Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., Simple harassment or actual blackmail? Malibu, California

"As annoying as sales calls can be, there is NO do not call list for businesses."

Technically, this is true.  But businesses can and do add their numbers to the national do-not-call registry anyway.  And so then wouldn't any telemarketer prefer to use this registry to filter out some of those businesses which are the least receptive to cold calls?   That's all I'm sayin'....

Tho' I haven't done business with DBCC, this isn't a prerequisite to adding information to what's already been ripoff-reported nor to offering suggestions that I hope may be beneficial to a few people.

Anyway, it remains true that if DBCC had filtered against the national do-not-call registry, I wouldn't have been called and then these posts - whether you think they're appropriate or not - wouldn't be here.

As annoying as sales calls can be, there is NO do not call list for businesses. These lists are for individuals and telemarketing to an individuals home or cell phone. Businesses are free to solicit other businesses, although there are limitations in most states (and perhaps federally) to the hours which you may call and how many times you may call per day/week similar to debt collections.  Unfortunately you may not like their sales calls, but the idea of cross referencing the do not call list would be a waste of time for a sales oriented organization targeting businesses since their target demographic or sales type is B2B (business to business) not business to home.  Some contractors actually get helped by these type of services because larger companies want to see positive credit when subcontracting companies to complete jobs under the hiring companies name.  For other type businesses they may not have a use for this service, but I do not see how reporting every sales call you get as a ripoff is helpful pick and choose the companies you buy from wisely, but until your purchase something and are dissatisfied reporting a company as a ripoff simply for calling you seems a bit naive. 

Got a call from 336-551-3151, DBCC asking for my boss.   Caller said there's activity on our credit report she'd like to talk about.  I took the caller's information (call-back number is 866-257-6014).  Googled DBCC and noticed the services that they're trying to sell.  So this "discussion" was surely going to turn into a sales pitch.  How can DBCC rank high on anybody's integrity scale this way?

I know, I know, "We have many satisfied customers!"  So, no room for improvement, then?

So I called 800-333-0505 to be placed on DBCC's do not call list.

To the DBCC, I'd like to ask if you've studied whether or not your cold calls would have a higher rate of success if you first filtered the numbers you're calling against the national do-not-call registry?

Just received a call from a D&B Resolution Specialist. She had read my report on ROR, backtracked the phone calls made yesterday and called me back to apologize to me. She assured me my phone number would be taken off of all D&B marketing lists. Good job ROR!

While this is a good step forward, two doubts linger in my mind:

1) how did they get my phone number (if they did backtrack it from their own records, they are good, if they did it some other way, that's scary)?

2) what is D&B real policy in issuing ratings for those small companies who do not want to report their financials?

They also stong-arm libraries to buy their books and subscriptions to their "information."  We used to call them "Dumb & Bad-Street."  Report their activities to the Federal Trade Commission and to your state Attorney-General's Office of Consumer Affairs.

They are "bum-rushing" you to make a decision on purchasing their "information," which generally can be seen in any large public and/or college library.  You are entirely correct in your statements.

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