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Jul 29, 2021
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Jeremy
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Well documented Yelp is a bully. In some ways they enable defamation.
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Negative Yelp reviews
Ham
7/29/21 11:28am
Write your review, if the owner contacts you and is legitimately trying to
Pablo Bot
7/29/21 11:31am
Why, the experience was still negative. Why not post a follow up and clarify
ordinary tri guy
7/29/21 11:33am
I think that's a fair way to do it. Make it clear that the owner made it right
Tricky
7/29/21 12:00pm
Or offer to return to give the place another shot. Then update the original
garyfan
7/29/21 11:34am
Reviews are completely worthless because of this.
SLC-Warrior
7/29/21 11:32am
I only do negative reviews if the employees were jerks or incompetent.
maxpowers
7/29/21 11:33am
Yet that’s the problem that may be easiest to fix.
garyfan
7/29/21 11:35am
Yelp sucks and so do their reviews....
ordinary tri guy
7/29/21 11:33am
Idiotic decision on their part, though it won't bite them if more cases ...
Coop
7/29/21 11:37am
Well documented Yelp is a bully. In some ways they enable defamation.
Jeremy
7/29/21 11:40am
I have found Americans don't use Yelp as much as foreign travelers.
ordinary tri guy
7/29/21 11:45am
I basically only use yelp for finding pictures of what food at a restaurant
Gustav
7/29/21 11:46am
The problem is that negative reviews carry far more weight than positive reviews
garyfan
7/29/21 11:33am
If I just don't like the food, I'll generally leave a low star rating
StantonMac
7/29/21 11:33am
As a small business owner I see both sides. It's hard not to take negative
wabluecoug
7/29/21 11:33am
The first Yelp review I left was after I tried contacting the business (floor
maxpowers
7/29/21 11:34am
Yep. Give them a chance to fix things if they can.
zonacougar
7/29/21 11:38am
And it becomes trickier knowing that Yelp allows restaurants to manipulate their reviews, for a price of course. It is a
vegasnative
7/29/21 11:33am
I only leave good reviews if I liked a place. It has to be very bad to leave a
BNcoug
7/29/21 11:34am
If I write a negative review and the owner contacts me to make it better I update my review and give a good score.
byuluvr
7/29/21 11:34am
It takes a pretty poor experience for me to leave a negative review somewhere.
DieHarder
7/29/21 11:35am
Get a job where every random yahoo is able to review you individually
cougfanz
7/29/21 11:40am
A recent VRBO property we stayed at bribed us w $700 not to leave a negative
kotacoug
7/29/21 11:40am
I'd take the $700
mudpupper
7/29/21 11:54am
I've gotten some pretty good refunds for writing honest negative reviews
Chasicle
7/29/21 11:41am
My policy is to have the self discipline to write one good review for every bad
AggieWeekendCougar
7/29/21 11:46am
The problem with almost all reviews, both positive and negative, is that they
Capener43
7/29/21 12:25pm
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