Bill for magazine I didn't order.
I just got a bill for Bicycling Magazine which I haven't ordered. There's no contact information on the bill other than where to mail the check. I Googled the address and apparently quiet a few other people have been had similar bills for other magazines which they did not order (or receive). The address is connected to Hearst Magazines. I plan to ignore the bill especially since I'm not getting the magazine. I'm not sure what I should do if I do receive the magazine since there's no contact information on the bill. Anyone else get a bill like this? Any thoughts?
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Originally Posted by mtnbud
(Post 20740377)
I just got a bill for Bicycling Magazine which I haven't ordered. There's no contact information on the bill other than where to mail the check. I Googled the address and apparently quiet a few other people have been had similar bills for other magazines which they did not order (or receive). The address is connected to Hearst Magazines. I plan to ignore the bill especially since I'm not getting the magazine. I'm not sure what I should do if I do receive the magazine since there's no contact information on the bill. Anyone else get a bill like this? Any thoughts?
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I received on as well.
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I believe that legally if you receive any magazines you must send them back. Just write Cancel or Return to Sender and return them.
Also you must reply to any invoices by email or by mail. Dont send them any money |
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Originally Posted by willibrord
(Post 20740495)
I believe that legally if you receive any magazines you must send them back. Just write Cancel or Return to Sender and return them.
Also you must reply to any invoices by email or by mail. Dont send them any money I'd ignore the entire thing. I didn't renew a yearly subscription to a magazine, I simply didn't pay the for the renewal. They will continue to send magazines past the renewal date and that's fine, but I'm not paying for them. It's the magazines choice to send or not, but they will be sending free magazines. |
This sounds like the skullduggery that active.com pulls...or at least once did. For those who don't know, ACTIVE is the resource that many athletic event organizers use for their registration process. If you didn't look carefully when going through a registration for an event, you would miss the block that was checked saying that you wanted something like the price of a subscription for 'whatever' magazine included, or membership to their service. It happend to me a couple of times, and it pi$$ed enough that I quite doing online registration if it was through Active. But that was automatically added to the registration of the event...not a seperate bill for the magazine like you received. So maybe it isn't them. Or, maybe they've changed their skullduggerous ways. Dan |
What is a magazine?
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Originally Posted by willibrord
(Post 20740495)
I believe that legally if you receive any magazines you must send them back. Just write Cancel or Return to Sender and return them.
Also you must reply to any invoices by email or by mail. Dont send them any money |
Originally Posted by willibrord
(Post 20740495)
I believe that legally if you receive any magazines you must send them back. Just write Cancel or Return to Sender and return them.
Also you must reply to any invoices by email or by mail. Dont send them any money That's crazy. You can't obligate somebody to do something just by sending them a bill or a product. |
Originally Posted by mtnbud
(Post 20740377)
I just got a bill for Bicycling Magazine which I haven't ordered. There's no contact information on the bill other than where to mail the check. I Googled the address and apparently quiet a few other people have been had similar bills for other magazines which they did not order (or receive). The address is connected to Hearst Magazines. I plan to ignore the bill especially since I'm not getting the magazine. I'm not sure what I should do if I do receive the magazine since there's no contact information on the bill. Anyone else get a bill like this? Any thoughts?
Originally Posted by willibrord
(Post 20740495)
I believe that legally if you receive any magazines you must send them back. Just write Cancel or Return to Sender and return them.
Also you must reply to any invoices by email or by mail. Dont send them any money |
Rodale, Inc., which published Bicycling, was recently acquired by Hearst. Based on Hearst's history of "duping" people into subscriptions and the information provided in post #2 above, I vote scam.
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I once got a 3 year subscription to GQ for like $5. Got the magazine for a good five years, each time after the 3 years with a cover stating "your subscription is ending, RENEW NOW" such a bill to renew.
Never bothered with it, eventually they stopped sending it. Unless they have your credit card and permission to auto bill, I would toss it in the trash and not worry. |
I don't believe you have any obligation to do anything but if it were me, I'd call in order to have a record that I informed them that I never signed up for a subscription, never received the magazine, and do not want to receive the magazine. May save you aggravation later.
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I would phone your State Attorney General's office to let them know there is a scam underway or you are being slammed.
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Originally Posted by WizardOfBoz
(Post 20740477)
"BBB has determined that Premier Media is not where they claim to be and currently uses a fake address in Mobile, AL (The RSA Battle House Tower at 11 N Water St Mobile, AL 36602-3809, which is also across the street from the Mobile branch of BBB)." LoL. Gotta love their sense of humor. :lol: -Tim- |
Originally Posted by HerrKaLeun
(Post 20740639)
What is a magazine?
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Originally Posted by Jon T
(Post 20741638)
That's where you put the bullets.
Jon |
Originally Posted by HerrKaLeun
(Post 20740639)
What is a magazine?
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Thanks for the replies guys. I appreciate your thoughts.
Jeff |
Originally Posted by Ogsarg
(Post 20741199)
I don't believe you have any obligation to do anything but if it were me, I'd call in order to have a record that I informed them that I never signed up for a subscription, never received the magazine, and do not want to receive the magazine. May save you aggravation later.
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Originally Posted by Milton Keynes
(Post 20741816)
It's like a website you can hold in your hand.
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Originally Posted by willibrord
(Post 20740495)
I believe that legally if you receive any magazines you must send them back. Just write Cancel or Return to Sender and return them.
Also you must reply to any invoices by email or by mail. Dont send them any money It's actually illegal to demand payment for a previously delivered product. In other words you can't send someone a thing then demand payment for it. This probably varies by state, but I know the electric company here in Maryland got in massive trouble for this a few years back. They announced they would be sending everyone a CFL lightbulb as part of their lower energy plans....but would be adding $9 to every account's bill the following month. There was outrage and the regulators stepped in and put a huge kibosh on that plan saying it was 100% illegal to force payment for a product that was not specifically ordered by the customer. They were welcome to send free lightbulbs or to sell $9 lightbulbs. But they could not send lightbulbs then demand $9 after the fact. |
Originally Posted by Skipjacks
(Post 20742802)
Nope.
It's actually illegal to demand payment for a previously delivered product. In other words you can't send someone a thing then demand payment for it. This probably varies by state, but I know the electric company here in Maryland got in massive trouble for this a few years back. They announced they would be sending everyone a CFL lightbulb as part of their lower energy plans....but would be adding $9 to every account's bill the following month. There was outrage and the regulators stepped in and put a huge kibosh on that plan saying it was 100% illegal to force payment for a product that was not specifically ordered by the customer. They were welcome to send free lightbulbs or to sell $9 lightbulbs. But they could not send lightbulbs then demand $9 after the fact. |
Originally Posted by willibrord
(Post 20742302)
If they mail it to you and you read it you are liable for the amount owing. If you throw it out you are not. The best way is to send it back to them, it doesnt cost you anything but your time. You can try calling them but in my experience, you may never even get through to leave a message. The most fool proof way would be to send them a registered letter so you have some proof that they received it. With an email you will have the proof in your sent folder.But they probably don't read their email messages.
How would they know if you read it? Hell how would they prove if the mail even delivered it? I'm sure it wasn't sent with tracking. And how would they possible collect? Take you to court? You'd show up and say "I have no idea who these people are, your honor. They don't have an order request from me for this magazine or any proof they sent it to me. These people are nuts." |
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