Social Media Bullies – Ecademy -what to do when they step across the line

Last year I recieved an abusive phone call from a social media guru. Ever since that day they have wanted me off their site and in February this year they suspended me from that site after several months of sniping.

They decided I was a false account. Which was laughable. This is me and their membership manager.

William Buist & Sarah Arrow

Yes, look closely you can see the Ecademy name badges, it’s an Ecademy event. The third or fourth one that I attended. I asked William at this event whether I would be getting any more phone calls, and he assured me that it would NEVER happen again. How right he was, instead I got a poisoned chalice.

It appears they decided they didn’t like my mother and instead of dealing with her, they decided all sorts of lies and falsehoods. The culmination of this was we requested our accounts be deleted from that site. They had no interest in resolving the matter, ignored our invitations to come and check our ID which they illegally asked for (yes, for it to be legal, you have to ask EVERYONE if you don’t it’s called discrimination).

In short their only interest was to damage us, our business and reputation which deeply saddened me.

Now Ecademy have decide they are not going to ‘get over it’ they are going to slur us every time fake account is mentioned. Nice, how professional. I have just instructed legal representation and now they will have to prove in court what they have published is true.

1. Request they remove the content from the site, previous experience has shown me they need a nudge from a solicitor to do this

2. Failure to do this from them may mean you have a case for libel but more importantly the police start taking statements, it may be the company has a whole history of doing this.

I wonder how potential buyers will see that? I will be requesting public apology across all media, costs and compensation. It’s time the social media bullies grew up, not everyone is going to walk away when they do this. It’s time someone put a stop to it and that someone is now me.

Sarah Arrow

PS if you have had an experience like this with Social media, please feel free to share.