USDirectory.com is a scam.
US Directory says that they’ll “put you in Directory Internet Yellow Pages, Superpages, Switchboard, MSN, and Area Guides.” and “Create a Promo website”. It’s a scam. First, there is no such thing as “Directory Internet Yellow Pages” or “Area Guides”. Yes, they capitalized them in their letter to her.
I’ve been selling yellow pages to folks. In my travels, a business owner (business initials K.C. in San Francisco) showed me the service she had signed up for with US Directory. The business owner had signed up for their services about 90 days prior to my visit. I went online and checked to see if her rank on various websites had been increased. Nothing. Nada. Niet. Nuffum. The search for USDirectory’s footprint was made easier because they actually misspelled her company’s name in the letter! While it’s true that she got a listing on USDirectory.com’s website with a little heart next to her company’s name, (spelled incorrectly), there was no sign of her company anywhere else on the internet.
The Dallas, TX Better Business Bureau has an alert about USDirectory.com, saying it’s a scam
http://www.dallas.bbb.org/news_20061115a.html
Phony Directory Callers Targeting Businesses
Watch out for this scheme against business. The BBB in Fresno reports that businesses there have been receiving calls from USdirectory.com, also known as Directory Billing LLC. The callers say they would like to verify the business’ address and phone number for the Yellow Pages. Then the business receives a notice that their service is activated as a “Preferred Merchant of Directory Billing Internet Yellow Pages,” at a cost of $49.95 a month, bill through the local phone company. The company is based in Boca Raton, FL, and the BBB in West Palm Beach reports USdirectory.com has an unsatisfactory record due to unanswered complaints and a pattern of responding slowly to complaints.
They had a 90 day money back guarantee that amazingly, they honored when she called and canceled her service.
http://tjic.com/?p=7238
ST. PAUL, Minn.
…Scott D. Clark, a guest at the Embassy Suites Hotel in St. Paul, cornered the [ tame duck that lived in a hotel lobby’s ornamental pond ] early Saturday morning, grabbed the bird and ripped its head from its body while a hotel security guard and others watched, police said…
“He was allegedly drunk,” Wuorinen said.
Tim Shields, general counsel with the Minnesota Federated Humane Societies … said…
“I think Embassy Suites needs to take another look at this and review how they keep ducks safe, or use fish like most hotels would use,”
I just sent a fax to Mr Shields… I’m looking for Embassy Suites contact info now…
Minnesota Federated Humane Societies
Tim Shields
6613 Penn Ave. S., Ste. 100
Richfield, MN 55423
612-866-8663
Fax: 612-861-1786
Lee C. Sonko
[redacted]
Mr. Shields,
I recently read your comment about the extremely unfortunate incident at the Embassy Suites Hotel in St. Paul.
“I think Embassy Suites needs to take another look at this and review how they keep ducks safe, or use fish like most hotels would use,” Shields said. (http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2007/09/23/police_man_beheads_tame_hotel_duck/)
I must assume that your remark was taken wildly out of context. I cannot comprehend what you mean by the statement as it stands. Are we to keep ducks behind bullet proof glass windows from now on for fear of snipers? The ducks in this hotel, and in many hotels around the world, have done perfectly well for countless years much to the benefit of the ducks and people that appreciate them. The only fault lies in the person that chased and killed the poor animal. He is solely to blame. Otherwise, are we to take your comment to its logical conclusion and outlaw all places where ducks and humans might interact?
It would be a terrible shame if hotels were persuaded by your comment to keep people away from animals because of this one unfortunate event, which was perpetrated by one person.
Thank you for your time,
Lee Sonko
I’ve been having a very good time playing with Niece Julia on Webkinz. I went out and got a Webkinz pet at a Hallmark store and we’ve been playing online. Julia has 4 webkinz pets, and several rooms and all kinds of stuff and clothing. My poor little Jason (a very well behaved Chihuahua) just has a cowboy hat and a belt that Julia gave me.
I listen to podcasts on my way to and from work. I hardly listen to the radio at all any more. Here are the podcasts on my Juice podcast downloader.
I’ve placed a * next to the shows I love the most
I’m starting to listen to more shows on SQPN. Father Roderick really has something going there!
How I play them:
- download my shows with Juice
- move 650 mb of .mp3 audio into a folder
- burn that folder
- play it on my .mp3 capable car stereo
This Yellow Pages salesman walks into a bar and says, “Hi, I’m Lee Sonko from Valley Yellow Pages.” It’s still kinda weird but it seems that I’ve changed careers again, from
- Software QA engineer at Politzer and Haney, Course Technology, Softkey Intl, Shiva, Picturetel, MCI/Newscorp Internet Ventures, American Internet, Riverton Software Corp, BGS, Firefly, ADP and Wavexpress to
- Owner of “The Computer Guy”, computer repair and training company to
- Substitute teacher to
- Customer Support Manager and QA engineer at Wavexpress to
- Co-owner of Safe and Secure SF, disaster preparedness consultancy to
- Yellow Pages account executive.
I’m not there [slight pout] but Lynn has taken a terrific set of photos chronicling her trip to Amsterdam, Robodock and setting up the Serpent Mother. A mini vacation.
And follow the trip more on the FLG blog
I was just told about this… it happens just once a month or so. To find out when, get on their mailing list. They are in Brisbane.
The site: http://www.villageimports.net (10-24-08 the link doesn’t work any more)
To get on their mailing list: http://www.madeinfrance.net/B2BImages/Languages/ENG/login/MIF/Subscribe.htm (10-24-08 the link doesn’t work any more)
update 10-24-08: The Village Imports company was bought by someone. They -might- still sell to the public monthly. Or maybe not. Sorry :-(
Amazing detail. This is a huge 8mb image of Burning Man 2007 from space.
View the full image (You’ll probably want to right-click and download the full size image)
