company slander

arfur · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:00

Hi, just a quick question.

I have just found out that someone is slandering my company with a link to my website over a faulty item. We suspect the item is out of warranty and we suspect has been abused, any idea if I can get them to remove the posts legally?

The crap they are spouting is not correct or accurate.

thanks

Biohazard · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:02

you've come to the right place..

Shakeel · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:08

arfur said:
Hi, just a quick question.

I have just found out that someone is slandering my company with a link to my website over a faulty item. We suspect the item is out of warranty and we suspect has been abused, any idea if I can get them to remove the posts legally?

The crap they are spouting is not correct or accurate.

thanks

what is your website out of intrest

LiE · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:09

Where is the slander posted?

arfur · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:10

cant post it here I'm afraid

JKD · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:11

Why not ask the person to remove the posts? Might save you time, money and bad publicity.

LiE · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:12

arfur said:
cant post it here I'm afraid

If it's on a forum, you should contact the administrator.

arfur · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:14

mmm I think he is the admin

JKD · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:15

Well that might be a good thing as surely an admin would have more responsibility over what they post?

Tefal · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:18

arfur said:
cant post it here I'm afraid

So from this we can deduce the OP sold this chap a malfunctioning sex toy and is trying to cover up the fact he's selling broken sex toys.

You should be ashamed Op!

oldbag · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:19

Tefal said:
So from this we can deduce the OP sold this chap a malfunctioning sex toy and is trying to cover up the fact he's selling broken sex toys.

You should be ashamed Op!

Yeah and btw is that injury healing?

Westyfield2 · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:20

Contact your solicitors?

Or just arrange for that site to be DDOS'ed

.

JohnnyG · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:25

Just ignore and enjoy it, the advertising the obsessed freaks bring you and your site is the sort of traffic you can't buy.

arfur · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:28

JohnnyG said:
Just ignore and enjoy it, the advertising the obsessed freaks bring you and your site is the sort of traffic you can't buy.

true....

DavidMarq · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:46

If you were the retailer then the person may have a genuine claim against you under the SOGA regardless of whether you consider the warranty to have expired. This is dependent on the nature of goods supplied and what a reasonable person would expect their life to be.

Do you have anything substantial to back your suspicions of abuse?

unwashed potato! · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:46

JohnnyG said:
Just ignore and enjoy it, the advertising the obsessed freaks bring you and your site is the sort of traffic you can't buy.

as long as the website isn't the first result when someone types the business name in google.

K.C. Leblanc · 15 Jan 2010 at 22:58

Photoshop him into some midget donkey porn and post it to all his neighbours with a price list attached.

EDIT: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/ might have the answer.

arfur · 15 Jan 2010 at 23:07

any idea if its possible to block directs from his site? I'm using IIS, I think apache uses .htaccess to control this kind of thing

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 15 Jan 2010 at 23:19

sammo62 · 15 Jan 2010 at 23:56

From an SEO point of view, if he's hyperlinked to you from a page ranked site its probably helping you overall more than hindering.