RipoffReport

This is a very serious consumer advocacy web site:

"Helping you, the consumer...
Search the Ripoff Report before you do business with retail stores with bad return policies, checking & credit theft, rebate fraud or other unscrupulous business policies such as phony auto repairs, auto dealer bait-and-switch tactics, restaurants with bad service or food, corrupt government employees & politicians, police corruption, home builders, contractors, unethical doctors & lawyers, online stores that sell non-existent products, dead beat dads & moms, landlords & tenants, fraudulent employment & business opportunities, and individual con artists who scam consumers".

The site makes clear that filed reports CANNOT be removed, even by an attorney's appeal, which means your claim is forever.

If you've been burned and need to voice your ire, this is unquestionably the place to do it. Highly recommended as SAFE & EFFECTIVE. Free web site.

I provided emails proving that someone posted a FAKE review for someone else without their consent. We had already resolved the matter with the real customer.

I like this website, but I think their UI needs an update. Just read the reviews and then research. A lot of helpful reviews and helps allow people to get back scammed money.

It's a shame that a lowlife like the owner of ripoffreport.com can claim to be a "consumer advocate." After reviewing the methods of how the site is run, it's nothing but a lazy, unethical, easy way to make money, not much better than "revenge-porn" sites.

Basically, anyone can ANONYMOUSLY post any kind of nasty rumor about anyone- a business competitor, an ex, a disgruntled employee. You don't have to verify that you even have a real email address. You don't have to use your real name. Once you have "registered" you can than make up ANY kind of lie you want, and it will rise to the top of Google looking like a legitimate warning about a bad business.

THEN the business, person, or nonprofit who is having their life destroyed can only remove the damaging rumors from Google by paying thousands of dollars to the site (which claims that the money is for 'arbitrators' who don't actually exist. In reality, the owner of the site just copies and pastes a disclaimer at the top of the article.)

Even if you're tempted to use ripoffreport.com for a legitimate gripe against a business (unlike most people who just use it as a way to destroy other people's lives), please read the Forbes article on this site's awful founder and owner. It's not worth helping this guy make another dime destroying jobs, lives, non-profits, and livelihoods just because he found an easy and sleazy way to get rich.

RIPOFFREPOT.COM IS A GOOD WEBSITE THAT EMPOWERS PEOPLE LIKE ME!

I like any kind of website that gives people a voice, even if they make money on us. As long as they do not delete our reports UNLESS the business being reported of wants to do the right thing for the consumers that reported it.

Otherwise, ripoffreport.com is by far one of the best site to get your voice heard!

I just filed my report on RIPOFFREPOT.COM against Carmax.com and Roadloans.com for discrimination in FAIR LENDING ACT, and I am proud that I can read my report and share it to others.

Fact is: WE NEED MORE POPULAR SITE LIKE RIPOFFREPORT, COM!

This is a terrible website where anyone can say anything about anyone or any business. It's a place where people with grudges can defame whomever they like without repercussion.

I was told by a friend that I wrote a review on this website, Well let me tell you. It wasn't me! Apparently someone used my name to hide behind and wrote their BS story... This site is a JOKE!

Malicious website. No way to verify that any report on the site is true or a bunch of invented garbage. Criminal's paradise for online abuse, defamation and libel.

I have followed Ripoff Report for several years, and pass-along some information to family friends. But the reviewer may just be too subjective. You cannot believe them all.

It's really funny that Ripoff Report is asking for non-tax deductible donations to maintain their "Free Speech platform" the fact of the matter is that the reason they are where they are is because they choose to let trolls and liars abuse their platform and refuse to remove or ad a notice that the review/report is unsubstantiated. Free speech doesn't need to be "free $$" and since they prey on people who likely can't afford a proper lawsuit that wastes everyone's time then when they actually do get a company that can. It only adds to the circus acts.

Just like they want people to pay for VIP treatment to get bad reviews looked at they should add the option to have reports PAY to also be verified. Any reports made in such a website should also be a seal of verification to make them look more legit. They can charge for this if they want to seeing as the entire website is just pretty much a troll paradise anyway, if Ripoff Report also made their numerous trolls pay for the bad slander and "free speech" even just a couple of dollars, it would greatly reduce the number of fake unsubstantiated reports being posted and they won't need to beg people for money since people don't believe a site that's known for not verifying the legitimacy of any of the reports posted on their site anyway.

I was reading their explanation of "you gonna sue us? Please don't" and it sounded like Trumper begging to be able to do whatever idiotic thing they've been getting away with since before verification was a thing online... 1998 and hasn't changed. Ripoff report needs to adapt, As they say in the world of business... "Change or Die" at this rate due to their stubbornness of the "American Dream" (of letting trolls go unpunished, aka "free speech") they will go and join defunct sites like Geocities...

Anyone who has been solicited to give this site money needs to report it immediately to the Dept. of Justice for Online Extortion.

THESE GUYS ARE NEVER GOING TO PAY YOU AND WILL HAVE NO REMORSE FOR STEALING FROM YOU! I KNOW THIS FIRST HAND AND FROM HEARING IT FROM THEIR OWN MOUTHS!

It is an extortion site. Company is asking money for a removal of negative feedback left by a competitor.

Very similar to this site. Getting the news out to people about scams and rip-offs. One can post rebuttals to the reports if one disagrees.

Yes! I had a recent little problem with a dishonest bunch of collection whores in Tulsa, OK, who had placed a derogatory remark on my credit
History. NORTHSTAR TECHNOLOGIES, doing business as EQUINOX COLLECTIONS, also in Tulsa. Equinox reported on my credit history that I owed a crooked doctor, GARY R. LEE, MD, in Tulsa, $300 bucks for a 1995 bill that a conscienceless, psychopathic osteopath named FARRAR said I owed. FARRAR was a devious jack-off ambulance-chasing JERK, that was so incompetent, he had no practice except for personal injury cases that some unscrupulous Tulsa lawyers were sending him. This Lee character bought FARRAR's practice. So, 18 years later, this Gary R. Lee tries to extort me. I placed some carefully worded reviews of Gary Lee, ad his collector, EQUINOX/NORTHSTAR. They erased/removed the derogatory remark form my credit. Ed Magedson, the founder of WWW.RIPOFFREPORT.COM, has saved a lot of people, a lot of grief, and pain. If YOU get a bad review on Ripoff Report, answer the review. That is, unless you're a crook. And in that case... take your punishment. You deserve what you get... a swift kick in the arse. HES/GROVE, OK

I can tell you with me ripoff report gets my highest rating. I was personally cheated out of my money from a so-called "honest" company that used dishonest means. I am thankful that I was able to post a permanent warning on this site about their activities so as to warn others about their ways and shame the company.

This is why I like this site so much because it means that the site does not remove reports like some sites that take money and will take down the reports. Ed Madgeson has actual been sued for millions of dollars in order to get him to take down the reports on his site but because he stands for freedom of expression and the first amendment rights of others the courts are always in his favor.

People often have a tendency to discredit consumer advocacy sites and say they are scam but they cannot be blamed for the reports because they do not put them there. Reports are done by different individuals and with the hundreds of thousands of reports on this site it is impossible for one person to write them all.

I only blame consumer advocacy sites if they take down a legitimate report because they were cowards or greedy for money but I cannot blame this site because at least it still gets an A plus for standing up courageously and refusing to take down its reports.

The only problem with the ROR that I have is with editing reports which sometimes it may not always want to and sometimes trying to find reports and the long wait one must experience at times in order to actually see one's report but I know for sure they are not removed from the site.

Now that's integrity to say the least that cannot be bought or sold. We could all learn a thing or two from that.

My name has been drug through the dirt by RipOff Report even though I never had contact with the person writing the Negative post. I asked to be removed since I never met the person and was mistakenly added to a list within the report. Matter of fact I think the report in itself is FAKE and a vehicle for EXTORTION. RipOff Report refused to do it. RipOff Report is a CENTRAL HUB for Extortionists trying to take advantage of innocent people. I suppose not all posts on there are fake, but this one was. The fact that RipOff Report refused to remove this post, or at least refused to remove my name from it (when it clearly shows in the post I never had contact with or met the person) shows that in the background they are running an unethical website. It also shows that the post itself is/was a vehicle for EXTORTION. The person posting has ZERO PROOF of anything! Why was my name posted for no reason? WTH is happening with people that they need to stoop down to this level? Still if people do thier research, they will realize that the person who posted the report is the sick one, the EXTORTIONEST. This is 100% SLANDER written out in black & white. How this site still manages exist it beyond me. The seedy business ethics of RipOff Report make my stomach turn. BobbieBardot

Ripoffreport.com will extort your business to have a false complaint one person has about your business, even if this complaint was resolved. One complaint out of tens of thousands. The owner Ed Magedson is a wanted fugitive and uses Google adwords and spamming keywords to get the complaint high in search ranking but even worse he is using money he gets from bad scam artist company's advertising on his website. Get rich quick schemes, bad credit loan schemes, fast cash loans who prey on the poor all of the company's and crooks that you normally associate criminals to our ripoffreports advertisers. That is correct he takes money from criminals, fraudsters and thieves and he is operating a website that supposedly a consumer can complain about the very businesses he is supporting and making him rich. If you go to his website make sure you clear your history and cache afterwards you will be spyed on by the lowest of bottom feeders and crooks if you do not clear your cookies and spyware Lookup to see if the actual rip off company's that are supporting have any complaints listed, they do not because he removed the complaints when they agreed to the paid advertising and his extortion. I am certain that eventually this guy will be locked up and made to pay. The BBB rates ripoffreport.com at F its lowest score it seems that Mr. Ed Magedson does not answer complaints about his business ripoffreport.com but yet he terrorizes honest businesses with lies and then tell that business he will remove the lie if you pay Mr Ed thousands of dollars, that is extortion. You can change all of this by writing your senators and congressman and put this bully behind bars.

This site allows defamation and worst - does nothing to stop it.

Good site for those who know how to sort information from misinformation.

Pretty solid complaint website, another good one is pissedconsumer.