1, Report:
#633401
Posted Date:
Aug 20 2010
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service And Family Readers Club (SCAM!) (RIPOFF!) (SCAM!), Internet
Family Readers Club and affiliates are a scam and ripoff sent certified mail cancellation letter and account still being debited. Notified Better Business Bureau and they contacted Family Readers Club which sent a letter stating my subscription has been canceled but I have ban...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service And Family Readers Club
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
2, Report:
#624988
Posted Date:
Jul 20 2010
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services General Subscriptions Magazine Scam Redondo, California
I was subscribed to Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services without my permission and I contacted them and said I didn't want the service. Because I wasn't going to pay $48.80 for 40 weeks. And they gave me a reference number to cancel the subscription, but I lost the re...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services
Categories: News Media
3, Report:
#293791
Posted Date:
Apr 07 2010
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service And Family Readers Club harrassing phone calls and unable to cancel subscriptions Rodonda Beach California And Plattsburgh Nyrodonda Beach And Plattsburgh
back about 2 years ago i recieved a phone call from a company selling magazine subscriptions and at the time i agreed to it thinking i had always had good luck with these kinds of companys before...little did i know then thats when the trouble would start..
it bega...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service And Family Readers Club
Categories: Corrupt Companies
4, Report:
#425313
Posted Date:
Oct 14 2009
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service RIPOFF AND SCAM For magazines and cannot cancel subscription without paying a $200 settlement offer even though nothing was signed!! Redondo Beach California
I was contacted by phone by this company back on 1/19/09 and was told I also had won a free watch and they told me to claim it I would have to sign up for a two year magazine subscription. I asked for everything in writing and they said they would send it to me after I gave them my...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Telemarketers
5, Report:
#475467
Posted Date:
Aug 01 2009
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Scam artists rob senile seniors of pensions Nationwide / Redondo Beach / Oceanside, CAlifornia Nationwide
This company preys on seniors by convincing them to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of magazines they neither need nor asked for. Most of these customers should be in assisted living, not handing out credit card information to a room full of surfer punks. I worked there for 5 hou...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers
Categories: Telemarketers
6, Report:
#457995
Posted Date:
Jun 03 2009
World Wide Preferred Publisher SCAM!!! Redondo Beach California
This so called company calls you up and offers you something that's too good to be true, which is just that an offer....give them your personal info and they're off, draining your account. $1,000.00 online shopping spree......where???!!! I got caught up on this scam and I was so stu...
Entity
World Wide Preferred Publisher
Categories: Telemarketers
7, Report:
#411146
Posted Date:
Apr 24 2009
Mountain Area Communication, Wonder Time Magazine, And More Names Help Available through BBB Read Now Peoria Illinois
A friend of mine had a problem similiar to the ones everyone here was having with the company calling and saying he had won something but he had to buy magazines to get it. The company that contacted him was called Blue Mountain Communications. They also do business under the names ...
Entity
Mountain Area Communication, Wonder Time Magazine, And More Names
Categories: Sales People
8, Report:
#434460
Posted Date:
Mar 15 2009
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service ripped off and sick in Alaska, Redondo Beach California
boy do these people get around - if they were within my reach i would probably be there in person. but because they are so far away i am not sure what to do. my story is close to the others - so far i have talked to (supervisor) named robert cramer and got no where. i dont buy mag...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Newspapers – Magazines
9, Report:
#404328
Posted Date:
Dec 23 2008
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Fraudalent Magazine Company Scams Teen 119 W Torrance Blvd, Redondo Beach California
This Company Had Called My House Saying Congratualations you have been selected for a chance to win $25,000 sweepstakes.It Was a Female Marketer On The Phone at That Time.They Also Said I Would Get a Watch Of Some Sort.She Also Asked How Old I Was and I Said 18.
The Marketer Was ...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
10, Report:
#1033066
Posted Date:
Nov 29 2008
WorldWide Preferred Publishers Service Took money i really never had Radondo Beach California
I got a call saying i won something never got it. and How they had a great deal on magazines. So I gave them my credit card # and thats it. At first my balance was about 100.00 to pay of now it is 300- and somthing i do not even get the magazines i asked for and get bill for them. ...
Entity
WorldWide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
11, Report:
#389631
Posted Date:
Nov 10 2008
Trc Magazineworldwide Preferred Publishers Service/trc Magazine took some money out of my checking account after i told them no and know there are giving me problems about my refund plus the overdraft fee on my account they keep saying they put it back but it's not there Redondo Beach California
these people are ripoffs and need topay me my money back plus my over draft fee the put me in the whole and won't return my money customer service keep telling me onething then another person tell me something totallty diffrent all i want is my money back in my account plus the over...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service/trc Magazine
Categories: Home Based Business
12, Report:
#251534
Posted Date:
Oct 07 2008
Community Reading Club Of Southern California-Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service Fraudulant subscription terms, dishonest, fraudulant billing Redondo Beach California
My wife agreed to a trial subscription last Fall (2006) for a month or two. The magazines came and they were an assortment of magazines we'd never seen or even heard of! We tried calling to cancel several times because we were unhappy with the subscription but to no avail. We lis...
Entity
Community Reading Club Of Southern California-Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Con Artists
13, Report:
#362712
Posted Date:
Aug 14 2008
Worldwide Preferred Publishers misleading, liars, uncooperative, rude, dishonest, infuriating, frustrating Peoria Illinois
This is a company that calls you up and tells that you've won something. IN my case, I'd won some kind of sweepstakes for a special magazine subscription price locked in for 5 years as well as a watch. They told me that I could choose form several magazines, but would start me off...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
14, Report:
#353413
Posted Date:
Jul 22 2008
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services Feel like I being harrassed send duplicates and too expensive Redondo Beach California
I enter an agreement with Worldwide Publishers for several magazine subscriptions. It was fine for a while; but my mother became seriously ill and I quit work to take care of her. I don't have time to read all of these magazines and would like to cancel these subscriptions.
Mar...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
15, Report:
#333729
Posted Date:
May 20 2008
WORLDWIDE PREFERRED PUBLISHERS TOOK MULTIPLE PAYMENTS FROM MY ACCOUNT WITHOUT MY CONSENT REDONDO BEACH California
I made the mistake of making an online credit card payment for what I thought was an overdue magazine subscription for my grandmother for soap opera digest. they offered me a discount subscription for 2 additional magazines. I asked for an invoice to be mailed to me in my name so ...
Entity
WORLDWIDE PREFERRED PUBLISHERS
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
16, Report:
#321138
Posted Date:
Mar 27 2008
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service worldwide preferred publishers service rippoff Rodondo Beach California
My wife ordered a magazine while ago then they started sending all types every week and charging her credit card $39.50 . so i found a email from them and ask not to bill me anymore to cancel. Now I get a past due invoice of 69.82
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Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Computer Fraud
17, Report:
#319554
Posted Date:
Mar 20 2008
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service SCAM??? Redondo California
This company has been charging my credit card $39.90 twice a month for the past 3 months for something that I don't even remember ordering. I tried to contact them twice and have had no success. I just sent them an email via their website and hope to get a response soon. I have a...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
18, Report:
#316708
Posted Date:
Mar 11 2008
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services I cant cancel or contact the company with many problems Redondo Beach California
The company called me on my lunch break and even though i expressed my frustration, they continued and offered me a magazine deal for 33dollars and something cents for 3 months. I now owe 800+dollars, i have contacted the business before it had gotten to this, and had requested to ...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services
Categories: Telemarketers
19, Report:
#310466
Posted Date:
Feb 20 2008
WORLDWIDE PREFERRED PUBLISHERS SERVICE Sent a PAST DUE INVOICE for $39.90. Total owed $1157.10. Acct # JI 015059. Call placed and told that it was a BILLING ERROR and disrregard notice REDONDO BEACH CALIFORNIA
WorldWide Preferred Publishers Service sent a past due bill for $39.00 to our home address. It was addressed to my husband. Under past due amount was note that: A payment of 1157.10 will pay your entire balance. Past due notice did not identify the nature of the supposed purchase...
Entity
WORLDWIDE PREFERRED PUBLISHERS SERVICE
Categories: Con Artists
20, Report:
#295649
Posted Date:
Dec 30 2007
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service Can't get a hold of them the phone number is not valid. And they charged my credit card with out telling me. I informed them not to use my credit card that I would mail my payments in to them. I wish to cancel this whole thing but am unable to get a hold of them what a joke this is Redondo Beach California
I didn't authorize them to charge my credit card I told them I would mail the money into them. The phone number that is given is not a valid number either you can't even get a hold of them. This is a real joke I want my card credited and not to continue this rediculous scam.
St...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Corrupt Companies
21, Report:
#290858
Posted Date:
Dec 12 2007
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services They will not unsubscribe me unless I pay them over $700 for magazines I never subscribe to. Redondo Beach California
I started receiving notices from this company that I never subscribed to. Not only did I start receiving all these magazines that I don't want; I started receiving a bill stating they have taken almost $50 out of my bank account on a monthly basis.
My wife and I both called & sp...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Services
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
22, Report:
#285469
Posted Date:
Nov 19 2007
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service They will not take me off of their list/ cancel my subscription. Redondo Beach California
I cannot get these people to take me off of their list.
I have requested them to do so several times. I have even sent them a note with my bill payments and they have failed to do what I have requested.
A few weeks ago someone from there called about my debit card payment (my c...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Telemarketers
23, Report:
#285095
Posted Date:
Nov 16 2007
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service Fradulent advertising, incorrect products, ignoring customer requests, putting blame on magazine companies they represent, Redondo Beach California
I am an unfortunate consumer, along with many others, who fell for the confusing sales pitch from Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service. I understood the agreement was for one year's subscription for five magazines at $39.90 per month. My first statement was put aside while I tri...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Telemarketers
24, Report:
#282684
Posted Date:
Nov 03 2007
Worldwide Preferred Publishers 'MAGAZINES 800-830-7753 CA' SCAMMED ME INTO A LONG TERM MAG SUBSCRIBTION Redondo Beach California
About november of last year (2006) I got a call from a man with a heavy 'hick' style accent wanting to give me 'free' magazines. He was nice and entertaining and slightly annoying. He also didn't fully inform me of the terms and conditions of these 'free' magazines.
He then told me...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers
Categories: Telemarketers
25, Report:
#1032628
Posted Date:
Jul 31 2007
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service Unlawful billing; fraudulent; without authorization Redondo Beach California
I have a checking account in Hawaii that I haven't used in two or three years and suddenly I received a notice that I was overdrawn because of a charge from Worldwide Preferred. Of course I did not authorize this charge and have no idea where it came from. If I did sign up for mag...
Entity
Worldwide Preferred Publishers Service
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
