Freakin' Magazine Sweeps

[sweepyhead]

I got another threatening letter from a magazine collection agency, this one from Men's Health. They're demanding $24.95 or my head, yet I don't remember getting a single issue of the magazine.

Not that I ever requested it. They just want to force me to write a check or deal with them. I sent them back a nasty note, postage unpaid. :cussing:

 

[bunnytoes]

Ugh...I feel your pain!! I hate those sneaky opt-in's on the sweepstakes also. Before you know it, you have magazines coming that you know nothing about...GRRRR. Hope you get it straightened out soon!!

 

[lidarkside]

All you need to do is write "cancel" on the subscription bill and mail it back and always check your entry form before submitting. These forms are just made up by some Joe Schmo employee, and set up the way he sets it up. If the company itself were trying to be sneaky, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them after sending out all these magazines just to be cancelled and eating up the magazine and postage costs.

 

[bunnytoes]

All you need to do is write "cancel" on the subscription bill and mail it back and always check your entry form before submitting. These forms are just made up by some Joe Schmo employee, and set up the way he sets it up. If the company itself were trying to be sneaky, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them after sending out all these magazines just to be cancelled and eating up the magazine and postage costs.

I try to be careful, but every once in awhile, one will slip thru. Usually when I'm "in the zone" trying to get my dailies done!! :error:

 

[lidarkside]

All you need to do is write "cancel" on the subscription bill and mail it back and always check your entry form before submitting. These forms are just made up by some Joe Schmo employee, and set up the way he sets it up. If the company itself were trying to be sneaky, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them after sending out all these magazines just to be cancelled and eating up the magazine and postage costs.

I try to be careful, but every once in awhile, one will slip thru. Usually when I'm "in the zone" trying to get my dailies done!! :error:

I've done it a couple times before too. :crazytongue:

 

[cinphi]

All you need to do is write "cancel" on the subscription bill and mail it back and always check your entry form before submitting. These forms are just made up by some Joe Schmo employee, and set up the way he sets it up. If the company itself were trying to be sneaky, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them after sending out all these magazines just to be cancelled and eating up the magazine and postage costs.

That's what I do but I get those dorn things too and I know I am not requesting them.

 

[lidarkside]

All you need to do is write "cancel" on the subscription bill and mail it back and always check your entry form before submitting. These forms are just made up by some Joe Schmo employee, and set up the way he sets it up. If the company itself were trying to be sneaky, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them after sending out all these magazines just to be cancelled and eating up the magazine and postage costs.

That's what I do but I get those dorn things too and I know I am not requesting them.

I know that "Glam" had messed up with some "Liz Claiborne" sweepstakes they were doing and apologizing for the inconvenience.

 

[inthesticks]

All you need to do is write "cancel" on the subscription bill and mail it back and always check your entry form before submitting. These forms are just made up by some Joe Schmo employee, and set up the way he sets it up. If the company itself were trying to be sneaky, it wouldn't be very cost effective for them after sending out all these magazines just to be cancelled and eating up the magazine and postage costs.

Any magazine offers I receive in the mail gets sent back to the sender...using their own Postage Paid return envelopes. I just fold up the entire mess, including the original mailing envelope...and seal it...and mail it back. No mess, no fuss, no cost to me. :laughing: Back in the day when most every magazine had those little loose subscription/renewal cards stuck in the pages -- (these little cards always fell out of the magazines. Highly annoying. Although it still happens with many mags, it is slowly going the way of the dodo bird I think. Most of those little cards are now stuck in the mag so that they just don't fall out. A small step in the right direction. Still a waste of trees though.) I would sometimes be so annoyed that I would gather up all the little fallen cards and then drop them off in various mail boxes on the street...unfilled, of course. Hell, the post office doesn't care; I doubt they even notice most of the time. Those little cards get sent to the magazine companies, which they paid for. I considered it a small act of revenge.

 

[sweepyhead]

What's really stupid is the tone they take, like pay us OR ELSE. Sometimes it's so ridiculous, like Reader's Digest was after me for 6 months to pay $5.95 for a book I didn't ask for, and I got loads of letters demanding the $5.95. This creates a lot of bad will, but they seem to want to rope me in no matter how.

 

[lidarkside]

That reminds me. If you get something that you do not want, like the book from Reader's Digest, do not open the box. Write "Return To Sender" on it and put it back in the mail. Once you open it, you are responsible for paying postage.

Alot of people got the book from Reader's Digest, but for the most part (myself included), it ended up being a mistake on the sweepers end. I remember that after the entry form there was something that when you looked quick looked like you were agreeing to the rules or something like that. Alot checked "yes", and we all got books. I just sent mine back without opening it. I did get two billings for it; but I wrote "book was returned" on them and never heard from them again.