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  • Report:  #1035441

Complaint Review: Subco inc

Subco inc Subco Inc. Mailing unsolicitied magazine subscriptions Internet

  • Reported By:
    Buddy — Ponce de Leon Florida
  • Submitted:
    Sun, March 17, 2013
  • Updated:
    Sun, March 17, 2013

I've received several magazine subscriptions without subscribing to them so I contacted one of the magazines to question and cancel this order, they say 'So sorry, but this was generated by Subco Inc. so you must contact them at 800-258-3350 to
cancel.'  I find it interesting that magazine and cannot cancel a subscription that they themselves are mailing out to a customer.

A call to Subco in Fresno, CA, receives a response that this order was generated by Millenium Marketing as a free trial offer.  Subco will cancel the subscription if I like, but 'I may continue to receive issues for a short time because the mailing labels are all preprinted.'  That's an interesting statement since my mailing address is printed directly on the front of the magazine.  I did request a cancellation and will be watching closely to see if I receive additional issues and a resulting bill for this unsolicited subscription.  I'm wondering how long it will be before I also start getting calls in an attempt to collect on this bill when it is never paid.

Based upon other complaints I've been able to locate, I am of the opinion that the magazine publishers, Millennium Marketing, and Subco Inc. are all in collusion to generate unsolicited subscriptions and make the 'cancellation process' multi-tiered in the hopes that an unsuspecting or preoccupied 'customer' will just pay the subscription invoice to make a prospective problem go away.  This is consumer fraud.

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