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The company's reputation is significantly marred by widespread customer dissatisfaction, primarily concerning its review management practices and aggressive advertising tactics. Many users express frustration over hidden reviews, perceived extortion for advertising, and a lack of genuine customer support. Positive aspects are scarce, with some customers appreciating the platform's potential for connecting with local businesses. However, the overwhelming sentiment reveals a distrust in the company's ethics and practices, leading to calls for accountability and transparency. Overall, the feedback indicates a critical need for Yelp to address these serious concerns to rebuild trust among its users.

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373
value
343
shipping
110
returns
142
quality
321
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam!
March 15, 2020

Horrible company. Where's the feds? Stealing small businesses $ for bunk leads and any good reviews they did earn.

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
Virginia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Aggressive pitbull
March 14, 2020

I just want to warn the public of an aggressive dog at Mcnallys appliance in marysville ca. Was visiting the store to let my autistic grandson look at appliances. Was greeted by a dark gray pitbull type dog. The dog began to growl at us and I yelled for store personnel and nobody came out. I yelled louder and louder and finally someone from the back whistled for the dog. And said not to worry that the dog would not hurt you. WTF.! They never came out to help. We slowly walked out of the store all the while the dog still growling. Time to lawyer up.

Date of experience: March 14, 2020
Indiana
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I tried to cancel my ad campaign 5 times and got hung up on 5 times. So I called the credit card company and they got it done and then Yelp sent me a message and when I called the dispute #*******021, they even hung up on me! I wasn't even mad or acting angry but what a crappy way to treat your advertisers!

Date of experience: March 13, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Screens reviews
March 13, 2020

Yelp screens out so many reviews. But companies pay them to do this so they can make money. The consumer is the one that gets hurt by using Yelp's manipulated reviews.

Date of experience: March 13, 2020
Germany
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Kar Tunes on Alameda
March 11, 2020

This is a review of Kar Tunes on Alameda at in Los Angeles and this place is absolutely terrible. I stood at the front of the establishment for about 20 minutes waiting for assistance but no one ever approached or asked if I needed help. Once I did ask for service, they Had me wait over an hour more to have my stereo fixed just for some kid with a bad attitude to tell me there was nothing he could do without checking anything! I then went to one of the owners and asked why they had me wait instead of just telling me that they couldn't help me in the beginning and she just gave me a dirty look and repeated, "there's nothing we can do for you". Bad customer service and people who seem too preoccupied to serve customers. Definitely choose any other audio installation place than this one and save yourself a headache.

Date of experience: March 11, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It says something when a yelp review of yelp on yelp is 1 or 2 stars. Had A yelp sales rep lie about how their system work, the cost, and lied about a $300 credit. Good thing I was monitoring the campaign tightly and was able to shut it down before running up hundreds in costly clicks. Called to get a refund on the two clicks that ran up $28 to my card because the sales rep said that the clicks were only $1.50 per click. And also figure out why the $300 credit did not cover the $28 spent. Now my company is having to do a charge back dispute. While I assume the sales person "Baqir Vanderhall" is continuing to lie to sale other companies on their platform.

Date of experience: March 5, 2020
California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Yelp sucks.
March 4, 2020

I have something to claim about YELP.
I have a red and white notice on the door easy to read but unfortunately a blind customer did not pay attention and wrote that shop was closed during the business hours.
Yelp should check before writing any fake info.
It was the same when I relocated the shop. THEY WROTE: DOWNTOWN SHOE BIZ IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED.
I MOVED FROM 6th to 5th Ave and it took a month.
I advertised my own cellphone anywhere and is even written on the main door.
I am also available for deliveries even overtime.

Date of experience: March 4, 2020
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Suckered in to Yelp
March 3, 2020

They Promised me a great return on advertising with them and as it turned out they did nothing but charged me 300.00 for 4 days before I cancelled. Never again... They lie and cheat. How discusting.

Date of experience: March 3, 2020
Maryland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Total scam
March 2, 2020

Dealing with Yelp has been the worst experience in my first year of business. I would feel better if I was robbed at gunpoint in a alley. At least I can see the robbers coming instead of being robbed while im sleeping by Yelp

Date of experience: March 2, 2020
Georgia
1 review
21 helpful votes
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I canceled my yelp ad for poor performance in December.
I had a $150 monthly budget. Its March 2 and I just got billed for $450. They reopened my account without permission. I went online and canceled it while on hold with them. Now they tell me since it's canceled I can't fill a complaint for my money back. Btw, never got a single contact from the $450. Yelp is horrible!

Date of experience: March 2, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible Rip-Off
March 2, 2020

Just got ripped off from Yelp - don't fall for their " free trial" - does not exist! Biggest scam ever!

Date of experience: March 2, 2020
Germany
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I trusted Yelp to handle everything they went into my second credit card without me knowing but I gave them authorization never made not one lead would not refund me credit me or hear me check over $1,000 in advertisement which in return 0 do not advertise with Yelp

Date of experience: March 2, 2020
South Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Crooks, and theives
March 1, 2020

Agent called me several times trying to get my business to sign up told me to get free credits and not be charged anything and I started getting charging immediately every month afterwards nobody would speak to me about it and when I canceled it they charged me $500 there's no data to support any of these charges even on my web page for Yelp I don't have the clicks or leads.

Date of experience: March 1, 2020
California
4 reviews
4 helpful votes
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We had a customer try to extort monies from us. If we did not pay him several hundreds dollars in a matter of minutes he would post all over social media and yelp about our business. We immediately filed a report of attempted extortion with the police department. Sure enough the next day it begins his posts and starts with Yelp. We notified yelp provided them the crime report number and offered all the documents to support attempted extortion. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? Yelp refused to remove his post saying it didnt meet requirements to have it removed? Can you believe this crap? I mean what the hell. Yelp is disgusting and would never pass the smell test the way they treat non paying business owners

Date of experience: March 1, 2020
Virginia
16 reviews
39 helpful votes
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YELLING ABOUT YELP
March 1, 2020

I found that it is VERY difficult to write a business review on YELP because it is not an online consumer review site that is conducive to consumer complaints. First of all, there is apparently a maximum word length for each message, which the site DOESN'T infomr you of but merely STOPS your texting WITHOUT warning so that you have to continue it in SEPERATE sections! THEN, you CANNOT post the other sections about the SAME business the SAME day so you have to wait until the NEXT day to do each one IF you have a VERY long message with alot of detail as these online consumer review website CLAIM they like you to have! AS IF this is not BAD enough, you CANNOT post the sections as "continuations" BUT as "updates" of your previous review so that the sections are NOT posted in sequential order but with the LATEST FIRST and the EARLIER ones LAST. So readers have to scroll down to the beginning AFTER reading the LAST part FIRST and finding out it is the END of the message and NOT the beginning! And on top of it all, there is NO contact venue for addressing these problems to YELP in its website.

Date of experience: February 29, 2020
Wisconsin
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I used Yelp for the Business marketing and was in a contract for $300 a month clicks and $60 for preferred. November of last year I was charged over $2700 and Yelp Gave me the run around on numerous calls in to them. They told me that I was wrong and they didn't charge me this. I requested they contact accounting and nobody would. The last call was so rude that she insinuated I was trying to rip them off. She stated she was not going to let me play head games with her, also that she knew what I was doing and she was not going to let me get away with it. She would not allow me to talk to a manager, she stated she was the highest their was. I literally recorded the call because I was so astonished, it was over a 30 min recording. I had to get a third party involved and now finally should be seeing it fixed in March 2020, 4 months later. In the mean time, I told them to cancel my account in 4 different occasions and I just got notification over a month later. They charged me until then. Unless you want to get ripped off from this company who has the worst customer service I have ever experienced, I would stay far far away. With the experience I had, they should have no business being a active business, especially handling any sort of reviews for business when they have to be the worst company I have dealt with in a life time. They sell you a package and rip you off, that's how they make the money.

Date of experience: February 29, 2020
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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F*** yelp
February 28, 2020

Surprise, surprise,
"You get this and this and so much more etc."
They forgot to mention $28 per click

Date of experience: February 28, 2020
Illinois
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Our Marketing Manager was contacted by a Yelp sales person regarding a free $300 in advertising promotion. We were not going to participate in anything that required us to pay anything based on the lack of success with previous campaigns with Yelp advertising and we had no room in our budget for new unplanned ads. The representative walked our manager though set-up to show how it would work and told our manager that once the $300 was gone, the program would end and we would have the opportunity to continue if we wished. We are a non-profit Senior Living Facility, so once the program did not produce anything we let the program run out as we were told and we did not hear back from the Yelp sales person.

We talked with customer service after getting an invoice and the program was explained very differently. We were then told the $300 was to supplement our normal program, to which our manager asked "What program?", as we didn't have a program. The promotion was not explained by the Yelp sales representative that we would be charged if we did not cancel it, nor did we provide a credit card or agree to pay anything. Yet, both our Marketing Manager and now I have wasted countless hours of responding to Yelps inquiries.

The BBB will not do anything to lower their A+ rating due to them religiously replying to all complaints, even if not accepted. In reviewing their complaints they have been doing this at least since 2012.

Date of experience: February 27, 2020
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I began with a Promotional offer of $150 that my Rep said I would not owe anything after that month. I was charged for this. She completely dissapeared when I tried to cancel ALL billing. I called multiple times, sent e-mails. NOTHING IN RETURN. Then I was charged over $420 for the next month. And again - no reply from my Rep. I have sent multiple email, called customer service multiple times, sent the chain of emails wanting to cancel everything, wanting a refund. Guess what -- DENIED! This company is a SCAM. Do not waste your time with them at all. This is a group of dysfunctional, lying degenerates.

Date of experience: February 27, 2020
Colorado
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Bullies
February 27, 2020

Yelp is just a on-line bully.
I had 5-star reviews on yelp.com for my business. One day, a Yelp sales rep called me regarding advertising. When I told them I wasn't interested, they immediately hid all my 5-star reviews. When someone posts a negative review, however, they leave that visible. Yelp continues to hide any 5-star review I get. And, I don't ask my clients to leave me reviews. As a website builder and search engine optimizer, I avoid Yelp whenever I can. I don't link to them. I don't recommend them.

Date of experience: February 27, 2020

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