Thank you for your note. We recognize the frustration and potential damage that comes with being scammed and appreciate your efforts in bringing this to light. As you’ll see in the other comments here, we have heard about the possibilities of this from others and until now have chosen to maintain our position with the award. While the SBCA may not exist and may simply be in this to make some money, we are quite proud of the positive feedback we continually receive from our clients – as the Best of Business Award suggests – and specifically have not provided any money or other financial support to the SBCA. Given your charged comments though, we will now remove the SBCA logo from our website and other marketing materials. We will however leave this blog post as it stands so that everyone in our public community can see what has transpired here and thus make their own informed decisions about how to act in such situations in the future. We specifically do not want to filter your comments (even though we have no way of validating your claims). These online communication channels are evolving over time, and we at Plus Delta are proud to be a positive role model for their use in creating real dialogue between people.

Thank you again for voicing your concerns. Please feel free to share your real name and real contact info with us if you’d like to discuss the matter further. We do not want to invade your privacy but when you do not provide a full name or standard email address, at least to us privately (entering “[omitted]Up4fun@[omitted].com” does not strike us as your “real” email address), you hinder our ability to communicate with you. We encourage all comments, but particularly those who embrace the spirit of transparency and community dialogue in which we are all participating; therefore we have made it easy to do so by providing one of four popular login methods above the commenting box. One also has the option of entering their full name and standard email address below the commenting box, without fear of spam.

You have been scammed and in turn you are scamming people into believing that you were awarded something based on what they purport to have a “selection committee” which they will not provide information for and their monthly surveys, consumer rankings and reports, which they also can't provide. The Inc award is legit, but I'm shocked that a business owner like you could defend such a baseless award as this one. And how do i know all of this, because I too was awarded this fictitious award after receiving the small business person of the year award from the actual Chamber of Commerce. These types of companies prey on small business, just like the “who's who” lists do. Nobody with any business acumen believes these and neither should you. You certainly shouldn't be announcing them because it makes you seem slimy, especially if the press were to get a hold of you announcing a fictitious award.