[Hidden-tech] Dun & Bradstreet Profiles

[Jim Ussailis]

That has been my experience also. Businesses worth using give net 30. The 
rest are worth the effort.

I also have a sad tale about D&B a few years back. They offered a CD with 
contact info that I could search for my industry. Cost was $499, + a cost 
for each "report" from the CD. Unfortunately, a small search from the CD 
supplied worthless contacts. I quickly saw that the idea was good, but 
the implementation poor.

I returned it & got my $$ back.


Jim U.

Jim at nationalwireless.com




On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:

>    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group
>    ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** Remember you must be counted to post .
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> >    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group
> >    ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
> >    ** Remember you must be counted to post .
> >
> > 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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