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Complaint Review: Yelp - San Francisco California

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  • Yelp 650 Mission St., 2nd Fl. San Francisco, California U.S.A.

Yelp - Jeremy Stoppleman - Nish Nadaraja - Stephanie Ichinose Yelp allows false and libelous business reviews to remain on website , and then solicits payment to remove them San Francisco California

*Consumer Comment: Yelp asks you to pay them to move bad reviews

*Consumer Comment: My customer/consumer experience of this site is bad

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Our store is Razzberry Lips in San Jose. We had a woman falsely accuse us of being "racisit" on Yelp.com.
She showed up 30 minutes late for an appointment and we couldn't give her the full minutes of service , because we are booked back. She was told well in advance to be on time because of this.
Yelp would not remove this review , despite many requests.
Yelp's sales reps use negative postings as a "lead source" to call the owner and attempt to sell Business Owner Accounts.
I received a phone call from a sales rep named Summer who stated that negative reviews could be moved to the bottom of the page and possibly removed in the future if I purchased a Business Owner Account.
The hypocrisy of the Yelp founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons is legendary , and is further amplified by their removal of my negative "review" of Yelp on their own website. So much for , "The voice of the people" or "Real People. Real Reviews"
Yelp hires paid "Yelpers" $15 / dollars an hour to write reviews because their business model is not succeeding. The ads for paid Yelpers can be found on Craigslist in every metro area in the U.S. You could call this, " Paid People . Fake Reviews".

Bill
Saratoga, California
U.S.A.

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#2 Consumer Comment

Yelp asks you to pay them to move bad reviews

AUTHOR: Rodger - (United States)

POSTED: Monday, September 24, 2018

Our company has had almost nothing but good reviews, but there are 2 bad reviews that still show up on the top of the list of our reviews on Yelp. Yelp calls us weekly asking us to pay a subscription fee in order to move the bad reviews farther down the page. No matter how many good reviews we keep getting, those bad reviews stay on top, and Yelp keeps asking us for payment to get the reviews off the front page. Yelp is a bogus review site. 

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#1 Consumer Comment

My customer/consumer experience of this site is bad

AUTHOR: Valcrow - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, December 26, 2008

With this yelp site it was different for me.
First off, the site is a joke and messed up.
Id go to places that had great reviews and experience very poor, rude, CRAPPY service. *examples are like la fonda, dicks last resort etc, or autoshops*
When I wrote my negative feedback, it was quickly deleted, EVEN IF IT WAS IN THE GUIDE LINES!!!
I found that the owners employees wrote positive reviews, how can I tell? The idiot manager posted his real pic, that you could find on there official website, and said 'the above feedback is a discruntle cow with no life.' *aka the obvious la fonda owner stated b/c of his pic*
As for the places with negative reviews, I went and it was actually pretty good, both big or small businesses.
Maybe the reviews were fowl play or the business just cleaned up there act and the bad reviews stayed BUT...when my positive review was posted...IT was deleted rightaway.
So, as a customer I feel that its abuse to us as well as to businesses who are good and competitors are trying to eliminate.
Thats why yelp.com is on here b/c my experience is that they are a ripoff.^_^

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