Reasons not to participate in Federal Buyers Guide, Department of Defense Buyers Guide, Industrial Buyers Guide, Defense Industry Buyers Guide, etc.:
It appears they intentionally make it difficult to investigate this company. These websites have so many links to each other that its like trying to untangle a birds nest. The navigation link on the Federal Buyers Guide site (and the Military Base Buyers Guide) for Advertising takes you to the DoD Buyers Guide with the URL at https://www.industrialbuyersguide.com/r20/index. Cfm? Mid=6769
The navigation link on the Industrial Buyers Guide site for Advertising takes you to the Federal Buyers Guide with the URL at http://www.govsupplier.com/
The publication images, even for their online guide, are not clickable, so you cant view most of the publications. The only one I could view and download is the Computer Technology: Data Storage Buyers Guide. Youll find it has a blank cover and 11 pages of very poor quality ads with a very odd mix of products.
Although it says the listings are free, if you go all the way through the application process, youll find a very confusing set of options wherein you do have to pay for the listing. The cost of an online listing is $595 for 6 months and $995 for one year. Their websites list everything from cosmetics to pest control.
Neither I nor anyone Ive asked has actually seen a printed directory from this company, though Ive been in this industry for more than twenty years and often receive solicitations from Federal Buyers Guide and its many affiliations.
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