What's More Reliable? Yelp or Fairfax Underground?
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Date: July 22, 2014 02:32AM
Yelp.com - they have been accused of extorting small businesses, insisting on a monthly fee in order to suppress negative reviews.
A Long Beach veterinary hospital, for example, was threatened to pay $300 a month for a year to suppress or delete negative reviews. When the hospital declined, negative reviews immediately started appearing in droves. One review referred to the Dr. Perrault as an "ass", "a jerk", a DBag," and so forth. Other companies have noticed that negative reviews surface to the top of the comments section moments before receiving a call from Yelp Representative to "fix the problem."
So Yelp reviews are largely biased in favor of those companies that purchase Yelp's advertising schemes.