A high ranking business aggregator site in the U.K. is publishing
false information that's hurting my wife's business and wants money in
exchange for not doing it.<p>The details are that she's not at all affiliated with fresha.com, but
it has posted a prominent listing under her business's name to the
effect that it's closed for three days during the week (among other
inaccuracies), and directs users to alternative providers, presumably
affiliated. Her bookings have very noticeably dried up on those
days. We've written to fresha.com's technical support as a show of
good faith but we fully expect any reply to instruct her to create an
account whose terms of service entail giving up to 20% of her income
to fresha.com.<p>Of course the next step is to lawyer up, but before that I was
wondering if anyone on HN might know a more creative solution to this
problem. Fresha.com isn't offering her service at a discount so
there's no arbitrage opportunity. Could Google's notoriously
trigger-happy takedown policy be of any use or is that just for its
buddies?
I checked trust piolt Fresha seems to be doing well and no such complaint. I think the start is we shouldn't jump to conclusions<p>>We've written to fresha.com's technical support as a show of good faith but we fully expect any reply to instruct her to create an account whose terms of service entail giving up to 20% of her income to fresha.com<p>I mean you don't know that yet,it could just be an honest mistake on their part. No need to overreact right away
wow that is so dirty. I would continuously follow up with fresha support, and even tweet or X it out, tagging fresha pointing out that you are being extorted, maybe you will get some traction.<p>not really sure about DCMA but I do know its easy to submit a request