The Mailbox

Hi, I am in a similar situation as you were with the magazines. I purchased a set of 36 books for my daughter.

check was cashed and still have not received my books. I paid 80 and was told I would get a tax deduction of 64$. I emailed them and still have not received a response and after googling the company, I feel like I have been scammed out of money.

If you have any helpful info on how I can reach them, please let me know. my email is alisharosborne@***.com

Dave Buckins came to my door this past weekend, May 28, 2016 with the same story. He travels far and wide I guess.

I got suspicious when he showed me his log of subscription purchases that my neighbors signed up to receive.

For $440.00!

When I spoke to them after he left my house they said they purchased only $44.00 worth.

Hm!

I put a stop payment on my check the next day. And Mailbox Media will get my cancellation notice this week.

Hi just order magazines yesterday is there contact number?

They are now in Rhode island..be aware.

I just had this same scenario happen in WV on June 22. Anyone have any numbers? Or is this a waste of time ugh

Anyone have a phone number for this company? They scammed my husband out of $320.

Told him he was giving a gift of magazines to the VA. The salesman said he was struggling to get his life together after Katrina. Disgusting.

I called Reader's Digest...one of the "magazines" the VA is getting. They were rude and unhelpful.

How do u know that the company is a scam though i spent $385 watched someone graduate the program and know they are in college i follow them on Facebook

what happened? update?

Yes they do you must work for them, so why don't you tell us how to cancel these orders once and for all? Dirty *** bags.

Same thing happened to me, 59.80 per month, with various other 29.95 charges. Stopped payment and cancelled my card.

Filed a complaint with Attorney Generals office of Florida. Customer service at Mailbox Magazines hung up on me twice, stating they have a no cancel policy.

Always the same person I spoke to and I aske to speak to her supervisor, and she stated she is the supervisor. Never again.

I had the same thing happen to me but not through mailbox mag. I gave up and payed for the first year and let them know that I did not want anymore after thus year.

They called me and asked if I wanted to subscribe for another year I said no. Before I know it here comes more magazines and the bills. I called them and they played back the tape where they said I said yes. Some how they copied my time from before saying yes .

I fought them but got no where with them so change all my phone numbers and cards. They did quit sending me the magazine but now I have this on my credit score as not paid. This is all a scam and I am so mad I fell into it.

Once again I had to learn the hard way. Like I tell people that ask where I went to college I say the school of hard knocks.

Me too,, taken for first payment, $59.80. Assumed PChouse till diamond watch form came in mail.

Thought mailbox mag was a agent for PChouse, even mentioned prize pattoll in April. The number of months of the subscripion differed greatly form what I was told orginally. Phoned mailbox and they played tape back to me and suposively extended some of the subscriptions to match tape. They're so %^&*'ed they can't even make a order correctly form those bad tape recordings.

Or they just want to ram it a bit more into ya?

Sent in cancellation to Mailbox mag. for what that's worth. Canceled debit card. Collecting what I can from web if this goes to collections or court.

This is of course my opinion of Mailbox Magazines.

About three times what anyone else wants for the same magazines. Must be one heck of a watch?

I Spent about an hour speaking to the sales person by the name of Trace Boyd and she told me a sad tale about her life. I told her how she could get her life on track by applying for collage federal aid and grant money.

I then proceeded to give her a check for $140.00 for 2 magazine subscriptions. I did this in 10/14, its now 2/15 and still no magazines. Now mind you, my check cleared the band 10 days later, so they have MY money. I called a Mr Sanders at 217-202-**** and all I got was his voice mail.

The address that is printed on my receipt for Mailbox Media is, 3820 W. Happy Valley Rd. #141-199, Glendale, AZ 85310. I plan to drop them a lovely note and then contact the Federal Trade Commission and report them.

After reading sooo many glowing reports on this company.

I feel the need to spread the love and the word about how this company does business. Thank you for your wonderful work at such a great organization ;)

Its now 4-4-12 mailbox magazines is clearly in trouble with the Florida tax departments for things like unpaid unempoyment taxes, and sales taxes unpaid along with other taxes and the federal government for unpaid withholding taxes, that is money they took from thier employees and were supose to turn over to the IRS in behalf of the employee, that is all fraud charges but no one is charging them or getting any money out of them. I had tried to sue them in my hometown court for this and they hired a local lawyer, never paid him to represent them and never showed up for any hearings they were in default but my town could not find them and through the mail let things drop instead of persuing for justice to be done on my behalf cause it cost too much too go after them.

Shows me that if you never show up for a law suit and you change your name enough times you can operate in the business of ripping people off without ever having to defend yourself in court, just don't show up, don't pay your lawyers and they will not show up for you either. I forgot all about this I had an entire notebook filled with evedence to bring on a class action suit but my husband who was the one ripped off died and I let it go without him I had nothing. He was mentally disabled and did not have the authority to give anyone any credit card numbers but when he was asked for one his memory kicked in and he gave a memorized account number he used when he had his mind. I explained that to these people on the phone and went around in circles.

But hey I live near them now I think I may look into them again!!! Thank you pissed off for reminding me.

New florida resident and I still have the notebook full of evedence. Maybe being in the same state now I can put them out of business.

These people got me. Get a Voucher if I subscribe to magazines.

Well the voucher turned out instead of 250 it was $25 and before you get anything you had to fill out all these papers and send back. You then would get your magazines and the 25 dollar vourcher. Well they started charging my account and I had nothing. No Voucher or magazines-I tried to cancel and they said I could not.

I had the charge go into arbitration through my bank. They tried to call the number on the account.

They got hung up on, or no answer. Be careful, if you stop payment on the charge, they come back the next month with a charge a little less than the original charge and under another name.

I caught it and got that stopped too.

My bank pays me back so they are going to hunt them down until the charges are retreived! I have learned a valuable lesson.

I used to work for this company. They advertise that they pay $13 an hour on craigslist & in reality pay 8 bucks.

WTF! Yeah they record everything and go through quality control but they say things like "publishers clearing sweepstakes" which of course anyone would confuse with publishers clearing house at the spur of a moment. Total scam! I don't even think they send a watch.

I never saw one watch leave the office. They make it up to sound something that it is not. The script is ridiculous and the manger still owes me my last check and wont hand it over!

I would steer as far away from these people as possible.

Sincerely- pissed former employee

They are afilliated with a so called "Publisher's Clearing Sweepstakes." It is a shell corporation, under the same ownership, that does nothing but provide these girls with a means of infringing on Publisher's Clearing House's trademark. The purpose of this infringement is to confuse comsumers into believing they are dealing with PCH, and thereby profit financially from said confusion.

This is a clear violation of the Lanham Act. You need to file complaints with the BBB, The Federal Trade Commission, as well the Fort Lauderdale office of the Florida Attorney General.

Go after them under the Lanham Act, and you should get favorable results. Also, don't give up after one try, it may take several.

Luckily for me, in my state they can't get my consent for a non-cancellation as there is a cooling off period, even if I actually give it. I have turned it over to the police since the refused to cooperate.

The police say there is a very strong fraud case here. Their so called recorded consent from me also contains segments that differ from the actual conversation, and the police have my recording.

also, there sales rep clearly said Publisher's Clearing House, with I have dealt with. They knew this and lied.

Congaulation 4 free magazines. Hardly can makeout names of those freebys, the first and last were 60 months.

so you think the others are 60 months too.

The last they asked for payment in order to help out. I chose TV guide thinking it was for 60 months. told I could change any of those at anytime for other magazines in the 60 month period.

TV guide was a 12 month subscription in real.

So I gave you $59.80,, deal done. Send my *** watch and magazines, not a bill for 15 more payments.

What a lie. Your company and you are a bunch of thieves. May you get back what you put out sooner than later.

neka T

the girl on the phone, didn't know anything about it. they read a script.

unless you are going to google every company you ever work for you are not gonna know and a young girl reading a script is probably not going to do that. not everyone is out to get one over on you.

And mind you, 19. Written by PG, on 17-07-2008 19:04

We dont say publishers clearing house

were PUBLISHERS SWEEPSTAKES.

iF you thought for a second we are a scam then why SIT on the phone with us? LOL duhh

They are not entered into a sweepstakes. It's a scam.

Your whole company is a scam. Your a scam. A $2.00 watch what a joke. I hope your shut down soon.

I bet with the internet & do not call list your not making very much money. Your company is in financial trouble. I.R.S.

is coming for your records. LOL

I listened to their pitch, but did not go for giving my credit card number to them. I am pissed that they had my personal information, name, address and work phone number. When it came down to getting my credit card number I refused to do so and hung up.

Used to work there.... total scam.

We didn't send any watches out.... magazines, yes. Though you do get charged out the ***, if you listen to the "fast" pitch they lock you in to a three year contract at $38.00/ mo..... adds up.

Lesson is... don't buy anything over the phone!!!

active periodicals is a completely seperate, unafilliated company. Personal periodicals(mailbox magazines) does not and will not have anything to do with any offer or claim from active periodicals.

I do not represent or condone actions of personal periodicals, however, I think any and all complaints will only benefit if the information is correct. Good luck

If you want to tell these people how you feel, Joan *** is on facebook, AND has a friend named Melissa Sentz. Maybe they would like to hear from you in person.

:sigh I've been scammed. Thought there would be monthly charges for a SHORT time and magazines for years.

Sigh. I guess I'm going to cancel my card and be done with it.

I just found out that my 20 year old nephew got scammed by Mailbox Magazines and they deducted over $ 1,000.00 out of his bank account $59.99 at a time. He lives with my 80 year old mother and I noticed she has been getting magazines and asked her about it and she said she just made one payment however I have a really bad feeling.

It looks like I'll have to take her to the bank tomorrow to make sure she's not getting scammed too.

I wish I could get my hands on these people. So has anyone gotten thier money back ?

My husband fell for this scam and left me to do the clean up. I put a stop payment on our credit card immediately and explained to the bank what was going on.

I then went through the BBB (they are no help) just so the problem would be documented.

Then I filed a complaint with Florida's Attorney General (they already have a non-criminal investigation going.

When the company threatened to send our account to collections, (they so kindly informed us exactly which collection agency they go through)I searched out that company.

Even the collection agent is a scammer who has been working with these people for years. They don't dare take you to court and if you tell them you'll report them, you won't here from them again.