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[Poll] Can a supplier terminate a service contract because of a negative customer review?
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And that's exactly why you should only be permitted to write one review.
Wait.... So are people saying that an honest review has consequences not because it is honest but because it skews the statistics due to lack of sample size.
Whatever the consumer faces, that will boil down to lack of sample size and not what was written in the review.
In the US, I'm pretty sure you can't require that customers not post negative reviews as a condition of continued engagement with a business. That is review suppression.
I see a bunch of comments that everything should be symmetric between customers and businesses. The rules aren't set that way because businesses tend to be more powerful than customers. Imagine if Cloudflare or AWS discontinued service over criticism (or worse, reports of an outage!).
Laws weren't designed specifically for LET providers.
No, I'm saying don't be a dick to providers if you want to keep your contract.
I think this latest post is a perfect example; I expect that this angry German man will likely never get his money back (even if the claim is true). HostSlick could easily withdraw from the German market or even block visitors from Germany without a second thought.
Edit: Another possibility is that HostSlick wants to preserve LowEndTalk’s reputation by issuing a clarification in response to this negative review, but how will they react to the title “SCAM”?
Since HostSlick is a german company I don't think it would be that easy for them to leave Germany.
That makes it even more interesting. I'll keep an eye on that thread.
I have asked this question before but haven't got an answer as of yet.
"Who decides that customer is being a dick in this scenario?"
Since being a dick is subjective in nature, someone has to decide whether concerned person is behaving one like or not.
So who decides that?
Could a cyber jury organization be LowEndTalk? If it's in Chinese community, it's most likely NodeSeek etc. This trick only works on lowend supplier, If the target is AWS or Oracle would just roll their eyes no matter where they are and say "first time?"
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/137719/lowendtalk-community-rules/p1#goldenrule
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Don't do things that decades of netiquette have shown to be offensive. Don't be "That Guy". Don't break the rules. When in doubt, just don't.
lol @ this whole thread. How many times are we going to re-hash this shit.
@ralf
From the same clause,
So Who is/are the judge(s) in the scenario of the OP? Who will decide who is being a dick?
Your mum.
People, five pages -- wow
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Who's being nibbled?