Is Trip Advisor paying for bad reviews?

Hi I am sorry to be a pain, but I still cant get some of the pages to load....maybe its me? If you go to hoteliers support and then click on the I Hate Trip Advisor link I get:
HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found
The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Now as I say maybe it's me? Reply to this

Yes, I also feel the same. they are try to make people mess about their travel decisons. one best example i share with you all. i have been using one travel site for many years. and last one and half years i didnt find best hotels from them and booked from some other site as well. but this year, i just went through TA and found many bad about this site. but recently i booked with them, i dindt have any issue. that is roomsnet.com Reply to this

Thanks Old Brewer. I have cleared cache and it still comes up the same - but as long as it works for everyone else that's cool! Reply to this

With acknowledgements to Phil on the excellent tripadvisor watch blog I was prompted to check out just one forum on the web and found the following content which is all self explanatory. Paradoxically all this is doing us a favour. Eventually the Tripadvisor consumers must realize how unreliable the site is. However we still need a change in the law so sign the petition
www.ipetitions.com/petition/ihatetripadvisor


Shaklebolt Aug 2007 Digital Point
What you need to do:
Write a ~100 words review on Tripadvisor.com fill the review (takes 2 minutes)
Sign up if with your own mail id if you are not a member (takes less than 2 minutes)
Follow Up:
Click on the mail confirming you sent the review. $3 in your account as soon as the review is live!

(I know it isn't much but there's nothing you have to do, being a content writer myself, I know $3 for 100 words is good enough. You also don't need to have 100%!p(MISSING)erfect grammar, do an extensive spell check and proof read your copy.

Also, if you are already on tripadvisor, add $1 for every 10 reviews you've already written!
Send me your PMs. I'll check this thread but PMs come directly to my mailbox and this is first come first serve. I'll eventually be needing all those of you who want to do this but like 2 reviews every week.
Exceptions: People from New Delhi, India are not eligible.
Reason: Restaurant I'm promoting is located in Delhi.

Shacklebolt mar 20th 2010 Tripadvisor Reviews
Hi guys,
I'm looking for tripadvisor reviews from people who already have their accounts on tripadvisor. Easy and quick 2-7 bucks depending on your tripadvisor history.
(If you have accounts on other quality, authoritative travel sites like trivago, hostelworld etc, that'll be equally worthwhile) Hit me up on PM.

(Also, people who do not have an account, DO NOT REGISTER RIGHT NOW. I have an offer for you. You can register when it is time to submit the review. PM me for details).
Email me Here for copywriting jobs

MSZPAK Jan 30th 2010
I will pay for positive feedback on tripadvisor
If you have account on trip advisor i will pay you for positive feedback

Nitrogen 77 July1 2007
Tripadvisor user with previous experience If you are a tripadvisor user, with previous reviews posted in Trip Advisor, and you want to make $10 for just "paste" a review - contact me with your tripadvisor username and contact details.

qoelet81 25 Aug 2009

Content Duplication for International Site's versions
I noticed that many international websites don't worry of using the same contents into the various intl versions of the website, like tripadvisor, for example.

AMOROMA1 JAN 20TH 2009
i pay 5 euro for each review!
i am looking for writers to add our own reviews (we manager B&B/hotels)
on international tripadvisor website. We can send you a txt and you have to add it only.
we can pay 5 euro for each inclusion by.. ccard, or mail or other ways.
Why you...because this website has algoritm.of the writers...they call it filters or others toll ..
to block suspected reviews from our area. For this we need reviewers from others areas than Rome.
if you are interested please contact me by e-mail.pavla777@hotmail.com Roma

mARKaSE
I have been fairly successful in working with a few local restaurants. I charge them a set monthly price to keep up their website as well as keeping it on the first page of Google as well as helping them with their email marketing and controlling online reviews on places like Yelp, Tripadvisor and some more localized sites. It pays well, but you have to get out and talk to people face to face.

TENTHIRTEEN SEPT6 2009

Hotel reviews
I am looking to hire people to write five hotel reviews on a popular accommodation review website.

The reviews will be for five different properties, be 4/5 stars and about one (maximum two) paragraphs in length. One property is the one I am tasked with promoting the other four will be selected at random (different decoys for each reviewer).

We can supply the content for each review. Pay is higher for reviews posted by an established user account (over one year old) please PM me with your interest.

TENTHIRTEEN sEPT 6 2009 Hand of A'Dal

amber0307 and Talks_44 I have PM'd you. Just to clarify a few things for people interested in this work...

1. This is very easy money, there are no catches, all we ask is that you follow our instructions.

2. We have been tasked with promoting a hotel online and part of this involves increasing online reviews. This is where you come in.

3. We are looking for three new positive reviews per week so if six people ask for the job this week then three of those would be asked to wait until next week. We'll note your interest in working with us down and contact you in due course. This is a long-term promotion project that we have so you definitely will be contacted in future weeks.

4. If you are already a member of the travel review website and have written reviews in the past then we would pay $20 for a handful of new reviews of the properties we choose. The reviews need to be 1-2 paragraphs in length each and we would need to read/proof them before you submit them to the review website. We pay via PayPal as soon as they are 'live' on the review website.

5. If you don't have an account please do not set one up right away. We still want to work with you but it is better that the reviewers account is set up on the day the reviews will be posted. We do not want a dozen reviews from people who all registered on the same day. The pay for a newly registered Tripadvisor account is $10, as above, this is for a handful of new reviews of the properties we choose. The reviews need to be 1-2 paragraphs in length each and we would need to read/proof them before you submit them to the review website. We pay via PayPal as soon as they are 'live' on the review website.

6. This is a long-term promotions project so we are always in need of fresh reviews, don't be disheartened if we ask to work with you in two weeks time instead of immediately - we still definitely want to work with you.

nET HEAD 29 jULY ALSO HAND OF a'DAL

Toronto Canda Hotel Reviews - 5 x 500 words
Hi, I need someone who lives in Toronto or Travels to Toronto and can write 5 reviews of some of the Hotels in Toronto. I have a new Hotel review site and need some content. If you are good, I will order 5 more toronto articles but in tourism and toronto travel tips. Please contact me with rates per article and also turnaround time. If you have samples, please send through pm. thanks

GETYOUR jULY 11 2006 aLSO HAND OF a'DAL
Reno Hotel Reviews - Please Review.
I'm looking for some feedback about the general layout, colors, and functionality of http://www.renohotelreviews.com/
The next step is to add a review script to the site.


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This could be for the following reason. They must remain passive where moderation is concerned.

Faltering Legal Immunity

TripAdvisor and other review web sites have thus far benefitted from immunity from defamation and related law suits in the United States due to the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
The Communications Decency Act was passed by Congress to protect Web site operators from lawsuits stemming from content created by their users. The Act states that "No provider … of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
The act defines an interactive computer service as "any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server."
However, a 2007 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that a web site operator can be both a service provider and a content provider, and be immune from liability for some of the content it displays to the public, but subject to liability for other content.
Writing for the majority, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said that if a Web site operator "passively displays content that is created entirely by third parties, then it is only a service provider with respect to that content," and protected by the Communications Decency Act. But when a Web site operator is responsible in whole or in part for creating or developing, the Web site is also a content provider.
TripAdvisor furnishes and manipulates its web site content in a number of different ways--perhaps the most obvious being the "warning" they wrote discussed above; and such provision of information content will make their immunity under the Decency Act disappear. http://living-abroad-consultants.com/id16.html Reply to this

Yes - that is a good name for some guests - the guests from hell! But then, we are the ones living with "the guests from hell" cleaning their trashed rooms and bad attitudes when they leave - and all the booking engines, like Expedia - just get clean commission - no work involved! Reply to this

Expedia like Tripadvisor do not class our establishment as a hotel, we only man our front desk for 22 hours a day so they class us a a B&B, they have also refused to acknowledge our postal address and have put us in a village 12km from the town, now no one can find us on ta, not a bad thing I suppose!! Reply to this

Shrute Farm
Apparently Tripadvisor were a party to the hoax. At least that is what they are claiming now. It might have been a good joke if it were not so close to the truth.
Apparently you can now earn imint reward points from Tripadvisor if you post some fake reviews on my my newly registered Fawlty Towers Hotel.
Only joking I'd rather you signed my petition so we can see and end to this nonsense.
www.ipetitions.com/petition/ihatetripadvisor

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We have recently had a bad review from a couple who had booked a "Budget" room, they left us a bad review because they did not have clean towels every day, we completed the owners response explaining that in budget rooms there is a welcome pack that explains that if they wish to have clean towels to tell us at breakfast time, they seemed such a lovely couple, chatting about our family and life and then leave us bad feedback because they could not be bothered to read the welcome pack.
As usual Facebook has refused to publish our owners response because it goes against their rules?!?! Reply to this

I would recommend that every hotel owner withdraws from such services which pay a commission to Tripadvisor for click-thoughs.
But will they? Will they buggery!

Hotels don't need the big agents such as Expedia or Laterooms, etc, to source guests. There are smaller, far more professional, non-corporate booking agents out there who do a way better job of providing quality guests.
I should know, as I run one myself, and since the service is more personal, the guests supplied are less likely to be of low quality (the kind who screw over the establishment with a false review). Reply to this