10 Questions to Ask When Buying a Hot Tub

10 Questions to Ask When Buying a Hot Tub

One of the most important things when buying a hot tub is to pick a spa that will meet your needs, lifestyle, and budget. The hot tub is supposed to relieve stress — not add to it. This is why you want to choose a quality product from a reputable manufacturer.
LG Refrigerator Settlement: Who Can Claim Cash Relief?

LG Refrigerator Settlement: Who Can Claim Cash Relief?

When consumers pay good money for appliances, they rely on the company’s promises and the quality of products that are claimed to work properly. What if the purchase fails you? How does the warranty work? Will you get the reimbursement? As a consumer, you have the right to ask for a solution. This is how hundreds of LG refrigerators with cooling defects have led to LG Electronics Class Action Lawsuit.
Threats to the Freedom of Speech, Online Regulations & Section 230: Interview with...

Threats to the Freedom of Speech, Online Regulations & Section 230: Interview with Eric Goldman

As the US is heading towards the recovery period and re-opens states, president Donald J. Trump grabs the attention of all America with his threat to impose regulations on social platforms by signing an executive order. This has awakened the critical case of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that protects the freedom of speech online. So, what happens next? What should we be prepared for?
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the Internet’s First Amendment, Needs...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the Internet’s First Amendment, Needs Support of All Consumers!

Dear consumers of the USA! Your rights may be taken away from you by the US Senate. We, at PissedConsumer, need to stand together with millions of people that are used to speaking their mind online, need to stand together on defending Section 230 of the CDA Act.
How to Remove Content from PissedConsumer.com – Suggestions Straight from the Horse’s...

How to Remove Content from PissedConsumer.com – Suggestions Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

The Internet is buzzing with recommendations on how to get rid of PissedConsumer, how to be removed from PissedConsumer.com, how to deal with reviews published on PissedConsumer.com, etc. So, we’ve decided to write this article and clear up some common misconceptions about PissedConsumer, whether PissedConsumer allows removal of content, and how to go about that.
How NOT To Remove Reviews − a Story about Fake Notarized Letters

How NOT To Remove Reviews − a Story about Fake Notarized Letters

Before you start reading this (hopefully) fascinating story, let’s conduct a little experiment. Try typing something like “remove review”, “remove content” or “content removal” in the Google search bar. What did you get? We think the same as everybody would – the Internet is full of all kinds of recommendations on what you “can”, “should”, “must” and “need” to do if you want to remove content from a review platform like PissedConsumer.com.
How to Avoid Moving Scams

How to Avoid Moving Scams

When the preparation for the moving day begins, one of the biggest preoccupations is how to pull through the whole thing. Since moving is quite a complex venture, one needs to be sure that every part of a task is being done properly.
Lumen Database Issues. How to Deal with Google DMCA and Court Order Removal Requests?

Lumen Database Issues. How to Deal with Google DMCA and Court Order Removal Requests?

Over the past years, PissedConsumer.com initiated and actively took part in uncovering numerous fraudulent schemes used by so-called reputation management entities to remove data from Google and other search engines. We have been closely cooperating with UCLA School of Law Professor Eugene Volokh, with whom we have managed to unveil a bunch of “shenanigans” involving fake court orders.
Negative SEO Attack on PissedConsumer and Its Effects

Negative SEO Attack on PissedConsumer and Its Effects

For most other websites it may be difficult to understand the source of Negative SEO attack. In the case of PissedConsumer, it is extremely easy to identify the source of the attack and the company that ordered the hit. You just need to look at the subdomain of the company being attacked.
Randazza Resoundingly Wins First Amendment Case

Randazza Resoundingly Wins First Amendment Case

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal ruled this morning in favor of Randazza Legal Group's client, Dr. Steven Novella in a landmark First Amendment decision. Randazza serves as First Amendment counsel to PissedConsumer, and this decision makes us all more free.
Wells Fargo Fraudulent Accounts Scandal: Who is to Blame and How to Prevent Future...

Wells Fargo Fraudulent Accounts Scandal: Who is to Blame and How to Prevent Future Problems?

On September 8, 2016, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a Consent Order in the matter of Wells Fargo. According to the CFPB filing, from January 1, 2011, to September 8, 2016, Wells Fargo employees opened approximately 1,534,280 deposit accounts.
Update To: Dirty Games with DMCA notices for Pittsburgh CBS and PissedConsumer

Update To: Dirty Games with DMCA notices for Pittsburgh CBS and PissedConsumer

The dust has not even started settling over Frankfort Herald DMCA games as the new player has come to light – Mashable City a/k/a mashablecity.com. The throne is never vacant… In their May 2016 DMCA takedown notice to Google, Mashable City alleged that they were the copyright owner of PissedConsumer content published back in 2013.
Dirty Games with DMCA notices for Pittsburgh CBS and PissedConsumer

Dirty Games with DMCA notices for Pittsburgh CBS and PissedConsumer

We at Opinion Corp(dba PissedConsumer) have hoped that the last post about aggressive SEO practices would put some sense into SEO players. We wanted to stress out the fact that we pay attention to the details and review all the facts. We hoped Reputation Management Companies would stop making gross errors and at least try playing by the rules.
Dark side of Online Reputation Management (ORM)

Dark side of Online Reputation Management (ORM)

Apparently, some corporations hire shady reputation management companies to file questionable lawsuits with the purpose of getting a defamation judgment in their favor. Once obtained, the judgment gets forwarded to major search engines, followed by the removal of allegedly defamatory webpages from the search engine index. We managed to identify two attorneys who have been involved in such a scheme.
Section 230 Defense Consortium

Section 230 Defense Consortium

User-generated content (UGC) websites are protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. However, there are still companies and/or individuals that feel that they can overcome Section 230 and devise a 'New Plan' of attack. PissedConsumer has been the subject of numerous attacks involving meritless lawsuits, and we are not the only ones. There are a number of USG websites that are in the same position.
Who really killed Revenge Porn Sites? Our Lawyer, Marc Randazza

Who really killed Revenge Porn Sites? Our Lawyer, Marc Randazza

There has been a cloud of kudos and congratulations for law professors who claim to be “heroes of the internet,” for their fight against revenge porn. For example, Brian Leiter seems to credit a trio of law professors who have never handled a single case. Meanwhile, when it comes to revenge porn, our lawyer actually got results in court.
Randazza Wins Defamation Venue Case

Randazza Wins Defamation Venue Case

PissedConsumer has had its share of defamation cases filed against it. In many of those cases, we were represented by Marc Randazza. Randazza just won a short, but important appellate court case in Florida involving the proper venue for a case to be brought.
Our lawyer, Marc Randazza, on Copyright Misuse

Our lawyer, Marc Randazza, on Copyright Misuse

“Using copyright to try and take down information that you don’t like doesn’t usually work,” said Marc Randazza. “In the Righthaven case, the court awarded a lot of attorneys’ fees and, in part, threw out the case because it was clearly fair use. Fair use matters, and consumer reviews that use a small bit of the party’s work (like a thumbnail from a website) is fair use.”
Roca Labs v. Opinion Corp (DBA PissedConsumer.com). Roca Labs seems likely continue to...

Roca Labs v. Opinion Corp (DBA PissedConsumer.com). Roca Labs seems likely continue to sue customers who speak out

Not everyone believes you should have the right to express yourself about the companies who take your hard-earned money for their products and services. Roca Labs certainly does not. Please read on to learn about the legal campaign Roca Labs is undertaking to punish consumers who complain about its products.
Party at the Party Store

Party at the Party Store

There are problems at almost any retail establishment. Things aren’t going to be perfect every time you walk through the door, but sometimes it’s the customers who make problems worse. Does that mean that it is always the customer’s fault? Of course not. But sometimes you want to blame the store for poor customer service, but in reality, it’s you failing to be a good customer.

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