How did Goldline get their A+ rating from the Los Angeles BBB?
They bought it.


When Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) released a report yesterday accusing
Glenn Beck's favorite gold company and sponsor of ripping off consumers,
the company sent out a press release disputing the charges. Among the
defenses it raised was Goldline's "A+ rating" from the Better Business
Bureau. Beck, too, has highlighted the BBB endorsement in his defense of
Goldline. But does that rating really mean anything?

After all, a Mother Jones investigation found that more than 40 people
have filed complaints against Goldline with that very same BBB, and
seven of those people reported back that Goldline refused to make them
whole. Goldline also engages in a few practices that don't seem like
they quite fit in with the BBB's stated ideas about good consumer
practices. For instance, Goldline requires people to sign a
nondisclosure form promising never to complain publicly about the
company as a condition of getting a refund. It also aggressively uses
caller ID to identify incoming callers so it can call them back and
pitch them more stuff just like any telemarketer. And it presses people
into making "investments" in European gold coins that lose a third of
their value the minute they are purchased. Does that sound like an A+
kind of business?

Well, as it turns out, it doesn't take much more than a big fat check to
the BBB to get the erstwhile consumer agency to grant a company its
highest ranking. According to the Los Angeles Times, most of the
bureau's funding comes from selling "accreditations" to businesses. In a
story last year, the Times found:

a random search of the organization's database of about 4 million North
American companies seems to show that the roughly 400,000 accredited
businesses, even those that get numerous complaints, very often receive
higher grades than unaccredited companies with spotless complaint
records.

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More info on Glenn Beck's incestuous relationship with Goldline, here:

http://tinyurl.com/25nrvmq

Tune in to Glenn Beck's Fox News show or his syndicated radio program,
and you'll soon learn about the evils of the US dollar, a currency on
the verge of collapse due to runaway government spending, a ballooning
national debt, and imminent Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation. To defend
yourself against the coming financial holocaust, as Beck explained on
his radio show last November, you need to "think like a German Jew in
1934, maybe 1931." And that means thinking about buying some gold.

--- Xnews/5.04.25