Wednesday, May 23, 2007
magazine slamming follow-up
Like me, are you receiving magazines your didn't subscribe to and being billed for it?
Just talked to my friendly neighborhood postal worker about my growing magazine problem and he gave me the following advice:
1. with magazine, take a thick black marker and write REFUSED across the address label and put it back in the mailbox
2. with invoice, write "did not subscribe, did not receive across it" and mail it back. I think I'll add a note saying: "do you outsource your subscriptions and marketing?"
The publisher will be paying for the postage both ways.
Just talked to my friendly neighborhood postal worker about my growing magazine problem and he gave me the following advice:
1. with magazine, take a thick black marker and write REFUSED across the address label and put it back in the mailbox
2. with invoice, write "did not subscribe, did not receive across it" and mail it back. I think I'll add a note saying: "do you outsource your subscriptions and marketing?"
The publisher will be paying for the postage both ways.
Labels: magazine slamming
magazine slamming
Motherfucking scumbag marketers. I've started receiving magazines I didn't order again at my parents' address. Along with the bills! Of course, the bills don't include a number to call. I'd like to just tell the post office I don't live there any more, but I still get some important mail there every once in a while.
Quick Google search turned up this:
WHDH-TV: Help Me Hank! Magazine subscriptions
Same problem. But no solution. (You suck, Hank.)
Someone somewhere is obviously getting paid to sign me up for these and I gotta believe it's the magazine that are paying to boost their subscriber number. So I am going to start a list here of these derelict magazines. (Haven't been by the parents to pick them up yet.)
Also considering sending a letter from a lawyer friend of mine to the publishers demanding information on who signed me up as part of an identity theft and mail fraud investigation.
If you have any advice, please comment.
Quick Google search turned up this:
WHDH-TV: Help Me Hank! Magazine subscriptions
Same problem. But no solution. (You suck, Hank.)
Someone somewhere is obviously getting paid to sign me up for these and I gotta believe it's the magazine that are paying to boost their subscriber number. So I am going to start a list here of these derelict magazines. (Haven't been by the parents to pick them up yet.)
Also considering sending a letter from a lawyer friend of mine to the publishers demanding information on who signed me up as part of an identity theft and mail fraud investigation.
If you have any advice, please comment.
Labels: magazine slamming
Friday, October 13, 2006
Fucking Motor Trend
Those skeezers sent me their magazine then a bill for $12 -- all without my consent!
Of course, the bill didn't include a number where I could call to yell at them. And my address wasn't even correct. So I returned to sender.
If they did this to you, you can contact them here.
Waste of my fucking time.
tags: motor trend, motortrend, subscription, subscribed, cancel, 866-542-2679, primedia, motortrend.com, id theft
Of course, the bill didn't include a number where I could call to yell at them. And my address wasn't even correct. So I returned to sender.
If they did this to you, you can contact them here.
Waste of my fucking time.
tags: motor trend, motortrend, subscription, subscribed, cancel, 866-542-2679, primedia, motortrend.com, id theft
Labels: magazine slamming
