{"id":468,"date":"2005-03-10T04:27:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/10\/review-your-corporate-hate\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T04:27:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T09:27:14","slug":"review-your-corporate-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/10\/review-your-corporate-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Review your corporate hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\">Forbes.com<\/a> has an article up now in which they rate and review what they consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2005\/03\/07\/cx_cw_0308hate_print.html\">top corporate hate sites<\/a>, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypalsucks.com\/\">paypalsucks.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart-blows.com\/\">walmart-blows.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the Internet has plenty of other corporate hate sites, such as my personal favorites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuysux.org\/\">bestbuysux.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ihateblockbuster.com\/\">ihateblockbuster.com<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a good introduction to such sites for many consumers who might not even know about them.  Several sites also include an area for employee complaints as well.<\/p>\n<p>Like many websites on the web, however, you have to look at what you&#8217;re reading with a critical eye.  For every legitimate complaint by a customer, there&#8217;s the possibility of entries that have been &#8220;embellished&#8221; by irrational consumers with unreasonable demands that even the best of corporations could not meet.  Additionally, one has to consider that in general it&#8217;s only customers with complaints that are willing to respond to such sites, leaving a silent number of reasonably happy customers.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, however, such websites do provide a valuable service in at least allowing legitimately wronged customers to publicly vent even if their complaints go unheard by the corporate management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes.com has an article up now in which they rate and review what they consider the top corporate hate sites, such as paypalsucks.com and walmart-blows.com. Obviously the Internet has plenty of other corporate hate sites, such as my personal favorites bestbuysux.org and ihateblockbuster.com, but it&#8217;s a good introduction to such sites for many consumers who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/10\/review-your-corporate-hate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review your corporate hate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}