As a public servant for the past 11 years, I've come across many different personalities and situations but none come near in concern for my safety than a recent unfortunate encounter with Yelp reviewer Ricky Brazell from Sacramento California. This blog post is to forewarn others who may come across a similar situation of Mr. Brazell's extreme complaints and criticism of many service providers as witnessed on Yelp. I share my experience as follows.
Back in September, 2021 on a Saturday afternoon I was on my way to a customer in Pacific Heights San Francisco when I received a phone call from Ricky Brazell asking if he and another could meet me at a place of my choice to notarize an urgent document. Mr. Brazell explained two UPS Stores had turned them down and he had little time to spare left since it was in the late afternoon. I mentioned they could meet me at a local hotel in Nob Hill I planned on walking over to from my home for this type of one document customer.
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| The Seneca Hotel |
When I arrived to the Seneca Hotel it was just a horrible mess to be there, I wanted to abandon the appointment but felt compassion for the men's situation because I knew no other notary public would attend to their urgent situation. I was surprised they weren't ready for my arrival that I had to wait for the signer to find his ID inside his hotel room.
As I waited, Mr. Brazell stood across from me carefully watching appearing concerned I might rightfully leave. Just when I was considering abandoning the appointment due to the nasty obscenities from gangsta's in the area, the signer came and presented his ID so I completed the notarization process appropriately on the back of my eBike on a filthy public sidewalk.
Instead of being appreciative of the circumstances I was put under I endured, Mr. Brazell asked for my fee and became angry saying it was "too much". Witnessing Mr. Brazell's unjustified anger, I was speechless for lack of words surprised at his poor attitude after my efforts. Mr. Brazell then pulled out an envelope of cash and handed me my $50 fee no one ever complains to me about. Mr. Brazell then drove back to Sacramento with the notarized document to send to the man's auntie in Midland Texas. (The signer who I actually notarized called days later to explain the details of Mr. Brazell's involvement with his task.)
Six days later, Mr. Brazell viciously attacked my notary business with false and deceptive accusations. When I asked Yelp to remove the review, in it being clearly abusive, Yelp refused to cooperate even after a law firm's letter was presented to it with genuine facts. The review clearly violated Yelp's own policies aside from it's unlawful characteristics of false accusations and outright deception.
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Rick Brazell's Yelp profile includes a Masonic symbol
Mr. Brazell has since been unreasonable in evaluating the situation he's in with my challenging his false accusations and outright lies about the services he received that did not include my yelling obscenities at him. Therefore this post is about his reviewer's history on Yelp and my particular concern for my safety including former military training under the New World Order Security Force according to his public record.
That Yelp refused to remove this abusive review is shocking under the circumstances of Mr. Brazell's irrational extreme complaints attacking florists, gun sporting stores and everything under the sun along with it.
Yelp's ratio of star ratings for Mr. Brazel 59 five stars vs. 41 one stars
Other Ricky Brazell Yelp complaints include:
Hummel's Flowers
Hummel's response:
"We strive to provide the same level of care and quality to all our customers, regardless of how the order is placed, or where the order was placed from.. . . It is our policy to verbally confirm the order before we run any credit cards or leave the phone with a customer, and this occurred with your order as well. However, this order was changed via phone several times after the order was placed but before it was ultimately sent out, and during one of these changes a mistake was made."
Sportsman's Warehouse
C&M Repairs and Remodeling
Ricky Brazell: "I'm contacting YELP to make them aware and have this so called company removed."
Thus
far I've already come across a review early on in my wading through
them that Mr. Brazell threatened a business owner to the point she felt
it necessary to file a police report.
The owner of C&M Repairs and Remodeling complained of Mr. Brazell threatening her to the point of having to file a police report for a restraining order as follows:
The owner said "And I do apologize to him.. . And wish he would have had some understanding."
Look at the photo trash Rick Brazell put up on C&M's Yelp page full of insults and all kinds of false allegations they're "criminals".
Some kind of narcissist authoritarian Rick Brazell rudely insulted a Christian couple who owns C&M Repairs and Renovation. (see comment at right)
Rose Garden Florist
Mr. Brazell in a tizzy over a florist service the owner
claims is a fake customer.
claims is a fake customer.
I witnessed Mr. Brazell lie in his review about my yelling obscenities at him that was entirely false. I have a witness, the signer I notarized, that I was nothing but professional in his experience. Therefore Mr. Brazell either has psychotic breaks from reality or deliberately lies about business owners in order to get them to capitulate to his demands.
When I was at the Seneca Hotel waiting for the signer to find his ID inside, Mr. Brazell stood across from me without conversation observing me all the while. He was downright strange. Ricky Brazell's twisted anger toward me after I completed my services preceded his unwarranted baseless attacks of me six days later on Yelp. I got the distinct impression Mr. Brazell is a potentially dangerous person prior to even knowing he was trained in the U.S. Military. Yelp has an entire history of Mr. Brazell's many weird Yelp complaints yet it refused to acknowledge facts in a law firm's letter refusing to remove his crazy review.
"Yelp overlooks violations of its own policies for unknown reasons, even when a law firm letter is provided based in fact. Yelp knows this reviewer's history of complaints and police reports filed from other business owners yet completely ignores new complainant violations. Such is why I feel it necessary to disclose this information as presented herein.
- Cheryl Meril, Blogger
Ricky Brazell's Yelp Page
