Better Business Bureau Time

The BBB is worthless and I can prove it. I filed a complaint against the BBB itself with itself after the refused to change the way a complaint was closed. I filed a complaint against Leith, a car dealer here. They held my car hostage when I asked them to inspect the car. They refused to do the inspection unless I bought a new set of tires. I told them to inspect the car anyway and fail it so I don't get a ticket for having a an expired vehicle inspection. They refused. Long story short they didn't inspect it and I got tires somewhere else for $600 less than they were asking for the same tires. Then took the car somewhere else for an inspection.

In the reliability report it states that my complaint was unreasonable so they removed it. Here is the BBB Reliability report. There was nothing done except to try and get as much money from me as possible that day.

	Administratively Closed BBB Definition: Administratively Closed - The BBB determined that the complaint could not be satisfactorily settled using standard methods of voluntary dispute resolution
		1 -	BBB determined that despite the company's reasonable effort to address complaint issues, the consumer remained dissatisfied.

So I filed a complaint against the Better Business Bureau with the BBB and this is how they answered my complaint.

So this would not have made me so mad except for the fact that I had a complaint filed against me and the BBB acted just a little different. I am not a member. Unlike the people I filed against who have been members for years.

I have a letter from them stating that they have removed my name, address, and telephone number from their website. It's still there.

The woman who filed the complaint removed her complaint before the BBB even contacted me. They tried to take credit for the resolution. They have at least removed stopped that.

The response is funny. Not surprising. Just funny. Read it for yourself. In my complaint against them I asked that they disclose how they treat members and non-members and issue a public apology. Notice that I got none of that. None. Just a big fat excuse again and no action.

Worthless.

Special People

There are some special people in your life. We all have them at one time or another if we are lucky. One of mine was a neighbor. We shared a property line and on part of our property was a brier patch. I don't like brier patches. Most people don't, except maybe Br'er Rabbit. But that was in a Disney movie that is not shown anymore. Lovely was only two at the time and the patch was near her play area. So I asked my neighbor if I could pay to have it removed. I offered to remove both his and mine, since removing only mine would only allow them to grow back on my lot.

He agreed that it would be not only ok but he offered to pay for his portion of the removal which would have been about $100 since the part on his yard was only one third of mine. So the guy came and removed all the brier patch and I was happy. I paid him for the whole job and he went on his merry way.

I saw my neighbor in his yard the next day and asked him how he liked the work. He told me that he didn't and that he was upset with me for removing the brier patch. WHAT? Now I was confused. I said " So I guess this means that you won't be paying me for your part of the removal?" He said he would not be paying me the $100. Which told me that he did remember our conversation. We talked some more and I was able to get out of him that his wife (the "little boy next door", but that is another story) didn't like me destroying the bunny's home. Apparently, she believed the Br'er rabbit when he wanted to be thrown into the brier patch.

From that point on Lovely was told to call our neighbor "Special Ed". She would wave as she would say it and she was really cute doing so. It was difficult for my neighbor to yell at a two year old but he sure could give me dirty looks. :)