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Wow, this is a massive oversight. What product manager thought this was a good idea without making it an opt-in? There isn't even an opt-out. 1) Owners who are
by DevKoala 7y ago
Wow, this is a massive oversight. What product manager thought this was a good idea without making it an opt-in? There isn't even an opt-out.
1) Owners who aren't active on Yelp may never notice this feature, and so the money is never claimed.
This is big, your customers think they are supporting you and instead they support Yelp.
2) Yelp may be taking a cut? But I can't find any evidence to substantiate this claim.
Even if they were not taking a cut, they can make interest earnings on the parked money.
Personally, I would not allow Yelp to do this on my behalf because I own the relationship with my customers, not Yelp.
- hellomyguys 7y agoYelp is actually pretty bad. They replaced restaurant phone numbers with a GrubHub number without telling users so they can get a cut of any phone order. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-r...
- jacquesm 7y ago> Owners who aren't active on Yelp may never notice this feature, and so the money is never claimed. That's likely the whole goal this thing was set up in the first place.