06-12-2006, 01:18 PM
CaoPaux
Mostly Harmless
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Originally Posted by Judi Bee
Is American Writers & Artists Inc., for which I just received an advert, the same company as American Writers & Artists Institute, which is the subject of this thread?
They're both apparently Delray Beach, FL so I suppose they are one and the same.
I was a little puzzled by one poster's remark that the BBB online rating was a bad thing. I thought a BBB standing was a Good Thing, as Martha would say.
The rest of the thread was from 2005. Has any more information surfaced since that time, if the two AWAIs are the same? Scam? Good program? Anybody know?
Yes, they're the same:
http://www.awaionline.com/
A BBB listing is not necessarily a Good Thing because....
--Anyone can pay to join.
--The BBB considers a dispute "resolved" if the member company responds to it. Any response at all. So a company can tell the complainant to take a flying leap and the BBB will still give the company a clean rating.
--If enough complaints pile up to actually give a company a bad rating, the company can ditch it by rejoining under a variation of their name (search through the PA threads for prime examples of why the BBB isn't taken seriously around here).
As for the program itself...as with any "You Can Do It Too!!!" come-on, expect your results to be substantially less than hyped.
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