Very similar to this site. Getting the news out to people about scams and rip-offs. One can post rebuttals to the reports if one disagrees.
Yes! I had a recent little problem with a dishonest bunch of collection whores in Tulsa, OK, who had placed a derogatory remark on my credit
History. NORTHSTAR TECHNOLOGIES, doing business as EQUINOX COLLECTIONS, also in Tulsa. Equinox reported on my credit history that I owed a crooked doctor, GARY R. LEE, MD, in Tulsa, $300 bucks for a 1995 bill that a conscienceless, psychopathic osteopath named FARRAR said I owed. FARRAR was a devious jack-off ambulance-chasing JERK, that was so incompetent, he had no practice except for personal injury cases that some unscrupulous Tulsa lawyers were sending him. This Lee character bought FARRAR's practice. So, 18 years later, this Gary R. Lee tries to extort me. I placed some carefully worded reviews of Gary Lee, ad his collector, EQUINOX/NORTHSTAR. They erased/removed the derogatory remark form my credit. Ed Magedson, the founder of WWW.RIPOFFREPORT.COM, has saved a lot of people, a lot of grief, and pain. If YOU get a bad review on Ripoff Report, answer the review. That is, unless you're a crook. And in that case... take your punishment. You deserve what you get... a swift kick in the arse. HES/GROVE, OK
I can tell you with me ripoff report gets my highest rating. I was personally cheated out of my money from a so-called "honest" company that used dishonest means. I am thankful that I was able to post a permanent warning on this site about their activities so as to warn others about their ways and shame the company.
This is why I like this site so much because it means that the site does not remove reports like some sites that take money and will take down the reports. Ed Madgeson has actual been sued for millions of dollars in order to get him to take down the reports on his site but because he stands for freedom of expression and the first amendment rights of others the courts are always in his favor.
People often have a tendency to discredit consumer advocacy sites and say they are scam but they cannot be blamed for the reports because they do not put them there. Reports are done by different individuals and with the hundreds of thousands of reports on this site it is impossible for one person to write them all.
I only blame consumer advocacy sites if they take down a legitimate report because they were cowards or greedy for money but I cannot blame this site because at least it still gets an A plus for standing up courageously and refusing to take down its reports.
The only problem with the ROR that I have is with editing reports which sometimes it may not always want to and sometimes trying to find reports and the long wait one must experience at times in order to actually see one's report but I know for sure they are not removed from the site.
Now that's integrity to say the least that cannot be bought or sold. We could all learn a thing or two from that.
Ripoffreport.com will extort your business to have a false complaint one person has about your business, even if this complaint was resolved. One complaint out of tens of thousands. The owner Ed Magedson is a wanted fugitive and uses Google adwords and spamming keywords to get the complaint high in search ranking but even worse he is using money he gets from bad scam artist company's advertising on his website. Get rich quick schemes, bad credit loan schemes, fast cash loans who prey on the poor all of the company's and crooks that you normally associate criminals to our ripoffreports advertisers. That is correct he takes money from criminals, fraudsters and thieves and he is operating a website that supposedly a consumer can complain about the very businesses he is supporting and making him rich. If you go to his website make sure you clear your history and cache afterwards you will be spyed on by the lowest of bottom feeders and crooks if you do not clear your cookies and spyware Lookup to see if the actual rip off company's that are supporting have any complaints listed, they do not because he removed the complaints when they agreed to the paid advertising and his extortion. I am certain that eventually this guy will be locked up and made to pay. The BBB rates ripoffreport.com at F its lowest score it seems that Mr. Ed Magedson does not answer complaints about his business ripoffreport.com but yet he terrorizes honest businesses with lies and then tell that business he will remove the lie if you pay Mr Ed thousands of dollars, that is extortion. You can change all of this by writing your senators and congressman and put this bully behind bars.
This site allows defamation and worst - does nothing to stop it.
Contact ripoffreport.com at this number: *******860
Good site for those who know how to sort information from misinformation.
Pretty solid complaint website, another good one is pissedconsumer.
Answer: Everyone who has been a victim of this site needs to report it immediately!
Answer: Don't post anything on that website; it is not a consumer protection website; the owner uses the complaints to get money from people and businesses complained about. Essentially, you file a complaint, he contacts the company and asks them for money to EDIT the complaint. You get nothing and the website gets everything.
Answer: Sue ED MAGGOTSON out of his comfortable anonymous home. Contact your congressmen to change the stupid laws of the US.
Answer: People keep using it!
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