Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet, wow, it’s not quite extortion, but pretty close. I actually spoke these people on several occasions for a few different companies over the years so I thought I should put this out there. DaB offer a service to monitor your business’s credit score (their version of it). What they then do is send overly aggressive sales reps to pressure business owners into paying hundreds of dollars to help straighten it up under the guise that you may lose business if it’s not corrected (pay money). After speaking with them at length they absolutely refuse to even remove businesses with outdated information, even though they know the information is erroneous. So basically they tell you they have a potentially harmful rating for business (in their system), then tell you for hundreds of dollars you can create an account to monitor your own business, and if you don’t they won’t even remove you, but continue to sell this false information and possibly cost you jobs or future business. Scams like this is one of the reason small Mom and Pop start-​ups face such challenges. No thanks, we won’t be doing any business with any company this crooked. If you want to check out a business, Unilocal,word of mouth, and the BBB are still your best bets.

I would give negative stars if possible and I do not even know what this company is! I am one of the managers in California for a retail company and this company has called and hung up 5 times a day every single day for an entire month! I called and was transferred to 5 departments then asked if they could return my call. I feel violated and harassed by this company and am reporting to the better business bureau

Beware — once Dun & Bradstreet has your company’s financial information and credit card information — they will make a make a hefty charge to that card, without warning, every year into eternity until you make an «appointment» with their «cancellation team.» Better to just not give any confidential business information to them. A credit card number in crooked hands is always a danger to small business.