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Earlier this summer, a Yelp salesman called Brader's house to ask if he wanted to advertise on the Yelp site. Yelp will never make it as a public company, whic
by shawnee_ 15y ago
Earlier this summer, a Yelp salesman called Brader's house to ask if he wanted to advertise on the Yelp site.
Yelp will never make it as a public company, which means that it should technically fizzle and die sooner rather than later. What they do isn't illegal, but it should be; its revenue model is unethical, sleazy, blackmailing, extortion.
- revorad 15y agoMaking it as a public company is not mutually exclusive from being sleazy.
- pbreit 15y agoThose are some pretty bold accusations based on rather thin evidence. Are you suggesting that such a service is incapable of running above-board? Is there anything Yelp could do to prove to you that it is operating in an ethical and reasonable manner?
- mcantelon 15y agoYelp seems to have had a lot of bad press for this kind of thing and has had at least one class action suit, alleging extortion, levelled against it: http://yelpscam.com/negative-yelp-press.html http://yelpscam.com/negative-yelp-press.html