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PSA - Magazine Scam
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:44 pm
I've been getting various magazines with a 'free 12 month subscription' sent to my home address for the past year. I've called the publishers to cancel and asked them who had paid for it in the first place. It's a third party company called National Publishers Exchange that also goes by National Magazine Exchange which apparently scams you into a bunch of subscriptions come renewal time. A quick Google search brings up several BBB type websites detailing tons of anecdotes of elderly folks getting taken to the cleaners.
Anybody have any experience with this? This may be a really old scam but I'm hoping to spare someone or someone's family member some frustration by raising awareness.
Anybody have any experience with this? This may be a really old scam but I'm hoping to spare someone or someone's family member some frustration by raising awareness.
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Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:46 pm to Crimson
quote:would you complain if it was hustler and penthouse?
I've been getting various magazines with a 'free 12 month subscription' sent to my home address for the past year. I've called the publishers to cancel
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:48 pm to Crimson
Magazines make money from advertising which is based on their circulation. With subscription rates for print continually dropping, it's in their best interest to keep their circulation up. I'm not sure how they're going to scam you into anything at renewal time of you haven't given them any information. I've randomly started receiving a couple of magazines as well and haven't experienced any issues with anyone trying to collect.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:48 pm to SEClint
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would you complain if it was hustler and penthouse
The wife certainly would...
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:49 pm to Crimson
I still get a few. They are cheap.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:50 pm to Crimson
How did it get started in the first place?
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:51 pm to Crimson
Magazines are a scam in general. Interwebs, pops.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:51 pm to Crimson
quote:
The wife certainly would...
Would she buy your "I don't know why we keep getting these" story?
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:53 pm to SEClint
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would you complain if it was hustler and penthouse?
I would complain louder.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:53 pm to Rhino5
No idea. One of their reps just said we thought your demographic would like this particular magazine.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:56 pm to Crimson
Posted on 12/28/16 at 8:58 pm to Crimson
I get exactly two magazines-
One is "Garden and Gun" Garden & Gun Link
The other is "WVLiving" (I know someone there) WVLiving
If someone asks me about magazines (to sell them to me) I lie and say I don't want any.
One is "Garden and Gun" Garden & Gun Link
The other is "WVLiving" (I know someone there) WVLiving
If someone asks me about magazines (to sell them to me) I lie and say I don't want any.
This post was edited on 12/28/16 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 12/28/16 at 9:25 pm to Crimson
As long as you don't sign up on your own and give them any payment of any kind, fck them.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 9:29 pm to Crimson
I had one of the kids that travel around selling them in the vans together steal my wallet and my weed when they came to the door selling them but also had a personal sob story.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 9:30 pm to Crimson
Thought this was a thread about PSA (palmetto state armory) and their 'buy this and get 10 pmags) deals.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 9:31 pm to CScrogginLSU
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steal my wallet and my weed
Please entertain us with how the fck this happened.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 10:43 pm to CScrogginLSU
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had one of the kids that travel around selling them in the vans together steal my wallet and my weed when they came to the door selling them but also had a personal sob story.
Wut?
Elaborate.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 11:11 pm to notiger1997
It was way back in 2002 in Phoenix.They would hire teenagers that dropped out of high school or ran away and they used to drive around the country in vans selling magazine subscriptions door to door. I was 21 felt bad about the kids sob story ordered some magazines so they "could make their quota and get their bonus to send money back to their family" kid robbed me on the way out.
Posted on 12/28/16 at 11:12 pm to PowerTool
I got magazines forever even after I cancelled it
Posted on 12/28/16 at 11:14 pm to SEClint
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SEClint
Only upvoted because of your signature. MST3K rulz!
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