Do you do a search on Google for most of your home needs etc? Have you seen many companies that do not show an address on their Google Business page? Or it just says Columbus, Ohio? Ever wondered how they were verified?
Grove City Garage Door Inc. asks the same questions all the time about Google verified businesses! We had to go through great lengths to get verified and have telemarketers call us all the time to say we are not verified when we actually are verified! One way to tell if a business is verified, the business will have a green check mark on their Google Places page that says they are verified. How do you get verified? Well you set up your Google Places account, have Google send out a post card with a verification number, and once you enter that number into your Google Places account; you are then a verified merchant on Google Places.
We have seen instances of businesses that were claiming to be at one location, got verified somehow, and it is difficult to get them unverified. How is this fair to real businesses that use Google Places as an avenue to advertise their business? So consumers be careful while shopping on the internet, there are businesses that practice unscrupulously to get your business. Those businesses may or may not be a local company, and they could be scamming you. So do your homework and check out a business before hiring them to work on your home. We have seen some cases where a garage door company was hired to put up a new garage door opener and has come back at a later time to rob the customer.
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