sheila t.

SCAM what kind of website charges people to leave reviews AND generates further income by using ads? Angie's list. What a joke the idea that charging for a review is going to deter fake reviews is just another way of saying only business owners/contractors are going to want to leave reviews under pretend names, to increase their business.

Evil company. It's like if the mafia created a website. They extort business into paying them a monthly "advertising fee" in exchange for good reviews. Google "yelp extortion" to read about it.

My reviews are always inexplicably hidden. There are usually dozens if not hundreds of other people's reviews which get mysteriously "filtered" out of the main page, and can only be read if you scroll to the bottom and click the faded gray link that says "read unrecommended reviews". Here you will find a more accurate rating of a business.

I can't tell you how many times i was tricked into thinking a business was good, only to realize that the reviews yelp has are filtered and skewed to be either good or bad according to how yelp wants to portray the business. Yelp is not the place to go for objective reviews.

When i had a particularly negative experience with a place and posted the review, my review was instantly filtered out. I looked at the hidden reviews to see that 30+ people had also given the same business 1 star, but their reviews were mysteriously filtered out. The reviews that weren't filtered were neutral. Very strange and not at all accurate.

A haven for predatory men to go after young women, and those who are new in town. Also a great way for said men to hold meetups at bars where they know the bartenders/bar owners, make commission off drinks purchased by people attending the meetup, and cover up for anyone who wishes to slip date rape drugs into the drink of any female meetup attendees.

At a meetup i went to i was roofied. It was a langauge-speaking meetup of all things, on a saturday night at a bar in a large city. It was a small group and we were in a small, uncrowded bar. I arrived alone at 9pm, and introduced myself the the organizer who smiled and welcomed me and made sure i ordered a drink. He asked if i was new in town, if i knew anyone else, and when i said no, he introduced me to the rest of the group. Total at the meetup that night was: myself, the meetup organizer, two of his friends, and two men who had not come together. Everyone was standing at the bar talking.

I ordered a rum and coke, which was small and not strong, and drank it as i talked with the group. Half hour later, i ordered a second one. My last memory of the night is sipping on my halfway full drink, while standing at the bar. My next memory, which would be 12 hours later, was when i woke up the next day on the floor of a strange apartment, covered in vomit and dirt, and with bruises, and my whole body hurting.

I soon realized i was in the apartment of one of the men who i had been talking to at the bar, and i started to panic. I got up and found my things, which were on a table. The man said he would help me and that he had brought me there because i had been falling down "drunk" at the club the night before. I told him that i had no memory of anything. My head was pounding and i could barely form concrete sentences, so all i told him was that i wanted to go home. I was scared and wanted to get away as quickly as possible. He called a cab and i went home in the cab.

I was sick for 3 days afterwards, unable to get out of bed, my whole body hurt and i had no energy. At the time i had no medical insurance either, so i was unable to do testing to find out what i had been given. I did go to a low cost clinic and they told me i clearly was drugged with something. I tried calling to do a police report but kept on getting recorded messages, and was told that i would need to come to police station to file a report. Since i had no clear evidence (like lab tests) i couldn't prove that i had been drugged. So i didn't file a report.

I later learned that the organizer frequently holds meetups at bars where he is friends with the bar owners. One bar even has a drink named after him. He has 9 different meetups which are supposed to be specific interest groups, but they always meet at bars for happy hour or club nights. I think that a friend of the organizer must have roofied me, and the organizer, seeing how incapacitated i was, got rid of me by sending me home with a strange man, rather than calling 911.

Months later i worked up the courage to go to another meetup and confront the organizer about what happened. He recognized me immediately and even remembered my name. He was very apologetic from the start and asked how i was. I asked why on earth would he have put me in a cab with a strange man, when he knew i came to the meetup alone and that everyone there was a stranger to me? He said that he thought i was really drunk and that the man had offered to take care of me. He said i had been falling down on the ground. When i asked why he didn't call 911, and why he got rid of me by putting me in a cab with a stranger, all he could say to me was "sorry" and then he offered to buy me a drink to make up for it.

I could have died, if i had been given a higher dose of the roofies. As i said, i woke up covered in vomit. I am very angry that this happened to me and it was over a year ago. I think this man knew what was going on and that one of his friends drugged me, but they didn't expect me to have such a violent reaction (profuse vomiting and falling down)

Stay away from meetups!