Consumer Archives - NIR News / National Investigative Report https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/tag/consumer/ Investigative Journalism At Its Best! Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-NewsBriefs-150x150.png Consumer Archives - NIR News / National Investigative Report https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/tag/consumer/ 32 32 The Ugly Truth About The Better Business Bureau Scandal https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/bbbftc/ https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/bbbftc/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:28:38 +0000 http://nationalinvestigativereport.com/?p=1163 Arlington, VA NIR News has looked over the complaints submitted to the FTC and has found since 07/2002 to 10/2015 there has been 429 complaints about the Better Business Bureau. And 24 of them are from military members. Most of the complaints deal with deception and misrepresentation. Some of the complaints have been marked as […]

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NIR News has looked over the complaints submitted to the FTC and has found since 07/2002 to 10/2015 there has been 429 complaints about the Better Business Bureau. And 24 of them are from military members.

Most of the complaints deal with deception and misrepresentation. Some of the complaints have been marked as TSR/other. I am not sure what that marking is. It is something the FTC uses.
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The Better Business Bureau is supposed to be the champion for the consumer and stop bad companies from doing wrong. The question is if the BBB is doing this, then why do they have some many complaints?

Many complaints are from small business owners who either did not fill out the questionnaire they send out of they did not send it in time.

Other complaints deal with consumers complaining because the BBB sided with the accredited member even thou they had proof of wrongdoing.

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A few complaints are from companies who have been asking to become accredited members. Some said when they refused their grade dropped. Others said when they did join their grade went up.

Granted some of these companies was before the 20/20 ABC story revealing that the BBB was selling memberships for grades. Even thou, the president of the BBB at the time, said it was an isolated issue. After reviewing the list of complaints, I would beg to differ.

Other facts show the issues are still happening. I think the BBB needs a complete overhaul of all policies and procedures.
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What do you think needs to be done? Comment below and tell NIR News what you think.

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Jerome Almon’s Consumer News Report About Ripoffreport https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/customer-report-ror/ https://nationalinvestigativereport.com/customer-report-ror/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2015 02:03:41 +0000 http://nationalinvestigativereport.com/?p=928 Rip-off Report is characterized as a worldwide customer reporting publication and website to customers, by customers to file and report complaints with regards to individuals or companies. Whereas this site promotes and even necessitates authors to purely file honest and unbiased reports, Rip-off Report does not guarantee that all reports are accurate or authentic. Just […]

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Rip-off Report is characterized as a worldwide customer reporting publication and website to customers, by customers to file and report complaints with regards to individuals or companies. Whereas this site promotes and even necessitates authors to purely file honest and unbiased reports, Rip-off Report does not guarantee that all reports are accurate or authentic. Just because an individual or company is reported on Rip-off Report, this does not mean that customers should not make business with them.

As a suggestion to customers, they should read what they can and make the decision depending upon their assessment to all accessible data. As opposed to the Better Business Bureau, Ripoffreport does not conceal reports of satisfied complaints. Each and every complaint remains unedited and in public and so to make a working history on an individual or a company in a question.

Update on Latest ROR News

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At this very moment, if you’ll browse the latest reports in the Rip-off Report site, you’ll see a complaint report made by Jerome Almon about the site per se. Jerome Almon is a university lecturer, an expert on women studies, explosives/paratrooper expert, terrorism/border security, owner of a tech/entertainment company and a Desert War vet. His temper hiked up when he got involved due to a posting online about him on ROR. Honestly, he does not care about this posting but will sue the 2 people that posted it. His reply to these two people is simple:

To mind their own business, and;
It is not his fault that people are stupid enough to believe what they read on this site and online.

His main problem is about how corrupt and dumb the legal system in America is. For him, the judges who protect ROR are just absurd. Why would they do so if ROR is a total scam? He compares ROR to a pawnshop for they are the center for extortion and blackmail. He says that the practice of these two is just the same, except for the fact that a pawnshop:1) gets an ID; 2) get a signature; and 3) get a fingerprint of a customer.

Jerome wants to teach ROR, together with its partner, which is chiefly Google, a lesson. For him, ROR is pure grade school BS. It is so ridiculous that people are stupid enough to believe everything on the site. Google is the partner and enabler of ROR. The former have spent more than a million dollars fighting one of the people Jerome works with.

Jerome hopes that the ROR owners will go in prison and that Google will lose its business. He will definitely be the first among the many who will celebrate once Rip-off Report goes down and loses its business. If the site does not have mercy, Jerome is sure that soon enough, it will get its bad karma. Many businesses have closed because of ROR. Many businesses have lost great revenue too because of ROR. Moreover, many have lost their jobs because of the false postings in this site.


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