Central Periodical Service

to any one who has the same issues ,i am receiving magazines i NEVER ORDERED ,they claim i did ,but i never phoned them ,i had to go on a free survey ,for a free gift card ,is all i can think ,i cancelled once , and now i got a renewal letter saying they are going to take 59.90 out of my account ,its a fraud ,i am going to try to cancel again !! does anyone know how to cancel without getting renewed over and over again ,i am so pissed , any info for this please let me know

I have been duped by liberty periodical services. They called an ask for a subscription, but I didn't want a contract.

They got my personnel information illegally because I don't like to read magazines or have the time. Now a credit company is harrassing me for the money. I have called the different magazine companies to cancel the contracts but they have already been paid for the year and new magazines have started to come to my home lately also.

I am trapped by this awful company and my credit is ruined because of their crime. There should be laws against periodical companies for fraud.

I had a call at my job. It was about magazine subscription to renew the service.

The boss of the magazine told me what to say while they were recording the call. I told her to cancel my subscription.After we were done talking she said she would. Then I got a letter from the company that I have renewed my subscription for 5 magazine the cost was $39.90 a month. The total cost was $1,197.00.

I work two full time jobs and don't have time to read anything. I think they should pay for their mistake

I got a call from a company claiming they were calling to renew my magazine subscription. I do currently subscribe to a magazine.

I said no I didn't want to renew and was transferred to a "Manager", which was already bogus and unbelievable that only a Manager could handle this. Told him I didn't want to renew, then he asked to verify & tell him my debit card info, I refused, so they said that I would get charged for the magazine renewal. These guys had my last for digits of my card, my name, my address and who knows that else. It's a SCAM to get more of your info & charge you, BEWARE!!

They're not affiliated with any magazine. I have read other reports about their similar scams. They use your information to charge your card $5, small amounts so it stays under the radar. So don't be duped by this company!

I quickly called my bank and cancelled my debit card and stopped any transactions, which they were trying to process.

They tried to charge my card $5, I quickly disputed that with my bank. CENTRAL PERIODICAL SERVICES IS A SCAM!!

I have belonged to numerous magazine services, my first mistake!! Now I'm getting calls from Central Periodical Service and other companies stating that they send out my magazines.

They verify all my info, yes they have all my info!!! Though I've never belonged to their svc. They wanted me to confirm that I don't want to renew my service, but while asking questions about what company they represent they hung up on me. The number they called from is not an incoming call line and there is no listing for them in any directory!!!

Surprise. What do Ido?

I assume they will start taking money out of my acct. since I didn't confirm the no renewal.

The file I made through the FTC

I want to stop this company.

This company has hundreds of complaints filed against them for the same exact situation I have encountered with them. They also have a D- rating with the better business bureaux as well as an affiliated company, liberty periodical services, having a F. I have canceled a subscription I have never agreed to wanting. The people calling are rude and threatening saying if I dont give them my new account information my bank will provide it anyway or my credit will be tarnished. They also refused to cancel the account and stated I was locked into a 60.00 a month subscription for the next 5 years. I would never agree to anything like this because I hate magazines and wasted paper. The representative refused to give me the bank account she supposedly had on file or the recording of my voice agreeing to their contract. Furthermore, the information she could provide me was false and did not add up. When I said I want no part and cancel it she said I had no choice. When I called back to make sure they did not have my bank information, a different representative said there was no account under my name. However the magazines sent to me are in my name. They need to be stopped immediately because people are losing hundreds of dollars under the radar. I have recently closed my bank account because of a stolen phone situation, however I am still afraid they will call back to harass me again.

They started sending me magazines i didn't and never wouid . Called me and asked if i wanted to renew, tape me say know.

I asked if I would see anymore charges. Thet said no. Now I get $59.90 on my credit card. Already talk to Restavich and ***.

my Lawyers. Looking into it. Please take care of this and get that off my card now, or else. Throw my card # away....I have it recorded him telling me there will be no bills.

Got something B.S. IN THE MAIL TODAY, He told me to not to even bother with it. It would be taken care of. Haven't gotten any of those *** Mags.

since i talked to him. Thanks

I received a call from Central Periodical Service telling me that my subscription to Shape magazine would auto-renew the next day and my credit card would be charged 49.90. (The only thing I could remember was getting a 3-month free trial to Shape, I think from when I clicked on a "free" Walmart gift card on facebook - which I immediately tried to back out of and I did cancel.) Anyway, I just started receiving the magazine less than 2 weeks ago.

(Whenever I get a "free" subscription, I write on the calendar when to cancel, if it does indeed require cancellation.) (Which is why I don't remember anything.) I spoke with 3 different people, since they all spoke so fast that I couldn't understand them. They said that in order to cancel the auto renewal to shape, they had to "override" my initial conversation (which I do not think ever happened) in their "K filing system", and that it was time-sensitive, so they had to speak fast. I was asking a lot of questions, one of the guys kept saying (condesendingly) "what don't you understand" etc. They wanted to read me a lot of questions, and I was to answer yes to all except the question about renewing my subscription - but the questions were so long, it was hard to understand, and they talked SO fast - and I couldn't stop them or they would have to start all over.

Anyway, I finally got a supervisor who explained slower, and even though I thought it was ridiculous, I wanted this to stop and did NOT want them to charge my card - so he made it "easier" and when he got to the question about renewing the subscription, he told me ahead of time that he would say "this is the last question" and that is when I should say no. (And it was worded correctly, no was the proper answer.) But the whole thing really sounded like a rip-off/scam, and I told them why couldn't I just tell them to not renew it (and had I not received the magazine, I would have ended it there). Right now, I am continuously monitoring my credit card(s), and sure enough, there is a "pending" charge for $5.00. (The cc company just puts in $1 or $5 for pending charges sometimes.) Also, I tried to look up this company (out of Grand Rapids, MI) and found nothing.

Bottom line - when you see "free Subway sub" or "free Walmart gift card" on the side advertising on Facebook, do NOT click on it!

(That's what started all this, and was a whole other nightmare which I won't go in to now.) And if anybody has dealt with this, please let me know! (Oh, and their - Central Periodical - number is 1-86*-203-****).

If a Jonathan Walker level 5 supervisor calls after you speak with an Asley from Prediodical Services CTS from Grand Rapids Michigan it is a SCAM!!! The number he stated is 1-88*-299-**** extension 2828.

Don't fall for it. They give you bogus account # that does not exist. Just hang up!!!

Do not validate any credit card info in their system and check your credit card online to make sure they don'c charge you $5 with more in the future. You might need to cancel the card entirely so they don't take any money out.

I was called by this company today, wanting to know if my magazines were coming to me in good shape. I told them I didn't have any magazines.

They gave me a list of ones that I got and cancelled years ago. Then asked to confirm some info. I wouldn't confirm, so they passed me to a 'manager', who said they couldn't cancel anything only confirm a renewal or stop the automatic renewal. I asked for this 'manager's' superior and was told there was not one.

So I asked this person if they were the owner/president/CEO; she said yes! This is a SCAM.

Watch your bank account! Be smart and question anyone down who attempts to get your info without being forthcoming with who they are.