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		<title>The problem with online reviews</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in a hotel lobby this week writing posts. If you noticed last week the pitch was about Hotwire and Priceline. I was trying to book a trip. I was determined to find something good and didn&#8217;t want to take the risk with either ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thelucrativeinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/slider-img04.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3321" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;" title="slider-img04" src="http://www.thelucrativeinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/slider-img04-300x193.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="193" /></a>I&#8217;m sitting in a hotel lobby this week writing posts. If you noticed last week the pitch was about Hotwire and Priceline. I was trying to book a trip. I was determined to find something good and didn&#8217;t want to take the risk with either of those websites. However, I just gave into it and booked something on the sites. I ended up at a pretty nice hotel in downtown St. Louis.</p>
<p>However, when I went to look at reviews on the internet about the hotel, the reviews were all bad. Some were bad for no reason, some were bad because the reviewer actually had a bad experience.</p>
<p>Now, here&#8217;s the problem I am having with places that have been reviewed on the internet, this particulary pertains to places on trip, hotel, and food review sites: People are more likely to complain than report a satisfactory experience. I am guilty of it: a lot of times, I end up writing about when something makes me angry or I am unhappy with a situation.</p>
<p>You will always have a few people who are going to report on how the situation was regardless of whether or not the experience was good; but more often people will complain than brag. Honestly, the entire situation isn&#8217;t very fair to the establishments.</p>
<p>For example, the hotel I&#8217;m staying at has particularly bad reviews. I believe on Yelp, this hotel is rated a 2 out of 5, which is not very good at all. It all has to do with the fact that there isn&#8217;t wireless internet for free in the rooms (which is stated on the hotel&#8217;s website and is fairly common knowledge in my opinion), parking isn&#8217;t free (but there aren&#8217;t many places in the downtown area that hae free parking), and the bathrooms are small.</p>
<p>I believe that most places should be given a fair chance and that you can&#8217;t go by what all the reviews are.</p>
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