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Originally Posted by jwiley
There are plenty of businesses that know all about Yelp and their extortion tactics, which is why many business owners now refuse to even acknowledge it exists.
OP I would be very careful trying to build your business depending on Yelp, a year ago I was quoted a monthly advertising fee of $750 a month, when I declined the offer all of my reviews disappeared (all of which were 4 or 5 stars). There was a lawsuit about it but the ruling was against those who sued due to Yelp basically owning the rights to everything on their site, so they are legally extorting businesses.
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Yeah I have heard of a some businesses being anti yelp.
In the area at least most of the places don't have many yelp reviews , so I'm not sure how many people do look on there.
There are two really bad (1 star) reviews on our profile , so I'm sure that doesn't help us. Not sure if Yelp would delete those since it was from the old management.
$750 a month sounds pretty crazy! That's terrible they removed your reviews after you declined paying the $750.
Personally I use Yelp a lot, but a lot of other people might not be the same. Even though it has been around a long time , there are a lot of people that haven't heard about it . Kind of interesting.
I wouldn't attempt to build the business depending on yelp , but I don't think it would hurt to have some good yelp reviews.
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