The lawsuit, which was filed last April, now lists 530 dealer plaintiffs, with the firm leading the case reporting that new dealers are being added every day.
Hadeed Carpet Cleaning filed a defamation suit against seven anonymous Yelp reviewers and subpoenaed Yelp for their identities. A Virginia court found that the website must release the identities because the reviewers might not be real customers, and therefore their reviews are not protected by the First Amendment.
The Post and Courier reports that employees at two Charleston car dealerships schemed low-income buyers into buying vehicles they could not afford.
Edmunds.com reached a settlement with Humankind Design Ltd., the online reputation management firm the site was suing for posting fraudulent reviews on behalf of 25 car dealers nationwide.
A former employee is suing Houston, Texas-based Fred Fincher Motors because he was reportedly harassed by co-workers with a stun gun, according to KHOU-11 News.
This week, Yelp issued another round of consumer alerts, or pop-up messages warning customers that a business was caught ‘red-handed’ trying to purchase fake reviews.
The Better Business Bureau suspends the group’s accreditation after it paid more than $500,000 to settle at least 25 lawsuits related to its F&I practices. The operation had an 'A+' rating before it lost its accredidation.
Edmunds filed a lawsuit against an online reputation management company for allegedly posting “fake reviews” to the automotive information website on behalf of 25 dealers nationwide.
A Georgia dealer dodged a legal bullet after management failed to sign a document, but there was no escaping the cost of defending the matter in court.
The magazine’s legal eagle uses another dealer-targeted lawsuit to encourage dealerships to ‘walk the walk’ when it comes to their privacy policies.
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