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Better Business Bureau: most-reported complaints

Complaints in recent reviews
68% of 103 recent reviews analysed
Most-reported issue
Support unhelpful 49% of complaints
Company replies
0% of negative reviews, typically within a day
TrustScore
1.5 from 481 total reviews
Review window analysed
2025-10-04 to 2026-11-07 103 reviews

Automated analysis of 103 public Trustpilot reviews published 2025-10-04 to 2026-11-07. TrustScore 1.5 from 481 total reviews — see the Trustpilot page. Quick answer: is Better Business Bureau legit? Issues below reflect what reviewers reported, not findings of wrongdoing.

Reviewers most often report that customer support is unhelpful, accounting for 49% of the 70 complaints identified. Other frequent issues include general dissatisfaction with the organization's authority and rating processes, which made up 33% of complaints. A smaller portion of reviewers cite unreachable support staff and faulty products or lack of financial restitution.

Trustpilot lists this business as no longer collecting reviews. New reviews are not currently being gathered for its profile. See the Trustpilot page for the current status.

What are the most common complaints about Better Business Bureau?

Complaint categories for Better Business Bureau, with share, count, trend and monthly pattern
IssueShareCountTrendBy month
Support unhelpful
49%
34steadySupport unhelpful: complaint share by month: 100 → 57.1
Other
33%
23fallingOther: complaint share by month: 0 → 28.6
Support unreachable
13%
9rising since 2026-07Support unreachable: complaint share by month: 0 → 14.3
Faulty product
9%
6rising since 2026-07Faulty product: complaint share by month: 0 → 0
Account/app problems
6%
4fallingAccount/app problems: complaint share by month: 0 → 0
Warranty disputes
4%
3steadyWarranty disputes: complaint share by month: 0 → 0

Support unhelpful

34 reports · 49% of complaints
“BBB is nothing more than a scam, to sell memberships to businesses (to make them appear legit with BBB logo) and harvest your information.”
1-star review · 2025-10-04 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint

2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

“File a complaint and in a month's time they just close it.”
1-star review · 2026-06-25 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

“the worst experience Ive ever head with a group that is supposed to HELP consumers are they getting paid by businesses like Amazon to ignore complaints against them”
1-star review · 2025-10-31 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

Other

23 reports · 33% of complaints
“any business can pay them to maintain a great rating regardless of customer complaints. That's all they don't have any authority to do anything or go after anyone.”
1-star review · 2025-11-19 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

5 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

“my case was closed ? For what ?”
1-star review · 2026-01-10 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

“My own complaint was immediately denied”
1-star review · 2026-01-08 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

Support unreachable

9 reports · 13% of complaints
“They asked me for additional evidence, I submitted it and they ignored it.”
1-star review · 2026-03-20 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint

1 reader marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

“they don't even answer the phone they don't even respond to my emails”
1-star review · 2026-03-12 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

1 reader marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

“I have called 3 or 4 times and left a message since it goes to voicemail ? but no one has called me back”
1-star review · 2026-02-06 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

1 reader marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.

Faulty product

6 reports · 9% of complaints
“refuses to issue financial restitution for the $3,071.00”
1-star review · 2026-08-27 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
“When I purchased the phone. It's original set up was changed apparently.”
1-star review · 2026-03-11 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
“Since Nov 9, 2025, washer has been sitting. NOT a functioning unit.”
1-star review · 2026-01-24 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint

Account/app problems

4 reports · 6% of complaints
“I initiated the deletion process five separate times. On every single attempt, the platform failed to process the request”
1-star review · 2026-05-15 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
“Logging in was a nightmare – my account "didn't exist," my public profile showed no reviews”
1-star review · 2026-03-06 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
“I got an error message but when I tried to post a review on any other company it went through”
1-star review · 2026-04-17 · Trustpilot · Verbatim

Warranty disputes

3 reports · 4% of complaints
“refuses to issue financial restitution for the $3,071.00”
1-star review · 2026-08-27 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
“The BBB autoline denied my repair even with a destroyed engine, no fault of my one.”
1-star review · 2026-06-05 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
“iRobot refuses to fix their own mistake.”
1-star review · 2026-01-09 · Trustpilot · Verbatim · classified as a severe complaint
70complaints identified
68%of recent reviews analysed
0%of negative reviews get a company reply, typically within a day

The company has not claimed its Trustpilot profile. We last checked this profile on 2026-11-12 and found 0 new reviews. These are facts Trustpilot publishes about the profile, as of our last harvest.

TrustScore over time

TrustScore history: 2026-10-31 1.6 → 2026-11-09 1.51.51.61.62026-10-312026-11-062026-11-091.5

1.6 → 1.5 across 3 census measurements since 2026-10-31. Our own record, independent of Trustpilot’s display.

Reply behaviour over time

Solid: % of negative reviews replied to. Dashed: typical days to reply. Both as reported on this company’s Trustpilot profile, recorded whenever our census re-checked it and a figure had changed — the gaps between points are not equal:

Show all 3 dated readings

2026-10-31 (0%, 0.0d) · 2026-11-06 (0%, 0.0d) · 2026-11-09 (0%, 0.0d).

Severity: 21% of this company’s 70 graded complaints were classified as severe (money lost, an essential service cut off, or a problem unresolved for months). See the harm index.

Reviewers here waited a median of 1.8 days between the experience and publishing their negative review (90 reviews record both dates).

Sector benchmark: support unhelpful makes up 49% of this company’s complaints vs a 28% median across 384 ranked companies in its sector.

Review velocity: 92 of this company’s 481 Trustpilot reviews (19%) were written in the last 12 months.

Method: reviews are classified into a fixed complaint taxonomy by an automated reader; every category shown is backed by at least two verbatim quotes from distinct reviews. Trends are computed from dated review counts only. Negative reviews are deliberately over-sampled for evidence depth; headline percentages use an unbiased recent sample only. Report updated 2026-11-09.