Paytel's Awards

This article will describe the awards / any type of certification for ethics Paytel lists on it's website, specifically, the www.paytel.com page.

Paytel Certifications

  1. Piedmont Business Ethics Award
  2. Better Business Bureau (BBB) Accredited

The BBB accreditation is very alarming, and should tell us quite a bit about what BBB accreditation actually means. Of course, if this section of the website suddenly made national news, the BBB would naturally conduct investigations on itself and determine how "something like this could have possibly happened". Until then, all readers who've come across this page have the opportunity to witness the BBB's reaction when they're not being closely monitored by the entire country.

Piedmont Business Ethics Award
Paytel created a page on their website to provide an overview of their "award". Paytel states they've received this award for commitment to ethical business practices for "their law enforcement clients" and "customers using their service". To everyone who's read other topics under this section, such a statement must seem unreal. It will further shock you to learn that Paytel states they have a "record of zero formal complaints." Becoming accustomed to Paytel's devious tactics, they may mean zero complaints from law enforcement customers, or their definition of "formal complaint" may differ from the rest of the world's.

In the document, Paytel goes on to provide reasons they believe they've won this award. We would say Paytel explicitly lies when they claim they have their customer's interests at heart, but we must remember Paytel considers the county jails to be their customers, in which case, we have no doubt they want to keep them satisfied. Paytel goes on to explain they treat their employees equally and that they've used, perhaps, 1% of their profits to establish an employee fitness center. Paytel emphasizes they don't even charge the employee to use the fitness center! Or to participate in some sort of fitness program.

In the final paragraph, they go on to emphasize Paytel has donated to numerous charities. It is essential we go over charity frauds, which are nothing more then non-profit organization frauds. They have been virtually unheard of on the news. Politicians, for instance, "legally" pocket our money by designating a certain amount goes to a non-profit, the non-profit's founder pockets the money (legally) and shares it with the politician. These type of schemes are only used by the powerful. The powerful control the non-profits, and only someone with power, like a senator, can revise a bill right before it's signed and mandate x amount of dollars goes to such-and-such organization. This is just one form of fraud widely used right now. You can easily confirm this by looking at how many pages are added to a bill right before it's signed, and easily look at what the content says. Another form of fraud is, someone you want to influence is a founder of a non-profit. After you donate to the non-profit, the person returns the favor.

We do not believe the specific non-profits Paytel lists on their page have been created for such interests. However, Paytel did have a reason for donating the money. First, it would provide certification organizations (like the BBB and Piedmont) the ability to publicly certify Paytel. The organizations could use the donations / charity to provide numerous arguments against an allegation of being influenced by Paytel to grant the public certification. Furthermore, if some small personal website / blog / youtube video tried to inform the public of the truth about what Paytel does, the public would respond, "are you crazy? This company donates to a variety of charities! They're even trying to save children!"

Right now we do not have enough time to further explain this specific topic. However, we would definitely welcome an article from someone who understands how Paytel works, and has time. We're looking to explain how Paytel, with such extremely unethical business practices, could have been given this award. You can provide references at the bottom of your article, or in the article itself.

Better Business Bureau (BBB)
We've found the BBB is more widely known then the Piedmont Award and relied on by many. The BBB works in a very simple way. You pay an annual fee to be an accredited business. Regardless of official standards, as long as you're not a crook, your business will be accredited. Thereafter, people can file complaints with the BBB, which the company itself can attempt to address and resolve. The BBB is very easy to influence, and as Mr. Kimball's businesses were BBB accredited (BBB never recorded one complaint against DEDI), we can explain how the system works.

Influencing BBB accreditation is quite straightforward. Paytel (as well as every company) has a local BBB office which, of course, provides BBB accreditation. Since this office is local, you will find the same people there and you can easily make friends. As with every organization, this BBB local office has an echelon, with the board of directors in control. The local BBB hosts activities, usually luncheons, where the echelon and BBB members can associate. The typical purpose of these activities are to discuss BBB community service projects. The BBB also officially host meetings every 2 weeks or so.

Influencing BBB accreditation is simple and easy because you need only ask every member of the board out for lunch. There, as with any person vital to your business' success, you pick up the tab, treat them to a good time, and explain your company and why you might run into issues with accreditation. As the local BBB activities are also intended to pick up any members who want to be involved with the office, it provides a perfect platform to ask the echelon out to dinner. Of course, if you did not want to lose your BBB accreditation, such influence is not sufficient. You must be sure to go to all BBB activities and meetings, and occasionally have dinner with a few people on the board of directors. This will ensure your influence over your BBB office and ensure your company remains BBB accredited.

The above paragraphs explain what every officer of an established corporation already knows. It is certainly useful information to people uninvolvled with corporations, which easily explains how Paytel was able to remain BBB accredited.

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Notice Paytel's play on words when they state employees receive "individualized assessments." The wording and exact placement in the description attempts to give you the impression their employees are given individual lessons, when in all realty, looking at it twice, none of us really know what it means. We just know it, coincidently, gives a certain impression.