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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    01:30 AM

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    By the way, this is an interesting opportunity to discover whether the adage "There's no such thing as bad publicity" is true or not. My bet is she has more visitors than usual over this, if only to gawk, you should excuse the expression. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    12:48 AM

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    I'm sorry, but if this woman comes off half as nutty in person as she does in writing, I would also give her blank stares until security asked her to leave.
    She wanted to "convey the seriousness of what was about to happen to her?" Uh, security!

    Lady, it's the internet. If you get a bad review write your own positive one under a fake name, duh. Jeez, it's Yelp, not physics.

    Also, stalking is bad. Please keep that on a Post-It where you can see next time you have a "crisis." #oceanavebooks
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    12:21 AM

    In reply to Buy a Private Jet Trip with Ice Cream-Licking Art Star of Silicon Valley
    Is the Hipster Grifter out already? #druekataoka
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    She is pretty obviously a total nutcake. I mean, first she goes to Yelp's offices to complain about a bad review, then she tracks down the poster of the review and shows up on his door step? I'm sorry, I just don't believe one thing she's saying about how she's the victim here. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ultimate Geek Porn Fantasy Haunts Twitterati
    A rube, duh. You're welcome. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    Image of limber limber
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    Nooo no no. "I attempted to convey the seriousness of what was about to happen to me"?

    There was no impending doom until this lady forced the issue. Just a bad review, then a stupid decision to make a bad situation worse by engaging online. And then she panicked and tried to circumvent the rules.

    But you have to keep this sort of thing online. I worked in a very similar environment, and if people turned up, they got stopped at our front desk as well. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/05/09

    @limber: Exactly. The seriousness of what was about to happen to her? Oh, you mean Justice? We'll get right on that, hon. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of jackbarber jackbarber
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ultimate Geek Porn Fantasy Haunts Twitterati
    nice one @aplusk

    That's why America loves u. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    I am completely convinced by her account of the Yelp visit. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    Yelp may suck, but this bitch is still cray-cray. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of BicycleShed BicycleShed
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    If her recounting of her visit to Yelp is accurate then I can understand her frustration, but "The real thing that upset me about the whole thing was that he made an irate message out of my emails and put them on Yelp" is just moronic.

    Yes, of course, we all know full well that (1) we can fully control what the recipients of our emails do with them and (2) emails from a purported professional in a business context that include phrases like "pussy boy" and "you grew up in a bad family. Your mom was a bitch" are never, ever disclosed to anyone other than the recipient of said email. This woman is either the female Rip Van Winkle and has until recently been asleep since 1994, or not very bright or crazy. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    She made the mistake of even responding to the review in the first place. Business owners never come off looking good responding to reviews. It always comes off hostile or like they're coming up with some lame excuse as to why they didn't provide good service. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/05/09

    @mfnher: Very true. It's like those pathetic letters in the Times Book Review: "I don't ordinarily respond to reviews, but in Joe Scjhmuck's review of my new book..." You know that letter is going to be a long, pathetic read and that the reviewer was probably right. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/05/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You want to hear whiny? Here, listen to Todd Phillips who after a great interview with Elvis Mitchell on his show "The Treatment" rips into Elvis over some truly trivial nonsense:
    [www.kcrw.com] #oceanavebooks
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    Day 3: Bookstore Owner Held Hostage (By Her Own Mishegass) #oceanavebooks
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    Oh, you want a response, you have to appear in person. And it seems like a perfectly plausible business plan to me. Reviews of businesses are tacky and then the business is visited by a couple of guys named Guido and suddenly up pops an ad in Yelp and more pleasant comments follow and everybody's happy. If you ignore someone from the Gambino family selling "ads," what would you expect? This is bidness, people! #oceanavebooks
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    11/05/09

    In reply to Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
    You asked for a comment and they haven't gotten back to you? Maybe you should head over to their office and accost someone in person until they do.

    Oh, right, you wouldn't do that, because that would be crazy. #oceanavebooks
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    This doesn't feel that invasive or weird to me. I went to mine and can't really tell how I would ever find it useful though. #google
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