A Parksville business was awarded $90,000 in damages after suing a “disgruntled customer” for defamation based on a pair of negative online reviews.
Ginther did not take down the posts when the plaintiffs asked him to do so in June 2018. They were not taken down until sometime in 2021, after the litigation started. He never retracted his accusations and maintained they were true throughout the trial. After he noticed the credit card charge from Longhouse, Ginther demanded a refund of the charge for the siding plus an additional $1,000, which was his estimate of 50 per cent of the cost of re-staining the hemlock soffits.
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