to ask if you would accept an offer of cash to leave a positive review of a tradesman on a website

[InTheRoseGarden]

We used a website to find someone to do some work on our house. They didn't do a good job but did offer to fix the things they had done badly. We said the best review we could give would be a neutral one. They offered cash to leave a positive review.

What would you do?

No way you already think you will end up redoing the job so it's not as if they are redoing it and compensating you. Bear in mind the next person who they do this too maybe vulnerable or elderly it's a very poor way to conduct business.

No way, you've said they're going to end up costing you thousands, don't back down for £100!

Is this a reverse, actually? Your 2nd post makes no sense. You are about to be considerably out of pocket having to redo the entire job from scratch, and you're considering being bought off with a hundred quid??
If it's real you shouldn't be allowed out on your own. Nobody's that stupid.

Absolutely not.
I'd also stress about them knowing where I live though if I wrote a negative review... (that might be my ocd / Anxiety brain in full gear though)

They get all their work from this website... So you're happy to let other people get screwed over by these incompetent idiots, if they bung you a few quid.
Shame on you. That's probably how you got ripped off in the first place.

Don't suppose you can put the truth on the website ? Or is it theirs ? If it is a 'recommend a tradesman' site then can you contact the people who run it ?

Nope nope nope!

Most review websites have a part in their terms that say you can't do this. Amazon made the news because of people buying positive reviews (or paying people to leave negative reviews on customer sites).

It's completely wrong on so many levels. I'd be leaving a review to say they attempted to bribe for a positive review and that you may need to get someone in to redo all the work. Stick to the facts and consider taking pictures to show the job. If the company try to come after you for whatever reason (they may attempt a civil suit for defamation even though they have no leg to stand on), you have your own protection.

I suspect a plumbing company I used might have done this. We went with them based on positive reviews and they fucked up every single thing they touched. It was a relatively simple job that should have taken a couple of hours and it still wasn't dealt with after three visits and lots of angry phone calls. Eventually we refused to pay and went with another company.
If their good reviews were bought, I would be fucking livid.
How could you do that to someone? ?

Nope.

No it’s really dishonest.
If you wanted to be as unscrupulous as they are you could do a good review, take the money, then leave a second review saying you were bribed.
But that would be very dishonest aswell and would make you just as bad....