Yelp

Despite having purchased a great deal in the past, it is clear they are too big for their britches. I ordered gifts this year on December 6 and here a month later they are still not here, the worst part is I talked or chatted to at least 10 different "customer dis- service" people and no one would answer questions or help. One just kept saying what great gifts these were -- well they were terrible because none of them were here. I ordered similar products via Amazon, they are every bit as good, less money and got customized and to my house in less than a week. Never again, don't do it, you will regret it. I certainly did

I've gotten a lot of clients with good reviews for free.
Yelp started calling constantly and bothering me to try their "FREE" promo,

After I repetitively said no, the rep said it would be free $500 in ads for one month! "Just try it!"
I finally gave in so they'd stop calling.

After the first month, I tried cancelling but it was nearly impossible. Contacting then through phone or email was a nightmare. I ended up paying over $600 in ads because I had to put in a couple disputes with my credit card company to remove them! What a tremendous hassle.
And can't even leave a Yelp review for Yelp lol

I was solicited by a yelp representative to try their B2B marketing tools with pay for click ads. I was skeptical that any qualified leads would come through yelp as I am not a retail business. I wes told I could try at no cost, monitor my spending, and cancel at anytime. After about 2 weeks I had accrued $28 dollars in click charges with not a single email or phone inquiry so I cancelled. My bill came in at $62 with all kinds of hidden fees charged.

I would give yelp a negative five-star rating if I could. It's a click scam with no tracking for ad clicks. It's almost impossible to reach customer service to fix issues or make changes. Account rep will not answer my phone call or return call. I have had no calls, appointment or return on investment of any kind. I am a small business starting out and have a tight budget. Every penny counts with our current economy in such flux. Stick to the free part of Yelp. Do not pay for any advertising because the return will not be there.

The Yelp representative told me I'd be getting a $900 credit for the first 3 months. I ended up paying $972 being with them for only 2 months. I cancelled them immediately and all I had were 2 customers and one review. Google never gave me any credits but they have only ever charged me my capped price of 274. Usually I never go over $230 and I have over 40 reviews and multiple customers from them. I honestly would have stayed with Yelp had they not lied to me and took so much money. I'm just a small business owner. ‍ Below are the proof of statements

We had an operator from Yelp contact us about advertising and paying a fee. After turning them down our good reviews got taken down and moved to the hidden "filtered" section. Yet, two bad reviews seem to stay on top no matter what. They also pitched me on paying a fee to remove the negative reviews. It just goes to show you that Yelp is out to scam small business owners off of false negative reviews. There are plenty of review companies out there that have rated Smart Energy Contracting 5 stars and show that we are not a bad company such as porch.com, houzz.com, and yelp should be no different. Yelp is pathetic and I will never sign up for there advertising services.

I made a business page & put in my phone number as required. Now, I've only gotten cold calls from businesses trying to sell me client software which I don't need. I can't remove my phone number now. And, there terms now say you can't delete your business page. My page has been useless so far, but I haven't paid them any money which is a good thing.

Yelp has been. Contacting me to get service from them. They want to charge me 26$ a day. 700+$ a month. When i refused they post bad reviews on my company and also listed my company as closed. I will sue this stinking yelp business. This is the worst site. The force small business to pay a big amount of money for nothing.
U better take my company off ur site or i will sue yelp

I ran an ad for my business through Yelp. Got barraged with spam and scam calls from outside my target market spread. Had my budget ran to its max by empty clicks and people who called me from all over the world. No dispute resolution, no customer support from the business and had to eat the huge financial loss to walk away. Take my lesson learned and keep away from this company. They will take your money and that is all they want

Upon starting my business, I went to yelp first to get the word out. Call after call.after call...constantly from yelp. Hounding me to pay to advertise and boost my business. Thus far I hadn't had even 1 customer via yelp. No way would I pay them. Advertised on my own and finally started getting a few customers. Politely asked them if they could please go on yelp and leave a review. Never asked for positive or negative. 5 left glowing reviews...YAY. Yelp deleted all of them. Several months later 3 more were posted and subsequently deleted. Yelp is nothing short of extortionists! Not paying them=deleted reviews