YELP! INC (YELP)

[overachiever]

Jeremy (the CEO) knew what he was doing when he was dumping his stock at the legal limit for months on end. This stock is a train wreck. Now the CFO has quit. YELP seems to be in big trouble.

[Arxidi1]

Need to watched. Will run hard

[pkdaddy64]

I am a paid Advertiser with Yelp, for $575.00 payment per month they promised to help grow my companies revenues by placing my Paid Ad at spot number 1. On page 1 around 1005 times per month, here is where their business model is faulty (I no longer pay them any money and have had my paid Ad removed pet my request) consider this, my Ad goes the page 1 spot 1. Beautiful right? No way! The Ad only stays there for 3 seconds before it is placed back into what is termed " Natural search", I check 1 zip code in Rockville, MD 20850 after page 117 under search term "A/C Repair" I gave up looking any further. What is the likely hood that a consumer's air conditioning or heater breaks down within that 3 second window of opportunity. That means that once they decide to look on yelp for a repair company during that time element my Ad would need to be on spot 1, now the math of this ever happening is no different than one of us buying at the exact timing of the bottom of a stock and selling at the exact top. How often does this happen? It even gets worse, but my fingers are getting cramped typing on my smart phone so just take it from me so far, I have filed a compliant with BBB and Consumercompliants.Gov (recommended by the FTC). I am seeking a class action lawsuit with the same attorney who did the last class action lawsuit against Yelp in 2014. If there are ant other business owners here who would like to partake of this lawsuit just email me at "[e-mail]"

[En2style]

Yelp!!!

[KingDMC]

That's insane. How are they still in business?

[overachiever]

YELP HAS A STUPID BUSINESS MODEL. They tick off a large segment of their potential customer base. Unless they can control the phony reviews written by the cottage industry that has sprung up to leach off the small business owners, most of those owners would rather see them bankrupt rather than give them a penny in advertising money.

[overachiever]

YELP needs to get it's act together. They need to control all of the fake reviews by the phony "reputation management firms" and "SEO" companies. It just ticks off the business owners who then have no interest in advertising with YELP.

[overachiever]

Jeremy is still making tons of money here. He sells 8000 shares a week to all of the suckers.

[Cheetah SPEED]

What a drop

[KingDMC]

Every quarter the same damn thing. They'll send this to penny land at this rate omg. Is this a failing company or something!!?? My boy just quit yelp and went elsewhere.

[overachiever]

Jeremy is still dumping away at the rate of 8000 shares per week. Is he really worth that kind of money? Has he ever worked at a place that turned one dollar's worth of profit?

What a scam.

[Penny_God]

It's sad

[overachiever]

Jeremy dumping away at the rate of 8000 shares per week. What a nice little scam he has going on here.

[Penny_God]

This stock is laughable .. $20s

[Joe89]

You can say that again! Very rough year for longs in YELP.

[bfsingle]

took a short position at 37.55

@GCulturePodcast

[KingDMC]

Yikes!!

[jimmybob]

Sites down for another hour or so... just doing some updates...

[V63]

That link (URL) dosen't work what do you mean by de-ja-vu? ..all over again? Thanks.

[jimmybob]

$YELP - De Ja Vu All Over Again : http://www.optionmillionaires.com/yelp-yelp-de-ja-vu-all-over-again/ $PCLN $FB $YHOO $GOOGL $GOOG $BABA

[V63]

looks good what a jump but will it continue? Before I buy on rumors...

[overachiever]

Jeremy needs to sell this company. The business model is bad and they have never made an honest nickel here. He doesn't know how to run a profitable business.

All he seems to know how to do is libel small businesses with bogus reviews and dump stock into the market.

[papabb]

Here comes the dump

[KingDMC]

Going nuts!

[Cheetah SPEED]

Wowzers. Where u think this opens

[KingDMC]

Uh oh!! Takeover offer or CEO change.

[gixxer11]

Halted

[AnG5640]

You hit the nail on the head there!!

[overachiever]

Now we know why the CEO DUMPS STOCK like clockwork. Slowing growth.

[KingDMC]

Yelp does it again...

[Joe89]

Nice move here today, breaking up and out of that wedge!

[gixxer11]

Love it Goldman says go short - and this pig blows new shorts outta the water

[jimmybob]

The $YELP moat, or at least some of the muck… ~ $PCLN $YHOO $FB

The $YELP moat, or at least some of the muck… ~ $PCLN $YHOO $FB pic.twitter.com/2w5vc5OFjO

— Option Millionaires (@OMillionaires) April 12, 2015

[jimmybob]

In a report published Friday, Macquarie Capital analyst Tom White detailed an analysis of Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP)'s listings of local businesses in categories where the company launched its "Platform" transaction/eCommerce initiative.
Here are his findings:
Restaurants:
Forty-seven percent of the most reviewed Delivery Restaurants across the 15 largest U.S. cities currently have online ordering enabled on their Yelp pages, marking a modest increase from 46 percent in January.
Of the most reviewed take-out restaurants, Platform penetration ticked down for the third straight quarter to 4.7 percent from 5.3 percent in January and 5.8 percent last September.
In major cities ( Boston , Chicago , Los Angeles , New York City , Philadelphia and San Francisco ) 10.3 percent of all restaurants offer online ordering on their Yelp pages, up from 9 percent in January.
Beauty/Spas:
Six percent of leading U.S. Beauty and Spas have online scheduling enabled on their Yelp pages, up from 4.5 percent in January.
Use of "call-to-action" ads among sampled merchants rose to 20 percent from 19 percent in January.
Around 9 percent of all Beauty/Spas merchants now feature a "deal" on their Yelp page (flat versus January).
Hotels:
Approximately 65 percent of leading U.S. hotels offer online bookability on Yelp, marking a decrease from 69 percent in January.
Including Yelp's entire hotel directory across the 15 largest cities, 27 percent of hotels offer bookability on Yelp (ranging from 38 percent in San Jose to 20 percent in San Antonio
Final Thoughts
Transaction growth momentum will "hinge" on Yelp adding new partner and categories along with better consumer awareness of the Platform functionality. However, transactional revenue to Yelp from Platform will likely remain "small" in the near-term.
Shares remain Outperform rated with an unchanged $62 price target.
Latest Ratings for YELP
Date
Firm
Action
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Mar 2015
Axiom
Initiates Coverage on

Hold
Feb 2015
Morgan Stanley
Initiates Coverage on

Overweight
Feb 2015
Rosenblatt
Initiates Coverage on

Buy

[jimmybob]

$YELP hitting highs here ~ $47.59 is the channel breakout point~

[overachiever]

I'd set up a plan to dump too if I had a company under as much fire as Yelp is under. Jeremy is dumping away at the rate of over 20 million dollars a year right now. Nice tidy sum to get for running a business model that allows people to libel small businesses at will with no repercussions.

Now that we also know that Yelp pays "Yelp Scouts" to write reviews as well, the legal protections they have claimed they should enjoy against the libelous comments may not stand. They are too heavily involved in the review process.

Better sell all he can now before the crap hits the fan.

[Nolerman]

It's is part of their 10b5-1 compensation plans. The amounts and dates of future transactions are set in advance (in this company's case, that was early 2012). Once the schedule is set there is usually no contact between the participant of the PDP plan and the broker so as to avoid assumption of insider trading. Any officer in a company has the right to suspend a plan, however that leaves them vulnerable to insider trading investigation/litigation.

Had the plan been set up last month, I would be apprehensive, however that is not the case here.

[jimmybob]

He has 4 million shares and has been selling 8k every week for a while now.... surely is not indicative of his confidence in the long term prospects of his company : http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=112420597

[AXE_EVERYTHING]

FULLY FUNDED KICKSTARTER DOCUMENTARY is going to KILL YELP....

YELP has been touting around for years now like they can do NO wrong....


this is it....this documentary will hopefully inspire every business owner in the country that is using YELP advertising, to completely stop using YELP

if they lose all their clients, they will be done and GONE !!!!!!!


worst company ever created!!!

they made enemies with all the SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS in the USA

dumbys!!!!!!!!!!


does this look like someone that is a little bit flustered????:

[overachiever]

YELP "Extremely Concerned" About What Investigative Documentary Will Reveal

Read more at http://observer.com/2015/03/yelp-extremely-concerned-about-what-investigative-documentary-will-reveal/#ixzz3Vb1ANSUj

[overachiever]

Yes. Dumping stock is part of his pay plan. LOL.

[Nolerman]

"( 3) Shares were sold pursuant to a duly adopted 10b5-1 trading plan"

This is part of his compensation package.

[overachiever]

And CEO Jeremy Stoppelman dumps more stock, as usual:

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=66024656

[jimmybob]

Yelp further expands in Asia with Taiwan launch
Yelp announced the availability of Yelp Taiwan. Beginning today, people throughout Taiwan are able to create accounts on Yelp.com.tw to share their opinions about great local businesses. Yelp continues its growth across Asia with the launch in Taiwan, and will initially appoint a Community Manager in Taipei. The main role of the community manager will be to building a local community of Yelpers in the city.

[jimmybob]

Don’t watch @CNBC much but saw the clip - @ShannonEis another exhibit on why I continue to be bullish $YELP @Yelp : http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?play=1&video=3000363770

[Miracleman 1]

I sold too. Now shorting this baby

[overachiever]

Jeremy dumped some more stock last week. Sell sell sell, Mr CEO.

[overachiever]

The CEO dumped more stock at $44. Too funny. No price seems to be too low for Jeremy to hit the exits as soon as he is able.

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=65473112

[rivervalley]

was able to flip this one again today after missing the PIR bounce play due to getting caught flat footed at open :) Thought that one would drop a little more before bouncing, and it did not.

[rivervalley]

the selling seemed over done to me either way I guess. Good luck if you're playing this one.