1, Report:
#730939
Posted Date:
May 20 2011
HEARTLAND INC They scamed me in to getting a subscribtion with them, tried to cancel but they said i cant, i am a college student, so i called one day to tell them i cant pay for the bill so they stoped calling me urbandale, Iowa
Hi my name is Anna. About 3 years a ago when i first stared college i got my self in to a magazine scam with Magazine service of america, i tried to cancel and they said i cant about a year latter i got laid off from my job and told them i cant afford to pay the bill, they stoped ca...
Entity
HEARTLAND INC
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
2, Report:
#595708
Posted Date:
Apr 23 2010
Heartland, Inc. Customer And Employee Treatment Urbandale, Iowa
I worked for heartland for 2 years. I witness a lot of things they did and continue to do to their customers/potential customers and employees. I recently got fired from there for reasons that i don't believe i can go into detail about based on the actions i took. Because of all of ...
Entity
Heartland, Inc.
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
3, Report:
#595701
Posted Date:
Apr 23 2010
Heartland Inc. Magazines - People who have been effected by them Urbandale, Iowa
I had worked for Heartland for 2 years. I have witnessed a lot of things they have done and continue to do to their employees, and to their customers/potential customers. At one point they wouldn't let the employees eat inside, and made them all eat outside(mind you its winter at th...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazines
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
4, Report:
#595036
Posted Date:
Apr 21 2010
Heartland Inc Illegal Practices urbandale, Iowa
From consumer fraud, to not paying employees their comission, to illegal UA's, to illegally calling numerous numbers on the National Do Not Call List, there is not much else that is illegal that they can do, they do it all. If you are on the DNC list, call the FTC. If you want your ...
Entity
Heartland Inc
Categories: Telemarketers
5, Report:
#593870
Posted Date:
Apr 16 2010
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription Charged my credit card without my permission, and after I sent in my cancellation I signed. They even call at 9:30 pm des moines, Iowa
This company has charged my credit card after I told them not to do so. I was sent a cancellation form if I did not want this. I filled in the information and signed it with a date sent it to the company and they still did this to me. Then they continued with there phone calls. I wa...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
6, Report:
#580261
Posted Date:
Mar 12 2010
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription harassing phone calls, threatening to charge my checking account for the remaining balance of $383.04 even though I have not missed a payment Des Moines, Iowa
It all started with a call stating that we are calling from your magazine publishers without giving a company name. They were going to lower my payments. Sure, they lowered my payments, but, guess what, I now had a new account.
I sent them a cancellation notice which th...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Questionable Activities
8, Report:
#553448
Posted Date:
Jan 13 2010
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription Operator was very rude, called 4 times, and cussed me out des moines, Iowa
I received a call from Heartland Inc. The operator asked for my wife. I asked what it was regarding. She said it was about a magazine subscription. I told her that she didn't order one and hung up. She immediately called back and said not to hang up on h...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
9, Report:
#552245
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2010
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription Subscription Scam: Forced to Pay and Overcharged Des Moines, Iowa
It started with a call I got in December 2009. The caller said they were calling from the publishers. I was soon to find out that if they say the publishers, and don't give you a company name, that's a red flag.Anyway, I learned about Heartland's subscription package dea...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
10, Report:
#547760
Posted Date:
Dec 31 2009
Heartland Inc ,magazine subscription service Misleading phone call leading to dunning Des Moines, Iowa
Someone from Heartland (telemarketer) called me in September 2009, implying that they had been handling my magazine subscriptions. Of course when one receives a call such as this it's difficult to go check on when the subscriptions actualy do run out, or what company hand...
Entity
Heartland Inc
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
11, Report:
#543646
Posted Date:
Dec 22 2009
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription heartland express; heartland magazines RIpoff and scam urbandale, Iowa
I received a call from Heartland on or about November 24 asking me if I would like to purchase some magazines, for only 9.95 a month for 5 months for a total of 49.90 the last payment would be uneven blah, blah, blah. I though it would be a great deal for a brother whom is in prison...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
12, Report:
#541505
Posted Date:
Dec 18 2009
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription Took Money out of my account without authorization, refused to cancel my order after I found out they took out funds without my permission, harrassing phone calls telling me I cant cancel Des Moines, Iowa
Took unauthorized funds out of my checking account after telling me nothing would come out of account that I would be billed. Canceled account when that happened and they continue to call me and harass me about this account and told me I couldnt cancel it. I have had to block my ban...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
13, Report:
#488700
Posted Date:
Sep 02 2009
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription Calling me while on do-not call list, taking out unauthorized money, constant harrasment to get information out of me. Calling me while on do-call list, constant harrasment to get information from me. Des Moines, Iowa
I was already recieving several magazines from another telemarketer and put my name on the do not call list shortly after that subscription, this happened about 2 years ago.
A company called me up saying they were Heartland, Inc. and they had alot of personal information on me and ...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
14, Report:
#479792
Posted Date:
Aug 14 2009
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription On the phone they told me I had ordered magazines from them four years ago and now I had to start paying. I received a bill in the mail for magazines I did not even order. Please be careful of this Rock Hill, South Carolina
Fraudulent Magazine subscriptions.
I was somehow tricked into giving this company my Visa. They said they just wanted to verify what they had. I told them I was getting two magazines. A few days later I get a bill for over $1,ooo for five magazines that where neve...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Sales People
15, Report:
#471709
Posted Date:
Jul 21 2009
Heartland, Inc. Aggressive, Rude, and NO not in vocabulary Des Moines Iowa
I received a call on Thursday night, July 15th. Usually, I do not answer calls that do not list their names, or come across as Blocked Call, 800 service, Unknown, etc. However, this came across with the name Heartland, Inc.. This was a call that kept coming in at least 2 or 3 ti...
Entity
Heartland, Inc.
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
16, Report:
#468857
Posted Date:
Jul 12 2009
Heartland, Inc. did not order, but billed anyway Des Moines Iowa
Last year my husband was contacted by Heartland, Inc. He was engaged in casual conversation, asked about his magazine preferences, etc. My husband consistently said he did not want to order anything. A couple of days later we received an invoice thanking him for his order of $1,5...
Entity
Heartland, Inc.
Categories: Handicap Parking
17, Report:
#455533
Posted Date:
May 27 2009
Heartland Inc invoice madness Des Moines Iowa
Heartland has now resorted to mailing me invoices saying Payment is due or we will be forced to explore other measures. i still haven't received the mags i ordered and i have called to cancel but they won't let me..
The BBB in Iowa has my report and should be contacting me tomorr...
Entity
Heartland Inc
Categories: Telemarketers
18, Report:
#428476
Posted Date:
May 15 2009
Heartland Inc subscription fraud Des Moines Iowa
I noticed on my credit card i was billed for two different amounts. I was told i agreed to 4 more new magazines and they played a tape.
I informed them i agreed to change my currents magazines and that was all. I was told to hang up next time someone calls. I have currently filed a...
Entity
Heartland Inc
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
19, Report:
#327821
Posted Date:
Mar 03 2009
Heartland, Inc Violated the Government Do Not Call Registry to try and sell me magazines Des Moines Iowa
First off, I have been registered with the National Do Not Call registry since January of 2003.(I recently checked to verify that I am still on the list, and I am).
This Company called me Jan. 17, 2008. and started out bu asking how I like the magazines I was receiving. Since I ...
Entity
Heartland, Inc
Categories: Telemarketers
20, Report:
#425526
Posted Date:
Feb 18 2009
National Magazine Exchange And Others And Discover Card this magazine company and many others have taken advantage of my disabled sister Clearwater Florida
My disabled sister was recently hospitalized and after going through her credit card & bank info I've found that she's being scammed by several magazine ripoff artists.
This seems to have been going on since 2004. She apparently initially ordered some magazines and it snowball...
Entity
National Magazine Exchange
Categories: Telemarketers
21, Report:
#421454
Posted Date:
Feb 07 2009
Heartland What a pathtic abuse of hard times for us all Des Moines Iowa
I was contaced on Jan 26th 2009 by a young man who said he was calling on behalf of a magaizine fufill ment center and he was calling to check that I was reciving my subscriptions alright. I told him that I was and was having no other problems thank you. He then stated that being ...
Entity
Heartland Inc.
Categories: Multi Level Marketing
22, Report:
#416614
Posted Date:
Jan 27 2009
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription Fradulent use of incorrect information Des Moines Iowa
I have been on the no call list since just after the first subscription, I checked, we're still on it. (updated as well)
On the 26th of November 2008 I received a phone call for a magazine subscription, Since I was in fact receiving magazines from another company I took no noti...
Entity
Heartland Inc. Magazine Subscription
Categories: Media Outlets
23, Report:
#388519
Posted Date:
Dec 09 2008
Heartland, Inc. Phone Solicitation for Magazines Des Moise Iowa
Heartland, Inc. is a telemarketing firm that sells magazines subscriptions. They call me at home and on my cell phone. I also am on the Federal and State Do Not Call List.
I purchased four magazines Oprah, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal and More. There must be more t...
Entity
Heartland, Inc.
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
24, Report:
#315605
Posted Date:
Mar 07 2008
Heartland Trying to steal credit card number Natiownide Iowa
These jokers called me 2 weeks ago trying to tell me I had a magazine subscription from them. The only mags I ordered were from my nephew via school and I told the lady that. She said, well, you can pay for them now over the phone, do you have a credit card? I'm thinking, I do belie...
Entity
Heartland
Categories: Telemarketers
25, Report:
#143997
Posted Date:
May 26 2005
Heartland fraudulant billing! Des Moines Iowa
I noticed 2 charges on my credit card statement: America's Choice Readers and Heartland Inc. I called both of them. I cancelled America's Choice after 8 months of arguing with them that I didn't want a 5 year subscription.
I call Heartland and they said I subscribed to the same ...
Entity
Heartland
Categories: Telemarketers