So I have the unfortunate experience of reporting someone here that was selling fraudulent parts. I had Linda end up banning him. This guy googled my screen name which is part of my email address that is tied to my business and goes to my personal business through Yelp and leaves a negative review.I ended up complaining to Yelp and flagging the review. He ends up changing his initial review and targets me personally and not my business.Will see if Yelp will remove it and do the right thing. This was after he was talking all this crap about wanting me to come over and wanted to fight me and all this stuff and all that. Ends up finding out who I am and now threatens to call the police if I ever contact him or anything like that. Keep in mind he didn't know my phone number he got everything based off my screen name. He ended up calling me with his caller ID and his phone number like a dumbass and I was able to get all his information. Just be careful out there. I don't care I'm blasting his phone number. Even if you do the right thing there is consequences.
Also, this is why I don't self identify on the internet. I have business social media accounts for my business and my personal accounts don't mix. If someone were to search my SN here and track it back to my personal FB account (easy to do), that personal FB page also has none of my business pages linked to it or even liked by it. This way, I can live a mostly happy life on my personal page without having to worry about cross-pollinating reviews and so on.
The auto industry is a passion fueled industry. It brings out the best and worst in people. Back when my shop was open, there would be days where half my day was spent on social media doing nothing else but promoting, handling customer issues, and so on. The whole fake Yelp review thing is a pain as it can really hurt an upstart business. My shop was a very narrowly focused operation, mostly working on off-road performance track and drag cars. Every now and then, we'd do a build on a street car, and as per the norm, that person would go to a car meet or show and tell everyone who built it. All well and good... but then you'd get the people in their Hondas and 1985 328i shitboxes who would come over to us for dyno tuning or some such... and we'd turn them away as we weren't a tuner shop. They'd sometimes go to Yelp and leave 1 star reviews because we wouldn't work on their cars for things like we're racist, "elitist ****", or just totally make things up like what the guy did here. I never could understand those people. Our shop was busy mostly making professional racing top fuel, funny car, and promod drag chassis, SCCA class B frames, and we did a lot of performance work on dedicated track cars. Never did we ever do any work on a car that had less than 6 cylinders. Even then, we didn't do any i6 or v6 engine work... frame/suspension configuration work only. We built a ton of V8s, V10s, and V12s. Still, I probably got 15-20 bogus reviews from local JDM fanboys who claimed we somehow did them wrong.
