Complaint / Review
Winners Reader Service/mcraes Blue Book
This company conned my mother into over $1200.00 worth of magazines by telling her she had to go through a process to get her name of the calling list, when they were instead getting her to agree to another contract

I am reporting this for my mother. Last year she agreed to a magazine subscription with this company. They agreed to take a monthly fee out of her account. The company then began calling her using slightly different names of companies and getting her to agree to more subscriptions when she thought she was discussing the subscription she had already purchased. Then she called the company to try and get her name off the calling list when she figured out what was happening, only after she had three separate subscriptions instead of one, and was told she had to go through a process to have her name removed. Well the process instead of removing her name from the calling list was in fact signing up for another 30 months of payments. When she found out that now she had four separate accounts all taking their part out of her account she called me upset and unsure what to do. I called the company and talked to the top guy supposedly and told him I was aware of what had happened and wanted the subscriptions stopped and my mothers name off their calling list. He was very prepared of course having a speech all made out of what to say, because I'm sure he has been conning people for some time, and said he had my mother on tape. That's right he recorded the purchase, and even though at the beginning of the tape she was clearly telling him she wanted her name off the calling list. I got to hear the entire conversation of how they con these people. So he was willing to settle the entire accounts without the extra fees if we payed the entire purchase off which was around $900. He said he has her on tape agreeing to the purchase, which she was with what she thought was the process of getting her name off the calling list, not purchasing another subscription. My mother is on a fixed income and these people prey on people like her. When I say like her I mean naive, she was raised to believe that people were honest and you pay for the things you purchase, so she's paying four accounts monthly because she tried to have one magazine subscription.