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Comment on On turning 40… by Midlife Crisis Update. . . | StartupMuse

Midlife Crisis Update. . . | StartupMuse — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:41:01 +0000

[...] I am fond of saying, I turned 39 a year ago – i.e. I am now 40. Back in August I wrote about turning 40 and unknowingly set about changing my life. You can have all of the [...]

Comment on Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit? by Monique Balhorn

Monique Balhorn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:03:30 +0000

I too hope that this is still active. I have been struggling to get our business address changed for over a month now. The only way I was told to do this is by getting an iUpdate account. The number on the D&B website is not for help, but their sales department. The first time I called, someone transferred me to a non-working number. The second time I called, they transferred me to someone with a TV playing and kids screaming in the background and saying that they didn’t do address changes. The fourth time I called, I got someone demanding money for changing the address – when I balked, they actually gave me the true ‘help’ number. The person on the 5th call has been the most helpful. She emailed me a ‘manual authorization’ form. I had the completed and notarized form along with several sensitive documents sent by UPS next day air to their Austin TX address. The form instructions said that I would hear back from them with a yes or no answer within 10 business days. Nothing happened. I checked the tracking number, and it was delivered and signed for. I called D&B the 6th time 15 days after the package was delivered. The phone connection was very scratchy and the person I spoke with had a very heavy accent. She said that they never received the package, and the email address they had on record for our company was an aol.com address! I was really upset that not only did they lose our sensitive documents, but they are in contact with who knows who about our company. She said that someone will call me within 48 hours. A week went by – no call. I emailed the person who had sent me the D&B iUpdate manual authorization form and explained the situation. She apologized and said that someone from D&B would call me within 48 hours. 4 days later, no call. I think there needs to be an oversight agency over D&B. How can they continue to treat companies this way and get away with it. Are the only people who get service are the ones who pay them?

Comment on Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit? by joe

joe — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:10:23 +0000

D&B is a scam. Can ruin you company by using vague information. I have a customer for 24 years who sent me an email saying my bus. was in trouble please put my mind to ease? Some vague info , graphs ? Non Sense, He said send me 2 years of your Fed tax andincome statement because D&B sent them incorrect information and get this my Fed Tax Id #er was wrong. Put my mind at ease

Comment on Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit? by Roxie

Roxie — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:51:39 +0000

We have the same issue. We have perferct credit but when I said I would no longer pay them their outrageous fees they are killing us. Constantly lowering our score, saying we have all these late payments. I have contacted every vendor they all say we dont report to D&B because we arent paying them. Well when I asked D&B who was reporting they said we cant tell you. Really its my profile. If there is a lawyer wanting this case I want to pursue it.

Comment on Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit? by Outraged

Outraged — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:37:13 +0000

We have the same exact story with our business. Experian and the regular credit companies show us as being strong, with high credit scores, and creditworthy. D&B on the basis of one anonymous vendor that can’t possibly be ours (because the credit was owed before our company was even in existence!) is reporting that we are the highest possible credit risk. They won’t tell us the name of the vendor. I pointed out that the date was earlier than the establishment of our business, went on their iUpdate pages and reported it there. I received an email a month ago saying that item had been removed from our report, but when each time I check our report, it is still there and it is still the basis for the extremely low credit score. So I no longer believe that these unhappy vendors are even real!I think D&B are like the Better Business Bureau – a type of extortion racket! They hold businesses hostage and they know it. Count me in on a class action lawsuit.

Comment on Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit? by Linda

Linda — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:13:13 +0000

How good is your site. You are so right about Dun and Bradstreet, Veda Advantage and all other debt collecting agencies. Get your class action going. I am about to start my legal action and not wait for the class. My business has been destroyed over the last 4 years by credit reporting agencies making false allegations without any consultation as to the rightfulness of claims made and presented to the world at large. You cannot get anything more damaging that an trumped up money grabbing organisation presuming it is correct without consultation and reference. Image the rampage I could create if I set up my own credit rating company and put every bank and every public utility company or telecommunications company upon it that carried out a crime against an individual. This year I have had my electricity account stolen from one company by another, I have been defamed for 4 years by a telecommunications company that provided no service to me and continued billing me after the end of my contract period, I have been sent exhorbitant bills for electricity when the lights have not even been turned on. Yes I so agree with you. Credit reporting agencies are purely defamatory and should be banned from existence. The damage they do to an individual is way disproportionate to the missing of a payment, or the refusal to pay because nothing on your account is right, or more importantly that you don’t even have an account with a company and have never opened one. Also look at the banks. What type of criminal activities do they carry out on your credit cards. Have you ever had a credit card that has been paid out, it has been declined to your use but the bank decides to let everybody else use it as they wish, including themselves. GO GO with class action. I want my day in court and will spend much more than $10,000 to bring these bastards to the same accountability as each and every individual has to endure. I would also like to see them suffer the same destruction as the individual when an entry is made against them. In times of financial tightening an entry of a trivial amount that is under dispute anyway is the end of any financial negotiations. The cost to the individual is disproportionate to the inability in some cases to make a payment. These organisations make financial lepers out of hard working honest people and force them into higher interest rate. Why should we take this treatment. Why should the individual suffer, when governments and countries and economies cannot even manage there finances effectively. The small timer is doing a far better job of financial matters than, the government. Back to the credit agencies. Just try to get a false report off your record! Impossible. You will encounter lie after lie after lie after lie. I am up to four years and have decided to launch into legal action at this very time. These organisations should not be allowed to exist. They are damaging and parasitic. Financial judgements about people should be made upon their integrity, and their financial wealth and income and asset backing, nothing else. The existence of such a company brings us back to the days of “tell tail tit” and malicious little actions from malicious little enterprises hopefully will come under the scrutiny of the new ACL. Lets make it happen.

Comment on Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit? by Scott

Scott — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:58:57 +0000

I completely agree with Alexander. D&B has done the exact same thing to me and my business. I hope this is still active. I have paid them over $1,500 and our financial stress score is still grossly inaccurate, causing us harm with our existing clients and prospective new clients.

Comment on Post Funding, The Real Work Begins. . . by We just raised $7M, now what? | StartupMuse

We just raised $7M, now what? | StartupMuse — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:22:09 +0000

[...] in October I wrote a post titled, “Post Funding, The Real Work Begins…” We had closed on the first million dollars of our eventual $7M round and everyone was [...]

Comment on On turning 40… by Almost 40, Progress Report | Political Muse

Almost 40, Progress Report | Political Muse — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:38:14 +0000

[...] my other blog I wrote about my plan to get serious about my health on the eve of my 40th birthday. I thought it was time for an update. [...]

Comment on On turning 40… by Turning 40, Progress Report | StartupMuse

Turning 40, Progress Report | StartupMuse — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:36:48 +0000

[...] in August I wrote about my plan to get serious about my health on the eve of my 40th birthday. I thought it was time for an update. [...]