5361, Report:
#6324
Posted Date:
Aug 24 2001
Better Business Bureau BBB rip-off fraud ..income from member businesses ..satisfactory rating of a MEMBER business meaningless
I'm retired from a business I ran for 20 years. The points made in the Rip-off Report (Better Business Bureau or Buyer Better Beware? BBB .Nationwide Alert!.. THE FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE Rip-off Report(#1343) about BBB are certainly valid.
The BBB gives 'member businesses' a ...
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Categories: Better Business Bureau
5362, Report:
#6335
Posted Date:
Aug 24 2001
Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Atlanta. BBB consumer fraud of the century, useless organization and individuals!!
Like so many others here in Atlanta, I find the BBB to be a total waste of time and energy.
I belong to a local community group here in the Atlanta area. One of the things we work together on is helping one another. Not one of us (about 32) who complained to the BBB over the last...
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Categories: Better Business Bureau
5363, Report:
#6240
Posted Date:
Aug 19 2001
GGW Videos Girls Gone Wild continuously billing my credit for nothing!FOX 6 investigative reporter John Mattes first broke the story how Girls Gone Wild was marketing videos for only $9.99 consumers found the company tacking on huge fees. Thousands of consumers called it a rip-off on ripoffreport. After our story aired an attorney sued calling it deceptive advertising. Video part 1 Video part 2
I ordered the videos, seen the payment in my online bank statement. Then a few weeks later I pulled up my online bank statement again and noticed that they charged me again. I don't know what for, but Damn! 23 dollars and some change. The videos are ok, but the extra charges arn't. ...
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Categories: Sales People
5364, Report:
#5812
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2001
Canadian 2 for 1 pizza broke into my house, Andrew Brown a criminal
Hubby and I both have severe seafood allergies. We ordered a couple of pizzas from Canadian 2 for 1 in Nelson (being a small town-we paid by cheque). When the pizza arrived-it had shrimp on it. Phoned the restaurant but they were closed. Phoned again the next day, got no offer t...
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Categories: Pizza & Take Out
5365, Report:
#5640
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2001
MRA VIDEO GGW VIDEO SCAM & RIP OFF BEWARE!!!!FOX 6 investigative reporter John Mattes first broke the story how Girls Gone Wild was marketing videos for only $9.99 consumers found the company tacking on huge fees. Thousands of consumers called it a rip-off on ripoffreport. After our story aired an attorney sued calling it deceptive advertising. Video part 1 Video part 2
These Guy's are a total scam......
(first part of scam)
If you order once, they will continue to send you another video every month until you tell them to stop. This will be done without even telling or asking you. I orderd by phone, and was never told about this.
(Second p...
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Categories: Adult Web Site
5366, Report:
#5465
Posted Date:
Jun 19 2001
FOX RIDGE ESTATES APARTMENT COMPLEX EAGAN MN ..They ripped me off so bad
If anyone in MN or anywhere else is thinking of moving here DONT....They ripped me off so bad...I was transferred with my job 1700 miles away. I gave them the REQUIRED 30 day notice because that was the transfer clause in my lease...Did I get my Damage Deposit back? Oh Hell NO....In...
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Categories: Landlords
5367, Report:
#1848
Posted Date:
May 21 2001
In Good Faith ..Manufactured Home Dealer rip-off ..Action Mobile Homes in Columbia TN
My husband and I went to Action homes in Columbia to see about buying a double wide trailer...we also needed the money to put improvements on the land for the trailer...
At the same time a company had bought a judgement from eight year before on a repoed car and they were natural...
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Categories: Manufactured Home Dealers
5368, Report:
#4646
Posted Date:
Apr 18 2001
Better Business Bureau BBB, corruption, fraud, liars and extortionists *UPDATE ..Dan Parsons of Houston BBB quit using position to launch personal petty vendettas
We are a business who thinks BBB is a rip off. We are general
contractors who have been in business at the same corner, with the same phone # for 28 yrs. In the 70's we were BBB members and found it to be a rip off & never joined again until last year when several of our employe...
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Categories: BBB Better Business Bureau
5369, Report:
#4915
Posted Date:
Apr 13 2001
*CONSUMER ADVISE Know Your Carpet Dealer ..avoid the most common scams used in selling carpet !
THE SEVEN CARPET TRUTHS
If You Don't Know Carpet, Know Your Carpet Dealer
1. There is no such thing as free labor.
2. There is no such thing as an invisible seam.
3. There is no STAIN PROOF carpet.
4. There are no miracle fibers.
5. There is no such thing as a real ...
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Categories: Carpet & Tile Stores
5370, Report:
#3730
Posted Date:
Nov 01 2000
SALES FRAUD L&K Race Trailers & Kerry Hall
I have been a victim of an internet sales fraud by a company called L&K race trailers out of Chesapeake Va. Their ad now has been yanked off the racer-net.com where I orginally got the info to purchase a trailer. Between the lending bank and myself, it appears we are out almost $20,...
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Categories: RV Dealers