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Personnel Concepts Compliance Letter Revisited

Lately, I've been getting a number of anonymous, rapid fire responses to my post entitled, "Scam: Personal Concepts Compliance Letter." The responses are basically saying that it isn't a scam.

In my opinion, it is a scam.  It is a letter which is designed to look like a legal threat to con unsuspecting accounts payable clerks or small business owners into paying for something they can get for free from the government.

The scam works like this:  You receive an official letter threatening you with fines unless you purchase the poster.  After purchasing a poster, you will soon find out that the poster is old and you need to get a new one.  Later, you will find out you should get an OSHA poster... and so on.

Obviously, the blog postings on this scam are having an effect, so much so that the scammers are now posting anonymous comments calling us "uninformed."

Good luck with that.

It isn't a scam. Don't you read your mail or do you just look at it?

First of all I'm a labor attorney, and anyone who thinks they are invisible to the law shouldn't be in business. Second, anyone that spends their time trying to keep up to date on labor postings by downloading them for free is a moron and will soon be out of business anyways. What business owner has time to worry about posters...hire a professional. Then again don't because it's what gets me paid to rip know it all business owners like yourself a new one.

I'm not sure how you came to your analysis about the "anonymous" posters but you have them all over your blog. No one (not even your supporters) include their name. It might as well be you. I did however notice on a few other blogs with some negative tones have some positive tones on them also...and they all have names. Whats that all about genius?

Now to be fair to you, I think they have listen to the public and are aware that some people just can't handle reality and have decided to move away from this notice...or so it's rumored. Here are a few blogs that make mention with some good and bad responses

http://laborlawguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/personnel-concepts-and-the-dreaded-final-notice/

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http://govregs.blogspot.com/search?q=personnel+concepts+final+notice

Now I notice the first blog has all sorts of names but the govregs does not. However both of you are using blogger which allows the user to leave their name out. Maybe you should use a different system that forces people to use their name.

Well I dare you to post this...obviously not everyone agrees with B.S. just as you don't but who's to say what the B.S. is if they don't know what they are talking about.

Brad,
As you can see, I don't moderate posts to my blog.

Secondly, the letters that I received a designed to: 1) look like a notice from the government, and 2) insinuate that you will be fined by not having the PC posters.

Personally, I find the marketing letter deceitful and sleazy, and therefore meets the definition of a scam (to deprive of by deceit).

The posters are available for free from the government. Some small businesses are exempt from the poster requirements.

Personnel Concepts has an “F” rating from the Better Business Bureau, with a total of 143 complaints.

Lastly, it has been reported many times that once you receive your posters, you will quickly receive another notice telling you that the posters are out of date or you need the OSHA poster which is priced at around $100. Businesses have been conned out of thousands of dollars trying to “keep up.”

Also, many of the anonymous (positive) postings were posted within minutes of each other, which I found suspicious.

This company uses questionable tactics to profit from those that are less informed about labor law requirements. The time spent to become more informed on the subject is a long term and less expensive investment. Is "anyways" a word is the world of labor attorneys?

He must be a cool hip and young lawyer. I am actually having a hard time trying to return some posters to these guys. They are bullies and yes the posters can be obtained in a much easier manner.

John

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