Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in

Post by timr » Tue, May 02, 2017, 3:14 AM UTC

Rexxar wrote: post #71

timr wrote: post #39

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To be blunt, they're total bullshit. Which is why you never see any evidence , outside of vague hearsay from someone's uncle. Yelp has a small army of people cold-calling every business in the country to sell ads. Simultaneously and independently, they have a system that filters out bad reviews, all day, every day. Just by chance, someone is going to get called soon after reviews have been filtered. This leads, inevi…

It could be a small part of those people who are doing this in order to have a bigger bonus. Bad incentive structures that cause bad behaviours is not an unknown phenomenon.

Post by perfectstorm » Tue, May 02, 2017, 3:39 AM UTC

post_break wrote: post #68

metalliqaz wrote: post #13

I would like very much to grab my pitchfork and point it menacingly at Yelp, but I have yet to see one of these stories with hard evidence. There are many, many stories of bad (and incriminating) behavior on behalf of Yelp salespeople over the phone, but I have never heard a recording. Even though most claims indicate that the harassing calls are repeated many times. Somebody record one of these calls and become Inte…

Here is some hard proof... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67Lh4LE5LY

Post by perfectstorm » Tue, May 02, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

1ris wrote: post #85

Does Yelp verify that buiness actually exist? If I was in the US, had too much time and money on hand it'd do the following: Start serveral business and make sure they never actually serve costumers. Sign them up with yelp. Write a few positive and negative reviews about them. Spend money on yelp advertising on some of them. See how they compared to the control group. If the rumors are true, sue them with anti-mafia-…