Yelp

1/31/2015

I love you Yelp but we have to talk. Remember last week when I changed my name here because I got married? Remember when you asked me why I was changing my name, and all the selections available assumed I had been operating under a fake name? You told me that wasn't very "elite"...

Well Yelp, I don't think it's very elite of you to assume foul play when a person changes their name on Yelp. Honestly, it was a little rude. Maybe add another "why are you changing your name?" selection, so future people of Yelp changing their names because the government has literally allowed it, won't feel like sneaky phonies.

We're just married people, not criminals. We deserve to be elite too.

That is all. Otherwise we're cool.

2/11/2015 Updated review

Minus stars if possible.  

I just received an email from Kaoru @ Yelp Support.  What a joke.  They've decided that my remarks concerning my experience with Solar City do not fall within the Yelp's guidelines (what guidelines?  There are none judging from what goes on here) and have taken down my 1* reviews.  Just because I complained that the Solar City reps. have gone around ringing doorbells in my and my family's neighborhoods doing cold call sales they decided this was bad for Solar City.  Really I wonder how much Solar City is paying Yelp to have reviews like mine taken down?!  For the record, no one wants some idiot peddling their stupid solar panel and roofing business bothering the occupants and not wanting to take 'No thanks' for an answer.  Instead they try to hard sell and pester the residents until they get irritated and slam the door on their faces.  I guess that's better.

But the best thing about Kaoru's comments to me tonight is this:  "We hope you will continue to participate on Yelp, while keeping in mind our Content Guidelines."  Right. You delete my reviews and expect me to want to participate more!

2/13/2015

Flowershopping,com listed as florists for Palo Alto, CA.

Very unsatisfactory.  I ordered flowers for my sick daughter, paid for same day delivery on Feb. 5.  Flowers were not delivered.  Company says they tried, no one home.  Daughter says they were there.  Called Company Friday, They promised to upgrade order from Standard to Premium since order not delivered, Promised to deliver by maybe Sat. definitley by Sun. guaranteed by Monday.  Flowers delivered on Wed. Feb. 18...a "very standard looking cheap small arrangement. "  Company agreed to take $15 off their $54 charge....I will NEVER use them again!! Wish I'd never called them.

1/19/2015 Updated review

Since my original review of Yelp, I have received a message from someone claiming to be "Operations Manager & Yelper Helper". Now I don't doubt that he's an employee of Yelp, in fact, I'm almost 100% certain he is.

I appreciate the fact that Yelp actually cares enough about their users to take the time to address their issues. For this courtesy, I will add a star to my previous rating of 3-stars.

"Then why is my review still 3-stars?", you may be asking yourself?

Well for one thing the kind gentleman who messaged me didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. He pretty much just said, "We understand your frustrations... ". Furthermore, not a single word was mentioned about Yelp wanting to improve their "recommendation software"; only that it is not perfect.

Perfection would be nice, but I'm a reasonable person and realize that perfection is rarely possible. That doesn't mean there isn't any room for improvement.

"What kind of improvements would you expect?", you may ask?

Okay, I'm not the kind of person who complains about something and doesn't offer any possible solutions. I think there are many possible solutions. For now, I'll start with two simple suggestions.

SUGGESTION #1: Disconnect the "recommendation software". Use it only when a review has been "flagged".

SUGGESTION #2: Make the link for the "not currently recommended" reviews more visible (maybe provide a link near the top of the pages as well?) and sort them by date (there are plenty of people who use Yelp but don't write reviews. Many of them don't know about the "not currently recommended" reviews).

I'd like to hear other Yelper's opinions on this matter... so...

ANYONE WHO READS THIS: If you agree with suggestion #1, please click "Useful". If you agree with suggestion #2, please click "Cool". If you think my suggestions are lame or just wouldn't work please click "Funny".

No matter what you choose, or if you choose nothing, you're not going to hurt my feelings. I'm a salesperson. I have very thick skin. Thank you...

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." - Elvis Presley

1/26/2015

Wait, this a yelp review of yelp? Haha okay. Yes, I love yelp. How can you not? It is what it is... Great. If you don't like it, then don't use it! I have tried so many great places because of Yelp. I really enjoy connecting with the people on here. Keep it up, yelp!

1/12/2015

I'm torn. If this was a review for Yelp Broward-Palm Beach, a community in which I have been extremely active since it began, this would be five stars. Alas, it is for Yelp's headquarters, which has decided to revoke my Elite status after seven years, without so much as a single word of explanation. So three stars it is... an average between the five stars Yelp BPB deserves and the one star I'd give Yelp HQ.

I've loved Yelp since I first discovered it in 2008. I've talked about it and promoted it relentlessly. At one point last year, I was even a paid brand ambassador of Yelp, which was easy to do because of how much I loved being a member. So why, after SEVEN years, would you take my Elite status away? No explanation given, even to our Community Manager. Why the secrecy? Please, enlighten me as to what I did wrong. I've done nothing but rave about Yelp, and this is how you've repaid me? It's a slap in the face, and after all of that, not a single reason given. It's insulting.

The angry/disappointed/sad part of me wants to abandon Yelp, to delete my reviews and not help this company make any more money off of the content I've provided. But why should I lose MY own writing? No, I won't delete my profile. To do so would mean cutting myself off from the amazing friends I've made, and the community I so love. I'm not going anywhere. I'll still go to events, because I have friends who will bring me. I don't lose anything here except a dinky little graphic on my page. YOU lost a great, FREE ambassador for your brand. That's entirely your mistake, and it's a shame.

2/8/2015

I have no idea how the filter works because it looks like that if you advertise with them, you got to keep your good reviews on! I see other companies that has great reviews as well but it goes straight to the filter. What is up with yelp? Shall we start to wonder that they need money? As a matter fact their shares went down significantly this week. No wonder why!!!

12/22/2014

Yelp is a tool and the tool is only as good as the people who use it.  If the person who use it is an idiot or a hypocrite, then that person isn't going to have a good time.  This goes for both sides, the customers and the owners.  We all know that some people are just difficult to please, they like to thump their chest and proclaim "I am a paying customer and therefore, I am right".  Not really, sometimes it pays to listen to professionals.  On the other hand you have owners who like it when unsubstantiated low rated reviews are hidden, but suddenly can't comprehend that the similar unsubstantiated positive reviews are also hidden.  

I first started using yelp when I moved to DC and in search of good authentic Chinese food.  I didn't necessarily care about people's opinion of the restaurant since many authentic Chinese restaurants had very bad reviews.  What I seek were pictures of the food so I can tell whether the place was serving Americanized Chinese or authentic Chinese.  For that purpose, yelp was absolutely valuable.  

Like everything you read on the internet, there is a lack of accountability, so you have to take the information with a grain of salt.  Who even read stuff on the internet and gullible enough to believe everything?  Despite the controversy, yelp has served me well over the years and I have found a few like minded people with taste close to my own and opinions that I value.  Nowadays, yelp is the first thing I search when planning a trip to a new city.

2/10/2015

I tried out advertising on Yelp for my small business.  We signed a three-month contract and I didn't see much activity. Very few new leads and no appreciable sales compared to the results we get with Google AdWords or Facebook Ads.  I tried to cancel by emailing my rep but nobody responded to two separate inquiries.  Our ads are still running and our credit card is still being charged with no apparent way to stop it.  I am disputing the charges with AmEx. ADVERTISERS STAY AWAY!

11/22/2014

1000th review!!

Gee, it's been a long ride, but mostly one that has come naturally at each step of the way. I always love sharing what's what at all the places I visit - as much for myself as it is for others. (Really, in the absence of Yelp, I'd probably still write all these down somewhere.)

Yelp gets a bad rap sometimes, and it's fair to see why it does.  The sponsorship system is confusing and the review filtering algorithm can, like all software, seem arbitrary and preferential sometimes. Then there's always the stories of corrupt Elites threatening bad reviews unless they get free stuff, something that makes all of us look bad. If you're a business owner, you can benefit for people who give 5 star reviews because they like 1 specific thing about your place. You can get good Yelp publicity despite being bad and you can get bad Yelp publicity despite trying your best.

But that's life. It's about reading between the lines. The sheer volume of reviews and the size and breadth of the Yelp community around the world is what gives it is credibility. If you see a review that you want to believe, but aren't sure, just read more of that person's reviews. I rarely take a review seriously from a reviewer who proves to have unreasonable opinions when reviewing other places, and never mind adding them as a friend. Just use your head, and you can have the best of both worlds - you see past the BS and self-righteous crap, and are left with only the useful information about the world around you.

And then there's the Elite program. It's been fun for almost 5 full years, and I've followed it from SF to New York (and then Ruggy followed me) and hope one day to continue the party in another great city somewhere in the world. We're treated very well and there isn't a minute that I don't appreciate how good we have it. There's been some community pettiness that I've seen over the years, but overall I've made lasting friendships through Yelp that have, so far, stood the test of time.

It's to the point where I have my job through a SO of a friend I met on Yelp, and 2 former college roommates and 1 ex-coworker ended up working for Yelp. Yelp just  has a way of popping up everywhere in my life. And at the risk of sounding like a crazy cult member, I wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you!

1/19/2015

Please contact me ASAP please for a matter which I have contacts you online 2 matters actually my email is edrisyasin@gmail.com
It is urgent. It is regarding 2 reviews before I get my lawyer involved which it needs to be deleted due to privacy laws. And my welfare in jeopardy.

11/3/2014

Yelp is the shiznit :

Yelp 2010

I came across Yelp about four years ago, when I saw a buddy of mine check in at a store. So I signed up to see what's cracking. I wasn't to sure at first, just using the check in feature and writing some reviews here and there.

Yelp 2011

This year was the same o same o, but this time I got a gym membership so basically all I did was gym check ins. I don't think I wrote one review that year.

Yelp 2012

This year I kicked it up a notch and wrote a few reviews but wasn't to hardcore and was like whatever.

Yelp 2013

To be honest I almost gave up yelping this year, I didn't really do any reviews or nothing spectacular for yelp.

Yelp 2014

Yer Boi VD was reborn just like a Phoenix and evolved into a Super Saiyan *VD* kicking butt and taking names. Always doing Ninja stuff while sipping on a beer and smoking a Newport.

As for me Yelp is fun and I do love having fun. Meeting new friends is the best part of it for me. Reading thier reviews and supporting all my fellow yelpers, I have encountered. I've told this to several yelpers before "Each night I search for Inspiration". So many of you have inspired me to keep writing.  I just love reading other people's reviews and compliment them on their reviews, tips and pics.

So don't be angry with me because each night, I look for a yelper or three and take my time reading their reviews. I look at it as if I'm reading a good book to fall asleep.

As for me I write reviews because I want to and not because I have to.That's the same with my pictures and tips.

As I told a yelp friend earlier today, yelp to me is very therapeutic. I feel like I'm in my own world when I'm yelping, not a care in the world. Just the company I'm with and wherever we're at.

So yeah I love YELP and I'll continue to do my part for the Yelp community. Having fun and smiling all the time.

So find me on Yelp talk and let's have some fun.

Vincent D aka VD aka Vebola. Enjoying the Simple things in life.

8/14/2014

My friends, Lindsey S. and Karen F., both decided to dedicate their 100th review here, so I decided to follow in both their footsteps.

Ah Yelp...in the past three and a half months how quickly you have simultaneously become the love of my life and the bane of my existence! I became a member of Yelp in 2010. However, I did not write my first review until April of 2014. Little did I know what was to become of me...

I have always enjoyed food and I have always also enjoyed photographing my food. I would post so much food porn on Facebook that I received several messages from friends requesting me to stop. Did I stop? No way. Why would I? It's my own page and I am entitled to post whatever I please.

But one day in April, that all changed. I met a friend for lunch and wanted to give kudos to the owner of the establishment. What could I do? It was then that I remembered the Yelp app on my phone! It is probably the shortest review I have ever written, but for me it was instant gratification and something different besides just saying the words, "Thank you."

And so it began...
FOOD + FOOD PORN + MY UNSOLICITED OPINION = YELP ADDICT!!!

I am such a creature of habit that I constantly am at the same restaurants day after day. Yelp has encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone and start venturing outside of my neighborhood!  And...my friends who dine with me know NOT to touch anything until I have taken a picture!

Yes, I love food, but what has been equally important to me is the opportunity to have met fellow Yelpers who share the same passion as I do. I cannot say enough about our Community Manager, Brett! He is always such a joy to be around, is very helpful, and always has a great story to tell.

The Yelp events are a blast to attend! There is always something new to do, or a new restaurant to try. I have been blessed to have met such wonderful people who have welcomed me with open arms to the Yelp Cult...oopsie, I mean Community. Thank you to my new friends who I know our friendships will become even more stronger as we share our mutual love for Yelp.

Yelp has helped me to "make my mark" and leave a footprint wherever I go. It has become near and dear to my heart and I am excited to see what my Yelp future brings.

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  And this is why I Yelp :D

  And this is why I Yelp :D

11/4/2014 Updated review

Wow another year has gone by and another year of Yelping.  I have used Yelp in every capacity I can.  I love the App when I am out of town and finding some great hidden gems.  I hope my relationship with Yelp will continue for many years.  As I am a true Yelp lover.

My favorite activity on Yelp is to read reviews and like pictures in cities I have visited.  This little activity has allowed me to make friends all over the world.  What fun to read what people are doing in other countries.

1/12/2015 Updated review

I think It's time for Yelp to stand up for FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!
But, it seems to me that Yelp has been dictate to remove honest reviews like mine.

This is what I got form an idiot named Ferris, Yelp support.

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Hi Nobu,

I'm writing to let you know that we've removed your review update of Udon Mugizo. Our Support team has determined that it falls outside our Content Guidelines (yelp.com/guidelines) because it does not contain a new firsthand experience with the business. Please note that your original review of this business remains intact.

We hope you will continue to participate on Yelp while keeping our Content Guidelines in mind.

Removed Content:
BUKKAKE IS GOOD THING!
Girls love it.
KAMA-AGE IS GOOD THING TOO!
Gays love it. ( Okama means "gay" in Japanese.)
Two G's hit the G-spot.
Anyway,
I must say ... this place would be typical standard Udon shop in Japan, but in the J-town SF is different because everywhere else sucks!
Mifune sucks!
Suzu sucks!
Osakaya sucks!

The Bukkake is something you don't see in anywhere at the J-town, even San Francisco.
I got the Ontama-Bukkake Udon. "Ontama-Bukkake" sounds so erotic, for Japanese ear, and will hit my G-spot and it did, ... well.
I was with my friend who is Japo Sushi Chef, this is his first time eating here, and he got Kama-Age-Udon. According to him, Kama-Age-Udon is the best way to see that good-Udon or Bad-Udon, because the Udon is served in a hot water, not broth. He says it is pretty easy to find out this Udon is fresh made or old frozen kind.

This Kamaage Udon comes with Suri-bachi and Suri-kogi (Mortar and Pestle) to grind sesame seeds for your dipping sauce. The fresh grind seeds was nice!

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Kama-Age-Udon:
To eat immediately what was scooped from kettle was boiled noodles, called "Kama-age". A container containing the noodles, and is used by being divided into a vessel containing the soup. In order to put the hot water boiled in the container you put the noodles, it is cloudy little white. Without having to tighten the noodles in the water, with boiled hot water, since transferred to the container from the kettle, to when you eat, and soft wheat flour smell of drifts, to stimulate the olfactory comfortably. Because it does not tighten the noodles in the water, "strained" but not much, crunchy was Udon specific glutinous not tighten the water is characterized.

My Sushi-Chef friend said, "Pass! this is good noodle!"
Bukkake and Kama-Age. His Kama-Age was with Tenpura, he game me few, it was fresh made. That was really good.
That's it.
Everything else is .... just a background noise.

There was an "Asian" young lady was already sitting and having Udon, suddenly called waitress out loud to get attention. I was in the waiting line, and there was a middle age White-guy who was sat next to me said the B word, and said to me, "Well, Bitxx is everywhere no matter where you from." I replied, "So as son of Bitxxes."
We got a good laugh.

Clean, good service, well mannered waitresses.
The waitresses here are so calm against another "Asian" lady who has no manner at all, does not mind showing her emotions. The waitress took care of the "Asian" lady well.
I would like to give all the waitresses 5 stars!
So the service, 5 star
Most the Udon, 5 star

Even though "Bukkake" sounds like "uni cream udon", Their uni cream udon sucked, Disgusting, 1 star (by Cherylynn N. I totally agree.)
Even though "Bukkake" sounds like "Chicken & kinoko cream udon", Their Chicken & kinoko cream udon is Disgusting thing, it's nothing but vomit, 1 star

Decor, very clean, 5 star
Oshi-Sushi and Inari, I think it's unique but oner priced, 3 star
Ten-pura, very fresh made, 5 star.
Overall 4 star!
Very good 4 star!

Regards,
Ferris
Yelp Support
San Francisco, California
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Asshole!

2/10/2015

Dear YELP! I wish your stock wasn't so volatile the last few days! Super upset about the 12 dollar fall, lost over 1k :(, here's to rise in near future!

1/5/2015 Updated review

KC is despondent that Yelp accidentally forgot to give him his Yelp Elite '15 badge. All year, KC has worked at writing useful reviews, complimenting Yelp broads on their cans, and being an excellent steward in the LA black community.

Can somebody tell KC where his badge is? For now KC just has Whitney's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" on replay. It helps in times of heartache.

#sodoesFiletOFish

2/11/2015

$4500 + paid to Yelp zero customers from Yelp.

10/29/2014 Updated review

*****************************MARTIN (MARTY) M***************************

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I thank each & every one of you:

My Yelp friends, people here on Yelp, Yelpers who have in person many times, Yelpers who in PMS, compliments and ALL of you for you prayers, ways of your faith, ways that you send your healing & positive energies out to the universe, via anyway in which you worship and do over the last 4 months for these for Marty as he began with a colonoscopy that found a mass for an Anal Cancer diagnosis stage 3 for the second time in 3 years.

He completed 7 weeks of intense targeted radiation 5 days a week, refused chemo because CHEMO kills and, he & I chose this as my recommendation from me as a PA-C & his primary MD concurred that this Squamous cell carcinoma responds well to radiation.

Marty is with me now, and will be here another week, he is recovering well, made the drive up with minor incidents, is still recovering from the side effects of  his treatments, but, he will & has prevailed.

WE will know more in January when after 3 months post op treatment. 3 tests will determine if the thy got it all, but more so, WE are targeting what his cancer was, and that, was stress, every cancer's symptoms are different, diet, stress, genetics, DNA, but the point is, Marty has made major changes to his diet, continues the Juice Plus and has me & a great team of medical professionals.

Also, he has difficulty typing, with neuropathy in his hands that is a side effect of other meds and, his radiation.

So, again to all of you Marty sends his love, friendship, thanks and most of all gratitude, because without ALL of you, he truly feels that he would not have made it through this, and even though the real truth is yet to come, we do not believe or are concerned about whether any MD believes, what matters is, that WE believe.

And, you love Marty &  I so unconditionally, even some who do not know or have not met us, you too, have shown us true love, friendship & compassion regardless of you belief systems & ideologies.

Marty will in time get back to you and express his thanks personally, but on his behalf now, I send them for him from US, right here, right now and this is meant for all of you, may all of what you gave come back to you 10 fold.

See, life ain't a 4 leaf Clover, but think it over, because you ALL are this of ours that hold the key, and our hearts have taken a picture-WE LOVE YOU:

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1/8/2015

The New  Mafia.  . They bury my best reviews. I can't prove it, but it all seems to be about the fact that I won't set up advertising with them.  Businesses that have great customer service and great web reviews in other places, will do just fine without Yelp!

I encourage everyone else who knows about the aforementioned facts, to reach out and make Yelp yell HELP!

1/12/2015

Yelp is a powerful tool for sharing your experiences with local businesses and attractions and is obviously a useful site since you're on it reading this right now, assuming you're not just bored. With that being said it is completely unacceptable for this site to hide reviews that are "not currently recommended" since if it wasn't for outspoken users who post their thoughts here they wouldn't have any free content to cash in on through their ads and other revenue streams.

As a community we don't spend our time writing reviews so a piece of "software" can hide them; we write them so we can express our opinions, whatever they may be, about any destination we please. It is extremely disheartening to post a thoughtful and well-written review just so it can be hidden via a payment and while Yelp is more concerned about appeasing businesses and profits than their users they need to remember that this isn't the only site you can post a review on.

2/7/2015

Horrible business.  Dishonest people.  Extorting small businesses.  If you pay for advertisements, $500 a month, Yelp will hide the negative/low reviews.  If not, your small business is subjected to filtering most positive reviews. They are the common day mafia; Knocking on small business doors threatening that if they won't pay they won't be protected.  Why not advertise the legitimate way like most publishers?  Why sabotage small businesses while you could be sitting on billions?

1/5/2015

Yelp is no help for me. I have been contacting them about a person harassing me and my business for 3 months now. I have blocked them from my personal account but they continue to update their fake review and leave tips. They even admitted to not using my business and yelp wont remove the reviews or tips. This person also contacts my clients who have left reviews and leaves them nasty messages, and yelp refuses to help.
When I tried to contact the person they got very nasty with me and basically laughed at me for asking to stop.

I have flagged, emailed and I even called and talked to someone on the phone today.

I feel I will have to contact a lawyer about this person harassing me. All I want for them to do is block her so she leaves me and my business alone.

1/8/2015

YELP SUPPORT UNLICENSED BUSINESSES!! I am in the moving/storage business in Los Angeles CA. Over the past few years I have noticed a 10 fold increase in the amount of moving companies on Yelp. Dig deeper and you find that 1 moving company has up to 100 yelp pages (See ABC Movers among others). Me, being a more ethical business man have not keep up with the opening of multiple entities and now find myself dropping to the bottom of searches because yelp will open as many listings as long as they are taking money from people.

Yelp needs to check out businesses credentials and licensing information so that businesses and consumers are better protected from shady companies skewing the system in their favor. And yelp needs to stop being so greedy!

1/16/2015

What I feel began as a great tool in helping consumers find quality businesses that for their needs,  has become a website that I can no longer take seriously.
Many reviews I come upon are written by an individual butwho simply wants to hurt a business or individual and sadly, yelp makes this easy to do. I have no problem with a dissatisfied consumer sharing their experience, after all, you can't improve when you don't know what needs to be improved upon. Customer feedback is invaluable.

I'm far more bothered by yelps attempt to strong arm business owners. While yelp claims they have NO control over which reviews are filtered this is very much NOT true. I've known several small business owners who have declined to pay for and take control of their business page, which they didn't add to the website to begin with, ( this was done by a customer who wanted to share their positive experience.
When you say "No thank you.' to yelp, overnight ALL your 5-star reviews have been hidden.

Hmmm, and they have no control over this?  The integrity of this site and service is void.

8/11/2014 Updated review

Okay, so where was I before I was so rudely interrupted?

Since I wrote my recent update on Yelp!, I received a couple of nasty messages from a couple of disgruntled folks who opened Yelp accounts just to criticize Yelp!  I sure as heck did not appreciate these people's comments at all.  One of them criticizing my yelping and another one calling me names because of my Yelp! review. Not cool people!  One is entitled to their opinion and if people cannot say anything nice, do not say anything at all.

I did flag and reported these offenders to the Yelp! moderators. And should I continue to receive any more offensive messages of these sorts of any kind, I will flag the conversation and block/report the sender.

And I hope Yelp! will close these offenders' accounts as they are surely violating content guidelines and terms of service.

Be forewarned and warned! Whatever!
SYOY! = See You On Yelp!

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(Merci L!)

1/11/2015

In response to the "good" people at yelp removing one of my honest and good hearted reviews.

What a travesty! Whether the people at yelp target my reviews for their "innapropriate content" or because of my ethnicity, they are evidently profiling me. Expect to hear from my lawyers regardless. Like when Martin Luther King Jr freed the slaves, I will triumph over the hipsters employed at Yelp. In light of recent events, free speach has never been so important. Time to show these fascists the legal repracussions of silencing an American citizen! Removing my poetic review was not just mean, it was unconstitutional and anti-American.

IM TALKING TO YOU, JEREMY STOPPELMAN.

11/23/2014

When my best friend and I were in San Fran as part of our holiday a few years ago I hooked up with some Yelpers and did some events. I the San Fran yelp community and what they were aiming for with this whole Yelp site. The Yelpers here are more hard core than home, however, left with a sense of some inspiration. I also want to thank them for their support on a review I did for an eatery in San Fran that scammed my best friend and I.

Every time we are in San Fran my best friend and I have been welcomed by the warmest of Yelpers who have joined us at meets etc. I try and make it a habit that whenever I am in a city to hook up with some Yelpers.

11/10/2014

Yelp oh my Dear, Sweet Yelp... how can I put into words the way you have changed my life.

Because of you I have found a creative outlet.. creativity I didn't even know I had. I've watched my writing evolve into something slightly better than an 8th grader could muster and as a 20-something year old professional I am pretty proud of that new found skill.

You have opened up a world of Yelp Elite, meeting new friends, trying new hot spots and new foods.

Even my food-photography skills have become a little more sharp, though only slightly, photography was never really my thing, but I DO take 10 extra seconds to get the lighting, angle and matter correct.

Oh Yelp, what would I do without you?

Thanks for all your hard work on the Back End of things.

You Rock.

2/5/2015

Yelp is an extortion racket! Don't pay their $300 per month advertising fee, watch your star rating drop to one star...bunch of scam artists!

2/4/2015

hey, I got a letter from Yurika at Yelp telling me I can't post a review of a hotel that my friend stayed at.  BS!  I was with my friend at the hotel and I could see the nasty condition the hotel was in and I was with her when she tried to get a refund.  How is this second hand??  I am pissed off!  Reinstate my review for the Dixie Hotel in Hollywood!!

1/16/2015

I cant filter reviews by date? Duuuuuumb.

thanks for making recommended reviews from months ago. Duuuuuumb.

2/4/2015

Your another sell-out that completely contradicted the pure essence of a review website.  I just saw a business go from 1 star to 3 stars overnight after having 21 of 23 1 star reviews get filtered.  Mind you they have 31 reviews total.  Its safe to say their business is not the greatest.  I'm sure they purchased a bunch of ads for that to happen.  A business's rating is only as good as its money.  Like this post means anything.  Your laughing all the way to the bank.  The best part is all these mindless robots who sit and defend the software and what's happening, thinking they can change it by becoming "elite" or any other B.S.  For all you robots out there.  Simply research "Yelp manipulate".  That's all you will have to type before a handful of options pop up to read.  Amazing if this post "makes the cut".

12/25/2014

Yelp is the worst rating system ever.  I constantly see Yelp make arbitrary decisions in which reviews to keep and which to throw out.  I don't understand why some of my reviews are accepted for businesses and sometimes they are not recommended.  What is the difference?  And then, they never provide a live person to talk to about this?  I suspect this gives a skewed view of the businesses.  In one example, there is a business I love where Yelp only allows negative reviews.  There are over 10 positive reviews that are not being allowed.  Why does this happen?  No one knows.  The whole system sucks.  I prefer other systems that allow all reviews, even if some might be suspect.  At least it's complete without an arbitrary system of judgment.

I hate Yelp.  If I could give them 0 stars, I absolutely would.

2/3/2015

Yelp has no decency
You got to be kidding me. What is wrong with you. The word fuck is not colorful it is vulgaity
You folks have no decency.
I asked them to remove a review. they said no because it was colorfull
The review clearly says FUCK.
" They suck!  I called them looking for silver, a lady was going to check their inventory and call me back.  She never returned my call, so I called them back.  Got some guy who said their inventory was low then he hung up on me.  Rude people, worthless gold and silver dealer.  I'll be continuing my business through cni in california.  Thought I was going to keep my business on maui, but fuck these guys."

11/18/2014 Updated review

4,000 down.

That sure went by fast. Latest stats from the adventure:

- 798 days between 0K and 1K
- 541 days between 1K and 2K
- 628 days between 2K and 3K
- 793 days between 3K and 4K (life just gets busier)
- 959 friends (+432 since 3K, such a friendly bunch)
- 3,267 reviews
- 733 second reviews
- 136 firsts (+13 since 3K)
- 146 fans (+ 45 since 3K)
- FUC'd almost 12K times (has never felt better)
- Still loving and referencing Above & Beyond: youtube.com/watch?v=8vwv…

It wouldn't be nearly as much fun without a world class city and world class yelpers. And it continues to be a lot of fun.

4,000 down, lots to go.

2/6/2015

HORRIBLE company.  Being the Director of Sales and Marketing for a large wedding venue, I have been harassed by one of there sales people every single week for at least 3 months. They have been desperately using every trick in the books to get me to advertise with them.  This woman calls almost yelling at me for not calling her back.  They have bogus computer generated info about how their company is "creating sales for you" and then they try to strong arm you into buying ad space with them.
Then, after telling us we need to get more reviews on our listing, they REMOVE EVERY SINGLE good review that was posted by our clients. Their algorithm is a TOTAL SCAM. Yelp only cares about the hard core addicted "Elite" yelp members and discredits the people that have anything good to say.
I never leave bad reviews but being in sales and marketing myself, I don't know how these people sleep at night.

12/30/2014

I hate Yelp!!!
Yelp is a terrible place for people to experience their writing skills.
How can you define a business/company basic on yelpers reviews?

I AM A HATER OF YELP.

TAKE IT.

12/27/2014

I think Joe Cocker puts it best when he gets by with a little Yelp from his friends...with a little of my artistic Yelp liberty.  So this is what 100 reviews feels like.  It's the shameless random late night taxi-cab (well, laptop) confessions of all the gluttonous gastro-sensory rantings of such wonderful local pleasantries that are thrown out in the karmic universe for all to witness.  And, I expect just the same from my lovely Yelp friends who inspire me to be me.  

Yelpers just rock period.  I've never seen such a diverse and beautiful community who have bold and subtle points of view.  The passion of Yelp and all of its conquerors is quite infectious and I enjoy engaging, promoting, and being of service to the people in my area.  Although Naples, Florida is far from our "elite home", we've been able to spread a little love into our community and start forming an active Yelp coalition in Southwest Florida.  We're no official CMs but we feel an obligation to share why we invest so much of ourselves into Yelp both with reviewers, review-prospects, and businesses.  It truly is a way of life as a husband/wife team, and it's something that we truly enjoy doing together, and I feel like I'm having this verklempt moment. (Talk amongst yourselves.  Okay, I'll give youa topic: the industrial revolution was neither industrial nor a revolution. Discuss....)

You've got a Yelp lover out of this girl!  I hope that with the more reviews you write, the more genuine experience you'll have....
and with that unique experience, there'll be this snowball effect of everything amazing and new....
so that people and businesses will change the world they live in.

If you haven't drank the Yelp koolaid, you better get some.  Just jump on that freaking bandwagon and get to work! We've got businesses to save!

12/29/2014

Yelp, I have emailed your Yelp.com/contact page numerous times in attempt to get my account "unlocked".   My small business has relocated, and has a new phone number, and I have heard from no one!   I will continue to flood your email everyday,  if I have to.   There should be no reason, I cannot simply edit my account and update my information.    This is not rocket science.

I am always flattered when I see my clients Yelp me well on my behalf, but because I simply do not like Yelp as a company, I refuse to ever Yelp a business even if the service is good or bad, nor will I ever advertise with Yelp.  

It is to no surprise Yelp has so many 1 Star Reviews!!

Just Unlock my information!!