Cooking Club Of America
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Verified ReviewerI want to find out if my membership is still active
- Test products
- Lifetime membership
- Lifetime
- Everything stopped
- Magazines stopped
- Never won anything no more access
Preferred solution: Full refund
I have not received anything from this company in a long time and I was a lifetime member
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Verified ReviewerWhat happened to my lifetime membership??
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
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Verified ReviewerIf someone doesn’t call me I’m going to get a lawyer test my resolution
- Never won anything no more access
- Getting ripped off and lifetime membership did not exist
- Lifetime membership stopped after you paid for it
Membership
- Mags
- Know hows
- Cookbooks
- No longer getting the magazine and never receiving test products
- No more magazine
- No communication from publisher when stoppage occured
Preferred solution: Full refund
What happened to membership
- Great concept
- Membership did nothong
- No way to contact
- Loss of my lifetime membership
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Complain
Finally decided to try and contact again after ab long time. whats with the life membership with them?
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
What happens to lifetime member now left in the dark?
I was a member for a pretty long time. I first started getting their magazines back in 2000 or so.
I decided to become a lifetime member shortly after that. I did promptly receive my pots and some other items like a cutting board, apron, etc. I enjoyed getting the monthly magazines too. I would do their online giveaways, but never won a thing.
I did get a few things to try out but nothing big. Only small things, like a garlic peeler rubber tube thing, or some chicken seasoning, etc. Things easily sent in the mail. After receiving the monthly magazines for years, all of a sudden it turned into bi-monthly magazines, and then quarterly magazines.
Then, a few years ago, they just stopped coming all together. The magazine also shrank in size, even though they were sending it less often (you would think the magazine would be bigger, cosidering it went from a monthly to bi-monthly to quarterly issue). I don’t know how I feel. On one hand, I did get the pots and other items for joining up.
2 boxes full of stuff. I also got years worth of magazines. At least a decade worth of magazines. I also bought a few of their cookbooks, but didn’t complete the whole set.
Only got about 8 books. Some great recipes in there, and I’ve kept all my magazines. Can’t remember how much the books cost. I know if I had signed up for other cooking magazines, like say Bon Appétit I would have paid $20 or more per year.
So really, I guess I got my $350 or so worth (can’t remember how much the lifetime membership was since it was so long ago, but I know it was in that range). Especially once you include the cost of the pans and all those other items I have in those boxes in storage. I don’t feel like I was totally jipped, after all the pans, the other cookware, the piles of magazines...all of that stuff does have value to it. But is it worth the $350 or so I paid for the lifetime membership?
I don’t know. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. It’s certainly not what I thought I’d get.
Although I feel like it wasn’t a total loss, I still paid for a lifetime membership. And a dozen or so years doesn’t constitute a “lifetime”. I thought I was signing up for something that would at least last for 25 years, or longer. Even if it moved to an online based magazine or something, at least it would be better than what it is now.
Today I tried to go onto the forum, as I had gone on it a few months ago and saw it was still around. It was the last remaining remnant of the old Cooking Club. But now that is gone too. It’s been comepletely removed from the Scout.com website.
It was probably removed within the last few weeks or months. It’s just such a shame what happened to this club. Although I didn’t have the same bad experience as some other members did, it’s still really sad. There should be some compensation or something, for those of us who signed up for a lifetime membership and got shafted.
Especially for those newer members who signed up for lifetime memberships when the company knew it was having problems and was filing for bankruptcy. Those people didn’t get anywhere near the value that us longer members received. I don’t know what, if anything, can be done. I saw on the old forum some people talking about a class action lawsuit.
I’ve seen it on some other complaint boards like this one too. I don’t know if that’s possible, considering they’ve gone bankrupt and sold the company. But I’m interested in being part of any such lawsuit anyone wants to bring up. When we signed up for a lifetime membership, we were expecting to get a lifetime worth of goods and services.
That’s what we paid into.
That’s the product they sold us. And now, there isn’t even a website or forum or anything left of the old club.
- Magazines
- Cookware
- Some of the cook books
- Lying about benefits
- Loss of my lifetime membership
- No responses
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
I am a lifetime member, but I never get any thing from your company
- Cookware i received
- No longer getting the magazine and never receiving test products
- That the magazine stopped coming
- Never given anything to test
Preferred solution: Please treat me like the lifetime member that I am.
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Verified ReviewerFailure to deliver on promised benefits
Had not heard from Cooking Club in years. Still no contact after submission to this site
- Magazine and its recipes
- Magazine and features of the company it offered
- Being ignored no test product no more magazines
- Lifetime member wiyh out benefits
- No more magazines
Preferred solution: Full refund
Lifetime membership
Lost payment for lifetime membership
Preferred solution: Full refund
Lifetime Member
Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered
User's recommendation: Don't do it
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Verified Reviewer | Rochester, MichiganI haven’t heard from them in years.
User's recommendation: Skip this club
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I really enjoyed receiving the Pots and Pans and still use them daily. I use the Apron and other freebies that I received when I joined, often.
I regretted that they left me hanging without an explanation. I would gladly welcome the Cooking Club back into my kitchen.
I agree. The company should have at least given members an explanation. I enjoyed the magazine and still use the apron and cutting board I got as a "lifetime" member.
I am a lifetime member and.i to got the magazines for just a few months. Never got anything free and .people said they got pots for joining I didn't get that. I have my membership number
I was a lifetime member too and I got an apron and got a couple of cookbooks hardcover as a gift. I agree on the class-action suite.
I too was a lifetime member got a few things and then all of a sudden nothing. Must be nice to be able to do this to so many paying customers who believed in a membership.
Don’t understand how a supposed company doesn’t care what they do to people.
Such a shame. Shame on them.
i had the same problem and $400.00 pots later
I too wS a lifetime member since 2010. It really is too bad that it closed and without any notification.
I was a lifetime member since 2010 and didn’t receive but a thing to pour wine through, a strainer for a pot that was supposed to come the following month, never did and an apron with my name on it
Me too is it at all possible for you to send me a recipe I lost my magazine collection and I can't find any recipe like it at all. Since you stated you have a full magazine collection I'm positive you must have the drop cookie collection.
It was the triple chocolate chip, peanut butter, molasses and oatmeal cookie recipes all in one edition.
please please please if you get this message me a photo is all I need. Kristinlopoezduprey@***.com
I too am a "Lifetime Member".