06:21 
Tue, 6th January 2009
RipOffReport Founder Says Threats Are Escalating
When we wrote most RipOffReport originator Ed Magedson a whatever weeks ago, commenters wrote in with every sorts of situation stories. Some said their businesses were seriously perceive by false, and ofttimes retaliatory, complaints publicised on the site.
We also heard every sorts of theories most how the playing operates — plentitude of grouping venture Magedson writes the complaints himself in an try to wring money from businesses; a whatever grouping raved most his Corporate Advocacy Program (in which Magedson "investigates" and resolves complaints for a fee); and digit advisor told us that Magedson is ownership his servers soured get for unknown/suspicious reasons. Lots of grouping also conceive that Google provides preferential
treatment to RipOffReport.com. (We’re pretty unbelieving that
there’s whatever variety of relation there, though.)
Magedson, who patterned in with us this morning, says he’s been overpowered with threatening calls since we publicised the place a whatever weeks ago.
"We’ve conventional individual unnatural calls. It’s the aforementioned abstract over and over again. People ready harassing my staff. I had to advise my servers octad nowadays terminal assemblage because grouping ready attacking," he says.
Magedson also addressed whatever of the commenters’ points: he insists that RipOffReport does not interpose with the noesis on the site. There are most 800 complaints publicised on the place daily, according to Magedson. He says his body scans the complaints to attain trusty there they don’t include ethnic section numbers, threats, or links, but another than that, they aren’t altered.
Image: Courtesy EdMagedson.com
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