4131, Report:
#1028965
Posted Date:
Jul 11 2002
Consolidated Media Services CMS aka Winners Choice Publications WCP Pushy misleading liars caused my credit card company to close my account Atlanta Georgia
Consolidated Media Services left a message on my voicemail several months ago saying I have some exciting news about your sweepstakes entry! Please call me back-I need to reach you!
I didn't enter any sweepstakes, but I called back to see what was going on and she told me abo...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services CMS aka Winners Choice Publications WCP
Categories: Corrupt Companies
4132, Report:
#23946
Posted Date:
Jul 07 2002
Book Net Ltd ripoff Irvine California
Two young people came to may door telling me the same stories others have reported. They were earning moneyi for college. After paying mover $100 in checks, I received a postcard from Book Net saying that the amount I paid was only a down payment and I still owe them $92.40. They a...
Entity
Book Net Ltd
Categories: Corrupt Companies
4133, Report:
#1029333
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2002
Consolidated Media Services ripoff and false promises Atlanta Georgia
I was called about some magazine subscriptions and told about some sweepstakes. I was told that I would have to pay monthly payments of $66.65 for 12 months and I would be getting magazines every month.
Till now 2 payments of $66.65 each have been taken from my account and I hav...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Telemarketers
4134, Report:
#23537
Posted Date:
Jun 28 2002
Consolidated Media Services misleading, scamming liars Atlanta Georgia
I recieved a telemarketing call saying I could get magazine subscriptions at a very discounted rate. When I recieved my confirmation letter, however, the prices were much steeper than what the representative on the phone had led me to believe. I called customer service to cancel, an...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Telemarketers
4135, Report:
#23492
Posted Date:
Jun 26 2002
Book Net LTD is a ripoff fraud business from hell that screwed many others. Irvine, California
I bought 3 magazine subscriptions from this company. Two college students came to my door selling magazines to help build their tuition (is what they told me). I ended up into being conned into buying 2 magazines and a coupon book. I paid the cheaper of these magazine subscriptions ...
Entity
Book Net LTD.
Categories: Corrupt Companies
4136, Report:
#23432
Posted Date:
Jun 26 2002
Consolidated Media Servies ripoff: the take your money but give you nothing Atlanta Georgia
CMS called me in my dorm some time in early January and asked me, a nieve college student with the promise of seven magazine subscriptions for 30 dolars a month, in accuality they wer billing my checking account 66.71 a month.
I told my parents about my decision and they told me...
Entity
Consolidated Media Servies
Categories: Media
4137, Report:
#23146
Posted Date:
Jun 22 2002
Girls Gone Wild, M.R.A Video Charged videos to my credit card and other things such as magazine subscriptions deceptive company SylmarSylmar CaliforniaFOX 6 investigative reporter John Mattes first broke the story how Girls Gone Wild was marketing videos for only $9.99 consumers found the company tacking on huge fees. Thousands of consumers called it a rip-off on ripoffreport. After our story aired an attorney sued calling it deceptive advertising. Video part 1 Video part 2
I ordered one video, at the time there was nothing stating I would receive more than one video on the televised add. When I called to order the video the lady I spoke with was not fluent in English. I told her I wanted the one video I had seen on TV. She kept asking if I wanted o...
Entity
Girls Gone Wild (M.R.A Video)
Categories: Video Stores
4138, Report:
#23155
Posted Date:
Jun 21 2002
NSS Magazine Subscriptions will rip you off and charge your account for unauthorized renewels Newburgh New York
Along with many others I got an e-mail advertising free magazine subscriptions. How could I expect something for nothing? I know something about the publishing business and advertisers pay for ads based on circulation. So free subscriptions boost their circulation and this account...
Entity
NSS Magazine Service Center
Categories: Telemarketers
4139, Report:
#21624
Posted Date:
Jun 20 2002
NSS ripoff fraudulent magazine subscriptions Stamford Connecticut
We began to receive two magazines a few months ago - in my husband's name. Neither of us had ordered any, so I called the magazine's subscription services number. They told me that the magazine was ordered through a subscrition service and gave me NSS's information.
I phoned th...
Entity
NSS
Categories: Media
4140, Report:
#20095
Posted Date:
Jun 20 2002
Consolidated Media Services dishonest business practices, billing without ever sending magazines ripoff fake slow prossessing tricked and lied to us Atlanta Georgia
I was called on the telephone and offered what seemed to be a great deal for some magazines .. it was a few months before Christmas and the woman sold me on the idea that the first of several four-year subscriptions to several magazines would be delivered to my family members in tim...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Telemarketers