Scam Free Product Certification?

by matt on November 16, 2009 · 1 comment

While there are thousands of certification logos and such on the Internet is there room for one more, I have bounced around in my head the ability for people selling single products or even whole groups of products that could go over a scam free certification process where we go over the terms of service, billing cycles, other related things that we normally look for when deciding if the product is a scam and give some type of logo that would like back like SSL verification logos and prove the service has been validated by Scam Times.

I guess the question is this would a service be valuable to both the consumer and the business, and could we create that web of trust among vendors and consumers. The way we see it is we would be able to become a trust authority on that product and we can verify that the consumer will not get taken advantage of. Now this brings problems in itself but would this type of service be valuable. We have done some of the ground work to get this idea in motion but we figured what better way to find out if it is worth it to hear from everyone else and see if this type of certification would be valuable.

I go to several of these scam sites and they will say protected by McAfee or HackerSafe logos none of which are clickable because they are invalid so we would have to worry about that type of use. I could see this worth it to people trying to sell work at home business kits and plans, or products that are true, etc. I see value but that is because I am biased I need your opinions. What I need is everyone to get the word out and tweet, Facebook etc and let’s try to find out if this would be worth it to others. Thank you in advance for your support




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1 Smitty November 17, 2009 at 6:00 pm

The BBB already does this. A business can apply for BBB accreditation. Scammers would never qualify because, among other things, they try to hide their true identities, even when registering their businesses with a secretary of state. If a business is accredited, it may then apply for a license from the BBB to display the BBB accredited business seal on their site.

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