FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post

Re:FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Bl... by eli on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:32PM (#3067901)

Is the BBB even relevant?

My assumption was that its influence is quite low since the advent of the Internet. If I were looking to see for a plumber or a moving company, I'd check Yelp or Angie's List not BBB.

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Re:FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Bl... by cbs on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:38PM (#3067933)

BTW, Angie's list runs the same kind of scam.

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Re:FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Bl... by kenjackson on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:43PM (#3067958)

This is why Consumer Reports is so trusted. They take no money from companies. They don't do ads or have sponsored listings of any sort. They buy the products retail and review them.

If you have sponsored listings you'll always be succeptible to this. There's rumors of the same happening on Yelp (reviews being filtered and such).

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Re:FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Bl... by cfaubell on Monday October 03, 2011 @07:23PM (#3068645)

I hadn't heard that about Angie's List. I'd be interested in reading about it if anyone has a link.

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