[Hidden-tech] Dun & Bradstreet Profiles

Matthew Crocker matthew at crocker.com
Thu Sep 15 19:22:49 EDT 2005


Will,

  We get calls from D&B all the time about that and ignore them.   
Normally a vendor of ours wants our DUNS number to look up our  
credit.   Our credit is very good but if you check our DUNS it will  
look terrible because we are constantly in billing disputes with  
<name large telco here>.  Sprint for example,  just sent us our first  
invoice,  it was $95k too much and 10 months late.  We contacted them  
in January and asked them to send an invoice so we could pay it.  It  
took them 9 months to get the invoice generated and it was wrong :/.   
MCI still says we owe them $150k for a contract we never signed and  
service we never had. Anyway, that kills our D&B profile (slow  
pay ??).   Basically,  If we want to buy something and the vendor  
refuses to give us Net-30 on the item we just shop somewhere else.   
There is enough competition in my business to safely ignore the D&B  
info.

-Matt

On Sep 15, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Will Loving wrote:

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> I just got a sales call from someone at Dun & Bradstreet wanting to  
> sell me
> a $500 package to update my credit profile with them. I've had a Dun &
> Bradstreet "DUNS" number for some years, but have never paid them  
> anything.
>
> The sales rep claimed that "four different companies have recently  
> paid us
> $200-250 to access your profile and there is very little in it  
> giving it a
> low rating." I have excellent credit with the regular credit  
> agencies, but I
> don't know if Equifax and others track business credit. I assume  
> that they
> do but have never checked. It seems that I can manually submit  
> financial
> information to my profile if I want to, they just want me to pay  
> them to do
> it and to check with credit references.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with D&B or know whether what there  
> services
> and "profiles" are of any use?
>
> Will
>
> Will Loving, President
> Dedication Technologies, Inc.
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