You also have to be careful, I had a member list their business on Google with my address. Google flagged me a potentially shady and took me off google maps for 2 months while they thought about it.
Liz -----Original Message----- From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Angel Kwiatkowski Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:05 PM To: Coworking Subject: [Coworking] Re: Ghost Businesses ... Hmmm, that sounds annoying. I would contact the companies and ask them to buy membership to continue to use the physical address. Despite what the attorney says, I wouldn't want any company using my business as their "front." It seems shady plus it creates an awkward situation for you every time someone comes in looking for them. Angel On Aug 4, 12:19 pm, Jerome Chang <jer...@blankspaces.com> wrote: > We first see if they've listed themselves at our address on Google Places, then contact them, then either "return to sender" or sometimes have them get a membership! > > Jerome > ______________ > BLANKSPACES > "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" > > www.blankspaces.com > ph: 323.330.9505 | 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 > ph: 310.526.2255 | 1450 2nd Street (@ Broadway), Santa Monica, CA 90401 > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Derek Young wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello Wise Co-Working Friends, > > > It's been way too long since I've participated with this group. Suite133 is still here and growing. We may be neglecting our coworking community duties, website, and self-promotion, but we are still here. > > > Here's my question for you. Have any of you had companies register your address as their own without actually being a member? In the four years that we've been around, this has happened twice. First it was a limousine company. Then it was an alarm company. > > > We first discovered it when someone dropped into our office to look for one of the companies. A few web searches later and we discovered our address all over the interwebs and in business license filings that were not related to us. At first we got rather worked up about it. Our attorney, however, told us to not worry about it as there was no actual harm being done to our business. So, just the other day a few more people dropped in to see someone about an alarm system. Again, our attorney (who has a desk here) tells us that this is a problem for state/city government types that handle licensing and not us. > > > I'm curious. Have any of you run into this before? If so, what did you do? > > > Any input would be appreciated. > > > Thank you, > > > Derek Young > > Suite133 - Tacoma, WA > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. > > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
