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Originally uploaded by louento.pix

Another bed bug bite photo from entomologist Lou Sorkin, who feeds his pet bed bug colony regularly. As odd as this seems to someone going through bed bugs, researchers like Lou go through all this just to learn more about our enemy, Mr. Cimex Lectularius. And you know the saying, someone has to do it? Well, no one actually has to, in this case. So thank goodness they do!

Lou says of this photo,

[Bed bug bites] from bed bug adult and nymphs. First, second instars of nymphs. Adult bed bug fed on top of left vertical-positioned vein. There was no appreciable size difference between adult and nymph bites. The initial swelling reaction subsides around 30 minutes after bites and feeding.

Bedbugger S. also found that when she tested her bed bug bite reactions (actually watching bugs bite her in a laboratory setting), her adult and nymph bed bug bites were not discernable from one another in size or appearance.

Remember, click the photo, then all sizes then large to view in all its glory. And note: the purplish mark on the lower right is a birthmark, not a bed bug bite reaction!

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Canada-based Hotel Quebecis suing a former guest for $95,000. The reason? The guest wrote a negative review on TripAdvisor exposing the bed bugs in his room and refused to remove the review.

Laurent Azoulay from Montreal stayed at the hotel in April this year, having booked a two-night stay at the hotel due to its proximity to a hockey tournament for hishis eight-year-old son.

According to Azoulay, he woke up at 3am in his room to discover bed bugs were biting his legs. Azoulay approached the hotel staff regarding this incident, but since it was early in the morning and a weekend, all other rooms in the hotel were full. The hotel offered to move him to a nearby hotel.

But the guest didnt want to disturb his sleeping son, so remained in the room for the rest of the night.

Azoulay says in an audio interview with CBC:

Not only did I see them (bed bugs), I videotaped them, I kept them in a glass and showed it to the front desk.

After the hockey game, Azoulay was offered a different room in the hotel, and he moved into it. The hotel also offered him a discount of $40 as compensation for the incident.

Azoulay adds:

This (offering $40 compensation) is insulting.

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Aug 22, 2013

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You can bet this Montreal man regrets his short stay at the the Hotel Quebec: bit by bed bugs in the night, he reviewed his negative experience the next day on Trip Advisor, and when he refused to take it down, the chain of hotels sued him for $95,000.

The night of April 26th, Laurent Azoulay stayed with his son and entire sports team at the Hotel Quebec, one in a popular chain on the avenues des Htels. In the middle of the night, Laurent woke with a startle as he felt bed bugs biting his leg. He had the presence of mind to trap a few of the perpetrators in a glass for proof before migrating down to the front desk.

As the particular hotel was full for the night, the managers offered him $40 for the inconvenience and to move him to an available room in a nearby hotel, also in the Jaro chain, promising that tomorrow a clean room would be available at the Hotel Quebec. Mr. Azoulay refused to relocate, and the next afternoon settled up and quit the chain entirely though not before telling guests he passed about the bugs, convincing them they should pack up as well. Notably, he told the director of the hotel that she should get on her knees and beg him not to tell this story to anyone.

But he did tell the story: the next day, he wrote a scathing review on the hugely popular website, Trip Advisor, which features prominently the presence of bed bugs. And he was right that Jaro Hotels should have begged: travelers hearing about the potential infestation dont want to risk their personal belongings and health; the review is an objective deterrent. Since Mr. Azoulays stay and subsequent critique, Jaro Hotels has been inundated with calls assessing the issue and reports a real dip in business. The hotel does not dispute the presence of bed bugs that night but vehemently asserts Mr. Azoulays room was the only one affected in the hotel and chain at large. No other incidents of the kind have been reported at least in recent history, and the hotel has vowed to do everything it can to avoid a recurrence of the issue.

Despite entreaties, the review remains; Mr. Azoulay refuses to take it down, and now, for the reputation damage and lost profits it has caused, the hotels GM Jacques Robitaille has filed a lawsuit against Mr. Azoulay for $95,000. Sigh. A lot of lessons here.

The episode presents another classic example of why the customer is always right, especially in the digital age. It is not worth getting your business locked into a blow-out; you maximize the issue and attract further publicity, the Streisand Effect at work. No matter what happened behind the scenes, in the spotlight of the media, first they were the hotel with bed bugs and now theyre the hotel suing their guests. Now its been decided the matter is worth 95K, the possibility of going back in time and settling probably looks pretty attractive to both parties; perhaps now the hotel would consider more than $40 to compensate for the inconvenience. While in some cases any buzz is good buzz, here not so much, and in hospitality, we imagine its difficult to bounce back from this kind of stigma.

Interestingly, this case raises legitimate questions about establishment/reviewer relationships as we find equilibrium in this new democratic, user-oriented system. On the one hand, what right do customers have to post reviews that negatively affect the business of the establishment? One has learned to be wary of the narrative that casts negative reviewers as Robin Hoods, getting the truth out as the corporation tries to smooth over glitches with a paid-for profile. As we saw earlier this week with Andy Johnston, Area Sales Manager for Groupon, this kind of negative attention around reviews has the power to make or break you and customers are not afraid to use it. We want to believe that critics use their reviewing power for good but thats hardly the case, especially when the majority of unsolicited reviews are written by unhappy customers. When your business is threatened, shouldnt you be able to protect yourself? Is filing a lawsuit for lost business your best option, a way to adopt even more strongly the position that you are an upstanding business?

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