BBB of West Michigan Better Business Bureau of Grand Rapids BBB you buy your rating Grand Rapids Michigan

We own a remodeling company and were approaced to become a member of the BBB.  Prior to membership we had a not rated rating.  We paid the money and got an A+ rating.  Shortly after that we were approached by the BBB to do some advertising.  We said no.  Our rating became a N/R.  To add insult to injury we had a secretary steel several files as she starated her own company and was soliciting our customers to cancel and resell the jobs.  These files were given to the BBB and they began to solicit complaints from these customers.  After a couple months we again were contacted to advertise and agreed to spend over $17,000.00.  Incredibly the BBB called and stated they were reinstaing our A plus ratiing.  I became angry and cancelled the advertising.  We are still not rated and if a customer calls for a rating on us the BBB stears them away from our company.  It should also be noted that a managing parter of the BBB is the owner of Above Roofing a major competitor who we have recently taken a great deal of business from.  

This to to looks like a different form of protection money scam!