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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 6:20 pm    Post subject: Big Baller Brand receives an F from Better Business Bureau

Big Baller Brand receives an F from Better Business Bureau
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On its website, the organization says Big Baller Brand's ratings are based on 32 complaints filed against the business, a failure to respond to 12 of those complaints and five complaints that still haven't been resolved.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22005053/better-business-bureau-rates-big-baller-brand-f
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 7:28 pm    Post subject:

not a lawyer....we have several on the board...is this something that could interest an attorney seeking some attention to try to put forward some type of class action suit to get their name in the press? I guess it would depend on the nature of the complaints.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:10 pm    Post subject:

lavar's reply to this is perfect
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:21 pm    Post subject:

So someone actually bought a pair of those shoes? I haven't bought a pair of sneakers since a time when people would have assumed that Air Jordan was an airline. So let me ask a question to those of you who are younger, or at least who have kids who are younger -- Are these shoes really selling?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:08 pm    Post subject:

PHILosophize wrote:
lavar's reply to this is perfect


he kind of has a point with his product and the segment of society he is doing business with....but I assure you the Better Business Bureau is not outdated....depends on the industry. I have clients that would lose substantial amounts of new business if their rating slipped.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:30 pm    Post subject:

Aeneas Hunter wrote:
So someone actually bought a pair of those shoes? I haven't bought a pair of sneakers since a time when people would have assumed that Air Jordan was an airline. So let me ask a question to those of you who are younger, or at least who have kids who are younger -- Are these shoes really selling?


I doubt it, what kid can convince his parents to drop 500 on a pair of shoes.
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Good riddance. Lonzo was great when he was here even though he ended up gimpy in the tourney (wasn't going to matter because Steve Alford is NCAA's version of Mike Fratello). LaMelo not coming hastens the firing for Alford which is a much more preferred thing in the long run.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:44 pm    Post subject:

Aeneas Hunter wrote:
So someone actually bought a pair of those shoes? I haven't bought a pair of sneakers since a time when people would have assumed that Air Jordan was an airline. So let me ask a question to those of you who are younger, or at least who have kids who are younger -- Are these shoes really selling?



There have been reports that Lavar is exaggerating (big shock) sales of BBB. One report estimated that while Lavar claimed he sold 5,000 pairs of shoes of Lonzo Ball's limited-edition signature sneaker, the actual total was probably closer to 300.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:14 pm    Post subject:

Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:53 pm    Post subject:

999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A


right, that is why Adidas has a D- rating....they could not come up with a "couple hundreds"
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:28 pm    Post subject:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/big-baller-brand-sued-apparel-200008345.html

Waiting for our resident Lavar Ball fans to chime in....
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:13 am    Post subject:

adkindo wrote:
999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A


right, that is why Adidas has a D- rating....they could not come up with a "couple hundreds"


Like many successful corporations. Adidas probabally doesnt care what a for profit organization like the better bus beareau says about them
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:27 am    Post subject:

999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A



I've heard of that happening on review sites but never the BBB. I have heard complaints that you need to pay for accreditation to get good reviews posted, but have never heard about paying to change an F to an A. Where does your information come from?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:52 pm    Post subject:

Thought about ordering a BBB shirt. Happy I never did.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:35 am    Post subject:

Poor Lonzo...

You know hes the family's investor. I can picture this going the route of Kobe and his parents.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:57 am    Post subject:

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Hard to see much of a brand shelf-life unless BBB becomes known for more than Lonzo making outrageous comments and the product's outrageous price tags.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:26 pm    Post subject:

Visions of George Jefferson come to mind. George moved on up, Will LaVar?

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:28 pm    Post subject:

Freddie Buckets wrote:
Thought about ordering a BBB shirt. Happy I never did.


Never haf any problems getting shirts on time. And i think i would pay some money to call BBB up about a late item and be called a small baller by Lavar haha
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:08 pm    Post subject:

Just for reference, Adidas has a D-.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:52 pm    Post subject:

999 wrote:
adkindo wrote:
999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A


right, that is why Adidas has a D- rating....they could not come up with a "couple hundreds"


Like many successful corporations. Adidas probabally doesnt care what a for profit organization like the better bus beareau says about them


Nike probably pays them triple to keep it that way.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:45 pm    Post subject:

activeverb wrote:
999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A



I've heard of that happening on review sites but never the BBB. I have heard complaints that you need to pay for accreditation to get good reviews posted, but have never heard about paying to change an F to an A. Where does your information come from?


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-money-buy/story?id=12123843

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau/index.html
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:04 pm    Post subject:

999 wrote:
activeverb wrote:
999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A



I've heard of that happening on review sites but never the BBB. I have heard complaints that you need to pay for accreditation to get good reviews posted, but have never heard about paying to change an F to an A. Where does your information come from?


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-money-buy/story?id=12123843

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau/index.html


holy (bleep). that's pretty damning
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:10 pm    Post subject:

Maybe the problem is that it is a poorly run company. They do not offer refunds nor exchanges. All sales are final. Orders take anywhere from 6-12 weeks to be delivered and there does not seem to be any structure to the time that orders take to process. I ordered one item and it took a week...friends ordered the same item and it took a few months. Then i ordered another item and it took a couple months while friends who ordered later were getting them first. Having a big mouth is all fine and dandy, but if you want to have a real company and are just going to run it by the seat of your pants and not give a (bleep), blaming everyone else, the online reviews are not going to be kind to you. It is by FAR the worst company I have ever dealed with.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:43 pm    Post subject:

Freddie Buckets wrote:
999 wrote:
activeverb wrote:
999 wrote:
Better Bus Bureau ratings can be bought. all lavar needs to do is throw a couple hundreds to them and watch the F turn into an A



I've heard of that happening on review sites but never the BBB. I have heard complaints that you need to pay for accreditation to get good reviews posted, but have never heard about paying to change an F to an A. Where does your information come from?


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-money-buy/story?id=12123843

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau/index.html


holy (bleep). that's pretty damning


It's been known for many years to most Small Business owners that BBB is a total scam.
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