I was contacted by Wordwide Preffered Publishers back in October asking me if I wanted to sign up for World News Magazine or some such and that I would also receive up to six other magazine subscriptions for free of my choosing. So after a lengthy phone call in which I stupidly gave them my debit card number for the low fee of 12 bucks a month, I was told I'd be receiving my welcome package with the order form for my free diamond watch in about two weeks, with the magazines following in about 6 to 8 weeks.
After the allotted time with me only receiving the welcome package and no watch or magazines that I ordered, I decided to call them up and cancel only to be told that I had to send a letter in writing and that they were DOING ME A FAVOR because I had originally signed up with no cancellation policy. I.E. A free license to continue to charge me as they saw fit. This was after I noticed a suspicious 21.78 charge to my debit account.
So i faxed them a letter stating my wish to be removed, received no confirmation that they got it at all, and so I've had to cancel my entire checking account and open a new one.
And then today I got a phone call from them on my caller id, but the guy who called said he was from my visa company and they wanted to send me a free vacation for two for just looking at some material they wanted to send me for 6 bucks. I asked him what visa card he was talking about and he gave me the last numbers for the card I had closed due to them.
When I asked him directly if he was from Worldwide Preffered Publishers, he told me no and when I mentioned the caller ID he said that "you'll have to take that up with your phone company because I've never heard of them." So I told him I wasn't interested, hung up and called the number right back and guess what. The recording said Worldwide Preffered Publishers.
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