|
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,041
Campfire Regular
|
OP
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,041 |
When I opened my own office a couple of years ago, one of the first things I did was sign up for a bunch of online registries....to include Yelp. Seems like a no brainer to help get your name out there. That is about the extent of my involvement with Yelp, until yesterday.
Toward the end of the day I get a call from them congratulating me for my first "five star review" and now being a "five star business." They wanted to set up a 25 minute appointment to show me how I could better use Yelp to work for me (sell me ads).
So, I had 25 minutes at the moment, let's do it now. Sure enough, there is a great review from a client I had about a month ago, completely unsolicited.
Well this 25 minute consult turned into more than 1.5 hours as they gave me the hard sell on their advertising matrix. Could not skip to the price point despite my requests. And the pricing was far beyond what I was willing to pay, and they wanted a year long contract, which in and of itself would have been a deal breaker for me.
So, I go back and look at my Yelp listing today, and sure enough the review is gone. I long in, and I find it hidden as "not recommended." They have an explanation that their computers know how to spot suspicious reviews and they hide them. So their computers didn't spot it when they were looking to sell me advertising, but when I politely declined, suddenly that review is no longer good enough.
What a disgraceful way for a business to conduct itself.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 41,055
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 41,055 |
Make Gitmo Great Again!! Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,133
Campfire Oracle
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,133 |
Can you post a review of Yelp itself?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,041
Campfire Regular
|
OP
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,041 |
Can you post a review of Yelp itself? Based on this, I'm sure if you could they wouldn't post it! My facebook and google are getting lit up with yelp ads to add to the insult. A lot of folk comment on the facebook adds with similar complaints. What a shady way to do business. EFFem.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 1,780
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 1,780 |
The same thing happened to us with our restaurant around ten yeas ago. We had several five star reviews and they wanted to come over to discuss advertising with them. I said no thanks and they hid all of our five star with the same excuse that they could not confirm the truthfulness of the reviews. They told me they now thought I had written them. Needless to say I do not put much trust in Yelp.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 115,424
Campfire Sage
|
Campfire Sage
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 115,424 |
There is nothing more infuriating than everybody "yelping" a place they haven't tried in the past.
How about this? Try the fugking hamburger, and if you don't like it, you can eat something else four hours from now.
Clark
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,016
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,016 |
This has been happening for many years now. I'd personally not put myself on yelp, because now that you have denied them their extortion fees, I can almost guarantee that you will be getting baseless, negative reviews. If you confront them about this, they will say, "since you are not a 'premium member' or whatever, that they cannot do anything", but if you agree to pay them, they will allow you to remove negative reviews... It's typical jewry.
Last edited by BALLISTIK; 09/20/17.
"Social order at the expense of Liberty is hardly a bargain” de Sade "He who'll not reason is a Bigot, he who cannot is a Fool, and he who dares not is a Slave."SirWilliamDrummond
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 26,422
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 26,422 |
I had no idea that's the way Yelp operated until someone mentioned it a few weeks ago. It's pretty easy not to use Yelp.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 27,091
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 27,091 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 26,422
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 26,422 |
I signed up. I used their reviews and provided a few. Interestingly just after I posted earlier in this thread I got an email from them. I clicked unsubscribe. They asked for feedback, so I let them have it.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121
Campfire Oracle
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121 |
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 2,081
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 2,081 |
South park did an episode on yelp that pretty well mirrors my opinion of their reviewers.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 44,045
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 44,045 |
Actually, it's not. I use it all the time for restaurants. Have found many a little Mom & Pop with great food, as well as good new joints that pop up. Have found it be one of the best ways to search out and find new places to eat, without being a slave to the chains. Plan on using it on the road trip Mannlicher and I have coming up very soon to Wyoming. I use it to for reviews for businesses on occasion, but not much.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 26,422
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 26,422 |
Actually, it's not. I use it all the time for restaurants. Have found many a little Mom & Pop with great food, as well as good new joints that pop up. Have found it be one of the best ways to search out and find new places to eat, without being a slave to the chains. Plan on using it on the road trip Mannlicher and I have coming up very soon to Wyoming. I use it to for reviews for businesses on occasion, but not much. Just think, one of those little Mom and Pop restaurants will have Yelp try to extort money from them holding your 5 star rating hostage until they get it. If they don't get the money, your rating gets killed!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 17,281
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 17,281 |
So YOU'RE the guy who responds to sales calls and keeps them bothering the rest of us....
Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the 24HCF.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,199
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,199 |
I thought this was going to be a turkey thread. 🤔
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 873
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 873 |
Damned near everything is that way. I worked for a place that strove for JD Power awards, and to this day anything that says highly rated by JD Power I steer away from.
Have an orchard, order many of the trees online. This year, I get two runt trees, pruned like [bleep], and left a review stating such...and have also left good reviews on other trees. Only the good reviews made it. Done with them too, it's just not being honest.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 12,311
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 12,311 |
I have this friend. He's recently retired early from a cushy job with a big software company. He and his wife sold all their possessions and are traveling. They have become preferred Yelpers. Their reviews are so highly esteemed that they get invited to openings and special appreciation parties at restaurants. They're living the life on the weight of their opinions of food.
Yikes! What the restaurant owners must have to do to make folks like that happy!
BTW: I was hoping this was going to be a turkey hunting thread as well. My favorite bunch of hens have come back to roost about 200 yards from the back of the house. They gave me a serenade at flydown the other morning. There must be too many hens of the same age in that bunch-- can't make up their pea-brains whose in charge.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121
Campfire Oracle
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121 |
Actually, it's not. I use it all the time for restaurants. Have found many a little Mom & Pop with great food, as well as good new joints that pop up. Have found it be one of the best ways to search out and find new places to eat, without being a slave to the chains. Plan on using it on the road trip Mannlicher and I have coming up very soon to Wyoming. I use it to for reviews for businesses on occasion, but not much. See
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121
Campfire Oracle
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121 |
What's funny to me is that so many apparently believe their opinion matters. Who gives a flying f&ck about a stranger's review of a something?
Sure there could be reviews done by honest, well meaning, albeit self absorbed people. Or they could be left by old pricks like Manlicker.
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
|
|
|
|
98 members (14idaho, 7mm_Loco, 6mmCreedmoor, 300_savage, 1_deuce, 13 invisible),
1,589
guests, and
793
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,190,599
Posts18,454,517
Members73,908
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|