Seems that Geardiary isn’t the only site to receive communication from Rebel Scholar concerning a case review. Below is the email Larry received concerning his review of the Rebel Scholar Door God.
“Dear Larry,”
Our legal team has closely monitored your post on: http://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/23/rebel-scholar-was-i-duped/ and has found your review unacceptable. In your post, you compare the product in the box to the picture on the site, and the title of your post further substantiates a malicious attempt to defame REBEL SCHOLAR without proper justification/replication of the lighting environment/equipment used to take the picture.
We also back up our claim with the following defamation claim: ” … Why the company chooses to display an image that looks 100 times clearer and brighter that what’s actually on the case baffles me. Actually it doesn’t. They simply want to sell cases, and making them look as good as they possibly can is in their best interest.”
We will pursue further legal action if you do not remove your post immediately.
Legal Team,
Rebel Scholar.”
Now another reviewer is stating in a YouTube video that he was contacted and asked to take down a Rebel Scholar review.
When the day comes that we stop giving our honest opinion in reviews because we are worried about a company’s “legal team”, it will be time to shutter the site.
RT @GearDiarySite: Is @RebelScholar asking for negative reviews to be pulled? http://bit.ly/3aUII
Impressively ballsy. Judie, you summed it up well as did you breley.
I’ve been writing reviews for 10 years and I can only recall twice being threatened with legal action for a negative review. In both case, as far as I know, neither company exists anymore.
There is truth in that the blogosphere does influence purchasing decisions but if you make a questionable product, well, that’s the breaks now ain’t it?
Rebel Scholar doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on; in fact, Larry could probably countersue them for misrepresentation or harassment or something (I’m not a lawyer). The fact that they changed the product image on their website is as good as them admitting culpability, and shows how sneaky and unethical they are. Glad he didn’t back down. And I think that all the people who bought that case before the product image was switched, should be entitled to a full refund.
Does anyone else think that the company is being run by a bunch of whiny teenagers from their parents’ garage?
The funniest phrase in the whole thing is the first three words, ‘our legal team’ ! LOL ! Who’s that, a cousin who watches ‘Judge Judy’ 5 days a week?
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