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by dchuk 4993 days ago
A company that is constantly being sued for extorting businesses into subscribing so that those businesses can suppress bad reviews is now calling out businesses who purchase good reviews.

Yelp is just a shitty company.

2 comments

Could you substantiate that claim? I did a few Google searches, and I find your remarks to be, well... just wrong.

As far as I can tell, there was a class action lawsuit against Yelp, which was dismissed, and a couple of other lawsuits from single business owners. I would imagine that any company the size of Yelp is going to get sued a few times, and I imagine a lot, if not all of those, are just bad small businesses.

Are you just scurrilously slinging mud, based on a single headline you read sometime in the past?

I find Yelp to be quite useful, and the people who I have met that worked there were good, hard-working souls.

jwz now owns a nightclub. Here's his experience: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/02/yelp-shakedown/
Ask any tech-inclined person in NYC and they will freely tell you that Yelp are scumbags
Well put! Don't forget to mention that Yelp has never turned a profit.