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struggle4progress

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3. The BBB is a scam, and its ratings don't mean shizz:
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 10:08 PM
Nov 2012
Terror Group Gets 'A' Rating From Better Business Bureau?
By JOSEPH RHEE and BRIAN ROSS (@brianross)
Nov. 12, 2010

The Better Business Bureau, one of the country's best known consumer watchdog groups, is being accused by business owners of running a "pay for play" scheme in which A plus ratings are awarded to those who pay membership fees, and F ratings used to punish those who don't.

To prove the point, a group of Los Angeles business owners paid $425 to the Better Business Bureau and were able to obtain an A minus grade for a non-existent company called Hamas, named after the Middle Eastern terror group ...

Errors seem to abound at the Better Business Bureau. As reported by an anonymous blogger the BBB also awarded an A minus rating to a non-existent sushi restaurant in Santa Ana, California and an A plus to a skinhead, neo-Nazi web site called Stormfront.

Each listing cost $425 ...


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-money-buy/story?id=12123843

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