Be Careful with Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies' Home Journal Sweeps!!

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jr52

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I thought I should pass this along. Numerous posters on other sweeps/contest blogs and websites are reporting a problem with Better Home and Garden and Ladies Home Journal sweeps and contests. Specifically, they are reporting that they entered BHG and LHJ contnest using the "No subscription/No purchase necessary" entry options, but then received subscription order notification emails. Some also received immediate followup emails encouraging them to immediately pay for their new subscription electronically.
This problem evidently started yesterday afternoon.
The reports must be true because I received four new subscription order notification emails after I entered my usual BHG and LHJ contests this morning --- and trust me, I did not subscribe to anything.
I have no information on whether the problem is a temporary glitch or a long term problem. As for me, I've decided not to enter any more BHG and LHJ contests - because this is the second time they've sent me erroneous subscription notices.
 
Happens to me all the time - I just send them back saying did not order - do not want.

So far that has worked for me.

z.

:cussing: :scratch: :cussing:
 
:wave: jr52 ty for the heads up :wave:

As noted, you can cancel online and/or write did not order on the bill to cancel. I use the online method - no stamp :crazytongue:

Since they set up their entry forms with unlinkable links, we have to go to the subscription entry form, then select no subscription - I always wondered how they were able to determine which was which, since they have the same address. :scratch:
 
ZWriter -- I'm glad you've had no problems stopping bogus/erroneous subscriptions.

But what you describe - the ease of preempting the subscriptions - has never been my experience. It has never worked for me.

I've tried sending reply emails saying I did not subscribe. It has no effect.

The subscription notification emails I've received never have any links to customer service.

I've tried going to the magazine websites. I can never log on with the information provided (account number, name, and address) on the subscription notice emails.

When (if) the magazine website has a customer service phone number to call, I've called. Customer service always says they have no record of a subscription for me so they cannot help me. I always ask them to keep it that way, that I did NOT subscribe.

And always,everytime, either a bill or the first magazine eventually arrives. That's when I write CANCEL on the invoice or use the full account number on the magazine label to log into their system and cancel.

Even then, a couple of times the magizines and bills continued to come for months after I canceled on the invoice or on-line.

So I am glad you've had an easy time with erroneous/bogus subscriptions -- but that has not been my experience at all. I am really frustrated with it. I am very careful to never subscribe to magaizine -- but I've received subscription notices for BHG, LHJ, Sunset, Readers' Digest, Red Book, and a bunch more mags over the last two years. I probably will not enter contests sponsored by magazines any more. So your odds of winning just improved!! :)
 
:sunny: It happens to me occasionally. You have to wait at least a week to use their cancellation form. I have also waited until I received the first magazine and then cancelled without any problems. If a bill does arrive I just write cancel on it and return it with no problems.
 
I have had the same problem with Popular mechanice, Redbook and even Cosmo. Had to cancel all 3 subscriptions. I try to be careful with mag sweeps.
 
"Every problem is just an opportunity in disguise"
Personally, when this happens to me, I wait until I get both the magazine and the bill, then I send the bill back marked 'cancel'. So for the price of a stamp, I get a free magazine. Usually, I can find a coupon or something in the magazine worth more than 44 cents! For those magazines that have a lot of good stuff in them, I will 'forget to uncheck the box' once a month - they eventually quit sending them!
 
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