A means we recommend that you should not do business with that company. The more red flag warnings a company gives, the more you should approach with extreme caution. Company refuses to provide in writing the number of ideas they have represented and how many inventors made more money than they invested. Company refuses to provide in writing the number of ideas that have been sent to them and how many they accepted.
Salesmen apply pressure to send money in right away.
Company tells you to fully describe your idea in writing and then tells you to mail this information to yourself and not open the envelope. This ploy is used to give the inventor the false impression that the idea is somehow protected. In fact, it does absolutely nothing. Company recommends that a design patent be applied for. Company provides a patent search without a patentability opinion.