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Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews::Yelp has a new tool to help people track businesses that have tried to manipulate their standing on the review platform..

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Funny how a company that is known for extortion is parading itself as something that looks out for cheating in reviews.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real they are the shittiest company ever. Every time they call I block the number right away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yes I have a small business and I did the stupid thing of listing my business on Yelp. They will try manipulate you into getting into their ads and they ended up charging me $900 for one customer that I got.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Same. I remember friends who owned a small restaurant early in the Yelp days who were constantly harassed and extorted. They survived but the threat to their business was palpable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there's a price to get yourself removed from that wall.