Just wondering if this has happened to anybody else here.
I had a 3 year subscription to Car Craft, but for the same reasons posted here time and again I chose to let it expire. Well anybody with a magazine subscription knows what happens when you do that, the telemarketers start badgering the heck out of you to renew. Repeatedly I told them no, I don't want to at this time. I was considering renewing, but through E-bay so I could get the $2 per year deal or whatever it was.
Well about 3 weeks ago I get a letter that says I owe them $15 and my subscription has been suspended until I pay them. Keep in mind my subscription expired and I did NOT renew. Well then the day after Christmas I get a letter saying they sent me to collections, at this point I am enraged. My wife and I have worked very hard to have a credit score like we do and I don't intend to let some magazine screw it up on me.
So today I called the phone number on the letter, and I don't even talk to a person, just a machine. It asks me to type in the number code on the letter and I do. Then it says if you would like to pay today press 1, if you didn't order or cancelled the magazine press 2. So I press 2. Then it just says if you recieve another letter disregard it and to be sure I know they do not report to a national credit bureau and this would have no effect on my credit score. Done.
I personally think Primedia and or Car Craft are looking to trick people into paying for their crappy magazine. What real collections agency would let a person out of a supposed debt without even talking to someone? The entire thing seemed made up, like it wasn't even a mistake, like they truely were trying to screw me. If I can figure out my scanner I will scan the letter for everyone to see, it just seems like trickery when you read it.
For the sake of the magazine's, I hope this is like a nigerian internet scam and it's some other crook trying to pull this, and not the magazine.
Jeff
I had a 3 year subscription to Car Craft, but for the same reasons posted here time and again I chose to let it expire. Well anybody with a magazine subscription knows what happens when you do that, the telemarketers start badgering the heck out of you to renew. Repeatedly I told them no, I don't want to at this time. I was considering renewing, but through E-bay so I could get the $2 per year deal or whatever it was.
Well about 3 weeks ago I get a letter that says I owe them $15 and my subscription has been suspended until I pay them. Keep in mind my subscription expired and I did NOT renew. Well then the day after Christmas I get a letter saying they sent me to collections, at this point I am enraged. My wife and I have worked very hard to have a credit score like we do and I don't intend to let some magazine screw it up on me.
So today I called the phone number on the letter, and I don't even talk to a person, just a machine. It asks me to type in the number code on the letter and I do. Then it says if you would like to pay today press 1, if you didn't order or cancelled the magazine press 2. So I press 2. Then it just says if you recieve another letter disregard it and to be sure I know they do not report to a national credit bureau and this would have no effect on my credit score. Done.
I personally think Primedia and or Car Craft are looking to trick people into paying for their crappy magazine. What real collections agency would let a person out of a supposed debt without even talking to someone? The entire thing seemed made up, like it wasn't even a mistake, like they truely were trying to screw me. If I can figure out my scanner I will scan the letter for everyone to see, it just seems like trickery when you read it.
For the sake of the magazine's, I hope this is like a nigerian internet scam and it's some other crook trying to pull this, and not the magazine.
Jeff
They gotta pay the bills, that's obvious, but I can't TIVO out the ads like with television. 
