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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-10 10:22 PM
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Better Business Bureau To Investigate Los Angeles BBB Chapter
By George Gombossy | Last updated Nov 20, 2010, 8:54 pm

Buried in a statement by Better Business Bureau Council President is his claim that his organization will immediately launch an investigation into the largest BBB chapter int he U.S. and Canada.

As the last point is BBB Council President Steven Cox’s statement this week following the ABC TV investigation into the BBB, is the following:

“Finally, BBB will launch an immediate investigation into the Los Angeles-area BBB.”

While the two-year-old F to A+ grading system that Cox forced all the 120 BBB chapters to adopt has been under criticism by many consumer advocates, including myself, the most outrageous examples of how the new system has been misused came from the Los Angeles (Southland) BBB chapter ...

http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/11/20/better-business-bureau-to-investigate-los-angeles-bbb-chapter
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-10 11:25 PM
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1. When the Better Business Bureau is corrupt, who do you complain to?
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-10 11:30 PM
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2. The BBB has always been corrupt.
For any given complaint, they support the business when it's a BBB member and the consumer when it's not.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-10 11:38 PM
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3. The Connecticut attorney general seems interested in BBB right now. I also posted a link in Texas
forum on how to complain about BBB in Texas
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