I too have been a victim of this service. At the time I agreed to how nice and friendly the gentleman was i spoke to but declined their magazine service. One year later I all in a sudden have not only just one "verbal contract" with this magazine service but two!!!
The first one I paid off with my credit card, due to the fact that I have good credit and I was not about to argue at the moment. This charge was $517.32!!! Well, Last month Visa credit protection called and informed me that for the past 2 weeks I had been charged $517.32 every other business day for 2 weeks!!! Thats a total of $3,103.92!!!
Needless to say Visa gave me my money back (mostly because the card they used had been canceled for around 6 months) upon investigation they discovered that the charges where made by Magazine Services of America's credit bureau by the name of International Collections Systems! Not only does the magazine service rip you off but they even set up their very own collections agency! In which will also rip you off, ALLOT!!!
Now, today we get a bill from the very same collection agency International Collection Systems for my "2nd account" threatening to file a lawsuit against me if I do not pay yet again $517.32, yet the letter does not state a date in which i must pay it by. Obviously we already had dealt with them before so I had my "Attorney" call their office and request some very simple information.
My "Attorney" was hung up on 6 times before they connected us to the "manager" (who btw is also the manager of the magazine service, Mike Macintyre) he along with the rest of the staff also tried to avoid questions and eventually said " we will no longer contact your client for collections but just so she knows she is still in collections"...
This collection agency will NEVER file a lawsuit against you, need not worry, it is just a simple threat. They would be too afraid to have to come up with a paper trail showing that you did in fact receive their Magazine services, which it would be impossible to do on account of the fact that THEY DONT ACTUALLY SEND YOU ANYTHING BUT A EMPTY THREAT OF A LAWSUIT!!!
Thank you and hope this helps someone
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