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Does having A+ raiting with the Better Business Bureau mean anything these days?
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:18 pm
I hear on radio advertisements that businesses tout they are A+ rated with the BBB. Does this carry any weight anymore? With the rise of Social Media(Facebook, Twitter) and sites like Yelp does this make BBB ratings obsolete. I don't think i've ever heard anyone I know say they used a business because they are A+ rated by the BBB. What say the O-T?
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Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:19 pm to BamaHater
Nothing
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:19 pm to BamaHater
I thought BBB has always been a joke.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:20 pm to BamaHater
Means you pay your bribe money to them.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:20 pm to BamaHater
You get a personal pan pizza.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:24 pm to BamaHater
It means the business is current on membership dues.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:29 pm to tilco
How does it work? In terms of maintaining an A+ rating?
When I was younger.. A bit more naive, I thought there was some legitimacy to BBB. Then I had an experience with a business. I looked them up on BBB and they were A+, but then I started reading the comments.
There were multiple comments from people who had similar problems to what I was having. I know that every business will always have some unhappy customers, but it says something with people complain about the same issues.
I am guessing businesses have to pay to be listed on BBB?
When I was younger.. A bit more naive, I thought there was some legitimacy to BBB. Then I had an experience with a business. I looked them up on BBB and they were A+, but then I started reading the comments.
There were multiple comments from people who had similar problems to what I was having. I know that every business will always have some unhappy customers, but it says something with people complain about the same issues.
I am guessing businesses have to pay to be listed on BBB?
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:31 pm to BamaHater
I heard somebody reference their rating with the BBB today and it occurred to me that anybody that has to bring that up is likely out to rip you off.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:32 pm to OweO
Most of the businesses i hear advertise BBB ratings are older family run companies. 30 + years rated A+ by the BBB.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 9:01 pm to BamaHater
To me it is as bad as the companies that put a cross or fish emblem in their logo. A guilty conscience needs no accuser if you ask me.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 9:49 pm to OweO
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How does it work?
My understanding is someone complains to them about you. If you pay them they make it go away.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 10:15 pm to BamaHater
Get BBB rated, then get slammed by some irate customer who "thinks the customer is always right" and slings mud all over social media because they couldn't get their way. They can't really help you at all. Stupid social media these days can hurt you online.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 10:24 pm to Koach K
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To me it is as bad as the companies that put a cross or fish emblem in their logo.
Yep. I avoid those like the plague.
One of the few times I was screwed by shitty work from a tradesman was a “Christian” plumber with the fish logo, I would not have hired them, but another contractor on the job subbed to them.
Couldn’t get them to so much as return a phone call about their leaky work. I hope Jesus rams a red hot poker up their asses to pay for their sins,
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