711, Report:
#20073
Posted Date:
May 04 2002
CMS aka MOS aka Media Outsourcing Inc aka Consolidated Media Services Email I received, Avoided trouble by doing research. Atlanta, Georgia
I received this email:
We're Going Nuts
We have been trying to reach you regarding your sweepstakes entry!
To contact us call,
Toll Free 1-800-394-5921
Use Your Private Code when you call: TG0502
CALL 9 am - 9 pm EST M-F and 10 am - 4 pm EST on Sat.
CALL NOW!!!
1-800-394...
Entity
CMS aka MOS aka Media Outsourcing Inc aka Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Telemarketers
712, Report:
#20120
Posted Date:
May 03 2002
consolidated media services CMS Deceptive phone call-did not give adaquate info to cancel Atlanta Georgia
CMS did adaquate info on how to cancel. Did not tel me on the phone that I dod not cancel within a certain time frame, I could not cancel.
Also, the prices are higher that I could get from PCH and others.
Many of the prices are no better that from the publishers.
Cazrmela ...
Entity
consolidated media services CMS
Categories: Telemarketers
713, Report:
#19886
Posted Date:
Apr 30 2002
Consolidated Media Services billed for advance managment of magazines subscriptions, magazines don't come, or come and then quit coming consumer fraud ripoff Atlanta, Georgia
I signed up with this company for what appeared to be a good deal in subsctiption savings. 8 subscritions for around 500 for 4 years.
After a couple of months the mags came (not all of them) some never came. Then quit, some no shows after a few months. Then I started gett...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Mail Order Services
714, Report:
#19758
Posted Date:
Apr 28 2002
Consolidated Media Services, CMS, Media Outsourcing, MOS, Cross Media Services How to fight back Atlanta, Georgia
First, this company is well aware that they are engaged in illegal telemarketing practices. The Department of Justice first obtained a cease and desist order to stop all illegal telemarketing practices against Media Outsourcing and its parent company, Cross Media Services, in 1997. ...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services, CMS, Media Outsourcing, MOS, Cross Media Services
Categories: Telemarketers
715, Report:
#19481
Posted Date:
Apr 24 2002
Consolidated Media Services , CMS Victimized many consumers through unclear language and prize offers that you don't get. Atlanta Georgia
CMS phoned in the evening of August 2001. In this phone call they said I had won a diamond watch and a florida vacation plus a chance at $50,000 prize. All I had to do the recieve the Watch and the Vacation was buy a magazine subscription for $29.95.
Well I thought thats OK pric...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services , CMS
Categories: Media
716, Report:
#19380
Posted Date:
Apr 23 2002
Consolidated Media Services ripoff Atlanta Georgia
I received a phone call from CMS telling me about an unbelievable offer about receiving magazine subscriptions at a minimal cost.
I was to receive 4 different magazines with a 2 year subscription to each for a certain cost divided into easy monthly installment.
I was conned into t...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Corrupt Companies
717, Report:
#18909
Posted Date:
Apr 17 2002
Consolidated Media Services, CMS ripoff dishonest deceptive arrogant Atlanta Georgia
I folded to the high pressure sales tactics employed by the CMS telemarketer. After repeating numerous times that I am too busy to read magazines, I have cancelled all my other magazines and do not desire any magazines, I still ended up ordering three subscriptions for four years.
...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Telemarketers
718, Report:
#18883
Posted Date:
Apr 15 2002
Consolidated Media Services AKA (CMS) Middle Man Magazine Ripoff dirty SOB's Atlanta Georgia
Recently, I was contacted by a telemarketer about a super-special offer. They told me that I was going to be put into a drawing for 50 thousand dollars and a subdrawing for 5 thousand dollars. All I had to do was subsribe to a few magazines for a certain price.
The scam of this...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Media
719, Report:
#18862
Posted Date:
Apr 15 2002
Consolidated Media Services , CMS ripoff dishonest camoflaged wording untruthful false promises screwed others too Atlanta Georgia
Like many of the other complaints about this comapany it seems that thier customer service represenatives use camoflage wording, and basically side-step the iussues. My wife had been told that she would get a confirmation call within the hour, in which time she told me about the dea...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services , CMS
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
720, Report:
#18812
Posted Date:
Apr 15 2002
Consolidated Media Services, CMS, Cross Media Marketing Corporation, Media Outsourcing, Inc. Department of Justice and FTC go after Consolidated Media Services Atlanta Georgia
If you want your experience to be heard in a Department of Justice case against this company (scheduled in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, in Atlanta, on April 30, go to the Federal Trade Commission's website (www.ftc.gov)and file a consumer complaint w...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services, CMS, Cross Media Marketing Corporation, Media Outsourcing, Inc.
Categories: Telemarketers