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What lies did he tell?

BoorishBears 6y ago
> He then left a review accusing the firm of being "another scam solicitor", according to court documents. > The firm took legal action, stating that this was untrue and defamatory. Seeing as he pulled the old "give me back my money and I'll delete that" it sure sounds like the typical leave a bad review for leverage strategy, his mistake was straight up lying. - I got in a dispute with an apartment management over my deposit and left a review with dozens upon dozens of well documented missteps they had taken during my tenancy complete with pictures. I didn't lie and I didn't embellish... 20 minutes later I got a call that my deposit was being refunded in full and asking if I could kindly take down my review. I hadn't lied in it so I never took it down, but I did condense it, removed the pictures and mentioned they had returned my deposit finally.
- Nasrudith 6y ago
  That is considered a lie in the UK? In the US that would be considered an obvious equivalent of "shitty and only out for themselves". Everyone already knows lawyers are master of screwing you over with contracts legally.
  - jboog 6y ago
    That's because it is usually perfectly legal to lie about someone in the US and just call it "hyperbole" or something. Our libel laws are incredibly permissive in the US. See Elon Musk calling a guy a "pedo" repeatedly with zero evidence, because he pissed him off online. Although there were other issues in that case. The UK has way more strict libel laws than the US. If you lie about someone it's a LOT easier to get a civil judgment against you. Hency why a ton of magazines/newspapers have been successfully sued over libel whereas in the US this almost never happens.
  - leephillips 6y ago
    No, it would not. A “scam” is a scheme to defraud, it’s an allegation of illegality.
  - isoskeles 6y ago
    I get annoyed when I read people claim a business is a “scam” when their real problem is something clearer like the products are too expensive. Can we reserve the word “scam” for actual scams, or am I really expected to divine the true meaning of these troglodytes’ reviews? I just ignore them.
    - BoorishBears 6y ago
      Scam is the go to word to try falsely throw a company under the bus without needing to go into specifics, I also ignore those reviews. If a business really wrongs someone, people tend to be willing to go into detail about how they were wronged. Especially since it sucks and if you're willing to write a review, you're probably also willing to make it one that informs others specifically what went wrong so they can avoid it.
- mikro2nd 6y ago
  If I read correctly, he also didn't pitch up at court to defend his position, so the judgement went to the law firm.

> He then left a review accusing the firm of being "another scam solicitor", according to court documents. > The firm took legal action, stating that this was untrue and defamatory. Seeing as he pulled the old "give me back my money and I'll delete that" it sure sounds like the typical leave a bad review for leverage strategy, his mistake was straight up lying. - I got in a dispute with an apartment management over my deposit and left a review with dozens upon dozens of well documented missteps they had taken during my tenancy complete with pictures. I didn't lie and I didn't embellish... 20 minutes later I got a call that my deposit was being refunded in full and asking if I could kindly take down my review. I hadn't lied in it so I never took it down, but I did condense it, removed the pictures and mentioned they had returned my deposit finally.

Nasrudith 6y ago
That is considered a lie in the UK? In the US that would be considered an obvious equivalent of "shitty and only out for themselves". Everyone already knows lawyers are master of screwing you over with contracts legally.
- jboog 6y ago
  That's because it is usually perfectly legal to lie about someone in the US and just call it "hyperbole" or something. Our libel laws are incredibly permissive in the US. See Elon Musk calling a guy a "pedo" repeatedly with zero evidence, because he pissed him off online. Although there were other issues in that case. The UK has way more strict libel laws than the US. If you lie about someone it's a LOT easier to get a civil judgment against you. Hency why a ton of magazines/newspapers have been successfully sued over libel whereas in the US this almost never happens.
- leephillips 6y ago
  No, it would not. A “scam” is a scheme to defraud, it’s an allegation of illegality.
- isoskeles 6y ago
  I get annoyed when I read people claim a business is a “scam” when their real problem is something clearer like the products are too expensive. Can we reserve the word “scam” for actual scams, or am I really expected to divine the true meaning of these troglodytes’ reviews? I just ignore them.
  - BoorishBears 6y ago
    Scam is the go to word to try falsely throw a company under the bus without needing to go into specifics, I also ignore those reviews. If a business really wrongs someone, people tend to be willing to go into detail about how they were wronged. Especially since it sucks and if you're willing to write a review, you're probably also willing to make it one that informs others specifically what went wrong so they can avoid it.
mikro2nd 6y ago
If I read correctly, he also didn't pitch up at court to defend his position, so the judgement went to the law firm.