Northwoods
Fairfield,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Sat, December 10, 2011
This report was written and recanted by a breeder in my area who apparently felt she could not compete with the quality of my dogs, my breeding program and my reputation. She decided to create this false report in order to harm my reputation and even the playing field for herself.
After reading this report I immediately knew who the breeder was and I emailed her to let her know that posting liable and defamatory statements was grounds for a lawsuit. She denied that she created the post but ironically the post was recanted by the deadline that I gave to her before I pursued legal action against her.
That could have been the end of this, but it wasn't. Now let me tell you a little bit about this website RIP OFF REPORT
I wrote to them upon receiving the email and reading the post, I could not call because I could not find a phone number. I told them this was untrue and that I could prove it was lies but they did not care.
They told me true or false, I needed to rebut the post. They refused to remove it. I did not want to play the drama game and I did not feel that it was fair for these lies to be posted, I wanted them totally off of the site so I thought if I could get the author (who's name I should mention but won't, she used a fake name on the post of course) to recant then they would know it was defamatory info and they would have to remove it so I waited.
Once the Author recanted and admitted the false info I again wrote to the editor of Rip Off Report,
I pointed out that the author admitted to creating a false post and that leaving it there now, would be leaving up info that they knew to be liable and defamatory about me and my company. I once again asked them to remove the post and the editor wrote me back a very rude and disrespectful email telling me that they refused to remove the post because I must have threatened her to get her to recant. Well a threat of a lawsuit for liable and defamation would not cause an honest person who was telling the truth to recant their statements. A person cannot be sued for doing nothing wrong. Yes, I threatened her with a lawsuit for posting lies that could harm my business and my reputation, why wouldn't I? Seems to me I ruffled some feathers at Rip off Report because I did not accept this false report and fall victim to extortion attempts to pay for "Reputation Repair" Some business owners fight back and do their research and I found some pretty interesting articles on rip off report and how they have been accused of extortion, please read them. I really hope the info about the class action lawsuit against Rip Off Report is true because I want to join in. Hopefully these links will remain in my post but if not feel free to email me and I will provide you with the links and the emails between Rip Off Report and me. Apparently, if they do not write the posts, they can still have them listed on their website and they are protected by a law called The Communications Decency Act. They cannot be sued for liable or defamation if they did not create the post. However, if they change the post before publishing they could get into hot water there so it will be interesting to see how much of this post will actually make it to the site! In my opinion, this company hopes that good people will have bad posts about them because they will benefit if they are paid to repair the reputation of the injured party, I am sure it is a huge bonus to them if the injured party strikes back by posting something bad about the the author of the first post, they can then celebrate because it will be a possible double dip! Please read the two links below to learn more about RIP OFF REPORT and their Owner: Ed Magedson
Remember Rip-Off Report, you are not supposed to change or remove any post!!!!! ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
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Comments from Ripoff Report about the above Rebuttal
What Libby Haver fails to tell everyone above.. no one asked Libby for money.
There is no charge to file a rebuttal.
There is no fee anyone can ever pay to remove a Report. If Libby read the information on the site and the email we sent her below, she should know after 14 years in business, Ripoff Report has always had a uniform policy to not remove Reports..
http://www.edmagedson.com/ed-responds-to-critics.aspx
Below is one of many email exchanges between Libby and Ripoff Report.
Its situations like this that show Ripoff Reports uniform policy to not remove Reports is a correct and good policy.
Here is that email
From: ED - Ripoff Report
Sadie N
United States of America#3Author of original report
Fri, December 09, 2011
The info provided is not accurate and there is no evidence to back statements made
Sadie N
United States of America#4Author of original report
Fri, December 09, 2011
I did not have all the facts and truthful information when I posted this please ignore
Sadie N
United States of America#5Author of original report
Fri, December 09, 2011
This info is not founded and has no backing. The info I was given has no backing