Comment by 9nGQluzmnq3M
6 years ago
> The fact that Doordash scrapes prices, and apparently doesn't verify... how does this happen?
It kind of happens by default if your goal is "growth at any cost".
The video you mention is likely this one, and it's actually even more extreme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8
The fake restaurant in their garden shed, which never took customers or delivered any food, climbed up to #1 best restaurant in London (!) in TripAdvisor's rankings, purely on the strength of fake reviews and fake photos (artfully arranged closeups of bleach tablets etc). For kicks and video gold, they did open for their last night, serving 1-pound microwave meals from the supermarket.
While that is a good video (and demonstrates manipulation of TripAdvisor), I'm pretty sure the commenter means this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8
This video features (a) delivery and (b) reimbursement, both mentioned in the original comment but not present in your video.
I gave a lecture in marketing at an university using that story.
To this day it is one of my favorites.
is it actually real though? I imagine it'd be really difficult to pull it off. what if somebody who reviews restaurants would go there on, say, Monday? or at lease, even if they don't get in, just try to check out the place from 'waiting area' or at least outside.
Youtube videos have reputation for being fake, I wonder if this is actually true.
I saw that video a year ago... pretty epic.