Will Google permit use of my Place Page reviews on my website?

[Oimachi2]

Microformat can be used to display star ratings on organic listings, webmaster can control that without any real reviews...I find that a little dangerous as it can be abused, did a test and put a fake review and sure enough, within 7 days they showed up...this is too easy...!

What I want to do is either:

A. Manually insert my Google reviews taken from my Google places listing

B. Get the snippet to aggregate Google places reviews ratings

I prefer the B. options, but I just can't find any tutorial on how to do this, or is it even possible?

Will using method A. get me penalised or worse...banned?

[goodroi]

Anything can get you penalized. Things that are 100% allowed today might eventually be a penalty in the future. IMHO too few people deal with the review microformat/schema so it hasn't justified Google to divert resources and police it more strictly. If it does become a bigger problem, I think it is more likely Google will just ignore the data before penalizing it. If your page is anemic, I would suggest you also think about possible duplicate content issues if you copy a big volume of review data.

[tangor]

I'm leery of any third party content (as content) on my sites. Some things just aren't worth the risks.