If you were wronged by a business, online or anywhere, what would you do..

[HardWorkingDem]

to get the word out and to try and make it known the business is a sham or lacking in good customer service? Are there good online complaint places anyone knows of?

[backwoodsbob]

1. just shoot em

thats the solution of the day...shoot em

[Lil Missy]

2. Not enough information to form an opinion

[siligut]

3. Write a review on Citysearch.

There is no cost to join and you can also see if other people have reviewed the business.

[Juche]

4. Contact your state attorney general

I have done it in the past, it works fairly well.

[suninvited]

5. There is a RipOFF site for true ripoffs!

If you don't get your McNuggets, call 911, of course.

[femmocrat]

6. DU is a pretty good place.

We have discredited Olive Garden and Best Buy at least.

[DarkTirade]

7. Unfortunately the only places where that happened were with really BIG businesses,

so they had their fair share of people complaining... but they also had a monopoly so there wasn't much that could be done about it.

[applegrove]

8. I ordered some material from a company online. I sent them the money. I called them

once to say "hey where is my stuff". Never called them again or heard from them. Don't care. If that is how they want to do business I wish them good luck with that. They'll never get repeat customers.

[Haole Girl]

9. Only if I believed the person would hurt others...

and by hurt I'm not just talking hurt feelings.

[mwooldri]

10. Depends on how bad the wrong was and the situation.

If I was really upset about the company I would highly consider registering <company-name>sucks.com or some variant thereof, and throwing up a quick site detailing this company's bad practices. I'd do that if I had a good collection of examples and not just me ranting and raving though. Get enough people to link to it, keep it up long enough, get Google have a look at it. If done right, not before long people google that business and get your site, not theirs - if not #1 certainly #2.

Otherwise I'd go the normal route: complain within the company as high as I can, the further up I go the more noise I make and the more demands I place for things to be "put right". Once I exhausted those avenues then I consider going public. If I have a legal remedy then consult a lawyer. If I have no legal remedy then public complaints may be good enough to garner the negative publicity required.

Mark.

[hobbit709]

11. Usually just badmouth them to everyone.

If really screwed, I would get a mouthpiece.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. I'd post it here to warn people that I care about not to utilize them.

Seriously. THis is a pretty big site. ANd, there is always the old and she told two friends, etc aspect.