I've also tried to respond to erroneous reports and they charge you to respond.
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Welcome to the world of internet complaint sites. Most, if not all, do not verify what is posted. All have posts that may or may not be true. Generally the complaints or reviews are the authors opinion. Not necessarily 100% factual. Most are probably are based on some facts.
I seems pretty common knowledge that money can get things removed from RipOffReport.
So, unless the post about you is slanderous, libelous, or defamatory in some way and is done with malicious intent there is not a whole lot you can do other than post a rebuttal.
Legal remedies can be time consuming, expensive, and frustrating.
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Chuck's right. Plus Ed has been sued so many times he can't even count them anymore. He is a worm that works off a pre-paid cell phone and has nothing in his name. Ed also edits and removes reports he does not like (usualy about him). Ed will make up a false report just to get some damage going with a company. The best part is if a person wants to clear their name he charges a huge fee to clean up the reports but only if you pay him.
Example, one day StoresOnline were the biggest crooks on the Internet, hundreds of bad reports on the ROR. They paid Ed a huge sum of money and the next day they had no bad reports and were a wonderful company ... more >>
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Maybe I am not on the same page here, but why in the world would anyone go to the trouble of posting a false report on you on a complaint site? I have never heard of you, so why would someone feel it necessary to badmouth you online?
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ROR fluctuates between bottom feeders, and the stuoidest postings ever read.If you want to get a bad report off the site it's easy, just write a check to Ed.
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All gripe sites have posts that are anyway from 100% on the money to total malicious fabrications. The problem with rip off report is you can't get them removed without a check to ed and unlike here and many other places, ROR sometimes will not post positive opinions, and that's a fact. Also, if you are complained about, there is a ceiling you can rebuttal before you get hit with a $25 charge by ED for each subsequent response. Of course, not only can the complainant keep coming back for free, but the ROR makes sure they get emailed every time it's their turn too.
It still amazes me ED hasn't been brought up on racketeering charges yet.
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I'd heard the same thing about Ripoffreport-that it was a bunch of bull. I don't go there any more as a result.
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Starlord,
I am a nobody in the grand scheme of things. When I first started using ROR, I posted under my REAL NAME. A business had one of their employees post a lie about me in retaliation. The employee admitted they posted the lie, but ROR will not remove it. My recourse would be to sue the employee who likely doesn't have any money and that would not correct the ultimate problem which is the fact that the lie is on ROR.
In response to your original question, go to ROR and you will see reports calling people pedofiles, perverts, gossippers and so forth. My report is under "BLABBER MOUTH." ROR is a site for lunatics.
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To Slim re: RICO charges
Some companies have sued ROR on RICO charges and sought money damages. I think ultimately it will take the Arizona US Attorney's Office or the Department of Justice to bring the RICO charges criminally, which I think is likely to happen.
Several companies have admitted to paying to have their reports removed or modified. At this point, it is just an issue of getting the Arizona US Attorney's office involved or interested in the action.
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Ed was feeling a lot of heat from all the law suits and some AG's hot on his heals so he moved his web site from Florida to ALKIMNET Telecommunication LTD in Ankara, Turkey. It will be more difficult to take him down now.
If you don't like something at the ROR just write ED a check, he will be happy to change it for you.
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Slim...I've never checked out ROR...but you say they charge the company to have negative reviews removed? What stops ROR from "planting" negative reviews, just to get companies to pay them to have them removed?
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Nothing DB. There are dozens of web sites claiming Ed made up fake reports in order to get a company to pay up.
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He needs to be sued for blackmail!
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Superbowl,
I find it hard to believe that a person living in Turkey is operating a website out of Arizona. The justice department can get jurisdiction over ED based upon the fact that he is really operating out of AZ.
I asked this question on another site:
If people have evidence of ED blackmailing them (in the forms of letters and recordings), why hasn't this information been forwarded to the Dept of Justice or the US Attorney's Office in AZ so that they can begin a RICO investigation.
Instead, these companies have just done an internet smear campaign. If there is clear evidence of blackmail, it should be easy to get the media' ... more >>
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Going to another complaint board (personal opinion forum)that does not check facts to post complaints against another complaint board because it does not check facts or refuses to remove complaints.
If the complaints are false - the only legally responsible person is the one who actually posted it
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I agree with Debra J -
There is no evidence!!!!
Ed and ROR have been sued by very large businesses and have won every time for the same things ROR bashers are citing here.
The real oxymoron -
Going to another complaint board (personal opinion forum)that does not check facts to post complaints against another complaint board because it refuses to remove complaints just because the person who the was the subject of the complaint did not like it.
Then of course there is the ever popular = That ROR is actually the ones creating the complaints. It could not possibly be unhappy customers, disgruntled employees etc.
If th ... more >>
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Ed Magedson and Rip Off Report is so bad so bad. I dont think Ed has one redeeming value at all period. There are so many crazy flat out lies posted about businesses including ours that its laughable to read some of these. This is the National Enquire Magazine here but Ed knows no other way to generate income other than scams and extortion. Some way he has to feed that fat blubber body of his so extortion is the easy way to put a roof over his head.
I mean the volume of complaints in various venues is frightening. Hundreds of thousands of complaints about Rip Off Report yet Google promotes them
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Google loves money, Ed pays Google money, end of that story...
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There is quite a bit of bad information being thrown about here. Let’s try to get to the facts. Ed Magedson/Rip Off Report/Xcentric Ventures has not won every case. Some have settled and the terms of that are not for public consumption. Perhaps they both got tired of spending money. Who knows but they haven’t all been won. Ed would like for you to think that because in spite of his demeanor to the contrary, he doesn’t want to be sued because it will cost him money to defend. He sued the journalist of The Real Rip Off Report and the Phoenix New Times and didn’t win that. There are others.
There has been much posting about wh ... more >>
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Here is a story that explains what is going on with rip off report and gives you a link to report the company's activity to the Department of Justice:
http://www.free-press-release.com/news-rip-off-report-ror-victims-fight-back-1259391823.html
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(05/18/2008) 
