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HomePages Directories has 3 locations, listed below.

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    • HomePages Directories

      915 E Lincoln Hwy Dekalb, IL 60115-3941

      BBB Accredited Business
    • HomePages Directories

      PO Box 982 Dekalb, IL 60115-0982

      BBB Accredited Business
    • HomePages Directories

      P.O.Box 801 DeKalb, IL 60115-0801

      BBB Accredited Business

    Business ProfileforHomePages Directories

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    HeadquartersMulti Location Business
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    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 5 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    10 complaints closed in last 3 years

    2 complaints closed in last 12 months

    BBB Rating & Accreditation

    Accredited Since: 1/1/2009

    Years in Business: 27

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    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

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    HomePages Directories has 3 locations, listed below.

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      • HomePages Directories

        915 E Lincoln Hwy Dekalb, IL 60115-3941

        BBB Accredited Business
      • HomePages Directories

        PO Box 982 Dekalb, IL 60115-0982

        BBB Accredited Business
      • HomePages Directories

        P.O.Box 801 DeKalb, IL 60115-0801

        BBB Accredited Business
      Headquarters
      915 E Lincoln Hwy, Dekalb, IL 60115-3941
      BBB File Opened:
      11/12/2003
      Years in Business:
      27
      Business Started:
      1/1/1997
      Business Started Locally:
      1/1/1997
      Business Incorporated:
      2/15/2007
      Accredited Since:
      1/1/2009
      Type of Entity:
      Limited Liability Company (LLC)
      Alternate Business Name
      • Hometown Rewards
      • Closeby
      • OPTIMA™
      • American Marketing & Publishing, LLC
      • Your Homepages Telephone Directory
      Business Management
      • Ms. Karen Bourdage, COO
      • Mr. Abram Andrzejewski, CEO
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. Abram Andrzejewski, CEO

      Customer Contact

      • Ms. Karen Bourdage, COO
      Additional Contact Information

      Fax Numbers

      • (815) 295-8017
        Other Fax

      Phone Numbers

      Customer Complaints

      10 Customer Complaints

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      Customer Reviews

      5 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Michelle G

      1 star

      10/08/2024

      The *** sales team agreed to a scope of work & monthly meetings to review status for 2024. Yet once the contract was signed, the ops team failed in every aspect. Social media posts were almost non-existent & ones that were done were generic & didnt generate traffic. Issues with menu revisions & online presence were ignored causing loss of revenue; status review meetings didnt occur.We were shuffled through several employees who failed to complete the work & were impossible to communicate with. Discussing issues with management was difficult as escalation contact was largely ignored over the term of our contract.After 8 months of issues, the discussion turned to if the contract should be fulfilled since *** was failing in all aspects of the contract. Social media failures Incorrect menu revisions lack of online site management caused a decline in take-out/online business which comprised ~50% of total sales Seo optimization-we became less visible & the bar graph on ****** went straight down in 2024. Upon escalation, *** refused to even discuss it While acknowledging the issues to date, management would not offer credited months to correct the work. We agreed to nullify the contract with 2 items *** agreed to: 1) finish overdue menu revisions & 2) not shut off the website for at least a week to allow us to make adjustments to the previous site to turn on. *** failed on bothfinal menu was sent with errors in wording & pricing & they refused to fix it (we incurred an additional $145 to fix) & they shut down the website within a day of the negotiated arrangement that caused a loss of online sales revenue. Finally, the company did not inform their own accounting department that the contract terminated so they made several calls to try to force ************ advise businesses to stay away from *** as not only will you pay for work that will not be done but this company actually causes the business to lose revenue & online presence.

      HomePages Directories Response

      10/31/2024

      Were very disappointed to read this. We typically take the approach that the customer is always right but much of what is written here is simply incorrect as a factual matter. Our records show a total of 93 separate conversations with your business after the services were initially set up, so there was no lack of communication or intensive customer service. Like all service businesses, we rely on our customers to be reasonable partners. You were unhappy with your social media presence, but your ******** account was hacked prior to the time you became a customer of ours, and no ********************** agency can recover a hacked ******** account (including us) so we assisted you in establishing a new account. Great social results simply take time under these conditions. You signed up for our smallest menu program which included four annual updates, and in the 8 months you were a customer we provided seven updates as well as revisions, including some complementary work we did for you even after you requested and we agreed to cancel your services. Our senior Customer Experience Manager worked with you through the steps to repoint your website domain and explained that by cancelling your program, the site we hosted would come down, and that repointing this domain quickly was imperative if you wanted a seamless transition to another domain. She offered to hold off on the cancellation for a week so that you could arrange this, you instead opted to cancel immediately, and we still kept the site up for an additional day to give you some time. In these conversations we plainly stated that communication concerning your overdue balance had already been generated as an automated process because youd stopped paying your bill, and that you could disregard these communications. We wish this had gone better for you and for us, obviously, and wish you the best going forward.

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