ruin competitor's reputation

[TheMightyEddy]

I think this is a really rude thing to do. Think of it like this. What if it was you?

[DoctorWho]

For me personally, dishonourable victories taste as bland as defeats. If the competitor is neither breaking laws, nor harming anyone, ruining their reputation based on falsehoods is a karmic gobsmack waiting to happen. And there is also the possibility that your responsibility for the falsehood gets discovered, and you end up ruing your own reputation far more in addition to losing clients.

[AnonaMoss]

Yes. This is actually a very good topic. A woman came into my mother's bakery one afternoon with a crying little boy. She was yelling and really causing a scene. I don' quite remember everything she said, because I started tending to other customers. She was waving a yellow breadtie around and saying something about her son almost swallowed the bread tie. My mother was horrified. She sent me to the back to see which bread had a yellow or missing tie. All of our bread ties were red. I came out to ask her more. She said that the breadtie was baked in the middle of a muffin. We only sell one type of muffin and those are baked at a factory, then sent to us to reheat. At that point, I knew that there was something wrong with her story. When she didn't stop screaming, I told her that I was going to called the police so that we could settle everything. At the mention of police, she just threw the breadtie across the counter and said something profane. She left our shop hastily. Almost five months later I noticed a new shop about 15 minutes away. They were giving away free cupcake shake samples so I decided to go in. The woman who caused such a commotion in our store worked there.

[tosaytheleast]

I have not experienced this and this is not a good technique just to make your business stand. I am a fair person and destroying your competitor's business will not give you any profits. Sooner or later they will find out what you have done and it is your reputation that will be damaged. Permanently.

[dojo]

Well, each minute spent caring about someone else's business is a minute I WASTE from my own. So no, I don't care to ruin anyone's reputation, I don't care if they try to ruin mine. I am very focused on my work and business and try to improve, so that I can provide my clients with a better service/product. Anything else is secondary

[mimi8zm]

I personally haven't encountered this kind of competitor. And I wouldn't think of doing it to my competitors. If I win, I would want to win because of unique and good products, excellent customer service and happy customers.

[Imoverthere]

Bashing a company's reputation is a below-the-belt tactic in my book, and it's a rather dirty one as well. It's an unfair slab of mud tossed around that really has no business to be done in the professional world. It's business, and it requires a level head of thinking and deserves a fair play that shouldn't include a jab against ones competitors.

[Parker]

When I had a software reseller business, I would find out from prospects that the competition had bad mouthed my product. I just deflected it because I knew my product was way better than theirs. I just focused on my product and the benefits. I also taking about the extra perks I provided.

I think it's sad when they only way a person thinks he or she can compete is by badmouthing the competition. I would never stoop that low.

[tetutato]

For me, i would only do this if they are really doing something bad behind the customers' back. Otherwise, it's a low blow that I won't deal.

[livvi]

The business I am in is full of people - many who are willing to work for much, much less than me. I don't hold this against them at all - we all have to earn a crust. I have confidence in my ability and the services I provide - which I believe is more than enough to keep my clients happy and coming back. Of course, I have lost clients to people who charge less but most times they come back when they realise they are not getting the same level of service or the other person doesn't have the knowledge I do. It's swings and roundabouts.