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Is there any evidence of this actually happening?

• starpilot 7y ago
  Numerous credible reports from business owners, and numerous denials from Yelp. I don't really know who to believe.
  • smallgovt 7y ago
    I would hardly call them credible reports. It's easy to see how business owners could draw false inferences when they receive a Yelp sales call and coincidentally get a negative review shortly after. Honestly, I thought this was long since debunked. There is no physical evidence of Yelp sales execs extorting small businesses.
• trevor-e 7y ago
  My friends who own or help run local small businesses have told me it happened to them, so I believe my friends. Of course, it's not explicit extortion like "pay us $500 a month or else", so there's no hard evidence for anything. Instead, magically not too long after they refuse a cold-call sales pitch, they have a bunch of bad/fraudulent reviews surface to the top of their Yelp page and then get another sales call later on.
• smallgovt 7y ago
  Simply put, no. No evidence other than hearsay. And this, after countless lawsuits.