Yelp.com Reviews

Footnote added to the top: Another thing I noticed about Yelp.com, one must be logged on to give a thumbs up or down on a review.  On Viewpoints...anyone (including the writer) can give a review the thumbs up or down; and it counts towards total "useful" votes.  This is just plain wrong.

The first thing I noticed about Yelp.com is that it is localized.   You write and read reviews from your part of the country and/or city.  This gives it more home-town atmosphere.  I'm guessing you can browse other cities.  I'm still new to it.

The second thing I noticed about Yelp.com; I saw NO QUICK REVIEWS!...

I came across Yelp when I was looking for a site that was better than Epinions and I saw that people are respectful of you on Yelp. It's gotten to the point that many review sites seem to gain an audience of immature adults many who are married or in relationships with children acting immature and trashing people's reviews even going as far as emailing them threatening messages and other ridiculous high school level behavior.

I ended up finding a really good washer and dryer repairman named Robert aka "The Fix It Guy" who is highly rated on Yelp for his professionalism and prompt service. If anyone's...

I am a new business owner. We have been telling our clients to use yelp.com to post reviews on what they thought of our business. We had up to 12 reviews, all positive and now we are down to 6. I contacted yelp and they said they have an automated program that removes reviews that it feels are not legit, but we could still find the reviews by looking up the user. Well that is easier said then done because we didn't write down their  user names because we didn't know that yelp would be taken away their reviews. Most people that post don not use their real names. Other businesses have complained...

Yelp is a despicable place to review.  I have rarely seen any biz accurately reviewed on yelp, and worse, I own one that has horrible reviews on yelp.  The worse part about it - is no matter how many times I prove some of the horrible reviews are lies, yelp just doesn't care.  One of the terrible reviews about my biz on yelp claims we are on the 4th floor.  We are not.  We are on the 1st.  One of the negative reviews says we do not have a street viewing property.  Another lie.  Yelp is a place where ex-disgruntled employees can try and ruin their former employer also by writing false info...