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by e12e 804 days ago
Ah, clever. Committing document fraud?

> Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality.

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> Committing document fraud

Stop using words that makes it sounds like a crime. It’s a survey. Nobody is under any legal requirement to provide correct info.

>It’s a survey. Nobody is under any legal requirement to provide correct info.

A review is arguably just a "survey" as well, but if you provide incorrect info (ie. lie) you can be sued for defamation.

Corporations can be defamed?
Why can't they?
It's a fictive person and not a real one?
Corporations being "fictive person" (whatever that means) isn't a relevant factor. What does matter is that they are legal persons[1], and therefore can sue people under tort law. It's not hard to find defamation cases where corporations are the plaintiffs[2]. In fact corporations suing people for defamation is such a big issue that there's even legislation to prevent it from being abused[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#In_the_Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_Finance_Group,_LLC_v....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...

In the US, corps can have religious beliefs… so maybe a real entity?
If submitting a (false) quote requires submitting falsified invoices, contracts etc, I'm not so sure it's not illegal?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Deception for financial gain is textbook fraud [1]. Probably even Securities Fraud.

Given you can be sued for leaving a negative review [2] it seems entirely accurate you could get sued for leaving a false pricing info.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/can-you-get-sued-over-a-nega...

the CNBC link you provided even says that the guy who got sued for the review later won the case

further more to win the case the other company will have to prove that 1) the document were fake, and that we faked them, and 2) that it doesn't match their real pricing, which means sharing that pricing info with the court and the other party. sure boss, sue me, and tell everyone what your actual pricing structure is, on the record, and at risk of contempt of court. that could be far more damaging than than any actual blowback from people making up numbers on the internet.

hell, post how expensive my product is, so that when I discount it heavily to future customers they think they're getting a sweetheart deal. "oh that quote was for a customer who wanted several bespoke features added, so it was expensive for them. but it helped mature the platform :)"

You can get sued for anything in the US, that doesn't make something a crime.
Not really. It's a sarcastic comment to highlight a potential loophole.