Google Places Review Guidelines Promote and Allow Fake Reviews!

Google Places: I write this as a result of your refusal to remove to fake reviews from our account saying they are not outside your guidelines. Your review guidelines need more teeth!

 This is just a "heads up" from Chef LeeZ who has over 325 real student reviews posted in under 3 years to Trip Advisor. 

If you want the reviews posted to Google Places to have value to a prospective customer. The customer must have faith in the reviews being real, being from person(s) having used the business being reviewed.

Google Places current review guidelines are lax! You allow anyone to say anything without even having attended or used the business in any way and you allow them to be compensated for reviewing to boot.  As an example your review guidelines would allow Vegans, as an organization, to attack any meat outlets they desire. You also allow reviews from persons residing in the same city therefore employers can request all staff to post a review (2000 employees = 2000 reviews=meaningless results) and or  they can have staff and friends attack their competitors sites. Your current review guidelines promote the worst possible variety of SPAM (being lies and bullcrap). and yah they don't have to even leave a comment, simply post a 2 or 1 and go on to the next Google Places page and Spam it.  You have to agree, your review guidelines have to be beefed up. 

Wasn't it Yelp that just recently got spanked with 3 out 4 reviews being proven to be false? Who can believe any review on Yelp now?

As your current review guideline stand .. reviews posted to Google Places are meaningless, valueless,  and can be maliciously harmful! 

May I be so bold so as to recommend you review Trip Advisor review guidelines as when they are followed the review is honestly a travelers review. 

When you stiffen up your review guidelines I will be glad to do a newsletter to our 4000 past students requesting they come and post a review until then your guidelines are to weak and allow for false reviews as demonstrated by both of the reviews where we were given a 2 and 3 rating by people never having been to Chef LeeZ Thai Cooking School Bangkok. Now I see that bored Thai's have started to leave us Spam reviews and we know they have not taken a class as we have had only 3 Thai nationals in class since 2011 and now we have 3 reviews from Thai's.

Hoping for a significant Google Places review guideline upgrade in the near future and before its too late we remain 

yours truly, 

LTS for Chef LeeZ Thai Cooking School Bangkok,

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Chef LeeZ student review #323 "Learned a lot and had fun"

http://www.chefleez.com/R323.html 300+ reviews in under 3 yrs!

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CHef LeeZ Review # 322 "Great Day with Chef LeeZ ..

“Great day with Chef Leez”

Reviewed March 31, 2014NEW

I went with 2 friends to the cooking school and had an amazing experience. We went for the full day and attended a local market with the chef to begin with. It was a slightly more authentic market than I was used to with only a few stalls selling produce. The chef spoke very good English and explained how to find the best products whether it was dried shrimp of garlic.

We cooked six dishes after returning from the market. The room you cook in is air conditioned and well equipped. Everything was ready and waiting for us upon our return. The food really is amazing and you can taste the difference between the food you cook here and the food in many restaurants. Everything is so fresh.

The day is really fun and the chef is really knowledgeable with any questions you might want to ask.

The only thing I would say is that they are so organised and helpful that it is almost too easy. All of the quantities you need are already prepared for you, but you do get given a recipe booklet with everything you need to know. I have already replicated the Som Tam (Papaya Salad) at home and it is delicious.

Thanks for an awesome day.

Visited March 2014

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Trip Advisor Confirms Chef LeeZ has Over 320 Reviews in under 3 yrs!

Chef LeeZ Claims Title to Over 320 Reviews in Under 3 Years!

Trip Advisor accepted and published owner response to review #320 “Brilliant Class” claiming Chef LeeZ  title to Over 300 reviews in under 3 yrs!

Chef LeeZ review # 321 "Fun way to Learn Thai Cooking"

“Fun way to learn Thai cooking”

Reviewed March 30, 2014   NEW  30/03/14 review #321

We chose Chef Lee Z due to it's ratings on Trip Advisor and we we not disappointed. Chef Lee really knows her craft, she is an expert with Thai cuisine. She and her staff were welcoming and friendly and made us so relaxed it was like cooking with family. Thoroughly enjoyed the experience and would definitely recommend it. And the bonus is you get to eat everything you cook so bring an appetite with you.

Visited March 2014

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Chef LeeZ Review #320 "Brilliant Class, Brilliant Chef"

“Brilliant Class, brilliant Chef!”

Chef LeeZ - Kids Can Cook!

Reviewed 29 March 2014     NEW 310314 review # 320 ... Over 300 reviews < 3 years!

Chef Leez organised a class for myself, my wife and best mate during the New Year celebrations. I was nervous about the class but needn't have been as chef made us feel welcome and got us striaght to work! We created a full menu of delicious dishes and her sense of humour really helped the day go by easily. I really enjoyed learning how to make Massaman curry and its become something of a speciality since I got home. In addition, chef took us to the fresh food market and this was a real eye opener for the sheer range of food types from , livestock to eel via thousand year eggs. We really enjoyed this class and will definately be back next time we are in Bangkok. Absolute class!

Visited January 2014

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Chef LeeZ Cooking School Review #319 "Great Start" to vacation

“Perfect start before eating in elsewere in Thailand.”

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Kids Can Cook!

Reviewed March 28, 2014 NEW via mobile

Second day in Bangkok we found this cooking class, verry nice chef and verry verry nice dishes. If you tried this you wil recognize good Thai food during your stay.

Visited March 2014

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