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I've experienced this but with Google Maps.

A highly rated pizza chain in my city (4.8 stars out of 6000+ reviews) is giving out free desserts if you rate them 5 stars. I've called them out on it years ago, but it seems that they are still doing it today: https://goo.gl/maps/1L8zdhWgwDK8b8Cy6.

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It's one thing to promote mediocre pizza with a free dessert.

It's quite another to try to unclog a toilet with a monetary bribe you got to delete a shitpost about a broken plunger.

Shake shack does this too. They opened one up nearby and simply changed the location of a well performing store across the country to where the new store was so they could open with thousands of positive reviews.

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