Rip Off Report started off with good intentions, to protect people from scams and to give scammed people a voice that would be heard.
A lot of people look for bad reviews about something before buying something in order to talk themselves out of a purchase.
Some people are looking for honest reviews, too.
But what is RipOffReport?
Is it a legitimate place to view people’s opinions about something?
Is it a trust-worthy source of information?
From what I have seen and read, the answer is a resounding NO.
2 of my marketing buddies (Romell Weekly and Folusho Orokunle) are listed there due to no fault of their own.
So why are they there?
Maybe they didn’t have an online helpdesk set up to handle complaints on non-delivery issues from products being ordered…
I doubt that though.
Maybe it was because they didn’t respond fast enough to a request for help…
Who knows…
But this is the Internet and people can safely badger you or malign your (formerly) good name by writing or submitting something to RipOffReport.
Maybe the creators of RipOffReport had good intentions when they started that site/service, as did the people running Scam.com, but what true value are those sites offering people.
The ticked-off people can write whatever they want and get away with it due to having that “internet courage” but what about the people’s whose names are getting dragged through the mud for no good reason.
How would you feel if you were doing business online and “Googled”your name only to see that one of the first few results listed on Page ONE of Google is a rip-off report submission against you.
If you’re doing business online, I strongly urge you to get some sort of online support system set up to handle all inquiries and complaints.
I also urge you to set up Google alerts and maintain your good name by getting notifications of when your name appears somewhere on the Internet on indexed pages.
Now, it’s human nature for people to exhibit online cowardice people by hiding behind their keywords and computers while irresponsibly slinging harsh words and invective against people who might not have responded ot their help desk tickets on time or didn’t produce a product that lived up to its sales page.
However, people hardly ever get motivated enough to write something GOOD about a program or person so all you really see written these days is the bad things.
And that obfuscates the integrity and the validity of the complaints and the person’s behind them.
This makes TRUTH on the internet hard to find
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This is, imho, an irresponsible article. RipOff Reports DOES allow all kinds of scam reports, and if some are the result of one unhappy customer, that should be obvious to the reader.
RipOff Reports serves a very useful purpose in that it documents the number and nature of complaints for any given business listed there. When the complaints are many, and reasons similar, thank goodness for a site that reflects the bad business or scam practices so that others will not fall for the scams.
Checking out a business there is informed decision making. Check out the reports on John Raygoza, Ted Molina, Push Traffic and IncFortune, and tell me that RipOff Reports isn’t a valid resource!
The only way to make Ripoffreport.com cease to exist is to remove the protection they have via CDA 230 that gives them immunity. There should be petitions to senators and house of rep members to revise the CDA 230 written back in 1996 when internet was dial up and government was wanting to increase utilization of it. Here is what needs to be done….make a petition to house of representative and senators in every state…..Magedson will be bankrupt ONLY after this happens and all his websites will cease to exist….
http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act
if an ICP, and certainly an ICF, has reason to know, or anticipate, that at least some of the postings on their website are defamatory, false, anonymous, annoying, or harassing in nature, then they should be considered a co-author of the defamatory, false, anonymous, annoying, or harassing postings, and just as liable as the original poster, losing their CDA 230 immunity completely, and be subject to full monetary, legal, and equitable damages by an aggrieved party.
Thanks Cindy, good info here
It’s the negative, non- valid reviews that hurt people’s mindset more than anything else. The only thing worth believing and trusting is your own experiences. I’ve had several marketing buddies spending needless time countering false claims there, when those people could have merely contacting the program/product owners directly via their helpdesks…
Lotsa times, people are really ranting about their inability to understand and implement proven business practices, so places like RipOff report and their outlets for making it ALL seem like lack of success is really not their fault, when it really is!