How to fuck with a company that screws you over

dogfighter

dogfighter

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Many moons ago there was an affiliate network that made the mistake of pissing off some people at WF. By the time it was over, they'd had to hire reputation management professionals and lawyers just to stop the shit-storm.

I'm starting this thread to share ideas with anyone who has been fucked over in one way or another by a business and wants to settle a score. I'll put down some of my favorites and you can (please) tack on any of yours.

1. Yelp

This is an obvious one, but you can post a bad review on yelp. Hell, you can get your friends to post bad reviews on yelp. You can get someone on freelancer.com to create 100 verified yelp accounts for you and post from them. If you're scurred of getting caught, use Tor. Make sure to flag your other reviews as "Useful" and "Cool" and "Funny", and to add some friends and throw up a few other reviews to give the review some weight. After you assassinate their yelp rating, you can do some low-hanging-fruit inbound link blasts to get that page to rank above their own for their name.

2. Phone & Email

Sign up for every co-reg email/zip submit offer you can find using their info.

3. Name

If I owned a business, I sure wouldn't want offensive and/or pornographic comments I posted on high-PR blogs under my name showing up... ;)

4. Attorney General

I used to do e-mail marketing for a living and let me tell you... when the state attorney general starts contacting you about failure to unsubscribe people, it's bad. I've worked for companies that have had to suspend their entire email operation for days while they sort through their lists for e-mail addresses that were supposed to be suppressed.

5. Ripoff Report

An obvious one, but still a bane to any business owner.

I'll add more as they come to me. Certain online flower delivery companies should be more careful when fucking people out of their money.
 


I've used youtube video reviews. If you don't want to be on camera there is always fiverr or you could just use images and text. Either way, it's pretty effective. The advantage of doing this is it's pretty easy to rank for their main keywords very quickly and people eat up these reviews.
 
LOL.

A local restaurant that we dropped probably $30k at last year pissed off my CEO. He bought "RestaurantName"sucks.com and had one of our marketing people compile every bad review about it, update it weekly and he let our internal SEO guy lose on it. Very shortly after, the site was ranking on the 1st page when you searched for that restaurant's name.

The owner called and was told he could buy the site for $100k. He then tried calling the police on us. Let's just say the site is still up and being updated weekly.
 
Airin said:
LOL.

A local restaurant that we dropped probably $30k at last year pissed off my CEO. He bought "RestaurantName"sucks.com and had one of our marketing people compile every bad review about it, update it weekly and he let our internal SEO guy lose on it. Very shortly after, the site was ranking on the 1st page when you searched for that restaurant's name.

The owner called and was told he could buy the site for $100k. He then tried calling the police on us. Let's just say the site is still up and being updated weekly.
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I was actually going to add something like this. It's a great idea.
 
Airin said:
LOL.

A local restaurant that we dropped probably $30k at last year pissed off my CEO. He bought "RestaurantName"sucks.com and had one of our marketing people compile every bad review about it, update it weekly and he let our internal SEO guy lose on it. Very shortly after, the site was ranking on the 1st page when you searched for that restaurant's name.

The owner called and was told he could buy the site for $100k. He then tried calling the police on us. Let's just say the site is still up and being updated weekly.
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:smokin:
 
joevis said:
You should rename this thread How to Spend Countless Hours Accomplishing Nothing.
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Speak for yourself shithead, I got 25 hours of free auto work from Firestone this way, and that's just the most recent. Just let people rip you off and do nothing about it... cuz that's exactly what they'll keep doing
 
dogfighter said:
I'll add more as they come to me. Certain online flower delivery companies should be more careful when fucking people out of their money.
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What?! Some chick didnt get her flowers on time and you want to waste valuable work hours fucking shit up? There are other women out there you know...
 
This is more for local buinesses, as SEO competition is usually very slim. Create two accounts on Yahoo Answers. Ask a question (talking about they scammed you and whatever, and asking what you should do). Answer question with other account saying you had a similar experience with that company. Oh and obviously, put the companies KW in the question and KW stuff the question.

Blast the link with tiered links. Done this a number of times. A simple blast of 5000 links using SB usually get me top 3. High enough to fuck the company over. Obviously, you don't have to use YA, you can use web 2.0 properties, etc.. but I've found Yahoo Answers to work the best.
 
Ok, this is just theoretical.

So a traffic source (small network) fucked me over and sent me a load of scam traffic and are not answering my emails for an explanation and so I can also get my outstanding balance back. I want to do something that is reversible but will have an impact (like 5+ of the top 10 search results on Google for their company name with the title "CompanyName Scam?"). I don't want it to be permanent, so I can remove them if the company decides to start to act in an honest way.

Does anyone know of a service that can do this?
 
was never big on revenge but if the need will ever come up I'm heading to this thread.
once threatened "Dell" to put things right or I will use my (at that time) many Twitter accounts and heavy FB pages to slam them, it was fixed in 2 days (they sent a downgraded desktop, was a business account not directly with Dell)
 
if you bought something with a credit card, file a dispute/chargeback - no easier way to piss off whoever watches over their merchant accounts.
 
mimoza3 said:
was never big on revenge but if the need will ever come up I'm heading to this thread.
once threatened "Dell" to put things right or I will use my (at that time) many Twitter accounts and heavy FB pages to slam them, it was fixed in 2 days (they sent a downgraded desktop, was a business account not directly with Dell)
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I wouldn't be interested in revenge, more like leverage.
 
I'm telling you guys, twitter is the way to go.

Last week I got:

Saucony to send me (2) new free pairs of shoes after fighting with their social media retard.

Time Warner Cable to give me a statement credit and my own customer service rep after they didnt show up at my house when they said they would.

Both of these were after going through normal customer service channels and getting nowhere.
 
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