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Free registration at the forum removes this block.my partner is working on that, but with $ competitors posses it can take years for verdict, and we have big rent to pay.It seems they're slandering your business and name.
I'd sue them.
Nonsense. Focus on your customers! Solve their problems and overdeliver. They'll fight for you using the most powerful weapon that exists: their wallet.The only way out we see is to hire same bullying team, and instruct them to ruin 10 sales for competitor store for every 1 they ruin for us.
A lot of local news stations have "investigator" teams as a way of generating more news stories. Maybe you could have a reporter pose as a prospective client and then write a news story on how a local business resorts to bullying tactics to hurt its competitors?
Get a lawyer to write a cease and desist letter, saying that they're slandering your name. Tell them to stop, and if it's continued, threaten them with legal action.
99.9% of the time you won't need to actually go to court to get people to stop. They don't wanna spend money on legal help either.
Long time reader of the forum, you guys shared lots of valuable information here, just want to say thank you all before posting my situation.
We opened the store recently in very good location, cost us lots of money and was super hard to get.
Close to our location there are 2 stores selling similar services. And they are not happy with us opening which is understandable.
The problem is they simply bullying our salespeoples/vendors/agents. I am ok if they cut the prices, put signs everywhere - this will hurt and us and them and that's part of the game.
But what they actually do is hired 5 bullys who are all the time near our store, and as soon as our salespeoples/vendors/agents bringing customers - they jump to them with half price cards, telling our service is bad, we are scammers, etc. And now salespeoples/vendors/agents we used to work with are simply afraid to go to our store(though our location is better and service is better) - and bring customers to our competitors.
We tried to work peacefully. But it's not working.
The only way out we see is to hire same bullying team, and instruct them to ruin 10 sales for competitor store for every 1 they ruin for us.
p.s. police is saying nobody is hurt - it's your business.
Where are you located?Long time reader of the forum, you guys shared lots of valuable information here, just want to say thank you all before posting my situation.
We opened the store recently in very good location, cost us lots of money and was super hard to get.
Close to our location there are 2 stores selling similar services. And they are not happy with us opening which is understandable.
The problem is they simply bullying our salespeoples/vendors/agents. I am ok if they cut the prices, put signs everywhere - this will hurt and us and them and that's part of the game.
But what they actually do is hired 5 bullys who are all the time near our store, and as soon as our salespeoples/vendors/agents bringing customers - they jump to them with half price cards, telling our service is bad, we are scammers, etc. And now salespeoples/vendors/agents we used to work with are simply afraid to go to our store(though our location is better and service is better) - and bring customers to our competitors.
We tried to work peacefully. But it's not working.
The only way out we see is to hire same bullying team, and instruct them to ruin 10 sales for competitor store for every 1 they ruin for us.
p.s. police is saying nobody is hurt - it's your business.
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