At&T Advertising Solutions

FIRST STAY FAR AWAY…
NOT LEGITIMATE IN ANY WAY. GO TO GOOGLE DIRECTLY for YOUR ADS!!!
At our Local Physical Therapy practice, att tricked someone at our office into signing a contract that they insist on enforcing though they are providing nothing– no value… I tried repeatedly to cancel and explain it was an error and yet they are unwilling to listen or return calls. Unbelievable that they have not all been locked up.
STAY FAR AWAY !!!
AND PLEASE POST IF THEY DID THIS TO YOU!

Pacific Bell Directory & AT&T, Assisting The Underground Economy
What is an underground economy? «Underground economy» is a term that refers to those individuals and businesses that deal in cash and/​or use other schemes to conceal their activities and their true tax liability from government licensing, regulatory, and taxing agencies. Underground economy is also referred to as tax evasion, tax fraud, cash pay, tax gap, payments under-​the-​table, and off-​the-​books.
Pacific Bell Directory, a subsidiary of AT&T, proliferates advertisements supporting the underground economy in Los Angeles. Because AT&T claims no responsibility to screen advertisements. Hundreds of false, deceptive contractor ads are being published through their print and online directories. The underground economy cost the city and state millions of dollars. Consumers are getting ripped off, Senior Citizens are being taken advantage of, and legal companies loose business.
The Federal Trade Commission, the Direct Marketing Association and the US Postal Inspection Service have industry guidelines for the screening of advertisements. The LocalSearch Association (a national yellow pages association) provides industry advertising specifications standards and guidelines. AT&T and Pacific Bell Directory say these industry standards and guidelines do not apply to them.
AT&T and Pacific Bell Directory allow advertisements with unregistered/​untraceable company names. The illegal advertisers also have hundreds of untraceable fake addresses. These fake addresses make the illegal companies look like local companies.
I have a garage door company in burbank with a true physical location. Since 2008 I have had to compete with 80+ false advertisements that AT&T allowed in the Burbank book with local addresses. Currently my company must compete with 380 garage door companies listed by AT&T within 10 miles of my location. About 85% of these ads are false and 10% are miss listed. That is 95% inaccurate and misleading. These are horrible advertising ethics and AT&T’s products cannot be trusted.

Without a doubt they have been the most inept collection of losers that I have ever encountered. Really dreadful. Please feel free to contact me at 503−860−6868 if you have any questions at all.

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In a country filled with unethical sleazy corporate monoliths, AT&T Advertising Solutions may take the cake. I am offended to the breaking point with this useless group. I would gladly have paid money for these slimeballs to have never contacted me. It takes a lot to make me angry, but when you get contacted literally 50 times and NO ONE has the power to fix anything, yet want to be paid thousands of dollars though they have done NOTHING for you, over the course of 6 MONTHS WITH NO RESOLUTIONS, anger is a justified outbreak. And, when you contact the people who «do» have power at least 25 TIMES… they never once answer or return your calls.

Our family business has had the great misfortune of working with AT&T advertising. Over the period of our contract we have been mislead, passed around from person to person, have not yet received answers regarding what we are paying for exactly and when we proved that some of the traffic towards our site was from out of state, we were stonewalled. The way AT&T does business is so disrespectful and deceitful, we have had to take a great loss due to the mistake of advertising with them. We are not the only ones with this problem, it’s a shame we didn’t do more homework to find all the other unhappy patrons of AT&T before committing.