<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mweiss:
If we go to a business and tell them that if we don't get satisfaction, we will tell the world about the poor service we got, that's extortion? I don't think so. Extortion really means that you're spreading damaging information that serves no purpose other than to smear the image of the extortee.
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mweiss,
When you tell somebody that you will spread damaging information about them if they don't do what you want, how is that different than what you defined above? Admit it or not, the only purpose you have in spreading the info is to smear the image of the company.
Another poster commented about how they like to stick companies with the 'advertised' price. I don't know the ins and outs of bait and switch, but there is a world of difference between making a company stick to a price that's been advertised and making a company stick to the terms of a contract that has been entered in to.