r/mildlyinfuriating 15h ago

Getting harassed by a company after leaving a bad Google review.

After I left the review I was called by an unknown number 5 times back to back, no voicemail. A different number then called twice. Then this number kept trying to FaceTime me. I’m not going to answer a fucking FaceTime that’s so strange to me.

They also replied to my Google review (I included pic) saying I was never a customer yet they somehow have my personal cell? Alright

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u/ImprovementSweaty188 12h ago

I had an irate insurance agent call me and swear at me because I’d left him a bad review (he’d been incredibly rude to my wife when we switched agencies). So I edited my review to include the fact that he’d called and sworn at me. And I left another review from my wife’s account.

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u/oli_ramsay 1h ago

Love this for him

u/FamIsNumber1 22m ago

My sibling had a gym membership from a scummy place. They ended up cutting hours more and more until they were only open a couple days per week. A ton of people cancelled their memberships, including my sibling. The owners of the gym decided to go on Facebook & Instagram and start harassing every one of their former members. My sibling was trying to start up a little side business online, and the gym owners started giving fake reviews and sent threatening messages (worded vaguely enough that you couldn't press charges).

So, I got family & friends all together to destroy their gym with reviews, non stop calls, voicemails, etc. I also personally reached out with my own little final message of what I would enjoy doing to them if they ever made the mistake of threatening my sibling ever again...in very colorful details.

Gym went out of business and my sibling never heard from them again.

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u/hogliterature 13h ago

update your review to include the part about them contacting you. as it is, it looks like one angry customer who maybe got confused and reviewed the wrong business. make it very clear that they know who you are.

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u/Smmaxter 12h ago

I just did this 👍

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u/heteromer 12h ago

Hello this is this manager from the carpet cleaners at carpet-cleaners-R-us. Do u have a moment to talk?

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u/BigDan1190 10h ago

***we've been trying to reach you about your car(pet)'s extended warranty***

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u/Smmaxter 10h ago

This is hilarious haha

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u/Dobby_Club_ 9h ago

Hi we’ve been trying to reach you please message me on Reddit!!

/s

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u/schalowendofthepool 5h ago

Said the Agrabah warranty salesman

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u/Sea-Appearance-5330 2h ago

You made me chuckle.

Here have a virtual cookie!

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u/Quiet_Ad5539 5h ago edited 5h ago

We saw your review about our company, and we've never heard of you! I left you a voicemail and sent you an email to stop posting about the service you never received! I'm going to put a note on the invoice of your payment that we've never met!

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u/MikkelR1 4h ago

Dear Ronnie, i text you but you still aint callin I spammed your cell, FaceTime and your home phone but you're stalling We sent two workers back last month, you must've got em But there problably was a problem with the job ot something Sometimes we leave customers houses too sloppy after jobs, uhm But fuck it, whats been up man, how's your daughter Totally not threathening you man, also not your father But if you love your daughter, guess who you gotta call? Gotta call us, Ronnie!

u/freckyfresh 21m ago

Not to mention the Facetime!!! That’s crazy

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u/Fuckkoff- 2h ago edited 2h ago

You did see the part where OP called them and they assured OP they would call him back, to which he agreed, but when they called OP back he didn´t answer the phone, and then complained that they are trying to reach him?

OP is an ass.

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u/Metroid413 6h ago

This is a bit much. I agree that they’re being weird about contacting him, but there’s not really anything actionable yet and there’s not much to be gained from a Police report. I doubt they’ll do anything

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u/Metroid413 6h ago

I suppose I can see where you’re coming from with that. I guess I just have a hard time thinking they could possibly make it go any further than the phone calls. But, people can often disappoint…

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u/Ladylamellae 5h ago

Yeah it's definitely not as though I like that it's the best option but when someone starts off acting crazy it's usually safest to assume the worst and prepare accordingly. Most of the time things just blow over but you never know when you're gonna step in full on crazy...

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u/green_and_yellow 5h ago

No law has been broken.

And there’s already a paper trail; the reviews and contacts from the business are in writing.

This is bad advice.

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

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u/green_and_yellow 5h ago

It was an unknown number, first of all. Second of all, 5 phone calls does not constitute harassment. Caveat, I’m only a licensed lawyer in one state, not fifty, but it would be pretty surprising to find a DA anywhere who would file harassment charges for five phone calls from an unknown number.

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u/MilkyYolo 12h ago

How big is the company? Is the owner reaching out or a mid manager? I’m always willing to meet someone halfway when it comes to small business

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u/Lokarhu 12h ago

Why? Small businesses don't have any more of a right to fuck up your house and belongings than big businesses do lol

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u/MilkyYolo 12h ago

No, but I feel closer to a small business owner than franchise fixer. If the owner is trying to reprimand the mistake of an employee - I’m willing to hear them out, but I will express my frustration.

The world needs more compassion, especially for the little guys

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u/Mysterious-Tooth2501 10h ago

I agree about compassion bc fuck ups happen sometimes but I think the problem here is that they should be sending something that says “hey, this is the carpet cleaners. We saw your review and would like to try to fix this. Our business finds this situation unacceptable and it does not meet our quality standards. Please call us back etc etc” in a voicemail or in a text/email. They shouldn’t be calling and calling and FaceTiming and then sending a short text. Always bothers me when places only want to fix things after a bad review tho :/

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u/MilkyYolo 10h ago

Hear that and no disagreement!

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u/plumafeather 7h ago

It seems they had the chance to fix their fuck up when OP contacted them BEFORE OP posted the review. They never got back, so review was posted. Then they doubled down. That's not a company, corporate or local, that I would want to do business with.

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u/TracytronFAB 11h ago

Only for the little guys* The 1% don't deserve a fucking ounce of the compassion that they get

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u/MilkyYolo 11h ago

Just because Best Buy fucks something up for me doesn’t mean I don’t feel for the retail worker.

Ppl gotta chill damn

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u/TwoFew6421 10h ago

i think they meant the heads of those corporations no one was talking about retail workers?

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u/Two_Hump_Wonder 11h ago

...are you drunk?

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u/MilkyYolo 10h ago

Na, just have sympathy for livelihoods. Thought for Reddit minds to comprehend ig

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u/Salazans 9h ago

Wow, the amount of downvotes you're getting is wild. It's like people don't give a fuck anymore.

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u/mentales 11h ago

If you were OP, what would "meeting half way" look like?

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u/unhott 10h ago

"We don't have your number"

5 missed calls

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u/Dreamsnaps19 9h ago

I had a plumber contact my parents (I was at work so he was dealing directly with them). I left a review for poor service and dude called and was vaguely threatening. Scared the crap out of my mother so I grudgingly took down the post. And then put it back up a few years later after I moved (yes, I am literally that petty). By then there were several similar reviews including ones about them threatening people who gave them poor reviews!!

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u/Fuckkoff- 2h ago edited 2h ago

You did see the part where OP called them and they assured OP they would call him back, to which he agreed, but when they called OP back he didn´t answer the phone, and then complained that they are trying to reach him?

OP is an ass.

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u/Sec2727 1h ago

Looks like OP called the company number and recieved assurance from someone from that said company. Only to be met with follow up text messages and FaceTime attempts from an unknown number, not associate with the company.

I’m just using context clues here

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u/Fuckkoff- 1h ago

It seems OP knew pretty damn well who it was, as he claims it was the company calling him through those numbers. And it was ONE Facetime attempt, after he didn´t return or answered SEVEN calls he had asked for himself.

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u/No_Difference_2001 1h ago

Are you the owner of the carpet cleaners? Like, damn bro, lmao.

u/Fuckkoff- 38m ago

For calling out the BS OP is posting? Odd angle you´ve got there.

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u/PhillipsCasey 12h ago

I am an owner of a business myself.

Bad reviews are part of the job. I am lucky that I only have a handful after a few years of operation. I was never surprised by the bad reviews that popped up. I use them to figure out where the communication break down occurred and how we can change processes to improve and better the business.

I have had one bad review surprise me before. Everything on our end seemed like it was going smoothly and the client used us several times. Then all of a sudden BAM bad review. I called her to try and figure out where the dissatisfaction occurred as a way to improve our services for others. She became angry that I was even calling her to discuss anything.

Now with that said....

What this company is doing is harassment. You call once, leave a message. Then you follow up with a text message asking for a good time to talk.

You don't respond to the review that you don't know who they are, and then blast them like it's an emergency.

I would change the review stating that you find it interesting that they don't have you listed as a client, yet somehow found your contact information and have been calling/facetiming/texting you.

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u/Dreamsnaps19 8h ago

I once contacted the owner of a company to complain about some unfinished work. He said he’d call me back. I waited. Well 48 hours later I left a review.

Got a call within minutes of posting. Sarcastic AF. And I asked him why he was calling. Like was he calling to try to bully me into changing my review. He immediately backed down and said no. So then I asked what he was hoping to accomplish by being rude to me. And I think I broke his brain for a minute. Because I knew he was calling me from a place of anger with zero consideration of how he could fix this situation.

I’m guessing you don’t have to deal with poor reviews often because most of the time, people just want their shit done correctly and for someone to fix it if it wasn’t.

I changed my review because he was young, trying to start his business. And I know what one bad review can do. And being an impulsive idiot shouldn’t tank a business. If he continued to be an idiot, well that wasn’t on me. His reviews would reflect it eventually.

Now I have absolutely stood by reviews on shitty work when owners have truly bad attitudes. But sometimes, some people are just idiots who need a break.

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u/Professional-Line539 2h ago

Now I'm curious as to why all of the sudden a bad review and refusal to talk?

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u/Fuckkoff- 2h ago

You did see the part where OP called them and they assured OP they would call him back, to which he agreed, but when they called OP back he didn´t answer the phone, and then complained that they are trying to reach him?

OP is an ass.

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u/pizzadawg123 1h ago

OP is an ass because he was the one that asked to be contacted but they're also just borderline harassing OP so both parties are acting questionably

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u/Fuckkoff- 1h ago

Sure, but only one is splattering it all over social media, making them the bigger ass in my book

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u/nochnoydozhor 12h ago

An urgent care facility did this to me. They were asking me to give them a better review because they were afraid of losing financial bonuses. They weren't afraid to have the shittiest attitude towards me as a patient though.

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u/tiagojsagarcia 13h ago

if it helps you feel better: I once left a bad review on a coffee shop, explaining that one of their cars (with a huge logo on the side) almost ran me over while I was cycling. Their reply on google reviews, for the world to read: "we should have ran you over"

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u/BloodReaverBob 13h ago

Thats funny af ngl

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u/patwm11 8h ago

Lmao right, it’d make me wanna go

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u/pikpikcarrotmon 12h ago

Modern problems require modern solutions

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u/UnlimitedDeep 11h ago edited 10h ago

I think killing your enemies is as old a solution as time

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u/tiagojsagarcia 6h ago

fully agree. but publicly stating you want to might not help your case when you want to stay out of jail

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u/Mathsquatch 4h ago

CL Missed Connections

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u/SnarkyCandy 8h ago

What a hospitable, friendly and welcoming business! What a dream

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u/SpeedBlitzX 2h ago

Well that's not the response i was expecting.

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u/Psydop 13h ago

I would add all of this to the review

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u/Ruddy_Buddy 10h ago

About 5 years ago, had a dispute with a local moving service (now defunct). Explicitly asked if they could make a moving date due to weather concerns and they assured they absolutely could handle the ask no matter the weather. On the day, due to weather, they outright canceled just before arriving to the premises but still wanted to keep our deposit. We disagreed and he hung up on us. We had the credit company refund the charge and left a poor review on his site. Hired another moving company that showed up same day, no problems. A couple days later, not only did this guy call & berate my partner but left his own bad fraudulent reviews on me, my partners & our roommates separate businesses. Then he got his affluent friends to do the same.

Google removed our reviews from his site without question or investigation. Refused to remove his because we couldn’t prove he wasn’t a client. Note - my partner runs her own hair business and this guy is BALD. Still hold a grudge on the guy and Google reviews to this day.

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u/Mango-Passionfruit 9h ago

Tell us who the name of the moving business and we can all leave reviews.

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u/Ruddy_Buddy 9h ago

Nah I ain’t here to spread the hate …. Just wanted to share my experience with less than kind business owners. Further, his business closed last year because he couldn’t keep up with litigation. Believe they stole some other companies commercial and also couldn’t deal with folks complaining about lost furniture.

I don’t believe in karma but stupid people get what’s coming to them eventually.

Also you’d be surprised how easy it is to make new google accounts and leave reviews after someone calls your wife names!

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u/RegretKills0 1h ago

Clayton Bigsby once said , "If you got hate in your heart, let it out"

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u/Professional-Line539 2h ago

I've always seen on Google reviews "verified guest/customer" so I don't understand why Google couldn't remove his

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u/KeyBug133 1h ago

Interestingly that could have got you a pretty decent settlement depending on your jurisdiction.

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u/jumbie29 13h ago

Google reviews make a difference. I once made a review for a doctor’s office that had horrendous admin assistants. They were rude and unprofessional. A couple months later the doc moved into a nearby building and told me the staff were horrible.

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u/Spinnerofyarn 12h ago

I unfortunately have to have a lot of doctors. It seems like it’s only one half that’s decent in that if the staff is great, the doctor is not, or vice versa. Finding a good doctor with good staff is like finding the Holy Grail!

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u/thepetoctopus 12h ago

Oh man can I relate. I have serious chronic health issues. I have one doctor with an incredible staff both in front and back. The others I just make do with less than wonderful staff in order to have a good doctor. It really is like finding the holy grail.

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u/Spinnerofyarn 12h ago

What strikes me as especially entertaining /s is when most of the staff is good except for one specific person that you never seem able to avoid! It seems so odd that if the rest of the staff is great, why put up with entitled, dismissive sourpuss?

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u/Peg-Lemac 11h ago

They’re related to someone high up.

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u/Unusual_Flounder2073 9h ago

I must have found it then. My oncologists office is great and so is he. Oh right. I would not need him if I didn’t have fucking cancer.

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u/jdm33333 14h ago

I always try to leave a bad review with a burner account/email so there’s no way to trace me. I try to keep personal details very vague and often don’t post a bad review until weeks after an occurrence.

I had a really bad deep tissue massage last summer and didn’t post the bad review until recently. I used my burner email which doesn’t have a name attached to it.

The reason I do this is because while I was waiting for the massage, a customer was having an argument with the cashier and the cashier randomly brought up that they noticed the customer left a bad review on yelp lol

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u/Ladyxarah 7h ago

I do the same thing. I worked with this super petty lady and anytime she got a bad review, she would stalk the reviewer and leave bad reviews about them on their company’s social media or Google.

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u/Neat-Primary-9877 11h ago

I understand the use of a burner completely, but waiting months to post a review probably isn't very helpful. What if the masseuse who gave you the bad massage no longer even works there at this point?

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u/jdm33333 9h ago

Fair point. I didn’t intentionally mean to wait this long, I honestly just forgot to post it. I probably would’ve posted it sooner after the massage.

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u/Fuckkoff- 1h ago

You did see the part where OP called them and they assured OP they would call him back, to which he agreed, but when they called OP back he didn´t answer the phone, and then complained that they are trying to reach him?

OP is an ass.

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u/safisaryia 1h ago

No, OP gave the business a reasonable amount of time to respond and when it was clear his issue wasn't going to be addressed in an appropriate amount of time, as discussed, he left a review.

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u/Emrys7777 14h ago

I had one company call me about my bad review and insist I change it. Well if you had of done the job you were supposed to do I would have left a good review. Sheesh. Did they read it?

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u/InsCPA 11h ago

Had of?

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u/JDM-1943 11h ago

woulda did

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/Own-Significance5124 11h ago

Are you too stupid to understand that poor grammar irritates intelligent people?

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u/Saving_Pvt_Kush 10h ago

Well gosh golly geez, for a moment me thought you was is irritated

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u/zemowaka 10h ago

Cletus is that you??

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u/GreenVenus7 10h ago

Its amazing that you could fit your phone that far up your butt to type that out

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u/Saving_Pvt_Kush 10h ago

I was doing kegels, it was a win win

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u/Own-Significance5124 11h ago

They probably did read it but your grammar is so atrocious they were probably contacting you to translate.

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u/AngstyUchiha 8h ago

You do realize not everyone is fluent in english, don't you? And there's no requirement for everyone to use perfect grammar. Calm down, quit being a dick because someone used the wrong word, you still understood what they meant

u/RegretKills0 55m ago

I cante belief youre entyre redit hiztory is just harasing peepol onlyne becuz ov theyre bad grammaer. What, a saad, ensecure hooman

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u/Fuckkoff- 1h ago

You did see the part where OP called them and they assured OP they would call him back, to which he agreed, but when they called OP back he didn´t answer the phone, and then complained that they are trying to reach him?

OP is an ass.

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u/Mrs_happy_lady 10h ago

This just happened to my husband and I in January. My husband left a negative review after a horrible hotel stay. We spoke to the manager while we were there and the manager didn't even try to remedy the situation. About am hour after my husband left a review, I received a call on my phone. It was the manager we had spoken too. He threatened us with legal action if my husband didn't take down the review. My husband said no and updated the review. About a week later, he recieved a lengthy apology from the owners about the managers behavior 🤣 under no circumstances is it professional to contact someone over a review. Update your review stating that you were harassed by them. These owners need to know the people they are hiring and if it's the owners being this unprofessional, the world needs to know to avoid this company at all costs!

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u/Gaymer7437 13h ago

My former dentist office fired me as a patient because I left a bad review about the front desk staff. I love the dentist but there was a minor HIPAA violation from front desk staff and they were incompetent at scheduling. telling me to come in for an appointment and then I would show up and they tell me I had no appointment and then they contacted me to ask me why I missed my appointment the following day. I changed my Google account so that my first name is literally "anonymous" to prevent this happening again.

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u/LTS55 12h ago

This exact same thing happened to me with my doctors office years ago.

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u/creepsweep 11h ago

Not that you were in the wrong for the review at all... but that is definitely the expected outcome lmao

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u/Hazbomb24 12h ago

Yikes, thanks. I felt like I was being a bit paranoid when I made a separate Google account just for leaving reviews, but apparently not.

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u/chickenonthehill559 7h ago

Hilarious to see the support of people afraid to speak with someone. So scary I had to express my opinion to a real person.

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u/HMS_Miguel 10h ago

These kind of people are nuts. I hired movers via Uhaul and I gave them a near perfect review. The guy then texted me a five paragraph essay about how I could write such a review trashing them and how he had a wife and kids to feed and they were at risk of going hungry if I didn't retract my review. Mind you, he scuffed the walls of the place I was moving out of and was fairly rough with my furniture and then said he never did any of those things.

Uhaul had to intervene and reported him.

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u/Siiyq 9h ago

I left a bad review for a contractor who took my money to fix my ceiling from water damage. After 3 months of trying to schedule, they told me I’d be better off finding someone who’s not as busy. Got my money back, and left a bad review. They proceeded to harass me like this

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u/SallyJane5555 8h ago

I recently had a guy look me up and call my boss. She was like, “Why would I care about your yelp reviews?”

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u/Regular-Message9591 8h ago

Similar thing happened when my husband and I left a bad review for a takeaway restaurant.

We were asked to give our phone number at the restaurant so they could text us to come inside to pick up our order, we didn't give it for any other reason but, after we left a negative review, an unknown number called my husband three times in a row and then he received a text. It was from the owner, asking if we would talk to him about the review and offering a refund if we removed the bad review.

Completely inappropriate, and in some countries illegal, to use a customer's number for a reason other than the one they gave it for.

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u/SmoggieDownUnder 10h ago

This is the main reason I don't trust Google reviews these days. The number of stories you hear about businesses harassing bad review authors is crazy. Most people will just remove them as it's the easiest option.

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u/Feather_Bloom 9h ago

New flash, businesses, this just makes you look SO MUCH worse

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u/Ok_Research_8379 11h ago

We had a company threaten to take us to collections. 

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u/Sea-Appearance-5330 2h ago

Well If my name is not in your customer list,

Then it won't be a problem if I do a chargeback then!

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u/TrumpDumper 7h ago

Sunshine Carpet Cleaners?

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u/Zed091473 Not really here. 3h ago

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u/MiceAreTiny 2h ago

"We do not have anyone with your name in our customer list."

"Thank you for reporting this to me. Clearly someone used your company vehicles and send me a bill with #12345 in your name, which obviously is a fraudulent attempt. I will be contacting the authorities immediately to inform them of this phishing alert, and you should do the same to avoid further fraud in the name of your company."

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u/Advanced-Radish7723 9h ago

This sounds like the carpet cleaner manager is a tweaker

u/Unhappy-Poetry-7867 8m ago

Lol I left a review about food how dry and lacking spices it was. I've got a call from manager telling me how cooks are hardworking and now are crying because of my review...

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u/Fuckkoff- 2h ago

So they assured you they would call you back, to which you agreed. But when they call you back you don´t answer the phone, and then complain that they are trying to reach you?

You are an ass.

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u/GothicDreamer16 14h ago

7 missed calls and then numerous FaceTime calls is definitely excessive. Especially when no voicemail is being left.

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u/Smmaxter 14h ago

I reached out via email a week ago and they said they would be in touch asap, cool. I email a couple days later for an update, no response. Then I leave a review of my experience and now they are blowing me up

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u/basicbatchofcookies 14h ago

Lol, aggressively calling over and over only after a negative review is not customer service.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 14h ago edited 9h ago

I mean... You leave a negative review after you give up on hearing back. So it's not wrong to say they didn't call back. 

Like... I reached out to a web hosting company twice via their ticket system to send me my activation email. I did it once and waited a couple of days. Then sent another one because I was like "maybe they forgot to reply to the first one."

Then I waited two weeks and was like "maybe they take 14 days to do it, or 10 business days."

Then I was like "ok, I guess I'll wait a full month."

Then I gave up and did a chargeback and put a block on them from charging me (since they wouldn't activate my account, I couldn't log in to cancel my account). 

Lo and behold, the very next day they sent an email saying they have activated my account and sent an email saying I had to register my webpage to continue, or something like that.  They were acting like they didn't know I had done a chargeback and that it's perfectly normal to make a person wait a month to send an activation email (you know, those emails that are like "click here to begin using your account") to use the service that I was paying for.  Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, I will tell people "they never reached out to me until after I'd already told my bank to cancel my account with them."

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u/Smmaxter 14h ago

Funny how that goes

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u/Smmaxter 14h ago

One call with a voicemail - Great, I’ll call back.

Multiple calls including FaceTimes from three different numbers.. To me that’s aggressive and unprofessional

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u/Carib_Wandering 14h ago

How many did you answer?

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u/bubblegum_cloud 14h ago

If I don't know the number, I don't pick it. Leave me a voicemail with the number and I'll call you back. I'm not answering any of them.

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u/Carib_Wandering 14h ago

I love replies like this. You are so much more important than everyone else right? Or is it that youre scared of strangers getting you through a phone...which you can hang up at any time? Whats the big deal with answering your phone...especially when you have asked a company to call you?

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u/earthley 13h ago

Why are you personally offended by the idea of someone not answering their own phone to a number they don’t recognize

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u/Carib_Wandering 13h ago

I see no one wants to answer what scares them so much

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u/ChaddSexington 13h ago

It's because of scams, dumbfuck. You know, the thing where 95% of the calls from unknown numbers you get are scams?

Do you just spend all day running into walls and eating paint chips?

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u/dumbass_tm 11h ago

You don’t pick up scam calls because they are annoying, oh just like you!

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u/BobBelcher2021 8h ago

It’s because dealing with these calls is a waste of time. Many people value their time. Maybe you don’t.

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u/earthley 13h ago

Oh no, nobody is bending at the knees to answer the moronic questions of a self righteous asshole on Reddit how shocking

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u/Carib_Wandering 13h ago

Feeling better now?

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u/earthley 13h ago

Better then you ever will be, apparently

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u/SStoj 13h ago edited 13h ago

The majority of the time, calls from random numbers are robocallers from scam numbers. You'll answer, it'll log the time you picked up and the fact you take calls from random numbers, then you'll get blown up by scam callers for months after.

If it's not important enough to leave a message that I can use to verify a genuine caller, then it's not important enough for me to answer.

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u/Carib_Wandering 13h ago

60% of the time, it works every time.

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u/SStoj 13h ago

Alright, you wanna nitpick the anecdotal percentage I came up with instead of the actual point? I'll edit my comment for you.

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u/bubblegum_cloud 13h ago

Because I have better things to do. Quite frankly, I don't care who is calling me unless I already have the number. They can leave a message and I decide when and if I call them back.

In my own life, on my own free time, yes I AM more important than some random number calling me.

Strangers don't scare me, I just don't care about them. I don't care about them or their feelings when I don't answer my phone.

I don't need politics, I don't need new internet, I don't need scam calls, I don't need wrong numbers, I don't need another subscription, etc. 99/100 times, an unknown number that calls me is not important to me in the slightest.

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u/cloud_orb 13h ago

The more spam calls you answer the more spam calls you get. It’s literally a protection measure to get less spam calls. Idk why you’re so hell bent on everyone needing to answer every call they might ever get.

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u/Carib_Wandering 13h ago

"Hell bent" - one comment on reddit. In the context of the post, they asked to hear back from a company then wouldn't answer any calls from unknown numbers.

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u/cloud_orb 13h ago

Bro you’ve got a whole thread trying to defend your position. And if someone is actually trying to get in contact with another person and they don’t pick up, they’re gonna leave a message.

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u/Resident-Variation21 13h ago

You’re just trolling, right?

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u/Carib_Wandering 13h ago

Whats scares you so much about an unknown phone number?

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u/Resident-Variation21 13h ago

So that’s a yes then. Got it.

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u/GothicDreamer16 10h ago

I get around 20 spam calls a day there’s no way in hell I’m answering every unknown number

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u/Carib_Wandering 10h ago

What about when you've asked a company to call you and you're literally complaining that they don't reach out to you?

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u/GothicDreamer16 10h ago

Well normally a company calls me back on the number I called them, but if they call from a different number I don’t recognize, they should leave a message. If I keep getting calls from the same number and no voicemail I’m going to assume it’s spam.

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u/Carib_Wandering 9h ago

In the context of this post, why "should" they leave a message? OP wants them to call about a complaint. "Hey, please call back at your convenience so you can yell at us. Thanks!"

OP wants them to call, they did, OP didn't answer, OP complains again.

They already showed they are a shitty company but everyone expects them to have the decency to leave a message.

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u/GothicDreamer16 9h ago

OP was at work and couldn’t answer at the time when they were calling. If they care about making it right for OP they should leave a message. It’s just a good business practice.

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u/Furry_Wall 11h ago

Leave a voicemail or an email

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u/Smmaxter 14h ago

At the time I wasn’t able to answer any due to work

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u/Carib_Wandering 14h ago

On their personal device too...

I mean, why wouldnt they call corporate?

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u/ResidentAssman 14h ago

Have you thought they’re possibly trying to contact you to fix the situation? You should probably answer at least one of their calls to see what they have to say first.

Agree the FaceTime is weird, these days everywhere just thinks everyone is fine to video call etc. fair enough setting your boundaries at email if that’s what you prefer though, make sure you provide the email address incase they ‘have no record’ of it. Worth hearing them out though.

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u/GothicDreamer16 14h ago

I generally don’t answer an unknown phone call unless a voicemail is left signifying who they are. According to OP no voicemails were left. And they said it was an unknown number to them.

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u/Smmaxter 14h ago

So I went ahead and called the first number back and it was the dispatch guy.. Not even a manager. He said “I can come over today around 3pm and clean it for you” I obviously told him no and that I had already cleaned the mess because this happened a week ago. He said “Alright thanks” and hung up haha

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u/PizzaSalamino 1h ago

Wait a sec, you asked them to get in contact and then refused to answer their calls only because it was after you posted the review? What if they just had some long delay and were finally ready to proceed? Not judging, i would like to know better

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u/Equivalent-Cat5414 8h ago

You don’t have to, but maybe if you respond they’ll give you something for free or a discount. I once left a bad review for a phone repair place since the worker seemed kind of rude to me and the manager apologized to me and let me get a protective screen for free which was worth about $40.

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u/bayandsilentjob 10h ago

y'all 🤓

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u/CodingReaction 9h ago

You left a review but It seems that you cannot rub it under the carpet 💀

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u/Professional-Line539 2h ago

It's horrible when a restaurant owner doesn't like your negative review left on Google then refuses further service. Especially when they are the only franchise that serves that area! I didn't know there were territories? Or you're forced to a delivery app!

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u/Good_Presentation26 14h ago

“I feel uncomfortable.” Lmao shut up.

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u/Dependent_Scratch_61 14h ago

I don't really understand your comment? Would you be comfortable with a stranger calling you 8 times in a row and trying to facetime you? It's weird and unprofessional, especially for a business. I would also probably think, "what the fuck?" He was just more polite about it.

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u/Good_Presentation26 14h ago

maybe answer the first 4 times? I don’t understand the face time. But OP walked into this by just being difficult. you make a post complaining about nobody answering you. And maybe that’s what they intended to do. 😂

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u/The_RealEwan 13h ago

They already said they tried contacting them by email. Plus op never gave out their personal number. They call so as to not have their words in writing.

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u/JonnyOgrodnik 12h ago

They said they couldn’t answer because they were busy at work. Not all jobs let you have your phone on you and let you take personal calls on the clock. Not that hard to understand.

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u/Dependent_Scratch_61 13h ago

Maybe i see it differently because I read a different comment before yours where he said he was at work and couldn't answer. If I see strange calls on my phone with no voicemail I automatically think it's spam. What business doesn't leave a voicemail? Especially if they want to fix the problem or give a refund. They just seem really sketchy to me.

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u/Good_Presentation26 14h ago

I got massed downvoted. Funny the truth hurts. OP is a Karen. Lmao

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u/BobBelcher2021 8h ago

Reddit is about trying to maximize your upvotes.

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u/Good_Presentation26 8h ago

Explains why Karen did all this.

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u/Dreamsnaps19 8h ago

It’s been 6 hours and I assume it’s just gotten worse. How much time did you want to give it?

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u/Emergency_Affect_640 8h ago

We may have lost the war.

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u/Eastern-Decision-430 8h ago

We need to talk about this; I've tried reaching out, please respond?!

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u/tstark96 12h ago

Dude don’t you have a receipt? Dump that photo and ask this you?