Tuesday, November 19, 2013

This Couple Found Out the Hard Way That Writing a Negative Online Review Could Land You a $3K Fine and Wrecked Credit Score


A Utah couple’s credit score has been wrecked because of a negative online review and some fine print.
Couple Fined $3,000, Gets Bad Credit Score After Writing Negative Online Review
A Utah couple had a nightmare experience after leaving a negative online review for a company. (Image course: KUTV-TV)
Jen Palmer’s husband in 2008 purchased several items from a website called Kleargear.com. However, after 30 days passed, the order never arrived and PayPal eventually canceled the transaction.
Annoyed, Jen tried calling and emailing Kleargear.com to figure out what went wrong. Despite repeated attempts to contact a customer service representative, she was unable to get through to anyone on the site.
She eventually gave up and instead reported her miserable experience to ripoffreport.com, a site that specializes in reporting false or poor businesses.
“There is absolutely no way to get in touch with a physical human being,” Jen Palmer wrote, adding that Kleargear.com specializes in “horrible customer service practices.”
That should’ve been the end of it, right? Wrong.
A full three years later, Palmer’s husband received an email from Kleargear.com demanding that the couple either remove the ripoffreport.com review or face a fine.
That’s where things got ugly.

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