{"id":1283,"date":"2012-07-20T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/wordpress\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2012-07-20T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:27:05","slug":"are-yell-com-attacking-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/are-yell-com-attacking-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Yell.com Attacking Small Businesses’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yell.com<\/a>In a follow up to our previous article, on the deplorable conduct of Yell.com staff<\/a>, have Yellow Pages and specifically Yell.com<\/a> sunk to all new lows?<\/p>\n

It is alleged (with evidence) that employees of Yellow Pages are actively seeking out to deface<\/strong><\/span> blogs and websites via their comments sections if they post any\u00a0criticism<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0of the company or its products and services. \u00a0The deception appears to involve posing as genuine visitors and \/ or customers and then seeking to discredit the website and the author.<\/p>\n

In one of the most outrageous displays of unprofessionalism and unethical business practices ever, it appears that Manchester based web design consultant Andy Kinsey is the latest person to get the “Yell.com treatment”, having his blog attacked in its comments section after posting constructive\u00a0criticism\u00a0regarding Yell.com’s website design service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even more shocking, is that fact that evidence exists<\/a> to suggest that at least some of the comments have been made from IP addresses (and therefore computers) registered to Yellow Pages.<\/p>\n

Many customers and businesses have complained of the disgraceful\u00a0behaviour\u00a0of Yell.com sales employees via telemarketing calls. \u00a0DPS Computing itself was a victim of one of these calls.<\/p>\n

After tweeting our article about our Yell.com sales experience, a number of customers, businesses and former customers of Yell.com have contacted DPS Computing describing poor service, false promises, outrageous prices and\u00a0harassment over 10’s of tweets made directly to DPS Computing.<\/p>\n

DPS Computing has yet to see an example of one of the websites designed by Yell.com however, the worrying and woeful decisions by Yell.com with regards to computing seem to suggest that, if their web design team is as inept as their other “computing experts”, you’re not going to get a good website.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget from our previous article, we were told by Yell.coms ‘north west computing expert’ who works with ‘all the north west technology and computing companies’ that:<\/p>\n