411, Report:
#103969
Posted Date:
Aug 17 2004
Active Periodicals ripoff scam and dishonest fraudulent billing Deerfield Beach Florida
Last year one of the representative from Active Periodicals contacted me about their sweepstakes and inorder for me to be entered I need to subscribe to the magazines that they are selling. However, I was not able to do so because I don't own any major debit or credit card. A few ...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Telemarketers
412, Report:
#96836
Posted Date:
Jun 28 2004
Active Periodicals - IRL Double billing, high pressure (ridiculing) sales tactics and customer in-service. Deerfield Florida
Below is a letter I wrote to API one week ago. All in it is true and I did write the Cc: letters (one to a publisher and one to their local BBB). I chose the publishing company for its high publishing volume and that they published two of the magazines I received from API. I rece...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
413, Report:
#96696
Posted Date:
Jun 28 2004
Active Periodicals How to solve ripoff Deer Field Beach Florida
I posted my complaint on this company on March 18, 2004. Since then I think I have figured out what to do. We did it anyway, and it stopped.
What we did was contacted the Better Business Bureau.... not once, not twice, but about four times, and every different way we could th...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Corrupt Companies
414, Report:
#95956
Posted Date:
Jun 22 2004
US Readers Service & NorthCoast Periodicals ripoff FALSE ADVERTISING FULL OF LIES Tampa Florida
My wife was contacted by this company about ordering magazines, we discussed it and was interested, we asked about canceling and was told we could. When we tried we were told NO!
We have been harassed by this company for a couple of months now. They have called my mother who's...
Entity
US Readers Service & NorthCoast Periodicals
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
415, Report:
#87919
Posted Date:
Apr 16 2004
Active Periodicals Misleading magazine subscription order - will not let you cancel Ripoff Deerfield Beach Florida
First I got a call from Publishers Clearing House telling me I was in a final round for some huge amount of money. I was also eligible to get a ring or watch or some other prize. I needed to order one magazine for 5 years then I'd also get 3 more magazines for free for a year. Wi...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
416, Report:
#87782
Posted Date:
Apr 15 2004
Active Periodicals ripoff HaRRASSED ME FOR YEARS ABOUT MY MAGAZINE SUPSCRIPTIONS Deerfield Beach Florida
This company has called me on several occassions telling me they were going to reduce my monthly out of pocket expense by reducing the number of magazines I was receivng but instead actually charge me for 4 new ones so that now I am having 2 charges to my account each month. I have...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Corrupt Companies
417, Report:
#86628
Posted Date:
Apr 05 2004
Active Periodicals constantly calls, but won't let me cancel my subscriptions. Rip-off! Deerfield Florida
Active Periodicals constantly calls me at the most inopportune times (when I'm in class, when I'm at work, AND when I'm sleeping) asking me for payment. I've begun screening ALL of my phone calls.
I've tried numerous times to cancel my subscriptions. When they called me before ...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Telemarketers
418, Report:
#86456
Posted Date:
Apr 03 2004
Active Periodicals riped off my credit card Deerfield Beach Florida
They tried to charge my credit card several different times and I had no knowledge of it. On March 31 they were able to take 59.80 from my credit card. I don't remember ordering anything from the internet the last couple of weeks. SO I had did my own investigation and called the ...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Credit Card Fraud
419, Report:
#86212
Posted Date:
Apr 01 2004
ACTIVE PERIODICALS RIPOFF SCAM, LIARS, BREALING LAW SET BY ATT GENERAL, NO CALLING W/O CALLER ID- THEY DONT USE CALLER ID--- WONDER WHY??? OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma
first, they are in violation of the law that says they must have caller id. they dont. i wonder why??????
second, dustin IS a liar, his mother works there as well. i live in chicago and know someone who worked at Diversified Marketing Services...DMS got shut down 2 years ago-...
Entity
ACTIVE PERIODICALS
Categories: Con Artists
420, Report:
#84482
Posted Date:
Mar 19 2004
Active Periodicals Rude, Lieing, Cheating, Scamming!!!!! ripoff scam Deerfield Beach Florida
(Currently still dealing with this company.) PLEASE DO NOT EVER TALK TO THESE PEOPLE!!! We have been told that we supposedly approved magazine subscriptions about a year ago from these people and they are just now trying to bill us. We talked to Dustin (don't even know if that is h...
Entity
Active Periodicals
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers