"We caught someone red-handed trying to buy reviews for this business." That line will now...

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corte33 Comments (79)
 
YELP is totally dishonest. I recently visited a 5-star Middle Eastern restaurant. It had glowing reviews from months back. All 5-star. It was a small, cafeteria type hole-in-the-wall restaurant with average food. I spoke to the owner, and he told me he's been in business only two weeks!! I've been approached by YELP salesmen promising to bury negative reviews if I bought ads. I turned them down. As it is now, many of us business owners don't want anything to do with YELP, because it's a scam and totally dishonest.
18 Oct 2012, 02:20 PM Reply Like

pman6 Comments (199)
 
yelp is a scam, and requires too much effort to filter out the BS reviews.
18 Oct 2012, 02:25 PM Reply Like

Trainer Comments (77)
 
I can't help but wonder if this new tactic by YELP is simply an extension of their current sales model. It is widely known in the small business community that if you don't buy their worthless advertising that they will smear you by hiding good reviews and featuring bad. It would be a clever enhancement to label a small business as a gamer of the system if one refused to be extorted. I also wonder how long it will take the market to see YELP for the worthless joke that it truly is.
18 Oct 2012, 02:44 PM Reply Like