Just noticed that Trustpilot has hidden bunq’s public rating and placed a Consumer Warning on its profile.

The warning says:

“Breach of guidelines”

“We’ve removed a number of fake reviews for this company.”

Clicking through, Trustpilot explains that Consumer Warnings are issued when a business breaches its guidelines and remain in place until the misbehaviour has stopped and a reasonable amount of time has passed.

What I can’t find anywhere is what bunq actually did.

Does anyone know what this relates to?

Could it be fake positive reviews, biased review invitations, misuse of the review-flagging process, or something else entirely?

Has anyone had a Trustpilot review of bunq challenged or removed?

I’m genuinely curious because Trustpilot doesn’t seem to specify which of its business guidelines bunq breached. If anyone has any insight into what happened here, it’d be interesting to hear. I have never seen Trustpilot do …

Till death do us part

I realized recently I’m not going to restaurants in Amsterdam anymore. Not because of the off putting prices, but because I can’t remember a single time where the hospitality experience contributed to lifting the evening. We come and try to have a good time in spite of the cold, rude or awkward service.

Where I’m from, the interaction with the staff, how welcoming and lighthearted they are, the attentive service, often contribute to lighten the mood and create a memorable evening.

I love Amsterdam, I just wanted to share why I stopped going to restaurants and cafés.

@amsterdambells

Classic example of unintended consequences of good policy. Anyone else super annoyed by garbage issue since the new statiegeld regulations came in place? Surely there’s a solution to this!

If they can’t make garbage containers that every junkie can open, I’d rather they stopped paying statiegeld. Surely this is worse for the environment than the uptick in recycling.

Hey!
Just got back home and noticed that front of my apartment got sprayed with water(windows and front door along with front door(a little bit of water got into the house) with this note slipped through mail slot.
I’m 100% sure I have not requested that, so I’m quite concerned about it. The note says that costs will be collected soon. Anyone faced that kind of sit? (I checked the number and can’t find any company associated with that number)

(Edit: I live alone since like 3 years at this place and its first time it happened, thanks for all responses again!)

The hand that can ride this route with greatest ease, that shoots an arrow clean through all the metal seat handles, he is the man I follow, yes, forsaking this carriage where I was once a passenger, this gracious Intercity train

Sources:

Mansel, P. (2011). Levant: Splendour and catastrophe on the Mediterranean. Yale University Press.

Bjørnlund, M. (2008). The 1914 cleansing of Aegean Greeks as a case of violent Turkification. Journal of Genocide Research, 10(1), 41-58.

Roodzant, D. (2023). The Fall of Christian Smyrna Through Dutch Eyes in 1922. International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 8(1), 83-100.

The soldiers that murdered the couple also had orders to loot their home and farm by their commanding officer. Their date of death varies between 9–12 September, most sources say 9. The Burning of Smyrna took place in 13 September, where another very similar incident (Patrick Murphy)) happened. This couple was one of the first victims of the carnage which took the lives of around 100,000 people in total.

For more, see Burning of Smyrna.

I (45F), moved to the Netherlands almost 3 years ago, leaving my amazing job back home, for love. My partner had moved here for work and then I followed along with my teenage son. Both my partner and son have taken to this place like fish to water. But I have struggled, especially wrt my career. I have almost two decades HR transformation experience, even serving as Chief of Staff in a consulting firm as my last role before I moved here. I’ve found the job market very narrow for non Dutch speakers. I did manage to find something though not at the same level as I was in my career. Unfortunately, early this year my entire department got laid off and since then I’ve been in the job trenches again. It’s been especially harrowing this time around. I’ve only had 4 interview calls in 6 months, with each of them proceeding until the final round and leading to rejections, despite preparing for days, mock interviews, and anticipating all the questions that might be asked. …