1, Report:
#1467081
Posted Date:
Nov 10 2018
Popular Mechanics I do not take their magazine and they want my behind payment Cincinnati Ohio
They are try to collect money from me on a magazine I do not take . Sorry I don’t. So I emailed them ,well their always under construction .I wonder how many people pay this bill?
Entity
Popular Mechanics
Categories: Subscription
3, Report:
#1456446
Posted Date:
Aug 14 2018
Preferred Readers Club Sent magazines my wife and I did not knowingly order, just started billing us 2 months ago. Sunrise Florida
Several months ago, my wife and I started receiving Better Homes & Gardens, ESPN and Popular Mechanics magazines. I know I did not order these and my wife denies ordering them (at least if she was awake enough to know what she was saying). These are also magazines we do not want, th...
Entity
Preferred Readers Club
Categories: MAGAZINE FRAUD, Unauthorised billing
4, Report:
#42992
Posted Date:
Oct 05 2017
StoresOnline rip-off outright fruaud here is objective evidence for all who want it! Orem Utah
I hope the FBI reads this. It may not be a bomb, but it is domestic terrorism and they need to be stopped. This contains objective information which they need. Read on.
As you review this remember that the minimum Stores Online sale is in the thousands of dollars. You get the sa...
Entity
StoresOnline
Categories: Software
5, Report:
#1328099
Posted Date:
Sep 14 2016
Hearst Magazines Hearst Communications Tricked into magazine subscription New York New York
Hearst Magazines tricked me into a 1 year subscription to Popular Mechanics. On a sweepstakes
promotion run by Popular Mechanics on Sept. 14, 2016, I clicked on an agreement to get one
free trial issue of Popular Mechanics. Below this agree button, I had not read a fine ...
Entity
Hearst Magazines
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
6, Report:
#1320816
Posted Date:
Aug 05 2016
Popular Mechanics took payment from checking account without authorization Internet
Popular Mechanics took money out of my checking without authorization for a magazine subscription. I purchased a one year subscription for my significant other as a birthday gift. No other contact has been made with this company since October 2015. I filed a dispute with my ban...
Entity
Popular Mechanics
Categories: Questionable Activities
7, Report:
#1241980
Posted Date:
Jul 15 2015
Popular Mechanics Magazine Deceit, intentional, rude Nationwide
Popular Mechanics magazine stored my credit card information for just under a year and entered a charge for an exhorbitant amount ($24) for a subscription that i did not order nor authorize.
I filed an online complaint about this, asked how they authorized such a thing and where ...
Entity
Popular Mechanics
Categories: Unusual Rip-Off
8, Report:
#1225358
Posted Date:
Apr 28 2015
Hearst co Popular Mechanics magazine A notification from PM insinuated that I ordered another subscription with payment due-not true!! They make you think that money is due, when, in fact, my previous subscription was only 6 months old. Harlan Iowa
I received a notice from Popular Mechanics magazine that PM had renewed my subacription as I had chosen to be part of the continuous service program(not true) and that my renewal had been processed. Also, that payment was now due and to return payment in a pre addressed envelope o...
Entity
Hearst co
Categories: News Media
9, Report:
#1160333
Posted Date:
Jul 08 2014
Hearst Publications -- Popular Mechanics Harlan, IA Billing for Magazine that has already been paid Internet
I continue to receive bills from Popular Mechanics Harlan, IA for subscription that I have already paid and have the cancelled check. The renewal that I sent in was for $14.00 now they are billing me for $26.00. I have contacted PM and received an e mail with a reference number s...
Entity
Popular Mechanics Harlan, IA
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
10, Report:
#1116116
Posted Date:
Jan 20 2014
Hearst Publications Harlan Iowa Popular Mechanics The ploy continues Harlan Iowa
I was led to this site trying to find a phone number for Popular Mehcanics.The intent of the call was to let them know that I enjoyed their Magazine but not the unethical ,possibly illegal, scam the call continous subscription.My situation is almost identical to the July 2013 wri...
Entity
Hearst Publications Harlan Iowa
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
11, Report:
#1070967
Posted Date:
Jul 29 2013
Popular Mechanics Hearst Corporation Unrequested Subscriptions Harlan Iowa
July 2013Popular Mechanics has created an Orwellian business plan that counts on their subscribers to unknowingly agree to receive their magazine IN PERPETUITY. The company then follows up with readers who fail to pay for a service that they never ordered with a series o...
Entity
Popular Mechanics
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
12, Report:
#1025786
Posted Date:
Mar 09 2013
Popular Mechanics Hearst Corporation All subscriptions are classified 'auto-renewal', if renewal $$ not sent promptly, threatening letters are sent Harlan, Iowa
A couple months before my subscription to Popular Mechanics was going to expire I began receiving odd invoices from various companies to renew at an inflated price. The 'invoice' did not show any relevant data, when the subscription would expire, how long the renewal was for, how ma...
Entity
Popular Mechanics
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
13, Report:
#959710
Posted Date:
Oct 25 2012
Hearst Corp. POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE Failed to terminate subscription after submitting cancellation on renewal form Internet
I wrote cancel across the renewal form after one year subscription ended to Popular Mechanics Magazine. Had too many magazines coming into the home.
The cancel-renewal form was mailed back to Popular Mechanics subscription service in July 2012.
As of November 2012, ...
Entity
Hearst Corp. POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
14, Report:
#865282
Posted Date:
Apr 07 2012
Hearst Magazines Popular Mechanics Corporate small print policy Harlan, Iowa
Like several other reports filed here, I too recieved a demand for late payment from Hearst (Pop. Mech.). ...In my search of the Pop. Mech. ...My account.... site is their disclaimer that when I originally subscribed...in the small print...was their for uninterupted delivery clause ...
Entity
Hearst Magazines
Categories: Consumer Services
15, Report:
#674183
Posted Date:
Jan 03 2012
Hearst Corporation Popular Mechanics Scary Hearst salesman called my very young son on phone, harrassed him as I listened.I taught son to say norepeatedly to salesman. I got on phone & said NO. Hearst claims he subscribed. Threaten us Harlan, Iowa
Children Beware of Hearst Corporation. Bullying phone saleman for Hearst is trying to ruin my 12 year old son's credit for $9.97! Last year, my 12 year old son received a phone call from a bullying man trying to get him to subscribe to Popular Mechanics.As I listened to my son strug...
Entity
Hearst Corporation
Categories: News Media
16, Report:
#434877
Posted Date:
Mar 17 2009
Hearst Corporation - Popular Mechanics Beware of Free Issue Scam Popular Mechanics New York New York
In October 2008 I saw an offer for a free issue of Popular Mechanics. I responded. I then received the so called free issue. I also received a bill for the subscription. I responded to the bill by canceling any further issues. I noted that I was displeased with the amount of adverti...
Entity
Hearst Corporation - Popular Mechanics
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
17, Report:
#432309
Posted Date:
Mar 09 2009
Hearst Publishing, Hearst Magazines, G. L. Valk Hearst Magazine Subscription Scam New York New York
I've been a subscriber to Popular Mechanics for several years, but recently Hearst Corporation has been sending threatening letters that say I owe them for an automatically renewed subscription. I bought a three year subscription last year so my subscription isn't even close to bei...
Entity
Hearst Magazines
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
18, Report:
#410234
Posted Date:
Jan 10 2009
Hearst Magazines renewal demands Red Oak Iowa
This company continues to send condesending letters demanding payment for a magazine subscription to Popular Mechanics which I chose not to renew for my own financial reasons. They've sent several renewal notices in an attempt to shame me into paying. Some seem a little more aggress...
Entity
Hearst Magazines
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
19, Report:
#365524
Posted Date:
Dec 04 2008
Mags4Cheap, Brian Paid for two subscription and they have never arrived Houston Texas
Previous to this order, I had placed an order for two subscriptions and they were completed and arrived as ordered. Having had success, I then ordered two additional subscriptions (Guideposts and Popular Mechanics). The order was placed on March 30, 2008 with scheduled delivery fo...
Entity
Mags4Cheap
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
20, Report:
#391294
Posted Date:
Nov 14 2008
The Hearst Corporation The Hearst Corporation Invoicing Bureau Unauthorized renewal of Popular Mechanics Magazin Brooklyn New York
Unauthorized renewal of my subscription to Popular Mechanics
Feodosia
Brooklyn, New YorkU.S.A.
Entity
The Hearst Corporation
Categories: Work at Home
21, Report:
#382202
Posted Date:
Oct 17 2008
The Hearst Cororation Invoicing Bureau The Hearst Cororation Invoicing Bureau auto subscription renewal ripoff!! Red Oak Iowa
I recieved an bill for automatic subscription renewal for popular mechanics. I have never signed up auto renewal on any subsciption, I always pay as I go. oddly there is no contact info on the invoice and the renawal rate is more than double the popular mechanics web site price off...
Entity
The Hearst Cororation Invoicing Bureau
Categories: Builders & Contractors
22, Report:
#296593
Posted Date:
Jan 03 2008
Tornado Fuel Saver fuel saver Tornado'd my account while decrerasing my gas mileage Pacoma California
Afetr 2 years , 5 emails , 15 telephone calls to 5 different people..Im still wating on my $87.87 refund for the piece of Junk Tornado Fuel saver I bought 2 years ago and promplty returned after the product actually decreased my Gas mileage.What a joke this thing is.
After insta...
Entity
Tornado Fuel Saver
Categories: Car Parts & Accessories
23, Report:
#273333
Posted Date:
Sep 08 2007
National Street Machine Club Magazine threatening letter Minnetonka Minnesota
Six months ago I received an introductory offer to try Street machine magazine and join their club, well everyone knows what these clubs are, they offer some little trinket now and then to keep you interested with the promise to send much more in the future which never comes, I real...
Entity
National Street Machine Club Magazine
Categories: Auto Clubs
24, Report:
#251307
Posted Date:
May 31 2007
Publishers Subscription Center ripoff sent statement for magazine popular mechanics in the amount of 61.97 which i never ordered Nashville Tennessee
For the several months I have received bills for magazine I never ordered. When I tried to look for the compan I came across this Ripoff report. All the other statement were mailed back to who ever mailed them to me. These people even had my account number and started charging my ac...
Entity
Publishers Subscription Center
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
25, Report:
#146770
Posted Date:
Jun 20 2005
Boeing, Intellectual Property Criminals? Stole ideas and used same in a filing for their own patent Failure to disclose to patent office. rip off McDonnell Douglas Helicopter systems, now Boeing Mesa, Arizona
We presented an idea for review to McDonnell Douglas Helicopter systems, now Boeing. This goes back to 1995. Then after that in 1996 our same idea appears in Popular Mechanics from a NASA tech article.
Then, nearly 2 years later they file for a plate which is our property by US ...
Entity
Boeing - McDonnell Douglas Helicopter
Categories: Corrupt Companies