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		<title>US-YELLOW Yellow Pages</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't let your concrete company get scammed by the "Yellow Pages".]]></description>
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I wanted to include a short article on a scam that many of the concrete companies may experience.  If you get a notice in the mail from a company &#8220;US-YELLOW&#8221; Yellow Pages, please be aware that it is somewhat of a scam.</p>
<p>The paper work looks like a simple form to fill out to update your company information for publication in a Yellow Book type phone book.  The company even goes so far as to include &#8220;walking fingers&#8221; in the logo.  This is not the old &#8220;let your fingers do the walking&#8221; Yellow Pages we all remember as kids.<br />
If you fill out your &#8220;updated&#8221; information, and mail back the form in their postage paid envelope, you will receive a bill in the future outlining how you owe them around $229 for advertising fees.  The &#8220;agreement&#8221; is in very small print.  The even have the nerve to mail you back a copy of what you &#8220;signed&#8221; along with your bill.  I will post a picture of the yellow page scam on this page.<br />
I suppose I have come up with the philosophy that I am not going to pay to be in ANY type of directory.  I often receive another notice from some sort of Manufacturer Directory and find that the story is the same there.  I simply let people know that I am not interested in paying to be in a directory, book form or internet.<br />
There are easy ways to list your company for free on the internet, so people can find you through search engines like Yahoo and Google.  Also, stick with a few local phone books as well.</p>
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