Having done libel training, reading the letter it was apparent they are on solid legal ground. I went into this article ready to believe the company and lawyer were terrible wastes of existence. I won't be recommending Medialink products to anyone unless they drop the issue and apologize - not that I normally recommend Medialink products anyway, they are middling quality at best. But even if neither are true, did the reviewer maliciously and knowingly lie about those facts? I wouldn't want to be the lawyer that had to prove that in court. To be fair, both the mentioned issue in the letter are questions of fact. Ghentalicious Ars Praetorian jump to post.Mediabridge was not immediately available for comment on Wednesday morning. The company demands that “in order to avoid this coming to litigation” he must delete his negative product review on Amazon within three days of receiving this letter, stop all “defamatory and injurious” conduct toward the company, and agree to never purchase nor comment upon a Mediabridge product again. Jacobs details a number of the claims that the company says are false and misleading, including that “Mediabridge has falsified (“faked”) reviews” on Amazon to boost sales and that the Medialink wireless router in question “is identical to another router and that Mediabridge/Medialink only rebranded that same router.” The letter continues, “Make no mistake, these libelous statements you made in a public forum are false and you cannot support them with any proof.” In the letter, Mediabridge’s attorney, Neal Jacobs, explains that the company plans to take legal action against the reviewer for his "illegal campaign to damage, discredit, defame and libel Mediabridge and/or to engage in other tortious, wrongful, and/or illegal conduct directed against Mediabridge." And if you decide to leave a negative review, don’t use your real name like I did." "Please keep that in mind when considering whether to purchase any products from Medialink. "Never in my life have I been so relentlessly bullied by a company,” he wrote on Amazon. I haven't been served yet, so hopefully it won't come to that,” the redditor explained. “If you want to contribute to my legal fees, just message me for a link. The reviewer, who goes by "trevely," posted the letter to reddit, soliciting responses (and receiving lots of them) and requesting help with his legal fees. AdvertisementĪfter posting the negative review of a Medialink Wireless Router product-which became the “most helpful” negative review on -an attorney for Mediabridge sent him a letter explaining that the company “zealously guards its hard-earned reputation” and that “you have harmed Mediabridge and we intend to hold you liable for all damages sustained.” Original story: Lawyers for Mediabridge Products, a wireless network device manufacturer, sent a scathing letter to a redditor on Monday, threatening to sue him unless he deletes his negative review of one of the company's products on. Many hard-working employees whose livelihood depended on that business will likely be put out of a job, by a situation that has been distorted & blown out of proportion." The company did not give any clue as to the terms of Amazon's rescinding of Mediabridge's selling license, but only said at the end of its statement, "Unfortunately, as a result of our attempt to get this reviewer to do the right thing & remove his untrue statements about our company, Amazon has revoked our selling privileges. "The reviewer has since changed his review completely to remove the libelous statements, but unfortunately not before having an army attack us on the internet." "It’s our sincere belief that reasonable people understand that not only is it within our rights to take steps to protect our integrity, but that it should be expected that we would do so when it is recklessly attacked," Mediabridge Products wrote. In the statement, the company says that it did not actually sue the Amazon reviewer, but that it did insist that the reviewer's "untrue, damaging, and disparaging statements" be taken down. However, Mediabridge subsequently deleted the statement and its entire Facebook presence after receiving negative comments. Update 19:44 CT: On Thursday, Mediabridge Products posted an official statement about this incident to its Facebook page, clarifying its position and saying that Amazon has revoked its selling privileges.
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