Idiot Inc.

Business news for bears and cynics

about | subscribe | twitter | contact     
idiot inc. executives planning dumb business moves

Latest bad news

  • Honda’s U.S. sales dropped 35% in December
  • Northstar Neuroscience stock skyrockets because the company is closing
  • New York Times whores out its front page for the first time ever
  • Management shakeup at Borders
  • NYSE warns Hypercom about its hyper-decreasing stock

Idiot Index view full list  >>

American Airlines Boeing Chrysler Circuit City Citigroup Daniel Laikin Ford Gannett General Growth Properties GlaxoSmithKline GM Lehman Brothers Microsoft Morgan Stanley National Lampoon New York Times Pilgrim's Pride Starbucks Wachovia WaMu Yahoo!

Categories

  • Bankruptcies
  • Brainy Ideas
  • Busted
  • Company Memos
  • Downfalls
  • Idiot Links
  • Layoffs
  • Look at Me!
  • Power Struggles
  • Stock Market
  • Videos
  • Whoops!

Subscribe

  • RSS Feed
  • Twitter

Links

  • Business Pundit
  • Cluster Stock
  • Dealbreaker
  • Drudge Report
  • Finviz
  • Firefox
  • INO
  • Letter of Apology
  • My Finance Times
  • Slashdot
  • TechDirt
  • Wall Street Fighter

Busted

Better Business Bureau calls MyGallons.com a liar

July 3, 2008

The BBB of Southeast Florida has given MyGallons.com a rating of “F” after it discovered that the company had lied in a press release about partnering with the U.S. Bank. When the BBB called the U.S. Bank to investigate, the bank said that MyGallons’ proposal had been rejected. This warning was then added to MyGallons’ reliability report:

“Specifically, while the website proclaims that any gas station in the US that accepts credit cards will accept the My Gallons Card, however the company has informed the Bureau that no contractual agreements to process the card have been made as yet.”

Source: The Consumerist

1
Posted in Busted by Jacopo Kane
Say something mean >

Starring: BBB, Better Business Bureau, MyGallons.com
Related stories:
  • MyGallons.com suspends membership fees
  • Hallmark’s nationwide debit card fiasco
  • RBC Bank posts $103 million quarterly loss
  • Bank of America website down for seven hours
  • Profitable American Express asks taxpayers for $3.5 billion
  • ABC interrupts last minute of NBA Finals Game with an emergency broadcast test
  • Citigroup layoffs could be as high as 10,000 employees
Post a message

Discussion

  1. July 11 at 12:19 pm
    MyGallons.com suspends membership fees | Idiot Inc.:

    [...] After getting busted last week by the Better Business Bureau for lying about its partnership with U.S. Bank, MyGallons.com has suspended accepting membership fees for its service. The company also gloats on its website that the South Florida BBB removed its rating of “F” and replaced it with “No Rating.” Awesome job, guys. Tags: BBB, Better Business Bureau, MyGallons.com [...]

•

Leave a comment

Basic HTML allowed

“This is an act of mercy....truly” - Francis Urquhart
© Copyrights are for the paranoid    |    About    |    RSS    |    Contact    |    Sitemap
Adventures