Complaint / Review
Great Lakes Circulation
Receipt Says Checks Deposited Immediately, Not After Three Weeks

Quite honestly, nothing has happened yet. However, a young man of 23 came by my house today and said he was trying to raise points (20,000 of them) to earn $1000 to help pay his way through college.

He presented his case to me, and at the time I felt he was real. I chose my magazine (only one, at $62 for 3 years), wrote him a check, and then signed the receipt, way too fast, I am afraid.

I did not see in the fine print (which sadly I did not read until he left and then magically disappeared from the neighborhood!) where it said "Checks Deposited Immediately." Even though he had just previously told me they would have to hold it (their supposed policy) for what would have been 3 weeks, minus the weekends!

That would have made it payable right around when I actually have money. Now I sit here and worry: will it come out of my bank tomorrow? I am actually $120 in the hole with my bank right now. Does that mean they will keep bouncing and bouncing until the day I am paid, and then will they take it, or more, will they add 00s, or will I even get that magazine at all?

After reading all the reports online and the huge number of complaints I have now read, I am extremely nervous, to say the least. Needless to say, I am never writing a check like that again! But now what?