but to no avail.

Before we have to take action on this I am requesting you remove ALL the reviews on the Fior d’ Italia. We can then see what happens. You have filtered out many of the good ones so now filter them all out!

Sir, I am not going to drop this. Please advise what you intend to do.

Sincerely,

Bob Larive
President and CEO, Fior d’ Italia, Inc.

Attachment

Cc: Elif Arslan
C. Langel Esq.
Congressman Wally Herger
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Congressman Tom McClintock
Golden Gate Restaurant Association
California Restaurant Association
National Restaurant Association

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