Better Business Bureau warns of ad scam
The Iowa Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning chambers of commerce and small business owners in the state about a company selling advertising space on magnetized city guides. The company, Communities Unlimited LLC of Davenport, is using chamber member rosters to solicit businesses for advertising space on local city guides that are purportedly distributed throughout the community. When the promised ads never materialize or are of poor quality or never distributed, small business owners find themselves out from $300 to $1,300. The company, whose legal name is Ossian Entreprises LLC and also does business as Ads Sports and American Publishing, has been soliciting chambers and high school athletic departments throughout the country; the majority of BBB complaints allege the products are never received.