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The gripe is another way to say grievance or complaint.
Today, people have grudges against people and businesses more than ever. Some would resort to social media to vent their displeasure.
However, for fear of criticism or attack, some would bottle up their pain instead.
Besides this category of people, some are only out to discredit others. Sometimes, the cause of their grievance is unfounded.
Hence, some use specific platforms to hide their identities or communicate their message under an alias.
GripeO is a legit review website that serves as a public platform to share consumers’ “genuine” experiences with businesses. It helps potential clients properly assess the reliability and legibility of these businesses from a distance. It’s host to thousands of reviews that unhappy consumers have posted.
With the name already screaming anger, you can only find the worst reports and assessments about organizations and people here.
Being a social site, it is open to registration and allows different types of users and reviewers – some true, some false.
More so, be ready to see the worst of reviews here. Nothing flattering about anyone is expected—all pain and disappointment.
If you ever find your business name mentioned on GripeO, you may have a severe issue.
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About GripeO.com
GripeO is a consumer social complaint site that was founded in 2012. Its key owners are Nicholas Campanile and Mark Taylor – with Mark Taylor as CEO. Others are Richard Panek, Jim Proulx, and Stephen Makula.
They created the site in Buffalo, New York, to serve as an online medium for customers to provide feedback for companies and individuals that they had transactions.
The site has an active social media following and increases traffic by over 5% every month.
It has tools for boosting visibility. With it, consumers can increase the visibility of their reports and be sure that they have effectively tarnished an individual’s reputation.
It also has a suite of SaaS tools called ReSolve Social, which businesses can use to resolve the negative feedback from angered consumers.
Do you want to check it out? Does it work? How much do they charge for it? Read on.
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How are GripeO reviews published?
GripeO claims to have honest, in-depth, accurate, and unbiased reviews.
The posting procedure is found below.
Users have to sign up before they can publish posts on the site.
However, they can navigate and read previous reviews upon reaching the site.
There are different categories of featured posts.
These featured posts include expert reviews, public content analyses, and reports.
These are usually a mix of different classes of material.
Besides the featured posts, there are various categories of reviews.
These may be the section where your company’s review can be found.
Tags on the different reviews within the classes show various degrees of intensity and hatred.
Furthermore, site visitors can also listen to reviews to lighten or intensify the report.
With these, reported companies stand to lose many clients through sites like this, as there is always a means to make any reported incident sound more intense.
Unfortunately, this has put some people out of business. See below how this happens.
How does GripeO remove reviews?
The GripeO review removal process is not so different from similar review sites.
Firstly, each time content is posted on GripeO, and the author loses their right over it.
As a result, they would not remove the content or edit it. Thus, content, once posted, remains posted.
Finding the authenticity of the content posted is not a primary issue.
More so, GripeO does not remove content from the site except if it has cause to do so beyond all reasonable doubts.
This implies that only content contravenes the laws set out in its services is removed.
They can modify the content or edit it as they please.
This is usually done when issues are raised on the legibility of content, as mentioned above.
They also owe no one an explanation after they remove content.
Making an effort to verify content posted on the site can be done when there is a complaint and an administration fee is paid.
We shall discuss this later.
They state clearly that authors of posts cannot request their removal after posting.
However, specific causes may lead to content removal after posting it. Check out some of these issues in the listing below:
Copyright issues: The site claims the right to every property posted.
This is because the authors of posts transfer all rights to the content they post to the website perpetually.
This also indemnifies the company of any issues arising from publishing the content.
This rule affects content that exclusively belongs to the post’s author. Such content includes logos, trademarks, software, etc.
If the content belongs to a third party, there is a case for removal.
Provided it belongs to you and not the publisher, you can request its removal. The procedure is shown below.
Inappropriate content:
The site promptly removes content unsuitable for public viewing.
Such content includes pornographic content and content involving the display of children.
Site moderators remove this content immediately after they spot them.
Otherwise, site visitors or affected persons can draw their attention to them.
This type of content does not require any review system, as it can be removed almost instantly.
Insulting content:
The site removes content that has or promotes insulting other persons or using any form of foul language.
If you identify such content used against you, you may flag it to the site administrators to check it out.
They would usually drop some warning points against the author, which could be a step toward getting it down sooner.
Violations:
Report posts that violate posting rules on the site or are spam posts.
Character deformers usually use spamming to heighten the effect of their mission.
The site asks that you submit a report against a violation just once.
If you find any post that keeps coming repeatedly, you must report it as soon as possible.
In so doing, the poster’s account can be tracked, and such posts can be removed.
Howbeit, this does not always guarantee total removal.
Moreover, some people can deliberately create multiple accounts to tarnish the images or businesses of innocent people.
This measure helps to curtail that and similar excesses.
Racism and Threats:
The site admins can remove content that expresses racism and physically threaten others.
These kinds of items are generally unacceptable anywhere.
If you find any offensive content against you on the grounds of racial prejudice, you can draw the attention of the site admins to it, and they will immediately remove it.
Otherwise, the site would be the subject of ongoing litigation.
Personal and private information:
This site does not accommodate content that should otherwise be secret knowledge.
These include personal information (of the author or a third party).
Also, information shared in private conversations is not accommodated on the site.
Hence, you can draw the attention of site admins to it.
The site does not, generally, adapt content that makes people unnecessarily prone to public disturbance.
Such content can cause the victims to suffer from various forms of emotional trauma.
If any review contains your phone number, you can flag it for violation.
If texts shared between you and the post’s author are made public, you can ask for their removal from the site.
These issues are subject to the central legal system and cannot be ignored.
If you ask for their removal, your request will be granted. Anytime.
Necro-posting:
This is the practice of renewing a post by posting comments under it. The site does not accept necro-posting.
Such activities can increase the visibility of outdated content and put the reviewed person or company at risk of a negative public image again.
Besides, it can create a vicious cycle of trouble.
They cause the initial hardships faced by the company after the initial posting to repeat themselves.
Practically, it opens old wounds and checkmates any progress made in the recovery process.
Implications
Crunchbase reveals that GripeO has over 46,000 visits every month.
If a tenth of this happens to represent your potential customers, you could imagine the possible damage.
Besides, they have tools that increase their ranking on the internet.
Though they claim to speak the truth, GripeO has no means of verifying the authenticity of information posted on its pages.
This position implies that anyone can lie against you and go free.
Moreover, coming clear from their grip would cost money and may not get you what you want.
Summarily, these could be the implications of a negative review against you on GripeO:
Waste of time:
Unfortunately, this is the fate of many people who have been listed and care about it. It is like an unplanned exercise.
They try to deal with the lousy image both internally and externally.
Sometimes, some company owners get emotionally stressed over the posts. Others stop working for some time.
Still, others begin taking up legal actions immediately.
Wherever you find yourself, if you do care, you will discover that it would result in time wastage.
Loss of clients and potential clients:
Many people rely on the internet to research businesses before doing transactions with them.
Imagine if someone searches for your business online, and the first thing he sees is a negative review about it or a scam stamp.
While some persons may not be perturbed, most users will consider and retreat.
Whether just a client or a handful, this is a loss for many sellers and should be avoided.
Loss of funds:
Loss of clients also implies a reduction in income to the degree to which clients are lost.
More so, going around to make inquiries, hiring an attorney, filing court cases, hiring professionals, etc., costs a ton of money.
These expenses should not be part of the budget and within the provisions of the gaps in the funding.
Ways to remove gripeO reviews.
While GripeO may have its share of difficulties in content removal, it is not impossible to ask for content removal from the site.
If you find content that is unfavorable to you, you can ask for its removal.
It would be best to look for items that violate the site’s terms.
Here we explain how you can make GripeO remove content from their site.
Contact them:
If you find content that mentions you negatively on the site, the first step is to look out for violating information.
If you find one, immediately reach the site admins to remove it.
If your observations or claims are accurate, your request will be granted.
However, if it is not, you stand to waste the effort.
Thus, ensure that you have proof of your claims and know with certainty that your assertions are relevant to the site’s rules.
Convincing a website like GripeO to remove content for you is impossible.
Whether you are a member of the site or not, you need to provide a valid reason for content to be removed because of you.
Contact the post’s author:
Some types of content can only be removed at the original author’s request.
While the site assumes ownership of content after it has been posted, there is room for removing content.
This is possible due to some exceptions regarding content that may not be acceptable, as indicated before.
If, for example, you can reach a truce with the author and the issue is resolved, you may ask them to ask for its removal.
While they may not remove the content immediately, they could down-vote it.
They can also comment against the post stating that the issue has been resolved or a mistake.
Whichever way, the author can have some degree of access to the post wherein they can make an input or two that would weaken its effect.
A copyright method may not be accepted.
Initiating a DMCA Takedown
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a stipulated legal process for initiating the removal of copyright content. The process usually requires that you consult with an attorney.
If you find a copyright infringement on the site, you can contact the site via email – [email protected] and submit the following materials:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site, covers multiple copyrighted works at a single online site.
- Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, or the subject of infringing activity is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining company, such as an address where the complaining party may be contacted.
- A statement that the complaining company has a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right allegedly infringed.
This is a legal procedure and would give you a sigh of relief if followed duly.
Notwithstanding, there is another way to go about the content removal process.
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Securing the services of an online reputation repair agency might be your best bet to take down content.
Remove Reports is excellent at that.
We have been effective at repairing the reputations of hundreds of companies and individuals and are still doing more.
Usually, some agencies take to the suppression method and find a way around the algorithm.
Some negative brand and individual reviews are removed from sight with suppression, while good content replaces them.
For a site like GripeO, this removal method does not remove the content easily.
The reason is that it has a tool that allows authors and visitors to boost their posts.
Thus, old posts that may have been relegated to the base can resurface after a boost.
In a way, contacting the author is possible. In other cases, it is also possible to sue the author, which should enable you to get paid for defamation.
However, it is impossible to sue GripeO since Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects it.
Furthermore, initiating a DMCA takedown does not always go smoothly.
We would find ourselves peculiar if the parties fail and defend the other.
In this case, more parties have rights to the content. What happens when a fruitful partnership breaks?
You should contact professionals to remove your name from the site.
What to do next
You can contact Remove Reports with your details immediately, so our team will engage the relevant personnel to remove your details from the site.
While we would apply some of the abovementioned techniques, we would use a mix of technical skills to make it possible.
More so, we assure you of complete removal and a money-back guarantee as we work on restoring your reputation to heights.
At Remove Reports, we believe that a healthy reputation is a significant factor in attracting the right clients and partners in the market.
Hence, we quickly help our clients return to winning ways with a healthy public view.
Conclusion
GripeO has been offering many consumers a platform to vent their dissatisfaction.
It has also helped potential buyers identify the good and evil in the market before they venture into new stuff.
However, a negative online reputation leads businesses to suffer.
Do not allow that to be your fate. That is why Remove Reports is here – to offer you a ray of hope.
Contact us today and see how the market flows to you.