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Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]
Palmer v. Kleargear.com, no. 13-cv-00175 ( D. Utah, filed December 18, 2013), is a 2013 US federal lawsuit in which an internet retailer was sued by two of its customers after it billed the customers for $3,500 following a negative review. The retailer, Kleargear.com, specializes in nerd apparel, geek toys, gadgets and office toys; it is owned ...
Ripoff. A ripoff (or rip-off) is an unfavorable financial transaction. It originated as slang that has entered into standard English usage as a business term. [ 1] Usually it refers to an incident in which a person is overcharged for something, or receives goods or services not of the standard expected for the price.
“This defendant was contracted to install a pool but had no intention of ever doing the work. He also has defrauded others who testified at the trial," said DA Quinn.
The FTC recently proposed a formal ban on fake reviews with penalties of up to $50,000 for businesses caught buying, selling or manipulating online reviews. Yelp has said it supports such a rule ...
The Consumer Reports investigation found deals where a $600 computer cost nearly $1,900 after less than year's worth of payments, and a washer-dryer combo with an original price tag of $1,000 cost ...
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Les Henderson is a Canadian consumer fraud author and webmaster of Crimes of Persuasion, a consumer-fraud awareness site. [1] [2] Henderson published two books, " Crimes Of Persuasion " and " Under Investigation ". His first book "Crimes Of Persuasion" describes a large variety of 'schemes, scams and frauds'.