Date: April 2nd, 2007 4:08 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
Everything I've read and heard about Michael Fertik has been very negative. ITT we compile every bad thing about Michael Fertik, the douchebag who is said to have raised his hand more than anyone at Harvard Law School.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:03 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
Why is it that Michael Fertik engages in unethical business practices? He claims his company Reputation Defender's proprietary "DESTROY" process is "arduous" and "labor-intensive", and he has the gall to charge $30 per link, when in fact all he does is email a form letter to webmasters listing the links to be taken down. In some cases this causes webmasters to react badly and post the copy of the letter online, making the content to be "DESTROYED" even more prominent.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:06 PM Author: unhinged splenetic foreskin
It's a total scam. Not only that, but he can't even clean up his own name! Search "Michael Fertik" on google and "Michael Fertik is a sleazy douchebag" comes up on the first page.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:09 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
It's embarrassing. How can Michael Fertik the sleazy douchebag claim to have the ability to "DESTROY" offending material online when he can't even keep negative information about him off the first page of Google? He even has the benefit of appearing in several prominent news sources. What an impotent loser.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:16 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
According to Rowan and MoreDoughHi, Michael Fertik the sleazy douchebag was known as one of the most annoying students at Harvard Law School. He is even mocked in The Record:
"Fenno was rattled as she made her way on over to Pound and slunk into the back of the classroom. Dean Kagan was already on stage, lively as usual, strutting around the room and scaring the bejeezus out of unsuspecting victims. She stopped speaking suddenly, and Fenno realized she'd just asked a question. All the students immediately slumped down in their seats, typing furiously. Everyone but Michael Fertik who, as usual, wanted to impart his genius on the class and was straining to catch the professor's attention without raising his hand.
"Don't eyeball fuck me, asshole!" Kagan barked, rejecting his silent plea for attention with a dismissive glance."
Having established his douchebaggery beyond all reasonable doubt, I point you to his sleazy business called Reputation Defender. Its services add no value to the economy, preying on people's ignorance. RD cannot achieve anything beyond a simple letter to a webmaster, and in some cases causes webmasters to react badly. He knows that consumers would be better served by writing their own emails; at least then they'd avoid the backlash that poor suckers like Ronnie Segev experienced using RD's services. He also flat out lies in describing his company's propriety "DESTROY" process. He's sleazy. He's a douchebag. He's Michael Fertik.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:19 PM Author: sooty appetizing set
He created something called "Fertik's Law" which any proficient economics graduate realizes to be a mere truism. As the number of products in an economy increases, the potential for arbitrage increases geometrically (not linearly). OMG OMG OMG.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:24 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
A disturbing pattern begins to emerge the more one digs into Fertik's past. Reputation Defender seems like a logical extension of his self-aggrandizing, exploitative personality.
Date: April 5th, 2007 5:33 PM Author: sooty appetizing set
If Michael Fertik were actually admitted to the bar of a state (he's not) he should be sued because ReputationDefender gives bad legal advice and Michael Fertik profits from it. They are a thinly veiled practice of law... and they commit malpractice right and left.
Date: April 5th, 2007 6:28 PM Author: unhinged splenetic foreskin
"Some people have anonymously sent cruel, taunting e-mails to Nikki's relatives – including one to her father that read, "From Dead Girl Walking: Woo Hoo Daddy, I'm Alive.""
Date: April 6th, 2007 9:49 AM Author: Odious Crackhouse
Yes. I believe that sending taunting e-mails to the father of an eighteen year old who died in a horrific car accident is something XO would not contemplate.
Date: February 6th, 2008 1:02 AM Author: Poppy french chef
titcr. ***i wish i had never stumbled upon this thread***. i opened a google tab and searched. those photos/this story is ******the******* most disturbing thing i have ever come across on the internet.
The people who leaked and posted this stuff and taunted the family are *way* beyond XO fuck ups :(
Date: April 6th, 2007 10:16 AM Author: Cyan Violent Nowag
Well, I just edited away some links to gruesome pics coz
Atlas called me on it. On the one hand, the pics-link sticks another fork in Reputation Defender. But, on second thought, I agreed with Atlas that the collateral damage outweighed the pics' probative value.
Date: April 6th, 2007 5:01 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
One of Fertik's former classmates writes in her blog:
P.S. I know Michael Fertik, the CEO of this absurd company. He sat in front of me in one of my 1L classes. He was a pretentious gunner who wore lots of Armani. The last time I saw him, he was standing in the D.C. Metro bitching about how haaard it is to be summer associate because he had firm events practically every night. I think my response was something along the lines of "yeah, it sure sucks to be massively overpaid for a summer sinecure and expensively entertained non-stop." I don't think this was the reaction he was expecting. He's ridiculous and I hope his company tanks.
Date: April 6th, 2007 5:17 PM Author: Cobalt spectacular hell jew
Think about it: have you ever encountered any top Google search result that has the same content repeated a bajillion times? Almost certainly not. It's usually relevant. That's how you successfully attack someone, like the sleazy douchebag Michael Fertik.
Date: April 6th, 2007 6:04 PM Author: crusty locale
Wait people, is this the same Michael Fertik who ruined the lives of several innocent female law students and tried to curtail free speech by having several speakers disinvited from a public forum? Is that the Michael Fertik that this thread discusses? Or are there in fact several Michael Fertiks, only one of which is being discussed in this thread? Please clarify this important matter regarding Michael Fertik, the sleazy douchebag who destroys lives.
Probably the sleazy Michael Fertik who pretty much steals money from people and then makes their lives ten times worse. I think he's the one in charge of that scam Reputation Defender.
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Date: April 6th, 2007 8:13 PM Author: crusty locale
Yes, we're all aware that Michael Fertik is the NAME of the sleazy douchebag who destroys lives, but which Michael Fertik are you referring too? The same Michael Fertik who runs a scam of a business called ReputationDefender that takes money from innocent girls and then plasters information across the internet so that EVERYONE can know that a poor girl's father stole money from the world bank to buy her ponies?
Date: April 6th, 2007 8:04 PM Author: Odious Crackhouse
Michael Fertik and Ross Chanin of Stanford Law School have co-opted the feminist movement to benefit their own company, Reputation Defenders, which is a scam and only serves to ruin the reputations of their clients, such as Heide Iravani and Brittan Heller.
You can read all about it in the Washington Post article how Michael Fertik and Ross Chanin created this scam of a business, Reputation Defenders, to steal money from women providing them with a worthless service.
That's quite ironic, that the douchebag Michael Fertik and his company Reputation Defender only work to ruin the reputations of those he purports to help
To add to the disaster, Michael Fertik (who is a douchebag) can't stop this link from destroying his reputation and the reputation of his worthless service, Reputation Defender.
While reading the letter in the Pound hallway, Fenno passed by the wall of professors\' portraits. Curiously, he noticed that Professor Tribe\'s frame was missing. That\'s odd, thought Fenno. Where did it go? He continued walking down the hall. As he passed by a dimly lit Pound 102, he heard strange noises. A sucking sound, or slurping, or something like that. Peering through the door window, Fenno made out the figures of two of the co-authors of the Crimson letter, Michael Fertik and Dan Richenthal. Fertik was holding something up close to his face. It appeared to be the missing Tribe portrait.
\"Mmmm... yeah. Just like that. That\'s how I\'d do it.\" Fertik mused dreamily.
Richenthal grabbed the portrait from him. \"No way,\" he responded. \"If I got the chance, I\'d do it like this.\" With that, he moved his face toward the frame and planted his lips softly on the glass. \"Yeah... that\'s nice.\" His mouth roved the portrait glass sensually. \"Mmmm. Good stuff,\" Richenthal murmured delicately. Fenno thought he glimpsed a little tongue.
Fenno just couldn\'t let this opportunity go to waste. He swung open the door and called out to the two 3Ls. \"Hey fellas! What\'s up?\"
Fertik and Richenthal turned toward Fenno, horrified. Richenthal dropped the portrait, which crashed to the ground. Fenno hadn\'t seen Richenthal in quite a while; he wondered what he\'d been up to. It certainly wasn\'t charm school.
\"Er, uh, hey Fenno! Um, what are you doing here? I thought you had con law right now.\"
\"I cut out for a little while... say, guys, great letter to the Crimson. Really made a good point.\"
Fertik\'s face lit up. \"You think?\"
Replied Fenno, \"No, of course not, you sniveling mass of back hair. All you did was basically admit that Tribe plagiarized, but then said it\'s okay as long as the guy is admired by others. I mean, what the fuck?
\"You don\'t get it, Fenno,\" replied Fertik. \"It\'s all about the context--\"
\"Oh, bullshit, it\'s all about the context. You either copied or you didn\'t. And by the way, did it really take seven people to write a four-paragraph letter? Did you actually divide up the twelve sentences, or were five of you there just to pat each other on the back?\"
Retorted Richenthal, \"Suck it, Fenno!\"
\"From the looks of it, you seem to be taking care of that,\" Fenno answered coolly. \"By the way, be sure to wipe down those smudges before you put the frame back up. You don\'t want to leave a mark.\" And with that, he headed out of the room.
Fenno found himself back in the hall. He figured he should probably get back to Fried\'s class. Outside, the skies were already pitch dark, and the wind looked to have picked up. Rain was threatening. Gotta love those Cambridge falls, thought Fenno. Or was it winter already? Sometimes it was just too hard to tell.
Sorry, is it a criminal offence to answer questions at University? Must be an American thing??? Or maybe to have so much time on your hands you can't think of anything better to do with it than slag someone off? Why not worry about something important???
Date: April 12th, 2007 4:10 PM Author: rebellious karate mediation Subject: Euro Faggot - ha ha
It amazes me that you people are claiming to be intelligent! You seem to be narrow minded and bigoted, not interested in any view other than your own. What is the point???
In my part of the world, the word 'faggot' (apart from being some strange meat dish that parents serve to make their children throw up) refers (in a derogatory and oh-so-mature way) to homosexual males. I can assure you (and I have proof in the form of several offspring) that I am not of the XY persuasion.
If the study and practice of law has taught me one thing, it is to open my mind and try to be more accepting.
I can certainly think of several people in the 'land of the free' who are more deserving of your derision. Hmmmm, who lives in a big white house and wants to kill people just to make his name....let me have a think...
Open your minds, little people...
PS I am pretty sure that persecution of homosexuals is illegal where I come from, but maybe not in your backwater...I mean, country???
Date: April 13th, 2007 2:26 PM Author: motley stock car
It amazes me that someone so stupid could possibly earn a legal degree, though as I recall in Europe a legal degree is an undergraduate degree, rather than a professional one.
Calling someone a faggot is not illegal in any part of the United States. Maybe in your European shithole it is. Personally, I'm happy not to live there and to make multiples of your salary while paying lower taxes.
Calling someone a faggot isn't "persecution."
As for your insults on Bush, I'm sorry that you have no clue as to the reasons for war in the middle east.
It amazes me that someone so stupid could possibly earn a legal degree, though as I recall in Europe a legal degree is an undergraduate degree, rather than a professional one.
>>>> As it happens, my legal degree is my 3rd degree, after a BSc and a PhD, so I would not class myself as stupid. I would be interested to know how you arrived at that conclusion. All I have done is jumped in and played devil's advocate!
>>>> It is true that any undergraduate can earn a law degree, however, to practice law, they must attain at least a 2:1 (do you know what this means???) and then go on to the professional qualification e.g. Legal Practice Certificate - 2 yrs training to be a solicitor, which is a 'professional qualification'. After this, a training contract is required with a registered law firm before being allowed to practice as a solicitor. The process to become a barrister is slightly different.
Calling someone a faggot is not illegal in any part of the United States. Maybe in your European shithole it is. Personally, I'm happy not to live there and to make multiples of your salary while paying lower taxes.
>>>> How do you know what my home is like? How do you know what my salary is??? At least I don't have to worry about psychos jumping out at me with guns everywhere I go!!!
Calling someone a faggot isn't "persecution."
>>>>> I will admit my choice of words was poor, perhaps "abusive" is more reasonable???
As for your insults on Bush, I'm sorry that you have no clue as to the reasons for war in the middle east.
>>>>> Do I not? What are your views, then? For example (and again, you don't need to attack me personally for this, I am just asking...!!!) how would you feel if someone's army came along and told you they knew how to run your country, they'd sort it out, and occupied the States for years on end? Just a question.
>>>>> It interests me that you people seem incapapble of reasonable thought and discussion? Maybe I am mistaken. Prove me wrong (or just insult someone you have never met again - go on, you know it makes you look big!)
Date: February 6th, 2008 12:29 AM Author: Chartreuse Station
I am amazed that a web-page referring to Mr. Michael Fertik, founder of for-profit Reputation Defender, has not been silenced by his awesome power? surely the emperor has clothes?
Date: February 6th, 2008 12:42 AM Author: Trip jade den dopamine
If Michael Fertik gets results why does he only have 5 clients. Why did nothing happen for the clients we know of?
Why does Michael Fertik, founder and I presume the only employee of Reputation Defender, need to employ high end litigation firms to get results for his clients? Does he really believe people with think Reputation Defender is anything but a waste of money? Do people think Michael Fertik, founder of reputation defender, can do anything after he runs out of a meager amount of VC money? Do people know that Michael Fertik and reputation defender can't do anything without resorting to legal claims and that these people will still have to pay a licensed lawyer (ie not Michael Fertik) if they want any real results?
What exactly is Michael Fertik's business plan? Charge people to send out a mail merged form email? He certainly can't finance more actual results.
Does Michael Fertik and reputation defender think the public is stupid enough to pay him to defend their reputations because he payed for his first case to get litigated?
Date: February 6th, 2008 12:12 PM Author: Scarlet Blood Rage Coldplay Fan
what do you suppose he had to do to obtain this alleged VC financing? was there anything meritricious afoot? I have no idea, but would love to know if anyone has any additional information?
Date: February 6th, 2008 12:40 PM Author: thriller cuck
I would guess that he convinced the financiers that he could win the suit, which would alter the legal rules/climate, which would make it easier for his form letters to succeed in the future.
Date: February 6th, 2008 12:45 PM Author: Scarlet Blood Rage Coldplay Fan
but it's not like there is some special process that he could copyright to keep reputation defender at the forefront? A paralegal with a laptop could undercut his prices and put him out of business (assuming in some crazy lala land such a business would ever even attract more than 3-4 customers).
"Our goal is straightforward: ...To DESTROY, at your command, all inaccurate, inappropriate, hurtful, and slanderous information about you and/or your child using our proprietary in-house methodology."