TRADEMARKS ABUSE REPORT

We tested Costco Auto Service in which they promise special ‘Costco’ prices if you purchase a car and are a member of Costco ($50 dollars a year).  Costco Auto Service promises a better price in exchage for your $50 bucks, right? This turned out to be a completely fraudulent claim.

After signing up for a membership hoping that we would save a few hundred dollars we made a request through Costco website for an specific car model, shortly afterwards we got a phone call from a dude who claimed to work for a local dealership, he quoted an outrageous $15,000 for a used car and that was his only quote. The same car is available at another dealership near me for $14,000 and yet another for $12,000. At an out-of-state dealership the price would go down to $9,000!  This Costco dude quoted a price that is $6,000 more expensive than the maket price. This easily qualifies as a the biggest rip-off we have seen in a long time, therefore, Costco Auto Program earns the top spot on the "Top Ten Worst Auto-Dealer Rip-Off in 2009"

Not a trademark abuser but a website so deceptive that we decided to warn people about it. You may have visited Yelp.com once or twice to read costumer reports about where to eat or which doctors to see, well, guess what? We have discovered that ‘Yelp‘ costumer reviews are completely fake. We know this is true, I did a simple test and wrote a negative review (one star) about three business that I know to be terrible and thought people ought to avoid. The reviews where up for a little while but sure enough not only my negative review were taken down almost immediately by ‘Yelp’ employees but also one of my negative reviews was replaced immediately with a positive 5 star "fake review" on the exact same date! The new fake review was so complimentary it stunk of fraud a mile away. You heard right, either Yelp employees or their contracted minions are writing fake positive reviews on a 24 hours basis, that is impressive fraudulent activity on a magnitude we have never seen before. Not even Amazon.com does that, and we know Amazon has its share of fake reviews. So, there you have, thanks to me now instead of a warning this business has a misleading rating courtesy of ‘Yelp’, so we vote ‘Yelp" the "Top Ten Most Deceptive Website" of 2008.

First publicized in the RipoffReport. A company named Badgdasarian Productions made a ridiculous attempt to trademark the letters of the alphabet, now we have obtained public documents from the United States Trademark Office indicating their trademark has been approved. Amazingly, the obvious trademark abuse has encouraged Bagdasarian Productions into sending recent letters of Cease and Desist to a famous Print-On-Demand company in which letter they make false claims about the validity of their Trademark.  

Here is a link to the original

Update: 02/14/2006

Bagdasarian has resubmitted an ammended claim to the Trademark Office, and appears to have succesfully trademarked the letter "A" in any shape, color or form. This has been published for oposition in the trademark Gazette. We are now switching the blame to the trademark Officers that approved this ridiculous trademark as the main culprits of what appears to be a case of neglicence or corruption at the United States Trademark Office.