Here’s a funny story that *might* answer why you can’t see some of your reviews (other than they may be being paid to be removed.)

So a place I yelped about has gotten made customers since I reviewed it. Yet it ONLY has two reviews. I doubt the 30+ people that have gone there through my review did not review it all. Well I went back to the place and the owner told me about it (which is why I know my review helped.) The owner said that Yelp called him and told him that has over 30 reviews (which can only been seen by the actual poster) this is a.k.a. pending status, if you will. Yelp told him that if he Joined and Paid that the other reviews will be shown.

While I’m not anti-yelp, because I do use it, I’m checking out Urbanspoon now.

I really feel for you. It really sucks what they did to you. Crystal needs to stop copying and pasting what the company gave her.

“Got Yanked At YELP?
You aren’t the only one. And because of the methods that Yelp employed, the false advertising, libel, slander, and defamation used when Yelp “cleaned house”, and Yelp’s refusal to individually review each profile/account to determine if they have made a mistake, they leave us little choice but to take Yelp to Federal Court in a Class Action Lawsuit.”

source:
http://yelplawsuit.com/

Good luck with your future endeavors, Yelp.

Apparently they didn’t like that.

The salon owners love that I do that and this makes me mad.

Yeah, yelp is pretty unreliable.

Funny, because yelp was one of the original inspirations for me to start my website. They encourage and reward yelp reviewers for being snarky and sarcastic. I was motivated to defend the reputation of perfectly fine restaurants — to combat those unhappy people who think it’s appropriate to give a business a one star review because you’d like to punish them for some imagined slight.

But they KEEP YOUR PHOTOS! So if you postyour personal photos of food, or places, restaurants or just help the site by locating images and pictures in Google image, they keep those in their content.

That seems pretty unethical. Also, they keep all forum thread posts. So that seems weird that they remove your reviews, but keep your forum comments. Usually because many of the forum comments are helpful, informative and of course add to their pages on content that can be searched.

Yelp blows. Seriously the most unethical website out there in the review content segment.

I’ve got an interesting story for you. I got banned from Yelp LA last monthafter giving them a year of thoughtful and well-written reviews. I had started a wine club in 11/08, which ended up being quite popular. Within months I was being told what to do as if I was their employee. I refused to listen, which likely set the wheels in motion at full speed to delete my account within 2 hours of speaking with my CM, who had called me at home to let me know what was happening. The community was so upset by my dismissal, that I suppose she felt the need to make herself look better and sent a message to all our mutual Yelp friends (and some people I didn’t even know) on Facebook telling them I was accepting kickbacks and cutting deals with businesses promising them 5 star reviews. None of this was true, and everyone who knows me knew this. Needless to say it was a rough week dealing with people questioning my integrity and character, when all I was trying to do was get some fun people together to drink some wine.

It all ended for the better, as it usually does, and I’ve resumed my wine club off Yelp, which needed to happen anyway. The reputation of Yelp seems to be going downhill fast, and I was glad to get off the sinking ship.

Since this all happened, I have heard lots of interesting stories about Yelp’s business practices, and all I will say is shame, shame, Yelp.

Shelley

It all started when I left a bad review for a dog-walker who I caught not coming to walk the dog. The day after leaving her a bad review, she wrote to me (a 9 paragrapgh message within Yelp) and I told her I was not going to be changing my review. She must have contacted Yelp because 3 days after that, my review no longer appeared on her page and she was back up to a 5 star rating. I contacted yelp and asked what happened and they said my review was removed because I was not “involved enough” with Yelp. I only had 18 reviews, but come on!! They have since removed all my reviews.

I hate Yelp.

If you are logged into your account and look at business for which you have written a review, yours shows right on top under “Your Review.” So if it’s there, it MUST be shown to everyone? Wrong. There’s a chance that it’s not really shown to anyone bu YOU.

You cannot tell that your review has been suppressed unless you go to the site without logging in, search for that business and then manually search for your review.

They’ve done this to two of my reviews and I can’t figure out why. It’s not hearsay, I’m a customer. I’m not affiliated with the business, other than being a customer. Both reviews gave positive ratings and used decent English & grammar. I’ve only written 5 reviews, but all for different kinds of businesses: dentist, smog check station, pizza place, sit down restaurant & Benner Auto.

The pizza place and Benner Auto are both suppressed.

For example, search for Benner Auto in Oakland, California. I wrote a great positive review for them, but it shows as ZERO reviews. How many other reviews are they suppressing? And better yet, why?

I’ll toast a Gibralter at intelli for you.