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Connecticut
20 reviews
78 helpful votes

IF RIP-OFF REPORT CARES THEY WILL HELP ME
March 14, 2023

If Rip-off Report ACTUALLY CARES about people as they claim they'll help me. They CLAIM to care about people being reported unjustly.

The report causes me to be unable to work. I can't get a job anywhere. Can't get accepted into any training programs because they see it and assume it holds validity.

I don't want an update or notes on the report I want it removed. Even the author tried to remove it & could not. He apparently posted an apology to no avail they won't remove it.

If rip-off report sees this and removes my report I promise not to tell unless you want me to because apparently you want to be infamous. I'm just asking to remove a report that the OP made not knowing it was impossible to remove once posted.

** If they follow through with REMOVAL I'll be happy to amend my review to that effect and sing their praise if they want me to however I have a suspicion they will not based on my experience.

If you're considering paying thousands to get a report taken down, save your money.

It will never come down. No. Matter. What.

Believe me, I've tried everything to receive help.

As a woman alone struggling to support her family, what happened to me HURT ME.

YOU HAVE 3 CHOICES:

1. You can pay Ripoff Report thousands of dollars for "arbitration."

What Happens: a banner or notes will be added somewhere within your "report" stating you've requested arbitration. But, this adds more content to the page making it appear there's more "exciting" content than actually exists.

2. You can "bury" it in search engine results through positive press.

This is what many try to do, however Rip-off Report is very difficult to bury. I'm just one person. I can't afford a press release, I can't afford advertising, I can't even afford rent right now.

3. You can spend thousands of dollars on a lawyer to get a court order to remove it. I don't have money for a lawyer.

Even then, you're going to be hard pressed to get it taken down. From what I'm told, Rip-off Report does not remove it however Google may - but only with a court order, or if it contained explicit photos.

The Rip-off Report site allows ANYONE who has any grievance against ANY PERSON, ENTITY OR BUSINESS to post whatever they want.

This means defamation, lies, anything at all. One news broadcast described a man's life was ruined due to defamation, and a woman whose ex posted lies and explicit photos experienced treachery.

A business competitor can easily tank your business OR personal reputation. There's countless examples of these stories all over the internet.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?

A schizophrenic stalker off his meds whom you kindly refunded long prior can go on Rip-off Report and post defamatory comments and virtually tank your business THAT TOOK YOU DECADES TO BUILD A GOOD REPUTATION FOR - in about 5 minutes.

That's what happened to me.

Because the average consumer doesn't bother to read the long winded details of a report and only glosses over it, if you end up on there you're toast.

This is because people see the search result and decide to immediately forget about using your business. Besides, there's hundreds of businesses competitors out there who aren't listed on Ripoff Report - so why risk getting scammed? Even though I'm not and have never been a scam, I'm labeled one forever thanks to this exploitative site.

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU PAY THE MONEY FOR RIP-OFF REPORT'S "SERVICES" YOU WILL NOT GET THE REPORT REMOVED.

EVER.

REPORTS CANNOT BE CHANGED OR EDITED.

REPORTS CAN ONLY BE "ADDED TO"

WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?

About 5 years ago a very troubled man patronized my decades-old business which had an excellent reputation. I'd worked endlessly to build a stellar reputation over the years.

(In my industry, clients only make ONE purchase (on average $90) ONCE due to my niche. I give relationship advice. I don't ask clients to keep coming back so therefore I rely exclusively on new customers.)

Even when old customers refer new ones to me they look me up first and when they see that I'm on rip-off report? Forget it.

I'd worked YEARS to build a reputation that let clients know I am able to resolve their issue with an inexpensive 1 time service compared to my competitors who charge hundreds for ongoing coaching packages.

But back to the man who ruined my ability to earn an honest living on his 5 minute whim…

A mentally ill man hired me. He booked me for a 1 hour appointment. I realized pretty quickly he needed the type of help I can't offer. Wanting to be polite I listened to him but he talked a mile a minute, non stop and before I knew it nearly 2 hours had passed. I refunded him anyway.

While I'd politely and courteously (ALREADY REFUNDED HIS PURCHASE) > a few days after being refunded, he decided he didn't like my face.

You see, this apparently very troubled man decided I was part of the "harassment project" he claimed he was a victim of. (Don't ask me to speculate on what goes through the mind of someone so mentally troubled.) He began sending me strange rants by email and leaving me disturbing voicemails.

He then posted a report about my business claiming I'm a scam and liar, listed my family's names and falsehoods about them too. (I'm guessing he searched me on Ancestry or something like that.) My family members have absolutely nothing to do with my business, nor have they ever worked in my industry.

Though I responded to the report politely, this didn't help.

I CONTACTED RIP-OFF REPORT: I sent them the copy of the refund issued (which happened BEFORE the report was posted.) Sent copies of the emails I'd received from this unbalanced guy.

RIPOFF REPORT's RESPONSE: A canned email stating they believed in "freedom of speech" and offered to post the arbitration banner and based on what I gathered (only those who click the link and only those who don't gloss over the page would actually see it.)

Regardless, being listed on there isn't going to help me.

I DO NOT HAVE MONEY TO PAY FOR RIP-OFF REPORT ARBITRATION. I explained this to no avail.

Technically I don't need arbitration; the poster apparently went back on the site and tried to remove the report. Finding that he couldn't, he wrote an update to the report APOLOGIZING for posting it - but that doesn't help the fact it's showing up on search results. It has permanently scarred my reputation.

Does Rip-off report care that this guy posted an apology? Nope…

I explained that my family's names were listed on this although they have nothing to do with my business so this is defaming them too - did Rip-off Report CARE about DOXING?

Do they care I can PROVE what happened to me through actual evidence?

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

When anyone searches me, they FIND IT.

If I or my business were a scam, I'd have closed up shop, reopened in another state. Changed my name to Sara Smith or Becky Buckley. But I didn't do that.

I DID NOT DO THAT BECAUSE I AM HONEST.

But potential clients don't care about that. All they see is the line in Google and they move on to the next business because they don't want to risk being scammed out of their money. Totally understandable.

Thanks to Ripoff Report my HONEST business tanked. No one can help me.

Part of me is even scared to post this to beg for the sites help because the poster of my report is unbalanced based on the emails and phone messages I have from him bothering me and I'm frankly SCARED of him.

I DOUBT Rip-off report will care about me. No one does. I'm just a lady. One person.

Tip for consumers:

Don’t post anything unless you want it there forever

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Portugal
27 reviews
100 helpful votes

Online Extortion via Fake Reviews Allowing Anonymous Unverified Criminals Slander Everyone
January 22, 2022

RipOffReport (and the owner alleged con artist ED MAGEDSON) are an alleged fraud and an online extortion operation seemingly backed by some weird US laws that need to be urgently changed. The RIPOFFREPORT allows completely fake, false and anonymous "authors" post absolute lies, defamation and libel against individuals and companies who did not let themselves to be scammed and abused by those fake, anonymous posters, called "authors". ROR now has a new feature (in green font) called: Author Confirmed, where they state the author is real and confirmed, while in all cases known to me those authors are completely fake (fantasy names used) and anonymous spreaders of lies in order to hurt the individual or company and then for ROR to extort thousands of dollars from them. Ripoffreport and its infamous owner and an alleged con artist ED MAGEDSON allow and accept absolutely fake and anonymous unverified posts and now they will upgrade the filthy posts with "Author Confirmed" after you don't pay them the $2000 that they ask by emailing you in multiple messages that they ask in order to push the listing down, so it can not be found. Once the ROR realises they won't be paid by you the victim, and the victim of ROR can not be fooled, they resort to marking their fake post as "Author Confirmed". That is an alleged criminal behavior and the country supporting it through its laws is criminal den as well. Interestingly enough the victims of this fake "review" extortion business that ROR is do not have complaints posted on any other internet complaint websites, only on the ROR. That says something! Don't take ROR seriously and they should be shut down and the owner should face international court of law by a massive class action.

Tip for consumers:

Do not ever post anything on RipoffReport (owner: Ed Maggotson) and ignore all their contents same as you ignore and boycott any other allegedly criminal enterprise.

Date of experience: January 22, 2022
GB
6 reviews
34 helpful votes

Always helpful to me!
March 17, 2016

This website has saved me from countless scams and fraudulent business deals. Thank you RoR!

Date of experience: March 17, 2016
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes

Things are not always what they seem
December 12, 2015

I'm kind of old (keep that in mind if you young folk happen to be reading this and don't understand some of what is stated herein).
I remember when the corporations were propagating that cigarettes were safe and "doctor approved", cigarette companies haven't gone to jail for murder. I remember when we were told by the media that the Kennedy's all died of this or that gunman (only to find out that it was contrary to the media's propaganda (the media is still around and still is free to manipulate public opinion with slanted information). I remember when the media told us that a bunch of black people listened to a white preacher and committed suicide in Jonestown Guyana (yet failed to inform the public of some factoids such as who the owner of that property was/is and that the MKUltra-type test population was forced to do some insane daily visits to the "hospital" there), the owners still exist to this day. I remember when the media showed us all 3 steel and concrete towers falling due to tin planes and kerosene fuel (and later dubbed the incident "twin towers" and the minds of the masses went comatose about that third building). Yahoo, in 2010 was found guilty of some evil stuff (and still to this day their auto-responder robots exist which create posts against anyone that might use one of their keywords... such as murdering innocent people should not be considered a good thing... within seconds you will be blombasted with the most insane rubbish responses that aren't even from real people). I remember watching some high ranking people murder 2 kids in Provo (and the media completely lied about the incident the next day... of course I and another witness were not permitted in the police department where the "press" conference was being held... I waited outside and none of those reporters wanted to hear the truth... I spoke on channel 2 and 5 news and they only permitted 3 words to air which gave the illusion of something totally contrary to what I said). We've all seen certain groups killing kids, women, unarmed men (we need no longer look at waco or ruby ridge or kent state or attica for those fallen). When I went to school we still had prayer before our school day, the capitalists quickly removed prayer and put in its place conformity without protest, be all you can be, officer friendly, and reel to reel projector videos that had absolutely no educational value whatsoever (such as Exxon, and all the wonderful things that Exxon is doing to create a better and safer world... no fish allowed). We were given a bait and switch education where monopolies were stated to not be a part of our economic system (and now we have only two players at the monopoly board... republican and democrat, verizon and brighthouse, microsoft and macintosh, walmart and bestbuy... the illusion of choices sure seem to abound these days). We now have open discourse in the media of lobbyists bringing bagfuls of money to curtail the better ethics of those decision makers that lord over us and ask only that we donate our children to her wars and our money for her causes.
But wait, this story is about ripoffreport right? Right. A year ago I made a valid and true report about greendot money card. I noticed that when searching my name that it appeared that I was the scammer moreso than the entity I was reporting. I emailed ripoffreport and guess what? Quicker than any monopoly site around was the reply back!
In fact, I appreciate sites such as this that keep some semblance of equilibrium between the misguided and apathetic masses and the monopolies that have apparently caused the greatest heist in history to go unreported (usdebtclock.org for starters I know, you didn't know we were the brokest country on the planet, right? Where did the money go? HA! I could answer that and could even offer a damn good solution but this is about a single man, Ed something or other, right? A man that singlehandedly offered a site where any Joe could come along and state his peace (almost echoes what the protectors of our freedoms were supposed to uphold... freedom of somethingorother... now, 2015 and nobody dares stand up for our eviscerated constitution).
I ask you, if I were to start a site, using my own server, and allow a community-based forum where we could discuss avenues for rectifying bad situations, or lauding good situations, is this of itself bad? Of course not! Ahhh... but if I should make a dollar in doing so, now that's bad (unless you're called the supreme court and all it's ilk)...
Courageous we are not. Apathetic and ignorant till death do us part we are.
I suggest we read that last book of Revelations... start at about chapter 17 or 18 (there's only 5 or 6 more chapters to the end) and consider what our end should be.

I would post the communications between myself and this ripoffreport entity but I doubt it would be of good use here. I suffice to say that they treated me above and beyond what should be considered appropriate (and I'm nobody). They handled my request the same day I made the request (yesterday).

I've written the truth here, what you do with this information is of no concern to me, I'm old and on my way out (it's you younger folk I worry for... the water is deep and the sharks are rampant).

(written but not read, there may be errors in the aforementioned, should we kill me or profiteer because of it? Thought crimes, maybe?)

Amen.

P.s. On second thought, I'm posting the communications between myself and that small company that yearns to be big like the monopolies that rule us (how dare he aspire like those others!)

Me:

>> Hello,
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>> I made a report against greendot about a year ago and it's making me look worse than the entity I was reporting! In fact, whenever someone searches for me they find me with this report as being one of the first things seen: RIPOFF REPORT: KENNY HENDRICK. Someone would actually have to read the entire article in order to find out that I'm not the ripoff.
>>
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>> My email has changed (for political reasons I left yahoo which is probably the email I used to make the report against greendot... if it wasn't yahoo then it may have been gmail. I'll list some of my past email addresses here:
>><<

If you call, I can verify anything (such as a quiz question or other information that only I might know).
>>
>>
>>
>> In short, I really would like the opportunity to edit my report and any help or hint you can give me as to which email address I'll be needing to remember the password to, would be much appreciated.
>>
>>

************************************************************************************************************

Them:

Ripoff Report Customer Service<*******@ripoffreport. Com>11 dec. At 23:56

Hello,

If you could please give us your name, we will be able to make the changes that are needed. Thank you and have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Ripoff Report Customer Support

*****************************************************************************************************************

Them (same day)

Ripoff Report Customer Service<*******@ripoffreport. Com>12 dec. At 00:59

Dear >><<,

We have removed your name from the reports that you have placed and replaced it with anonymous. You may view your report using the link below.

>><<

Thank you and again enjoy your weekend!

Sincerely,

Ripoff Report Customer Support

Tip for consumers:

This is how a business ought to act! I've already pulled a couple of cards from the haters out there that are speaking against this ripoffreport website (if for instance, it sounds as though they've stated something that strangely resembles something from elsewhere, simply copy a portion of their "authentic" words against this guy, and then search google for that exact copied section or sentence!). One guy had the audacity to make a statement against ripoff report by PLAGIARIZING words that

Date of experience: December 12, 2015
California
1 review
6 helpful votes

As the scourge of Defamation/Slander/ Complaint sites...
October 28, 2014

As the scourge of Defamation/Slander/ Complaint sites like Ripoff, and several others, still exist. Here are 5 TIPS on what people can do:

1) WRITE POLITICIANS, SEARCH ENGINES, ADVERTISERS, and the FTC.
A long time ago right after the internet was invented, American politicians flubbed, and passed the now outdated, law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act

Because of this law, websites, to this day, have been able to commit the equivalent of economic terrorism against individuals and small businesses. Write politicians. If they dont reply or help, then write a few scathing complaints about them on ripoff and elsewhere, and show them the unedited unexamined complaint they now have. This may get their attention.

Also, in addition to adjusting the botched 230, NEW laws about hosting internet defamation need to be created, on both the state and federal levels. The minute these new laws pass, (locally and nationally), these sites will collapse.

Ditto for the major search engines. The slander/ defamation sites get all their power from the links they derive from the search engines. Without the search results, their visibility would end instantly. The search engines are why there is so much grief is passed along.

Contact people at the search engines and ask them to delink results from such abusive websites. Get the names of the people you speak to. If they dont help, write a complaint about them too. Also, make a database of all the companies advertising on these sites. Websites that allow anonymous people to post whatever they want about anyone, and do not investigate the accusation and verify for accuracy, and then do not remove posts, deserve to be shut down.

There needs to be extreme public pressure on "Do No Evil" Google to stop linking to these particular sites. And someone, hopefully, will put together a successful class action, Federal RICO charges (for serial extortion) Also be sure ask the search engines to implement the de-link policy that has been recently adopted by Europe:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/13/right-to-be-forgotten-eu-court-google-search-results

Here is the link to complain to the FTC
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1

2) DONT PAY AND DONT RESPOND

Again, follow the money. If the website uses the extortion model to make money, create a large database of people victimized by these sites presently or in the past, and email blast them not to pay. Follow up. If the web site uses the advertising model to make money, then start a campaign and/ or petition against all their advertisers.

Write each advertiser politely that they are advertising with an evil website that harms peoples reputations and does not remove posts. If you get no response, then complain on 5-6 websites about them. See how they like it. They are just as vulnerable as you are. People will get the message. Shut off the money spigot to these sites.

Why people are gullible enough to pay protection money and subsidize these sites is beyond comprehension. The funding has to stop. Also, email your list of victims not to respond to the posts, and give them tips on how to fight back. When you respond on these sites, a flame war starts and that is good for the defamation site and its search engine value. If everyone refused to pay and post, these sites would cease to exist.

3) SUE, SUE, AND SUE AGAIN. Sure you may lose, but if you lose you still win. These sites dont want you to sue, because it takes up huge amounts of their time and energy. But they need to be spending their time in court and on lawyers, not devising new schemes to torment and defame people like you. Imagine if the lawsuits to Ripoff quadrupled next year? Even a psychopath has to decide if its worth it to terrorize the public. You may also want to consider organizing a class action lawsuit using your database of those victimized.

4) HACK & SPAM. This is not legal, so we cannot recommend hacking or spamming these sites. But if you personally know a hacker or spammer, let him know your story, he may sympathize with you. A website that is hacked or spammed massively, would experience acute downtimes and a loss of time and money.

5) CREATE NEW IDEAS AND LET EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT THEM.

You are not helpless. If just a few dozen people take strong action, these sites will only exits for a few months until they are sued to bankruptcy. The government does not put up with internet bullying, terrorizing children, or copyright infringement, but for some reason they have dropped the ball with adult individuals and small businesses who are slandered online. You can help change that.

How a website sadists and bullies, can stay alive and thrive even in Osama bin Laden style hide outs remains perplexing. We cannot advocate violence, but it is amazing that no crazy person has yet tracked down these evil folks. If I were them, I would quit while ahead, take a long vacation of ones choice. If anyone knows people who work for and help these companies, you may want educate them about the evil they are working for, and the danger they put themselves by working there.

Permission is granted to edit/ use any text from this post, anywhere.

Date of experience: October 28, 2014
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes

I have reported a bunch of companies on here, which...
October 9, 2014

I have reported a bunch of companies on here, which have all screwed me over in some way. Most of the time, my intention was not to have the issue resolved, but, just to settle the score with some good old, sweet revenge!
By exposing what the company and what they did to me or someone else to the world, it may not solve the problem, but, it will hurt them in other ways.
First of all, anybody that reads my complaint will think twice about going to that company again. That means, they will have that many less customers to rip off! These people will also tell their friends and relatives not to go there. That will hurt them a little more, because they won't be able to hurt those people and rip them off.
For every customer I take away from a business, they will lose anywhere from $1 to multiple Billions of dollars! So I'm not just hurting that company's reputation, but, I hurt them financially as well!
Vigilante style revenge is so awesome!
The site Sometimes even works as it is supposed to. That is when a company actually is informed of a complaint somebody has submitted about them.
Then the company contacts the consumer to make things right. When this happens, the two parties come to their own agreement on how to solve the problem, usually without going to court.
Most of the time, the offender, usually a company, will offer to make things right to the victim, either by fixing whatever it was they broke, refunding the person's money or doing whatever they have to do to make amends to the customer and keep them happy. After they resolve the problem, they will usually insist that the person who submitted the complaint must immediately remove it from the site.
There are a lot of companies, however, that just don't seem to care and they simply don't get the message. For example, if you look up Just Brakes on this site, you'll see over a Thousand complaints! This is a company that just has no Morales! They couldn't care less if people post more complaints about them!
So, this is a good site, on which you can research a company and find out if they have a bad reputation. If they have more than 50 serious complaints, don't go there, or they will screw you to!
An example of how this site has worked for a friend of mine:
My friend from work was sent home one day by the Manager, because he didn't have. A company tie and another part of his uniform. The Manager was very corrupt and he told him that he needed to buy his own tie and anything else he needed for the uniform.
My friend said, "No, that's not right! The uniform was issued by the company! Anything that goes with it, you have to supply!"
The Manager sent him home and said, "Don't come back until YOU buy the accessories you need for the uniform!"
He refused to spend his own money for the company uniform. So, he stayed home and was off duty for two whole weeks.
Then, he wrote about the incident and some other things the company was doing wrong on Rip Off Report.
The next day, the Manager was received a phone call from Rip Off Report. They told him about the complaint that an employee just wrote about him and the company.
The Manager called my friend into his office to work out a deal.
The Manager was waiting in the office with a tie and all the other things my friend needed for his uniform.
When my friend got to the office, the Manager gave him everything he needed. Then, he said, "Lets make a deal, I will give you full pay for the entire two weeks you've been off work and here's an extra $300. But, you can only have all of this and keep your job here, IF, you remove your complaint from Rip Off Report!"
My friend said, "Fine. I'll do that. But, if you do something like this again, I'll see you in cout."
The Manager told him, he had to remove the complaint right away. He had him use the computer in the Manager's office and the Manager watched him remove it.
By letting the employee keep the job, paying him for the time he was off, giving him what he needed and giving him an extra $300, the company probably saved Thousands, if not Millions of dollars. Because, if that report had stayed on Rip Off Report and tons of people saw it, nobody would of done much business with the company ever again. Then, maybe somebody would have even put it on the NEWS.
BTW, the company I'm talking about here is: "SECURAMERICA, in Orlando, FL. Don't ever contract that company out! They've screwed me and a bunch of other people! In fact, they have screwed the LITERALLY ALL THEIR EMPLOYEES! They cut everybody's pay and treat people like s#@t! Don't ever work for SECURAMERICA! You've been warned!

Overall, this site is great, evn though they don't resolve ALL the problem that people report, at least it's a good way to get a little revenge!

Date of experience: October 8, 2014
Arizona
2 reviews
27 helpful votes

"Ripoff Report.com" is an amalgam of disguised corruption...
September 5, 2014

"Ripoff Report.com" is an amalgam of disguised corruption run by a man named Ed Magedson. There is no staff, no secretary; nor is there any "panel of arbitrators".

In the social vernacular Ed Magedson is an Internet Loser, a self-styled egotist who is outspoken about his grandiose accomplishments, yet doesn't possess so much as a high school diploma.

In clinical terms Ed Magedson is a sociopath. He cares nothing for his fellow human beings, seeing in others only how deep he can stick his plumbing in them financially. When he moved from the streets of New York to Mesa, Arizona, it was for the sole purpose of being at the ready when his parents died, so he could mine their estate. He goads his adversaries into legal confrontations with the enthusiasm of a child anticipating a trip to Disneyland. His only friends are his enemies, especially those who dare sue him in court.

Magedson, a balding, overweight, 62-year-old admitted pedophile, runs the highly successful website "ripoffreport.com". In reality it's a slickly-disguised, strong-arm confidence game that solicits complaints from legitimate consumers, and then blackmails the subject of those complaints - usually companies with deep pockets - into paying large sums of money to have the derogatory information suppressed. The lesser problem with his website is he spends way too many pages waxing poetic about his lifetime of highly improbable accomplishments, while giving barely a nod to his real victims. To describe Magedson as full of himself would be an understatement. Indeed, his ability to interact positively with his peers leaves much to be desired.

Magedson claims he never edits comments that have been submitted. That would be good if it were true, because his literary skills are typically 5th grade: he writes in fragmented sentences, doesn't know how to make paragraphs, can't differentiate between fact and innuendo and has so aggravated his webmaster, that he is now charged for any editing services he needs. In fact, Magedson is so illiterate, he cannot even restructure the paragraphs he lost when he edited a single submission into one large monolog. The result? Ripoffreport is a slovenly, tabloid attempt to create something that could have been useful, were it done with any degree of skill, professionalism and moral fiber.

His egotistical attitude, along with his 60's throwback hippie appearance, haven't exactly endeared him to the locals in Maricopa County, Arizona, where he ekes out a living selling nebulous publications and questionable services on his ripoffreport website. Magedson claims negative reports cannot be "bought" away, yet companies that want negative information removed can in fact, do so simply by sending this con anywhere from $2,000.00 to $100,000.00 (Magedson calls it his ''sliding scale'') along with a monthly "maintenance fee" to keep the negative comments suppressed (as opposed to removing them entirely, as legitimate websites do). Then Magedson, posing as an imaginary panel of anonymous arbitrators, places a disclaimer by the negative comments. Despite claims to the contrary on his website, Magedson is drawn to legal confrontations - where he is usually the loser - like a moth to a candle, ever confident this, finally, is going to be his big winner of a case. It hasn't happened of course, but in Magedson's sadistic mind, hope springs eternal.

Meanwhile, he rambles about freedom of speech but, somehow, can't get it through his concrete coconut that defamation, specifically libel and slander, are still against public policy - whether in real life or on the Internet. Meanwhile, he relies entirely on the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which absolves websites of liability whenever false statements are placed by their users. And that's where he derives his income: blackmailing legitimate companies into paying for his "protection" against further negative comments visitors place on his website.

Magedson redefines all that is evil about the depravity to which mankind can sink.

Livid emails he sends indicate a clear need for a psychiatric evaluation; indeed, Magedson freely admits he "hides" because he believes "people are out to get him" - presumably from his legal troubles, ranging from litigation entanglements with local authorities to the victims of his corporate extortion schemes. His Mafia-style version of cyber blackmail is a creative new skill he honed on the streets of New York, and has cleverly applied to his Internet victims, usually businesses and large corporations, that would rather pay to keep Magedson's pockets greased, than to spend money on lawyers and protracted litigation.

To see a sharper profile of the Internet's most dangerous egomaniac, see:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-02-01/news/the-real-rip-off-report/

The brutal antics of this mentally impaired bully make an even more compelling argument that industrial-strength regulation of the Internet is long overdue.

Tip for consumers:

It has been suggested - and is highly probable - that Ed Magedson writes his own complaints, then creates a fictitious author. That means, be careful how much you publish about yourself ANYWHERE on the Internet: some enemy can use it against you by posting it on ripoffreport.com. - and good luck getting it removed!

Date of experience: September 3, 2014
Canada
1 review
13 helpful votes

THIS SITE SEEMS TO EXTORT MONEY FROM COMPANIES TO REMOVE...
May 3, 2011

THIS SITE SEEMS TO EXTORT MONEY FROM COMPANIES TO REMOVE BOGUS REPORTS.

Date of experience: May 3, 2011
California
143 reviews
927 helpful votes

I've read that Ripoff Report has engaged in some shady...
September 27, 2009

I've read that Ripoff Report has engaged in some shady business practices.

Here are some pieces about them on the news:
http://www.sitejabber.com/redir/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5waG9lbml4bmV3dGltZXMuY29tLzIwMDctMDItMDEvbmV3cy90aGUtcmVhbC1yaXAtb2ZmLXJlcG9ydC8=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHAcf1fYknE
Here's their Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report

Date of experience: September 27, 2009
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