I won't name names at this time, but I was recently contacted by a business owner who discovered my poor review of her company and her services. She posted heavily edited (the material we received was not edited at all) private material of mine online for everyone to see in response to the review and when I asked her to remove the private material (which I never gave her permission to put online or to share in the first place and explicitly asked her to take down), she responded:
"I wish that you hadn't chosen to express your a disappointment in such a public, and insulting way. If you're going to post these kinds of comments about my work, I'm going to show people what the video looks like so they can judge for themselves instead of just taking your word for it.
If you'd like to remove your post or edit it to be more civil, I'd be happy to remove the link."
IMO the message has a threatening tone - that unless I "remove my post or make it more civil," she won't remove the link to very private and personal material which she does not have permission to put up.
What kind of recourse, if any? I was brutally honest in my review but not slanderous and very matter-of-fact about the innumerable ways in which she did not deliver services as promised. I have legal resources I can tap into if necessary to have her remove the material but I'd much rather this be resolved as peacefully as possible.
Ideally I'd like a full or partial refund since she did not deliver a quality product but she has not yet made this an option. All I want at this point is for the material to be removed.
"I wish that you hadn't chosen to express your a disappointment in such a public, and insulting way. If you're going to post these kinds of comments about my work, I'm going to show people what the video looks like so they can judge for themselves instead of just taking your word for it.
If you'd like to remove your post or edit it to be more civil, I'd be happy to remove the link."
IMO the message has a threatening tone - that unless I "remove my post or make it more civil," she won't remove the link to very private and personal material which she does not have permission to put up.
What kind of recourse, if any? I was brutally honest in my review but not slanderous and very matter-of-fact about the innumerable ways in which she did not deliver services as promised. I have legal resources I can tap into if necessary to have her remove the material but I'd much rather this be resolved as peacefully as possible.
Ideally I'd like a full or partial refund since she did not deliver a quality product but she has not yet made this an option. All I want at this point is for the material to be removed.