I have tried to settle this with TER support but it seems as though I have no choice now. My new review from BBC123456 is a fake. I have never seen this gentleman nor have three other ladies he has reviewed. Per TER's guidelines, I PM'd him asking for clarification.  

Lol yeah I was just reading through some of his reviews and saw that they all sound the same.

Frankly, I think anyone who has met you can likely see that this review is strange at the very least... and likely fake. (Or perhaps just not a very good writer so he continues to write the same rather boring reviews.) It's also far too complementary for a 6. Is there any chance that he made a typo and meant it to be a 9, and perhaps does not even realize that he scored a 9?

To answer your question, there was no typo regarding the score on the part of the reviewer. The review was backdated to November. If you look at my calendar, I toured frequently in November and of course there was the Thanksgiving holiday. That means there was only 11 days out of the whole month that I accepted appointments in the Metro area. I am a low volume provider and I only saw regulars during that timeframe. I never saw this person and they provided no evidence to prove that we met.
   
This user is, dare I say, meticulous about leaving out any and all personal details of both the provider and "himself". "He" has written reviews in the past so "he" knew the criteria for eligibility for extra points. Yet this is clearly left out of my review. This review was conveniently posted after the new performance ratings took effect to ensure that my score would be low. I am one of the only providers that does certain language lessons (ahem) in Michigan so because of the new rules, I'd be one of the only ladies still eligible to get a 10 for performance. I am getting closer to 20 reviews so I can be on the top 100 list in Michigan. Clearly this person wanted to affect my performance score for the aforementioned reasons.    
 

This has become a HUGE problem in the Detroit area. I also posted about this happening to me on here and wasn't able to get anywhere. Fake reviews could be other providers trying to take away competition, a guy who was denied and angry or a guy wanting a free membership here and there's nothing that can be done. Even if a guy gives 10's and you contact the admin it will not be removed. Hopefully a new system for this is made since the problem is growing.

Nice post Bella, and sorry Emma.  

I wouldn't take it personally. The fake reviews are usually easy for us (guys) to see. If it's lacking anything specific, I don't regard it at all. Nor do I put much into a single score.  

I had a guy do something similar with me. I knew I hadn't seen him by the things that he was saying in my review...mentioning services I hadn't done etc etc.  He had also reviewed other ladies that I happened to have been friendly with, so I contacted them as well and come to find out, none of them had seen him either.  

This stuff happens from time to time. Stupid. Any other lady who received a review by him should report him.

Wow... that guy had balls because I would guess most fake ones would be 8's. Guys get drilled for information 10's if they aren't detailed. I appreciate knowing there's that check.  

The fake bad ones happen more then they should. As shocking as it is but it happens. I just had a guy do it a few months ago because I wouldn't give him an ok on p411. Before I declined him he was emailing me like crazy about how great I was then as soon as he was declined on p411 he posted a review here on TER that had about everything you can think of mean in it and gave me 5's. Well that's a first, lol. The review system is definitely not perfect since there's trolls all over the internet but as a whole I think it's a good system. I think it depends on what mod answers your messages here as well. I've sent messages on things and gotten very nice helpful messages back. There's been other times I've messaged and received very unhelpful short messages. Who knows!

Good choice on that guy!  
I'm sure it hurts some that are new, etc., but I'd probably have been laughing what the guy put in your 5's, Bella. I'm sure it was very obvious to all that one grade was not like the others

It was even worse on NR when they had their new rating system.

I had no idea about NR, that's a crazy system! There's certainly a fine line between having reviews honest from a guy's perspective and a woman getting shit on.  

As the last decent board in the Metro area I hope TER removes these reviews. I've had legitimate reviews rejected by TER for lack of details or the date happening too long ago. So I find it disappointing that these weak reviews were approved.

I'm glad to hear that they took down the fake reviews. But, it's a shame that it was so difficult for you ladies to get them removed.

I think most reasonable people will throw out the outliers. If a lady has all 8/8 and above with most being 9s and 10s, and they see only 1 or 2 mediocre 5/5, 6/6, or whatever... anyone with any basic understanding of statistics would ignore the oddity of the outlier.

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But, anyone who has ever met you or even looked at your pics and read your website will know that the one outlier is likely BS. Don't let it get you down!