...Spammers trying to sell me "good reviews"? I thought that was against TER rules? His email said he could do up to 5 per month from different accounts.
I told him that I would be reporting him to TER. Perhaps TER should consider a yes/no rating system? Anyway Guys, this goes without saying but bears repeating, do your homework and stay safe out there! xoxoCaylee
There's always someone to take advantage of opportunities to make money. I ain't mad!
Someone out there noted how important it is to some ladies to have many good reviews and decided to monetize it.
I have gotten several messages like this and all I can say is... it's not that serious to me. But I can be dismissive of it because I'm not full time in the hobby. Others depend on it for their bread and butter.
Also, it seems a bit expensive.
This is extremely offensive to all the legitimate reviewers that pour their blood, sweat, and tears into their reviews.
Well - sweat anyway.
And another bodily fluid not to be named in polite cumpany.
I had a guy that was acting like another one, I knew he wasn't the reviewer because I emailed him in this system and was like respond to me, if the person I spoke to is really you... please tell me this secret word juicy lol ...
of course when I speak to him he didn't know the word or about the word, so i said go check you ter email and he puts me on hold and then comes back and says I forgot my password... i said all you have to do is request a new one and you will get it in sec... then i asked the killer question, why have you not did a review in over 1.5 years.... and he was like oh I just never got around to it.... but when he first called and thought I didnt have a ter account all he was talking about wa ter and how much of an hobbist he was top ten and everything... oh i said that I dont see your name in top ten what that about , and he just didn't even answer anything about that question....
I finally got that I was right when he tried to book for SC and didn't want to give a deposit nor, provide his hotel... I was like thanks but we are not a good fit....
A way to help stop it would be to play along and get his account information (TER ID) from him so you can *winwink* check him out, and then report him to TER. Hopefully they'd sh*t can him and block him from further use. Extra work sure, but in the long run beneficial IMO.
I had a reviewer promise discounts for good reviews. My review wasn't bad, but it wasn't stellar, either. She reported the review as fake. Luckily, I remembered enough details that the admins kept the review.
Oh..., and she never contacted me as the admins had instructed. Talk about stacking reviews...