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Rip Off Report Complaint - The Rip Off Report - Ed is using Google to promote his own site at the
Ed is using Google to promote his own site at the - Complaint
This guy's site needs to be restructured and/or shut down. The Rip Off Report is a money making machine and there is nothing positive about it for anyone other than Ed and his bank account. Anyone can post anything bad about your company, whether it's true or not. So if you are a business owner in a competitive market (especially if you're a consumer based online company like us), your competition can post a few negative comments that could severely impact your business. That's what happened to us. We spend over $500,000 a month to market our site and the ROR is severly impacting our business b/c a competitor is posting false claims on ROR. Ed has a search engine optimization (SEO) team to code his pages by placing a company's name in Meta tags among other SEO tricks (Big bold letters so that they come up first in search engines results when someone Googles your company. He knows that we are in a 'Google' age and he can and is making a ton of $$ from selling his ROR book for $19.95 and through extortion masked by 'donations' to 'bury' the posts about our company. I sent him a long and detailed email explaining the situation and asked politely for a way to resolve it. All I got in response was an auto-response stating that I could donate money if I wanted. This guy could care a less about consumer complaints...this is a big business for him all he cares about is free advertising and generating revenue. Really this guy and his site are not that far off from the Wendy's 'finger in the Chili' case.
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Posted by SuperSource2005 on 2006-02-17:
oh please. you are just bitter because your company was exposed as a rip-off. perhaps next time you become an honest business who isnt out to screw the public, its your own fault and no one feels sorry for you. as for Rip-off report it's what us consumers need it's a great tool to decide what businesses deserve my business.
Posted by Slimjim on 2006-02-17:
Supersource is another alias for silentassasin, who is a ripoff report plant, here to try and shill away what are an ongoing amount of complaints. It's amazing how he can be gone for like 6 months, yet be here in an hour if a rip-off report complaint shows up. "Search this site for other reports on Rip-Off Report"
Posted by tander on 2006-02-17:
I don't care for rip off report either. They completely let other people slander others for sleeping with this persons husband, or for molesting this persons child,and completely ignore the posts that go on and on and on. Rip Off Report should be shut down, or they should follow M3C.Com's rules and have the reviews stick to company's.
Posted by KenPC on 2006-02-17:
I stopped reviewing Ripoff Report when I realized (from monitoring a friend's thread) that they only selectively post responses, and spin the criticism in the direction they want it to go. I personally saw a response where they altered the text of the response, which changed its context.
It seems like it would be a need for that site, but from what I can tell, Ed Magedson is more of a bottom feeder than the companies he pretends to be monitoring. I agree that his site needs some legal scrutiny.
It seems like it would be a need for that site, but from what I can tell, Ed Magedson is more of a bottom feeder than the companies he pretends to be monitoring. I agree that his site needs some legal scrutiny.
Posted by Ponie on 2006-02-17:
Don't remember how I heard of that so-called forum, but at one time I checked it quite often. Found the majority of ror's consisted of people who max out their credit cards, go to a credit counseling company for debt consolidation and handling, and then make more complaints when they are 'just a few days' late when making their payments. Then there are the ones who claim the banks are punishing them with 'fees'--mainly for issuing NSF checks--and they should be put out of business for doing so. They all seem to have the same attitude--the world owes me a living and I have no intention of working for it. Just hand over your money or I'll contact my State Attorney General, BBC, FCC, FTC, ABCDEFG, etc. The majority of the answers seem to agree with them, too. IMHO, I think they're all a bunch of losers, except for the guy (whoever he is) who started it all and by reports I've read is making money hand over fist selling his books.
Posted by Slimjim on 2006-02-17:
Court documents show the site owner was in negotiations with an IL. law firm where he would send over referrals from posts to drum up class-action suits in return for $800,000 per year. Those zeros are not a typo. A site for the people?? If the people are named Ed Magedson, I guess.
Posted by SuperSource2005 on 2006-02-17:
wife beater johnson, perhaps you should do your research a little better because I never left. secondly what part of Im not a ROR plant do you not understand? you had no evidence months ago nor do you have evidence now, you really should stop embarrassing yourself.
how many different ways do i need to embarass you? again, Silent assassin and I are 2 DIFFERENT people get that through your wife beating head
how many different ways do i need to embarass you? again, Silent assassin and I are 2 DIFFERENT people get that through your wife beating head
Posted by Slimjim on 2006-02-18:
You're a flat out liar, you're the same person and it's been proven. Looks like your rip-off report has many vioces saying the same things. Is Ken ,Tander and Ponie all crooks and liars too? Drag your sorry a$$ back to ROR shill!
Posted by SuperSource2005 on 2006-02-18:
you never proved it despite being asked many times. provide your evidence, wife beater.
Posted by shayen on 2006-02-18:
I LOVE the RoR, they provide a valuable service and I would like to remind the OP that anyone at anytime can make a FAKE posting against any company, whether its here at my3cents, PF, RoR, complaints.com, livejournal, their own website, whatever!!!
Posted by Brenda Leah on 2006-02-19:
I used to like Rip Off Report until I saw how many "rip offs" were idiots trying to slander others. It's quite sad that they let anyone post whatever they want too. I wonder how many of the deadbeat father or drug addict mother claims are true? I don't know... if I knew a mother who was a drug addict who couldn't take care of her children I wouldn't be wasting my time on a website. I would be calling child protective services.....
Posted by miantani75 on 2006-02-19:
I never go to rip off reports anymore. I, too, stopped going there when I realized they do not post all the comments sent to them.
Posted by ripoff1989 on 2006-09-08:
eVERYONE NEED TO CONTACT GOOGLE AND EXPLAIN THE TRUTH ABOUT ED'S RIPOFF REPORT AND HIS EXTOTION SCHEME. His site was removed about ayear ago due to complaints, but he got it back up there. So if enough of us call and e-mail something will happen. Google is not an unfair company. So they can deindex ed's site. plus ed illegally uses your name in advertising and in his html codes and meta tags. I am sure you didnt give him permission to use your name.
Google's headquarters are located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001
use our web form at www.google.com/support
abuse@google.com
legal@google.com
I called ,e-mailed, and faxed google over a two month period and finally someone in their adwords department helped me and got my ripoff report (URL) removed.
Google's headquarters are located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001
use our web form at www.google.com/support
abuse@google.com
legal@google.com
I called ,e-mailed, and faxed google over a two month period and finally someone in their adwords department helped me and got my ripoff report (URL) removed.
Posted by ripoff1989 on 2006-09-08:
All people who are attacked by ED's scam(he is in it for the money). Contact his service providers. He may have switched ,but just do a "whois" search on any of his sites. Contact google anyway you can. They remove child porn all the time. The more complaints the faster his whole site gets taken down.
More info: A
The first Site is Ripoffreport.com, which is a site that encourages unhappy customers and employees to post their complaints on the website. In order to post a complaint the victim must post and address, phone number, and valid email address. This is all to make sure the information is legit the company claims.
Once the Ripoffreport.com has duped the victims into posting a negative report, then the operation begins.
The first thing they do is try to sell the customer a pamphlet on how to attack companies. This book basically advises customers to harass and attack the company, especially to keep posting on Ripoffreprt.com. (Click here to see link for manual solicitation)
The second thing that Ripoffreport does is send emails to the posters asking for donations to help fight legal battles with these companies. They use a combination of guilt and veiled threats. We are being attacked by these companies because we just want to help you the consumer. Please help us; we can barely keep our doors open and our servers running. “Our legal costs will bankrupt us”, they claim. Then the veiled threat; implying that the evil corporations do not want to sue just Ripoffreport, but also the poster of negative information. “We will do everything we can to protect you, we just need money for lawyers”, they claim. (Click Here for a sample of the letters sent out by Ripoffreport.com)
After trying to collect money from the consumer then Ripoff charges a business $25 to respond to a complaint after the fourth response. To keep the responses going Ripoffreport emails every complaining consumer every time a complaint is responded to. This gets the consumers to keep complaining and forces the company to keep responding. If the consumer does not file additional complaints, RipoffReport simply makes some up. This forces the company to pay to respond.
Initially it stopped there and was just a run of the mill penny anti scam run by convicted felon Ed Magedson (He bills himself as “Editor” on the site). He probably wouldn’t have attracted too much attention and could have continued this scam forever, but then they decided to go for the big dollars:
rip-off report – Criminal Ed Magedson then joined forces with a group of criminals that form
More info: A
The first Site is Ripoffreport.com, which is a site that encourages unhappy customers and employees to post their complaints on the website. In order to post a complaint the victim must post and address, phone number, and valid email address. This is all to make sure the information is legit the company claims.
Once the Ripoffreport.com has duped the victims into posting a negative report, then the operation begins.
The first thing they do is try to sell the customer a pamphlet on how to attack companies. This book basically advises customers to harass and attack the company, especially to keep posting on Ripoffreprt.com. (Click here to see link for manual solicitation)
The second thing that Ripoffreport does is send emails to the posters asking for donations to help fight legal battles with these companies. They use a combination of guilt and veiled threats. We are being attacked by these companies because we just want to help you the consumer. Please help us; we can barely keep our doors open and our servers running. “Our legal costs will bankrupt us”, they claim. Then the veiled threat; implying that the evil corporations do not want to sue just Ripoffreport, but also the poster of negative information. “We will do everything we can to protect you, we just need money for lawyers”, they claim. (Click Here for a sample of the letters sent out by Ripoffreport.com)
After trying to collect money from the consumer then Ripoff charges a business $25 to respond to a complaint after the fourth response. To keep the responses going Ripoffreport emails every complaining consumer every time a complaint is responded to. This gets the consumers to keep complaining and forces the company to keep responding. If the consumer does not file additional complaints, RipoffReport simply makes some up. This forces the company to pay to respond.
Initially it stopped there and was just a run of the mill penny anti scam run by convicted felon Ed Magedson (He bills himself as “Editor” on the site). He probably wouldn’t have attracted too much attention and could have continued this scam forever, but then they decided to go for the big dollars:
rip-off report – Criminal Ed Magedson then joined forces with a group of criminals that form
Posted by Code 5 on 2007-09-14:
is Rip Off Report Down? I heard it was shut down? you cant access it the last 48 hours? Is this true. If it is what a great thing for all of us
Posted by superbowl on 2007-09-14:
Looks like it. I can ping them:
Ping ripoffreport.com (217.17.158.39) ...
1 Addr:217.17.158.39, RTT: 171ms, TTL: 49
Ed is now using:
Xcentric Ventures, LLC on the RIPE network (Europe) Ankara - Turkiye
ALKIMNET Telecommunication LTD
Gundogdu Mah. Cayir sk. No: 14B
Ankara - Turkiye 06230
So wether he has been under a DOS attack or his servers are off line. He moved to Turkey because it was getting to hot for him here in the USA.
It is anybody's guess right now as there are thousands of people and companies trying to shut him down at any given time.
Ping ripoffreport.com (217.17.158.39) ...
1 Addr:217.17.158.39, RTT: 171ms, TTL: 49
Ed is now using:
Xcentric Ventures, LLC on the RIPE network (Europe) Ankara - Turkiye
ALKIMNET Telecommunication LTD
Gundogdu Mah. Cayir sk. No: 14B
Ankara - Turkiye 06230
So wether he has been under a DOS attack or his servers are off line. He moved to Turkey because it was getting to hot for him here in the USA.
It is anybody's guess right now as there are thousands of people and companies trying to shut him down at any given time.
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