byates wrote:
professor95 wrote:
byates wrote:
DennisCPE wrote:
The BBB in Colton, CA is not the Better Busines Bureau we all grew up with. The one here in California requires you to pay for your rating. It is un-American and I won't support them.
With all due respect, what's un-American about paying for services provided by the BBB?
Bill,
I "think" what Dennis was saying is that the BBB there expects payment for a high rating -or- a business must be a paid member to get anything but a bum rating.
At one time the BBB accepted NO money from business's it rated and membership in the BBB did not require the paying of "dues" -- only an agreement to participate in arbitration. Apparently that has all changed.
If that is true, then I would say that the BBB is participating in an unethical business practice, exactly the opposite of what I thought the BBB's mission is, which is to identify unethical business practices. Hard to believe.
This exchange of information got me to thinking, as many other comments in this and other threads do. So I went to the BBB website. The BBB does charge a fee for accreditation of a business, which is basically an agreement to adhere to the BBB's code of business practices. http://www.bbb.org/us/bbb-accreditation-standards/.
I can understand why a business would want this accreditation and also why a business might not want to pay the fee. But I wouldn't call the fee Un-American, if I chose not to participate.
