". If you cannot work something out with the provider, then just move on and see someone else. In the long run, if this becomes a pattern or habit, the provider will get caught."
This is problematic. What you're saying in essence is don't say anything and depend on someone else saying it if it's a pattern. This is actually a contradiction because if no one says anything like you suggest how will the seller be caught? Even in the long run? It will take someone to not follow your
In other words, you're just offloading the burden to say something publicly onto some other customer. In the meantime until one brave customer says something other customers might have the same damn issue.
"I had bad experience but I won't be the one to say it in order to avoid the push back" seems to me the main theme here you're echoing and it's troubling at the very least.
". I once posted a review many years ago about a less than satisfactory review, and the pushback by her "fans", other providers and the like just wasn't worth it. Lesson learned...'nuff said."
Even bigger problem here. This is what many people (they know who they are not gonna call them out unless they want a shout out) who say no we don't need more honest negative reviews we need more honest reviews, don't sem to get. Writing a negative review puts you at risk of retaliation. Many agencies and providers retaliate for honest negative reviews.
As such, people such as yourself choose to not put up negative truthful reviews but have no issues posting positive ones.
And why is this?
It's because the sellers (and not just this hobby lately) somehow think that their reviews belong to them and view them as a kind of a reputation score and hence view any negative review as an assassination on their pockets.
And this thought needs to be dead and buried. The reviews are done by consumers for consumers. As long as the review is honest, it represents your opinion on the experience. That's all reviews are. The reviews were never for the reviewed business. NEVER. That's not their purpose. That the sellers adapted the review as a kind of a "social credit score" is their fucking problem. They want to profit off something that was always meant to represent a customers platform.
And negative reviews don't kill companies/sevrices/products. Bad companies/services/products ruin companies/services/products.
This pushback against negative reviews or any criticism is what people refer to as "toxic positivity" nowadays.
This is why I have never given and will never give any of my personal info to ANY provider. They won't ever have leverage against me. And I will say what I think all the time without the need to appease or use euphemism. I will tell the truth publicly and my review is my experience and it won't be able to be bought or pleaded with.
But I get that it's much easier to just offload the burden onto the next customer and just not write negative review being scared of pushback. But what this does is devalue teh fuck out of reviews.