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11/13/2009
FTC wants contempt charges against BlueHippo for continuing to deceive cash-strapped consumers with phony promises that it would help them purchase a computer even if they have credit problems.
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11/12/2009
The St. Louis BBB hails the Missouri Attorney General's lawsuits against six auto service companies as "a new and very clear warning" to an industry that has sparked thousands of consumer complaints.
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10/20/2009
Bargain hunters who ordered wholesale electronics and clothing from Chinese Internet sites say they never received the items they ordered, the BBB warns.
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09/21/2009
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06/04/2009
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10/16/2008
“It is obvious to us that consumers are increasingly unwilling to spend their discretionary income with businesses they don’t trust,” said Doug Broten, CEO.
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10/14/2008
The prestigious award is given annually to the person who has made the greatest impact on the BBB system in the past year. It requires a unanimous decision by the Bureau Operations Committee, which oversees the activities of the BBB Bureaus internationally.
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09/29/2008
Nearly 13,000 vehicles descended on 83 sites across the U.S. and Canada on Saturday, September 20, all filled with boxes and bags of sensitive documents to be shredded free of charge during Better Business Bureau’s second “Secure Your ID” Day community service event.
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09/16/2008
Better Business Bureau announced findings from its second BBB/Gallup Trust in Business Index survey, noting American consumers say in a seven-month period their trust in businesses has fallen in 13 of 15 industries measured, with an overall composite Index decline in consumer trust of 14 percent. And nearly half (47 percent) of those surveyed say they have only “some, very little or no trust at all” in companies they do business with in everyday life.
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09/03/2008
“The wise ones check out those companies carefully to distinguish between the people who promise the moon and the professionals who can actually help them during their financial crisis.”
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04/04/2008
One Central California business received the letter by fax almost immediately after having registered on
the California Department of Transportation (CalTRANS) site for becoming eligible to bid on procurement
contracts.
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01/31/2008
Selected as winners of the 2008 BBB Ethics Award were (categories were based on number of employees
which appear in parenthesis): Icenhower Real Estate & Development (1-to-10) of Visalia and Fortune and
Associates of Fresno (11-to-50).
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12/06/2007
A total of 485 complaints have been filed with the BBB in the last 36 months.
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08/07/2007
Once the crooks have duplicated information from thousands of cards, they begin to use the victims’ accounts for online purchases......
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01/30/2007
As the excitement surrounding the Super Bowl heats up, so do the scam artists as they look for potential victims.
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