Woman gets $3,500 fine and bad credit score for writing negative review
- Thread starter Banjo
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One might cultivate the habit of reading agreements before finalizing a deal.
I think that the company that fraudulently placed a $3500 lien on the negative reviewer's credit reports is going to get a very harsh lesson on how the internet actually works. Already KlearGear.com had to take its Facebook page due to overwhelming negative comments. I expect that more is coming with everyone from 4Chan to every other internet activist site preparing to permanently take out KlearGear using negative reviews, lawyers, demanding that credit card & security certificate providers do not do business with the site, etc.
When this negative reviewer attempted to purchase an item at KlearGear in 2008 - the 'contract' text regarding negative reviews did not exist on the website. The 'contract' text fining negative reviewers $3500 was placed on the KlearGear.com website in 2012 - four years after her negative review.
Also if a merchant does not hold up their part of the contract and actually ship the ordered product then does any type of contractual relationship exist.
You know what - on my next eCommerce website I going to place a 'contract' that I will charge all previous customers an extra $7000 for privilege of being my previous customers - and give them all 72 hours to pay up. When they don't I will report them to the credit reporting agencies. Hope this is OK with the internet community.
I don't read any of them. I took the story is a wake-up call as to what could be in an agreement. My first thought was to have a list of search terms to ferret out stuff from all the verbiage, maybe automate the process... if they are going to change the deal after the fact that wouldn't help unless the results were.... damn, I have to copy/paste all those agreements to a google doc...
I hate those outfits that extort money out of people with the kind of tactics described in the story. I had one come after me via an email forwarded via my isp. Had I responded to their message they would have had my email address and it would have been all over for me. A kid used my wifi to download a movie... a little research told me that all I had to do was ignore the email and I never heard from them again.
Absolutely absurd. To try and do that is definitely bad business and bad PR. The companyâs probably failing and theyâre just trying to extort a few thousand out of a random guy. And too isnât this type of âagreementâ invalid under the USâ first amendment clause? Freedom of speech should include negative speech as well.