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Jewelry Store Owner Seeks To Unmask Yelp Reviewer
- Arstechnica, Tuesday, September 15, 2015 4:30 PM
The owner of a jewelry store in Boston is seeking to unmask a Web user who panned the shop on Yelp. The reviewer complained on Yelp about her experience selling back jewelry to the shop's owner, George Pelz. "George took all the jewelry that I had ever bought there and gave me peanuts for it!!," she allegedly wrote.
Pelz is now seeking to learn the user's full name in order to sue her for defamation. The watchdog Public Citizen, which is representing Yelp, argues that consumers have the right to post anonymous complaints about businesses.
