Got a call from this number. claimed they were from better business bur, wanted info on my company, something about bbb accreditation and it being by invitation only. Having deal with BBB before where they are seeking money I just was not interested. Dont really know if they were who they say they were. Could be a scammer.
When I did some quick research about the bbb, I found this post....everyone should read this!!
John says:
June 5, 2012 at 3:54 pm
I’m part of a very large corporation, not an owner, but have dealt with the issues of the BBB on business side of things not the consumer side. They are the closest thing to the mafia and do nothing less than extortion. The company i work for have over 3000 customer and growing and only 7 complaints. we were given a d- rating due to the fact there system does not take into consideration how fast a company grows. So when we signed up for accreditation we had no complaints and 500 customers. We now have over 3000 customers and 7 complaints. Since their system does not recognize growth but only complaints we were given the score of a D-. When we called the BBB to complain about our account they said we could pay then an undisclosed amount of money to get our rating back up. The CEO’s of the company then told the BBB of and with that our accredited rating was revoked within a week. The BBB are individually owned Franchises. So if you upset the owner he/she can do whatever they want with your account! we plunked over 10 grand into the BBB before we told them to go pound sound and are now revoked and never will be an accredited business with them, nor do we want to! So advice for business owners is don’t fall in the trap of the BBB. And consumers just to let you know the BBB will never help you they are in it for the money and where does the money come from? The business your complaining about! if you want to complain put it on businesses Google page or go to the rip off report or other forums that people can actually take seriously! I hope soon the BBB will go down or be forced to reform by the government!
This is BS.....I am operations manager for a large company in Jacksonville, thinking we possibly had a BBB claim, so I called them as soon as I told them I was not the owner and that our HQ was DC they quickly said they don't service that location and politely hung up!! They are looking for $$ to better your ratings! They even gave me a reference number with one letter and 3 numbers as if it was a claim, please don't be fooled!! Asked me to call in on 904/721-2288