Friday, December 26, 2014

HAVE YOU BEEN HARASSED BY YELP?

As Yelp's harassment against me continues, they continue to remove my Business from the search results. 
 If you search "Movers, or Moving" in the area, I may not show up. They remove my business for a couple of days (up to a week) then replace it. Yelp will remove my listing from one city (then replace it), then another city (and replace it).

 YELP has removed my "5 Star Reviews" when I refused to pay them to advertise and a 1 star review suddenly appeared (not a customer of mine). 

As of this date, 23 (5 star) reviews removed. 8 completely vanished. All others are put on the filtered "not recommended page". 

Almost every customer that has written me a 4-5 star review has been removed and ALL of their reviews (that they left other businesses) have been removed or deleted.

Yelp's (pay us, or else) extortion tactic is happening to thousands of small businesses. Yelp has almost 13,000 bad review on it's own site. Several thousand claiming this same kind of extortion. (read the reviews on their own site that have been 'filtered" or removed totally). 

Customers' reviews are taken down if the company is 'blacklisted by yelp' (for not paying money to Yelp). 

Yelp also blocked my access to change my Bio picture, blocked access to modify my business name & most of my business account. Yelp refuses to let me add a business name, or change my business name (I also have a license to operate under a different DBA).

If anyone complains, Yelp staff says "it's the filtering system, we have no control over it".

 Did this software suddenly become "self-aware"? 
Is it taking over Yelps computers and servers?
Is it going to destroy the human race?? 
 I think that the staff at Yelp has been smoking too much weed and watching too many Terminator movies.

Yelp has over 2,100 complaints filed with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), a majority claiming "EXTORTION theough fear" ('if you don't pay us, we'll remove your reviews and ruin your business).

Yelp's child-like temper tantrums are almost laughable as they can't accept that nothing they do will make me pay them their extortion money. HA-HA Yelp staff... you can suck it.

What will Yelps staff do now?

Will they wait in the dark, outside my house, and call me names from their shadowy hiding place?

Will they stick out their tongue at me if the see me on the street?

Or will the go home, suck their thumb and pee their bed, like the child that they are, when they realize that another day has gone by and they still couldn’t force me to pay their extortion money.

LET'S RECOUNT:
- Yelp calls 1 - 3 times a day for over a month.

- Each time I refuse to pay, they remove more 5 star reviews.

- My customers (who’s reviews were removed) leave 1 star reviews on Yelp.

- All of those reviews were removed from Yelp’s page and those customers are "blacklisted" and ALL of the reviews they've left for others have been removed.

- When my customers start leaving bad reviews for Yelp, Yelp blocks my access to most of my business account.

- Yelp calls me a few more times. Says pay us money and we’ll help you get your reviews put back up.

- I refuse and Yelp sales rep gets frustrated and removes my business from the search results.

- You search ‘movers” or “moving” and I don’t show up anymore.

- Yelp blocked & removed my Personal account because I left Yelp a 1 star review for what they did.

- Went from a 5 star status, down to a 31/2 star status.

- I get another personal account (Yelp rules say I can have one business & one personal acct).

- Yelp removes all reviews I left for other businesses and "blacklists" this new acct.

-Yelp staff modifies my homepage and removes specific information (repeatedly).

- I still refuse to pay Yelps Extortion money, even after they promised to give me more work & bring back my 5 star reviews.