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Bad Reviews...

Skeptical Greg said:
What's a better place to mention the winky-dink you are selling than in a review of someone else's winky-dink?
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Not really, more like you're buying a table saw and the good reviews are talking about waterproof matches.

i.e. the scammer has re-used reviews from a totally different product and not ground off the serial numbers.

:)
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/AirBnB/comments/qt07ib/airbnb_owner_charged_with_menacing_guest_over

The owner of a Victorian Airbnb property which has been rated as the nation’s best holiday home has been charged with using a carriage device to harass and menace a Melbourne-based sales manager who left a negative review of the luxury accommodation business on a travel website.

David Penman, 53, who operates Clifftop at Hepburn in Victoria’s spa country was due to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this week, after allegedly sending a barrage of threatening messages to Matthew Taylor in June last year.
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May 1, 2021, Penman was heard saying: “You have greatly misjudged me. You obviously didn’t do your research about the defamation case on Google ... don’t bother removing your review, don’t bother offering to settle. I’ll see you in f---ing court, you better have a lot of money. This is not over, we’re not accepting a payout. We’re going to f---ing court, and you will burn in hell.”

Apparently, he enjoys harassing anybody who threatens to leave him a bad review.

.Penman previously threatened guests with defamation action, when they left reviews of less than five stars or made critical comments about his business.

On other occasions Penman contacted, or threatened to contact the employers of guests and warned that media publicity of his award-winning guesthouse could damage their corporate brand.

In May 2019, Penman sent a text message to an employee at a major bank, who left a two-star review after booking the romance package at Clifftop at Hepburn to propose to his partner.

“We have today received a complaint of possible domestic violence in your villa from another guest next door ... We will consider this matter before deciding if it should be reported to the police,” Mr Penman said in the SMS exchange.

Penman then emailed several senior figures at the bank in May 2019.

“On May 11, 2019 (today by the time you are reading this), our accommodation will be featured on Postcards. Once that occurs many tens of thousands of people will Google us and a large number will see [his] review on Airbnb. He will be famous…in a way that generates a lot of attention for [the bank],” Penman said in the email.

“Just a word of caution. We don’t tolerate reviews or social media comments from folks arising from situations like this. I will post our entire email chain publicly so that everyone can see what has occurred if any reviews whatsoever are written,” the customer was told.

Penman warned the woman he had recently reached a settlement in a defamation case against another guest who had left a negative review, and claimed the guest had incurred legal costs of more than $300,000.

“Our solicitor will be fully briefed on this matter today and given the way this matter is heading I propose to raise it with the Department of Education,” Penman said in an email in January 2020.
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The alpaca farm I work at has its fair share. Someone left a bad review because the alpacas were in a bad mood (they're animals, they have good and bad days like us, you might as well leave a bad review because the weather was bad), another was unhappy with Norwegian law required that the riding pony get every hour off. Someone else had taken their ticket price for their whole family, divided it by the numer of alpacas, and decided that they charged too much for the number of alpacas they could meet.

Most of the reviews are good and/or bring up actually good points, though.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
The alpaca farm I work at has its fair share. Someone left a bad review because the alpacas were in a bad mood (they're animals, they have good and bad days like us, you might as well leave a bad review because the weather was bad), another was unhappy with Norwegian law required that the riding pony get every hour off. Someone else had taken their ticket price for their whole family, divided it by the numer of alpacas, and decided that they charged too much for the number of alpacas they could meet.

Most of the reviews are good and/or bring up actually good points, though.
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Rowhead farm has some good social media unfortunately I can't find their follow up post.


But he was.

Found it



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Elvis took a real liking to one of the teachers and would not leave her alone. Poor teacher 🫣, she no longer likes Alpacas
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