Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/foxjazz/archive/2013/03/27/yelp-has-questionable-business-tactics.aspx
Yelp has strong arm business tactics, and there is no Yelp about Yelp itself within its business to complain about it. That is one of the reasons for the complaint.
Yelp is well known, and because of that it prays on small businesses by charging small business a FEE to get a false complaint or report off their website.
This is a near criminal action.
I have been to several businesses and asked what they thought about yelp, and hear the same thing over and over. Yelp wants these businesses to pay a high fee to be able to pull false complaints off their board. Any idiot that doesn't like a business can put up a complaint in yelp, and bring their rating down, thus giving yelp leverage over that business. This is not free speech, because yelp asks the business to pay for such services a high fee to change the logic of their system to favor that business.
This is the complaint I have against yelp, and yelp should be obligated to have this notice on their website.
Thank you