TripAdvisor: We Are Not Making This Up.

At least he's honest

E-mail from a hotel manager:

Mr. ----- has his information wrong, the rooms do not have beg bugs, we have fleas and ticks.

The Owl, however, is on the gin

A message to our support team:

Subject: IDIOT leaving a review

PLEASE IGNORE THIS REVIEW. MY STEP SON HAD BEEN ON THE BEER AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO PUT A REVIEW  ON ABOUT --------- AND USED MY LOG IN.
IT WAS STUPID AND HE IS NOW VERY SORRY. REGARDS WORNOUT.

Not what we normally get in our Google News Alerts...

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RealSelf.com is sort of a TripAdvisor for tummy tucks: Users rate various cosmetic procedures and surgeries as "worth it" or not and swap chummy tips about...

Must be term paper time again

Can you tell me some informations about Colorado "please". Like can you send me some maps, a phone booke, and can you send me some anything els. And how is the weather over there. Can you tell me anything else.

Ps. You don't have to send anything. You can send me something if you want. But i am not beging. You can send something if you want to. But you do have to!!

The Owl hates when this happens...

E-mail from a user:

Hello, I am a new member.  I had a bit too much wine last nighht and added some reviews.  When I woke up this morning I realized that I didn't want to have any of them posted.  I would like to remain a member but please remove all of my reviews.  I am sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you!

Yeah, that fits our business plan

From an owner:

"Please reevaluate your policy to let anyone write whatever they like.... Maybe it would be a good idea to publish only good and neutral objective reports."

The TripAdvisor Blog... all collapsible cups and shoe measurers, all the time

Turns out support@tripadvisor.com doesn't have a monopoly on crazy e-mail-- we received this via tablog@tripadvisor.com.

Greetings

We are looking for 12 oz. collapsible cup

Please call us asap if you have this product

We would require a 1 color imprint

quantity about 500 to 1000 units

Please reply to ------------@yahoo.com

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Also do you have a shoe measurer
please provide any information on this.

Exactly.

A customer support ticket:

Hello,

I am the Director of Sales and Marketing for ----- Resort. I looking at the reviews for our property we decided to do a test review. After submitting a review, it is still not posted. So I decided to have a few more of our employees write reviews, not one of the reviews are posted.

I would very much like to speak with someone regarding your posting of reviews.

Let's hope this wasn't from their work account

An autoresponse to our newsletter:

Hi. Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, I'm dead, so I won't be able to respond to it. However, if the whole reincarnation thing does work, I'll be back as J---- Z--- on October 1, 2008. If you need any innocent virgins deflowered, or any crooked fraud, bribery and corruption deals pushed through, or just need to take an anti-AIDS shower, please contact me after I get back from the Other Side. If you can't wait until then, please contact my mates T--- Y----- or R--- M----. Cheers

Maybe they just really liked "Hakuna Matata"

An e-mail re this hotel:

I'm tracing my Hungarian Grandmother from Taskahaza named Timon who came to the US in about 1907. Do you know how the Hotel was named?Thanks,M----.