Do you know of anyone that has contributed to this opinion website? The site allows anyone and everyone to provide reviews from bubble gum to restaurants to the condition of sidewalks.
The main concern is that the anonymous nature allows competitors or unhappy people to disparage the business by creating illegitimate negative reviews on their respective profile pages. Is this fair to the average consumer that is trying to get a fair perspective about a product or service?
So…Yelp has introduced a new plan to help alleviate negative reviews. In fact, for $299 a month you can remove any reviews from your profile. Are you freaking kidding me?
Picture this. A hard working business man trying to make a dollar in a very tough economy. He or she looks at a website and some slouch puts a bad review of their business on the profile. Who knows…maybe the person doing the review had a bad day, maybe they are just a prick and never happy about anything. Either way, negative reviews hurt business. Many people go to the review sections on the Internet and base their entire opinion upon those reviews.
It’s completely unfair that a website allows this to happen and then bribes the business owner to have the opinion removed. I will be boycotting this type of practice until they do something about their unfair practices.
Boycott YELP!!!!!!