Complaint Review: Wanderlust Weekly

In September of 2017, my company was contacted by a lady named Erica, who claimed she worked for Wanderlust Magazine. They have an online website Which is called Wanderlust Weekly. 

" I write for an online travel and lifestyle magazine called Wanderlust, we cover conscious people and products around the world. We'd like to run a wellness feature on (My business), any interest?

Please review the site and let me know, thanks we'd love to have you. =)   wanderlustweekly.org "

 

Being a small business and familiar with Wanderlust I was thrilled and honored to be featured on their site. I agreed to being a part of the feature and doing the interview. Then I recieved an email of simple interview questions about my business,  so they could " run an entrepreneurial profile on me and how I manifested my vision." I answered the 3 questions, and provided pictures as reqested.   

  

  After reading what I had wrote, Erica then mentioned that Wanderlust  Magazine wanted to help me get a few projects off the ground. 

"Also we'd love to help support your (PROJECT 1) and ( PROJECT 2). If you like we can put together a newsletter campaign for you to get the word out, which means we'd send a series of eblasts with(my business) branding and news to our 50K subscribers over a 2 month period. You're not obligated but it's very effective, with a one time fee of $($$) to help with our costs."

   

   I agreed to the fee and was sent an invoice from Wanderlust Magazine. Paid the fee and never heard from them again. I've emailed over and over and got zero response.