Robert C
Clearwater,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, January 06, 2012
That employee's BBB comment is meaningless. BBB accredited means nothing. You could get your dog's buttox accredited for producing fertilizer.
That comment that publisher's (called pubs) are paid in advance was not true when I worked there. The pubs are desperate for subscriptions and they do not demand payment in advance. In fact when I was there the pubs were PAYING NME to get them subscriptions. They call it "negative remit" meaning that the pubs pay SDP to get subscriptions, NME mostly does not pay the pubs.
NME is in business for two reasons and they are to separate you from your money and to collect negative remits from the publishers. You get a bunch of magazines that are more advertising than anything else. The pubs make money by charging the advertisers for all the ads. The more mags sold the more the pubs get to charge the advertisers.
Magzines are not about providing the reader with something interesting to read, they are about getting tons of ads in front of the reader. It's a business model dying slower than the buggy whip business.
paintedred
Chicago,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, December 28, 2011
You are not BBB accredited: http://www.bbb.org/cleveland/Business-Reviews/magazine-sales/united-readers-service-ltd-in-lakewood-oh-3241/complaints/
Readersservicetsr
Cleveland,#4UPDATE Employee
Tue, August 19, 2008
I've been working for this company for a little while now. Most of the people that we get to take the Promotion ask in advance "Well can I cancel". The tsr at that point should tell the customer that we ask them to stick with us for the full term because we prepay the publishers for the magazines so that we can guarantee the price won't change and if they don't want to make that comitment they don't have to. I work in one of its outbound calling centers. And I was even skeptical when i was hired but I've done a lot of research on the company and offers. They tell you that you have ten days to cancel anything you don't want. And we are accredited with the BBB if anyone that thinks this is a scam would like to look it up. They will see that We've been with the BBB since we started in 1972. Thank you for your time to read this. Have a good day.