The Wiki Answers “complaint” site is located in Israel, and has nothing to do with Wikipedia.org. All Wikis use common software of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikipedia has no control over what operators do with this software– it is open source available under GNU sharing and Wikimedia Commons. Although companies have been damaged and slandered on Wiki Answers, they are not as egregious or unbalanced as many other complaint sites, because companies can get a user ID and tell their own story there, as well as reply to opinions disguised as facts. You can “answer” any complaint question posted by a fake or disgruntled spammer by creating your own response. Note, however, responses may also be removed with no recourse by the site editors and operators, called administrators and bureaucrats in the software.
Companies that have sued Ed for trying to extort money via his “Corporate Remediation” program have uniformly lost those lawsuits. We doubt the BBB would charge companies, or take money in any form from them, to help make them more customer sensitive; it is more a conflict of interest and ethical question than a legal problem so far. Companies have tried to sue Ed under Rico for racketeering, but none of those suits have gone anywhere either. Magedson isn’t hiding in some basement like other complaint sites, he is up front about who he is and what he is doing, and is based in Arizona, not Singapore, Latvia, Nigeria, Israel, or the Czech Republic like 5 of the other top complaint sites. If you look at the decisions of all the suits so far, Ed is legitimate and legal. It would be interesting to know if he ever received payment from Complaints Board, who owes him over $80,000? Email us if you know the status of that payment!
Complaints Board frequently uses terrorist and anarchist tactics. They are run by Eastern European “Wikileaks” type individuals who hate the U.S. and revel in destroying “Western Capitalism.” Hundreds of thousands in lawsuits and judgments have been won against them, including by another well respected complaint site who proved Complaints Board was stealing their copyrighted posts and trying to attack them. Complaints Board encourages posters to sabotage business websites, call owners late at night, and issue death threats. The First Amendment, or more precisely CDA in 47 USC 203(c) does NOT protect sites that use these tactics, however, U.S. authorities have been unable to shut Complaints Board down due to their location in Latvia.
Is Complaints Board a scam?
Dec 24
Complaints Board is a one man website in Latvia that uses methods that are libelous and slanderous under U.S. law. The operator posts home phone numbers of merchants and businesses and encourages viewers to “torment and threaten” legitimate business owners. Here is a post by a legitimate business run by an Air Force family that was trashed by the site: http://www.merchantcircle.com/blogs/Armed.Forces.MCSS..718-291-0150/2008/7/Complaints-Board-does-not-publish-truthful-info-Armed-Forces-MCSS/97762
Complaints Board is owned by Dzianis Beltyukov, in Riga, Latvia. Beltyukov is Russian, and beyond the reach of U.S. Courts. Complaints Board lost a lawsuit to a legitimate complaint site in Arizona via summary judgment, by not even showing up to dispute the charges of theft and fraud. Numerous legitimate merchants have tried to get the FBI to close the site due to egregious death threats and false legal information posted on the site. Up to 90% of the postings are either stolen, made up by writers in Russia, or posted by competitors and disgruntled employees, often taking multiple identities to “pad” the complaints. Making decisions about a merchant based on Complaints Board comments is, simply, believing lies. There are posts on the internet that claim Complaints Board is owned by Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, many calling for a boycott of Elizabeth Arden. The Melbourne ISP that hosts Complaints Board says they have never heard from Elizabeth Arden, and that their payments are from Latvia, and the emails from the “editor” are from gmail, at: Editor.complaintsboard@gmail.com. We have contacted Arden a number of times and they will not answer questions about Complaints Board, which makes one wonder what their involvement is? We think it is premature to boycott Arden until more facts are known. If Arden was really involved, they would not have allowed two other lawsuits to go unanswered, thus going to summary judgment against them. We’re guessing CB themselves started the Arden rumor to take the focus off of their real identities, and we would encourage Elizabeth Arden’s General Counsel to get out in front of these rumors immediately. If Arden was involved, the plaintiffs that won judgments would have immediately gotten them, and this is not the case at this posting.
Where do Complaints Board Complaints come from?
Dec 24
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Complaints Board fabricates complaints, and encourages disgruntled employees, fired employees, competitors, people against the causes, products or services of merchants, etc. to slander legitimate businesses. One set of destructive complaints posts was against a pet boarding business, because poverty stricken posters in Russia “hate that Americans take better care of their pets than people.” Look at the title of their site– they have no interest in fair and balanced reporting, because their visits depend on slanted sensationalism. The more egregious the posts, the more visibility they get. Honesty, fairness, equity, legality do not enter into this equation. Unlike legitimate boards and the BBB, merchants have no venue for response, and CB uniformly removes opposing views and merchant responses to encourage herd mentality and lemming posts. They also allow one sock or disgruntled or spamming/ fake poster to post hundreds of separate complaints, without editing IP addresses, so a single sabateur of a merchant can make it look like the merchant got “hundreds” of complaints– all from the SAME poster!!
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