Saw something at a town hall meeting last week that made me rethink these online campaigns

I went to a city council meeting in my town of Oakdale last Thursday to complain about a pothole issue. A woman got up to speak about a local bakery that had been targeted online for using an old photo of a different owner on their website. Does digging into small businesses for minor mistakes actually help anyone, or does it just hurt people who are trying to get by?

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thea85727d ago

Well gosh, that whole situation sounds all too familiar. A friend of mine runs a little antique shop in the next town over and got eviscerated online for posting a photo of a lamp she sold three years ago... people were accusing her of being a scam artist and everything. It tore her up for weeks and she almost closed down over a simple mistake that hurt nobody.

tessa_clark7427d ago

God yeah, same thing happened to my buddy with a vintage teapot post, total nightmare.

paul25126d ago

I had a buddy who sold a signed book online and someone dug up an old photo from his Instagram to "prove" he was selling fakes... turned out it was just a different copy that had a coffee stain on the same page. He spent three months trying to explain it to people and lost over a thousand dollars in refunds before he gave up selling anything rare. It's wild how one mistake or misunderstanding can completely wreck a small business owner's reputation these days.