{"id":2705,"date":"2018-01-17T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:47:22","slug":"smear-campaign-against-the-maintenance-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/smear-campaign-against-the-maintenance-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Smear Campaign Against The Maintenance Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tRecently, a customer who paid his invoice only after being reminded of our policy to place a lien on homes of unpaid invoices, has slammed us badly on Yelp and Google with untrue information.&nbsp; Fortunately On Yelp, their automated system has put his review in the &quot;not recommended&quot; category, but it are still visible to those who are a member of Yelp.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI responded to his untruths with proof otherwise, which made him even more angry.&nbsp; Within two days there has been a rash of 1 star reviews on Yelp and Google from people I don&#39;t even know giving falso information.&nbsp; Yelp has put those fake reviews in the &quot;not recommended&quot; section as well. I know that they are relatives and friends through my own investigation.&nbsp; This person has also had one of these reviewers try to access my Google account because I received an email from Google giving me a verification code to verify my business listing from an email address that I have not heard of.&nbsp; This email address name matches one of the bad reviews on Yelp and Google.&nbsp; He also tried contacting several of my Google reviewers about starting a class action suit again me.&nbsp; I know this because of few of them contacted me and told me so.&nbsp; One of my customers responded to Google that is was inapproriate, so I think at least that has gone away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis person also started an atack on my Facebook account, and it got so bad with false reviews that I had to remove the ability to post a review, which means all our customers who have left legitimate reviews have also been taken down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUnfortunately, this is hurting my overall ranking for my business, which is my only source of income.&nbsp; And to make matters worse, Google has messed up on my account and I am unable to defend myself from these attacks by giving a response. I can&#39;t even thank those who have left a good review, and of course, can&#39;t get a response from Google to fix the issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGenerally, whenever I get a LEGITIMATE bad review, it is almost always from someone angry because they were invoiced for a non-cancellation charge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHONEST reviews on our Google page would be much appreciated.&nbsp; I would rather have an HONEST bad review from a customer so I know where to improve, than a NEGATIVE review from those who are not even customers working on a smear campaign.&nbsp; Don&#39;t they have anything better to do?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere is a shortcut link to our Google page: http:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/39ak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a customer who paid his invoice only after being reminded of our policy to place a lien on homes of unpaid invoices, has slammed us badly on Yelp and Google with untrue information.&nbsp; Fortunately On Yelp, their automated system has put his review in the &quot;not recommended&quot; category, but it are still visible to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Steven Crist","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Recently, a customer who paid his invoice only after being reminded of our policy to place a lien on homes of unpaid invoices, has slammed us badly on Yelp and Google with untrue information.&nbsp; Fortunately On Yelp, their automated system has put his review in the &quot;not recommended&quot; category, but it are still visible to&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}