Feels like a place Reddit or 4chan would tar and feather and then let it hang out and dry until it's dead.
Not needed. Already there are more 1* reviews than other ones. Mostly about the policy. The internet is a harsh place.
Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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>> Yes but then you just pass the fine on to somebody else, which isn't fair. How? If the place has returned the deposit then they have nothing to withhold the fine from ... ? Am I missing something here?
They're saying that someone else would be fined, if they're looking at time of review only.
So you rent the room and someone posts a negative review from their rental a few months ago; do you get fined or not? You might if they're only going off time.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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>> Yes but then you just pass the fine on to somebody else, which isn't fair. How? If the place has returned the deposit then they have nothing to withhold the fine from ... ? Am I missing something here?
>If the place has returned the deposit then they have nothing to withhold the fine from
They have no way of proving the association of the reviewer and the deposit in question to charge from. Therefore it is logical to assume that any negative review would be charged to the currently active account, which may or may not be associate with the review.
This ambiguity prevents a fair result.
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#24If the hotel is clear about these terms, then I don't see much of a problem with this. It makes it really easy to know to pick a different hotel.
I should be stating the obvious here, but the fact that I even have to post this means that obviously, I am not. Just because something is written into the terms of an agreement doesn't make it legal.
Yeah, you are not. Say someone writes a contract saying that they can slap me in the face and each time they do I must pay $100, if I carefully read and then sign that contract, and they then slap me three times — have I been assaulted or do I owe $300, or both?
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>> Yes but then you just pass the fine on to somebody else, which isn't fair. How? If the place has returned the deposit then they have nothing to withhold the fine from ... ? Am I missing something here?
I think their point is that Yelp reviews are usually anonymous. So how do they know which wedding you're talking about? Do they just assume it's the one that happened yesterday?
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#26This is ridiculous. Someone needs to sue them.
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#27Makes sense. Asking for a functional ice machine in the middle of the summer at a wedding is a pretty unreasonable expectation. We're talking about Hudson, NY here. It's practically a wilderness... having an appliance repairman come would be impossible!
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#28What a horrible policy, it won't end well for them. http://www.yelp.com/biz/union-street-guest-house-hudson?sort... 10 negative Yelp reviews have been posted today (so far), ouch... http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g47931-d490934-Revie... Their website navigation is a very discrete image map in the middle of the page, http://www.unionstreetguesthouse.com/ obviously this was someone's first website. It's probab…
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If you have booked the Inn for a wedding or other type of event anywhere in the region and given us a deposit of any kind for guests to stay at USGH there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review of USGH placed on any internet site by anyone in your party and/or attending your wedding or event If you stay here to attend a wedding anywhere in the area and leave us a negative review on any internet site you agree to a $500. fine for each negative review. (Please NOTE we will not charge this fee &/or will refund this fee once the review is taken down). Also, please note that we only request this of wedding parties and for the reasons explained above.
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#29Makes sense. Asking for a functional ice machine in the middle of the summer at a wedding is a pretty unreasonable expectation. We're talking about Hudson, NY here. It's practically a wilderness... having an appliance repairman come would be impossible!
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Spooky23 is being sarcastic.
Re: Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
#30What a horrible policy, it won't end well for them. http://www.yelp.com/biz/union-street-guest-house-hudson?sort... 10 negative Yelp reviews have been posted today (so far), ouch... http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g47931-d490934-Revie... Their website navigation is a very discrete image map in the middle of the page, http://www.unionstreetguesthouse.com/ obviously this was someone's first website. It's probab…
Nice: If you have booked the Inn for a wedding or other type of event anywhere in the region and given us a deposit of any kind for guests to stay at USGH there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review of USGH placed on any internet site by anyone in your party and/or attending your wedding or event If you stay here to attend a wedding anywhere in the area and leave us a n…
> for the reasons explained above
Being lazy and not reading it myself: do they attempt to adequately explain the policy other than "we'd like to be able to be dickish without getting bad reviews" in "the reasons explained above"?
(edit for those only reading this far: it appears that they do, see the replies to this post for detail)