Atlantic Circulation Inc. reviews and complaints

get a grip! weirdo

Kyleb75-
I've done a lot of looking around and it's clear that your Attorney General is likely aware of this scam and they are specifically targeting these violations of the "3-day right of rescission law" where we have every right to cancel our orders by law. Just a suggestion. This is ridiculous, totally agree.

Anyone who has been scammed like me, please contact me at Flyentology2@gmail.com I'm starting to get things ready to put this company out of business. I need everyone who wrote these testimonials to help me. My name is Kyle, and I was scammed on may 26, 2010. She wanted to go to broadcasting school. I was fooled bad. After I told my girlfriend about the magazine subscription, she said not to do it.. Like any good boyfriend, I listened. It's been two weeks since my requst for a refund, and I haven't seen a dime. After I called the company, they said sometimes things get lost in the mail... When I brought all of the scam stories to her attention, she said these kind of things happen. After that I knew they had to come down. on top of fraudulant subscriptions, they put kids out on the street; far away from home, to solocit their crime. They must be stopped, and I need everyone to he'll lead the way.

Thank you,
Kyle

There is a magazine crew travelling the US and scamming people.

I don't understand why this hasnt been stopped earlier! Help stop them.

Report, and complain about your situation

go to and fill out complaint forms be sure to use names so that they are easier to track down. :

www.fraud.org

www.consumerfraudreporting.org

and most importantly contact your State Attorney General.

The list is at consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygernerllist.php

Please help stop!

In 2012, A young lady name, Alexis Doble sold me subscriptions to Golf Week, Taste of Home, and Readers Digest. She claimed she worked for Atlantic Circulation, Inc. She provided me with pink receipt bearing the company name address, and phone: 2550 Kingston road, suite 113 York, PA 17402, [protected]. Receipt appeared completely legitimate. In fact, the entire process if the sale appeared legitimate. However, sadly was a scam and of course, no subscriptions received.

A young person came to my residence selling magazine subscriptions. I bought one called Unique Homes that was touted as inside tours of unique estates. What I received was ONE real estate magazine featuring high end homes that I could have received free. This is an out and out scam.

Well, like several others out there, I had a clean record of not having been scammed until two young men showed up at my door selling magazines for their trip to Europe. Immediately after they left with $40 for a 3-year subscription to Outside Magazine, I got online, saw the list of complaints about Atlantic Subscription Inc. being a complete scam, and knew I'd been had.

At first, I was just going to let it go, say goodbye to the $40, and let it be a lesson of "NEVER AGAIN"--but after I heard several stories about how these kids (young adults in age but kids in maturity and how they've been dealt a bad hand in life), it became all about trying to stop people from taking advantage of kids like these.

So, I've submitted a cancellation and made a copy and sent it to the Attorney General. I also have other copies and will continue to pursue this and make life difficult for the company until they step in and put a stop to this.

There is a magazine crew travelling the US and scamming people. They recently were in TX you can see compaints at the below links. When some one comes to your door watch out for names liek Terri Miller, Sean Yannotti, Kevin Oxford, Emerson Winfield, Donna Stubbs, Devon Wescoe and Matt Nagengast.

Atlantic Circulation Inc. — Took my money, no magazines ever delivered.

I don't understand why this hasnt been stopped earlier! Help stop them.

Report, and complain about your situation

go to and fill out complaint forms be sure to use names so that they are easier to track down. :

www.fraud.org

www.consumerfraudreporting.org

and most importantly contact your State Attorney General.

The list is at consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygernerllist.php

Please help stop!

There is a magazine crew travelling the US and scamming people.

I don't understand why this hasnt been stopped earlier! Help stop them.

Report, and complain about your situation

go to and fill out complaint forms be sure to use names so that they are easier to track down. :

www.fraud.org

www.consumerfraudreporting.org

and most importantly contact your State Attorney General.

The list is at consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygernerllist.php

Please help stop!

I am horrified not only by what I found when investigating this business but also by what my friend and I experienced in trying to get my 20 year old son back from a "CREW"!
My son took a job with a crew that had come into our hometown. Once they had "recruited" him they took off to their next destination which was not one that my son was told they were going to. They had my son 3 hours away from home before I even knew he was gone. It does not matter if your "kid" is under or over the legal age of 18 - they are still your "kid" and mine was not going to be experiencing any of the horrors that I had read about!
It is unbelievable to me that this organization has not been brought to justice. My heart breaks for these kids that are tricked into taking a job that turns out to be nothing like what they are promised but instead a form of slave labor with all types of abuse!
With the help of a police officer, family and friends we were able to research the company and find out what my son had gotten himself into and then remove him before we had lost him for good.
In the two/three days that my son had "worked" for this company he had his eyes opened as to what it was really going to be like for him with them and when I was able to reach him he was already trying to figure a way out.
If you are a kid trapped in a crew please know that there is a way out for you. Just reach out to someone, anyone and you can find help. If you are someone who is approached by a crew member or manager...remember what you were taught when young...don't talk to strangers and run! If your a parent looking for your child my heart goes out to you. Have hope and if people can keep spreading the word about this awful business maybe something will come about to bring an end to it!
My son is safe and home.

its all true, i just got left in columbia south carolina at a greyhound station with no ticket, money, anything. It got so bad i started getting hit when i had so sales, he said it was either that or take a bus home. I made the mistake of letting my manager know i had nowhere to go if i ever left mag crew. They played me hard and no matter how many sales i had i saw at the most 5 or ten bucks a night, there was always a reason he couldnt pay me like or crew was too small and all the cash got u Csed for the room, or hed give me five bucks and say he had me later when people paid him back.When id ask for it later id get told to get out of his face and dont ask him for nothin. Theyre stupid response would always be GO TO WORK. Theyre a bunch of modern day gypssys that take advantage of kids with nothing and promise them the world and treat them like prostitutes and slave labor them until people realize whats going down and literally have to escape in the middle of the night to not get jumped by these psychos. NEVER TAKE THE JOB its all bs what they tell you, its a huge scam and they act like its not, i think they actually beleive their own lies. I dont know how they sleep at night. The skinny crackhead CEO drives a 745 beemer, hes proud to be a ###. CARMAS A ### MATT NAGANGAST

It's a lifestyle change. Some people come onto a crew with nothing and either leave a better person or stick with it to get higher in the company and prosper. Others that have something better at home leave sour and resentful. Regardless, business is business and 006 is the real deal.

AND YES MATT DOES SMOKE AND DRINK JUST TO CLARIFY THAT...YOUR DUMB FOR POSTING LIES AND ### ON HERE...

HMMM IVE SOLD MAGS...THERE IS WEED...BEER...AND YEA THE PAY IS ###...THEY JUST MAKE IT LOOK GOOD...MATTHEW NAGENGAST...IVE SEEN THIS NAME ALL OVER THE INTERNET TODAY...HES AN ALRIGHT GUY...IF IT WERE MY JOB TO HIRE PPL AND HAVE OTHER PPL TRAIN THEM SO THEY CAN MAKE ME MONEY..I WOULD PROLLY ACT JUST LIKE HIM...HE'S A DICK WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD DAY...HES SMILING IF YOU MADE HIM SOME MONEY... THE CARHANDLERS/SAFETY COORDINATORS DONT HAVE LICENSES...THEY HAVE ALL BEEN TO JAIL...AND THEY ALL HAVE DONT DRUGS...ITS NOT LIKE THESE ARE SOME EDUCATED MAG KIDS...THESE ARE KIDS WHO GO IN EVERYNIGHT THINKING ABOUT COOL ### TO SAY SO PPL LIKE TO SALE MAGS...IM NOT ANSWERING MY DOOR...BUT DEVIN WESCOE HIS GIRLFRIEND COULD COME KNOCKIN ON MY DOOR ANYDAY...BUT ON AN OTHER NOTE...HEY IF YOU DONT HAVE A JOB WANNA TRAVEL, AND GET ###, BLUNTS AND BEER...YOU'D BE BETTER OFF WHERE YOU ARE NOW LOL OH AND ### YOU 006 YOU ROLL INTO MY TOWN AGAIN...OHHH YOU BETTER BRING YOUR HOME BOYZ...ALL OF THEM...CAUSE YOUR GONNA NEED'EM THIS IS A LOUD AND CLEAR MSG.NOT A THREAT BUT A PROMISE...CAUSE ILL BE ASKING YOU WHO'S THE ###! NOW YALL TEAR IT UP GET ALOT GET A LOAD GET BUNCH ;p

listen, what i posted months ago wasnt necessarily true. granted, i did have my fn, travel, met some incredible people both on and off doors, but the truth is, everyone holds their own opinion. for some, mag crew is the best thing to ever happen to them and for others, its the worst thing. we've all got glam stories, and horror stories as well, but, we are all entitled to our opinion. ive made mistakes my entire life, but i dont regret any of them. and that goes for mag crew as well, had i NOT joined, i wouldnt be the cold hearted, selfish, mean spirited, ignorant [censor] i am today. with every experience, we all leave with something, me, thank god i left with simple knowledge of the world around me...thanks to mag crew, im much more efficient as far as being independent, intellegent, and head strong. so thank mat and company, i appreciate the [censor] talk, down put, low life terms you all put not just me, but all of us through, without that, i'd still be simple minded and easy hearted, instead, im a mean yet sterne person. so, once again...[censor] YOU 006 AND MATT, have a splendid [censor]ing day. AND FOR ANYONE WHO TRIES TO TELL ME OTHERWISE, TRUST ME, I KNOW IM RIGHT ON THIS ONE, so go ahead and waste ur time, because you dont know me and have no idea...have a nice day all:):)

Yes this so true how ever this hits really close to home My son was one of the kids he worked for them for about 6 months he left when he turned 19 and all was good to see him traval and not just being lazzy at home doing nothing i thought was a good exeriance became a real scare for me . He was sick for a while and asked many timrs to come home for a while but they just got mad so he droped it wel he started to get Deprest and called to talk and said he didnt know if he wanted o come home cause he didnt want to let the team down but when he was having a bad week they told him he could go home the droped him off at bus stop and said this bus wil take you to grey hound theirs a ticket fir you waitting well, they gave him 6.00 and said goodluck. No Bus ticket No food And no more Money he spent it on the the bus well he called Collect and I wired money and sent for him thank god he got home safe But i fill for those who dont have any one to send for them and now i also pray for them as well . and yea they are crimials my son said his driver didnt even have A driver LIC and went to jail many times in many states and they do drugs and drink they pay them then steal every thing they buy ' one of the managers just asked my son on myspace for his pass wor for his ipod and came with nothing they wait for them to go work then say they brokin so they have nothing

Also, you pay for the hotel daily after your second week or something. I can't remember. It sure as hell isn't free. 12 dollars per day if I remember correctly.

Mag Queen, as much as I can appreciate your shot at this, Matt Nagengast smokes more dank than anyone I know in my entire life. Yes he regulates to make sure there are no hard drugs like coke, ecstasy, [censor] like that, but there is plenty of marijuana in matts crew, please. Don't [censor] everyone. As for alcohol, there's an abundance of that too.

"Weeds not a drug, blee blee blee." Well yes, it is, and so is alcohol, so there is plenty of both.

Is it really so hard to be honest or not post at all?

I'm glad you got your life turned around (if you're even telling a true story) but selling magazines isn't a future, it's a 100 ton paperweight that will keep you down for as long as you're stupid enough to buy into this mess.

Wait till you have a bad week with no sales. Then you'll be nothing all over again.

I really believe that noone knows exactly what they are talking about in this matter. So i will tell you my story. I had absolutely nothing. Drugs & alchohol was my life. I was a disgrace to my family. Mag crew came to my town, and when they offered me a job, i said yeah right. For a few weeks, i thought about it. And i decided to give it a shot. What's the worst that could happen. My first few days, it was different, from my usual drug filled days. It turned out that i was good at selling magazines. I made 80-200 a day. And i was off of drugs. No desire to do drugs what so ever, the hotel I was in was a drug free/alchohol free hotel. (Thanks to Matt Nagengast). I went from robbing & lieing to people, to finding something that I was actually good at. My family for the first time is proud at the person that I have become, thanks to mag crew. Without them I don't want to imagine where I would be, probably smoking crack and robbing people instead of selling them a magazine. Mag crew gave me hope for my future, it showed me how powerful of a person I could be if I set my mind to something.

There are some bad companies out there. ACI is not one of them. Well I can't speak for the whole company, but Matt Nagengast is not one of them. He gives people the opportunity to change their lives around everyday, and he cares. And he has changed more lives than ANY ONE PERSON COULD DO IN A LIFETIME. I promise you that. I'm one of them.

In the case that you feel that you have been "scammed", you could possibly have been. But not by our company. The chances are, if you did not receive your magazines, you did not fill out the receipt properly. Or your address was illegibel. You should have looked over the receipt properly before signing at the hearts

I was a mag agent myself and still get Maxim magazines in the mail haha.

Actually, I was a mag agent FOR Matt Nagengast. Only for the experience of traveling. Half the kids there are troubled, have warrants, runaways, druggies, etc. I left after awhile. Matt's an alright guy, I do hope he makes it out of the business and succeeds.

Now Kristi, I must disagree with you. Is it really the consumers fault for trusting the younger generation when their own kids participate in magazine contests in school? Besides, all the kids that work for ACI can make more money flipping burgers part time. It's not because the lack of sales, but making half of an already [censor] front (9 bucks?) is ridiculous. Cramped motel rooms, cramped [censor] vans, being respected by how many magazines you sell even after work hours... really? My worth isn't measured off the fronts of a Humpty Dumpty magazine. Most of those kids have no dreams, no ambitions, just want "money" to buy SWEET NEW CLOTHES AND GEAR!1!1 and smoke and blow lines. Didn't get any sales? Or a low number? You're not doing [censor] tonight. Need to go to the store? Too bad, you sucked [censor] today.

Consumers aren't at fault for trusting kids at their door, it's the "kids" that are at fault for having [censor] for morals. They work hard because they are forced to if they want to sleep in a bed and not the floor, or go to the store to pick up something to eat at night. I was one out of like 3 people that had a drivers license. AT 18. Not even the car handlers had a license. Half the time they were in jail for smoking a blunt in a parking lot.

Don't try and defend this "business." It's a sickening "profession" and needs to be taken care of.

If any mag agents are reading this, go home. Your moms and dads miss you dearly. Stop idolizing your boss. You're nothing to them.

Double-O Six for life. Bahaha. Slave trade for life. Moms, Dads, bring your kids home already.

I have to agree with whoever it was that said those kids are just doing their jobs. some of them work harder than half of americans with different jobs and i give them credit. I myself did the whole magazine sales door to door. granted I didnt always have the best experiences, the good always out-weighed the bad. Its not my fault or any other mag agent, that some of you "jones" are illiterate and believe the dis-honest kids...reality...if a kid says they live around there, goes to school or college there, part of some sports team, or anything outside of a contest, its your mistake to fall for it. All im saying is when i was a magazine kid for a year, ive had countless people cry to me, yell at me, argue with me, and tell me the only reason they "helped out" was because they liked me. Half the time those same people assumed they'de never get their magazines, but you wanna call my mother? She gets all her magazines. Stop bashing kids who work harder than most of you do, for a living. Thanks...Kristi Leigh Dumas:)

There is a magazine crew travelling the US and scamming people.

I don't understand why this hasnt been stopped earlier! Help stop them.

Report, and complain about your situation

go to and fill out complaint forms be sure to use names so that they are easier to track down. :

www.fraud.org

www.consumerfraudreporting.org

and most importantly contact your State Attorney General.

The list is at consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php

Please help stop!

Never received mag. Requested refund. Never got it.

It is amazing...we have all been teenagers either trying to make an honest buck or dreamed of winning an awesome vacation...folks this just doesn't seem the way to do it. My story is the same as the rest...young teen shows up at the door promised the grand European vacation by selling magazines. His name was Demitrus Brown, if that was his real name. Nothing was mentioned of cash and I provided a check for my purchase but alas...never recieved the product. The order was placed months ago and I just submitted an e-mail to this Atlanticcirculation.com's shady looking website. I'm also going to try and contact my bank to see if there is anything that can be done from that side...thanks for all the advise and other websites posted to help stop this company.

I worked for this company for almost a year. People get their magazines as long as the agent turns in the order. People make good money as long as they are good at selling. The "children" that are starving just suck at their job and don't make enough money to eat. They are told up front it is commission, no base pay. You sell, you name money. You don't sell, you're broke. If people aren't making enough to eat they should quit. P.S. the ""children" are all over 18. You have to be to work for this company. Anyone telling you they are in high school/college are lying. This is a job. That isn't the company's fault though. The agents are specifically told not to say things like that. The same goes for saying they are local, because they aren't. A few bad agents spoil the bunch, but the ones who lie are dealt with by the managers. Also, FYI...Krystal Ball and Teddy Drum are their real names. I worked with them.

Very sad! I live in Columbia, SC and the crew hit my neighborhood 2/17/11. The same story about school as related by the two young girls was rehearsed and I bought a subscription to "Fly Rod and Reel" for $57.00, cash. No magazine, it is now 7/6/11, and I have contacted the company twice, the first time in April and the second just an hour ago. Both times I was told to send them a copy of the receipt via email. This morning 'Jenny' told me they had never received my first email. I did not tell her it was sent in April. I called after resending this time to make sure the second email was received, spoke with 'April' and she alluded to the fact that they never received my April, 11 email (sounded like a slip of the tongue by the way she recovered), REALLY? I suppose it could be but somehow my confidence is shaken, especially after reading the entries on this site.

I intend to contact the Atty. General here in SC and the neighborhood associations to warn them. There are many retirees living in our area and I am sure the young people are hard to resist. Hopefully we will be ready for them when they come back, their circuit appears to be every two years give or take a month. I want to encourage all of you writing to be pro active with this. We all wrote a letter here, the least we can do is to follow through with our elected officials and hopefully they will be responsive and work together among themselves across state lines to put Atlantic Circulation out of business!

I ordered two magazines and thank god there was no funds in my account the check that was sent through was $20.00 when I wrote the check for $91.00 I'm going into my bank tomorrow to see what can be done about this. Something just isn't right and i'm fixing it a.s.a.p. I don't know why they would write it for a different amount but i'm not trusting it anyways.

NO attitude. I was ALMOST scammed. Did give her a check, but got a feeling after she left that something was not right, so Googled it. Sure enough, came up on this site. I immediately called my bank and had the check cancelled, however, I am a little nervous about her having my account number ! Also called the local police, but these folks are trained to be pretty quick. Fast talkers and giving you the best story that they can. This girl claimed to be pregnant and claimed that she too was from Texas and her name was supposedly Bobbi Harvey. We think she said Bobbi Ann Harvey, so the boyfriend joked about where is Harvey, because he thought that she said Bobbi AND Harvey. She carried on an accident, which I wasn't too confident in, but try to be a trusting person ! I am going to quickly email all of my friends/family with this REAL scam...I have not looked it up on Scopes, but I am a VERY RECENT victim, so I KNOW it is legit !

I ordered a magazine on 8/19/10...same story..kid trying to earn points. Was supposed to receive magazine by 12/19/10. Waited until 2/16/11 to contact them and was told "there was a delay". "Magazine will be delivered in June". I requested a refund and was told I would have it in 7-21 working days. Yesterday was day 21...still no check and no magazine. Contacted them again last night (email) and got a reply today stating that my check will be mailed out on 3/31/11 (in 2 weeks)...Not gonna happen...contacted them again and told them they have until 3/23 to have the check in my hand or I am filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, a Fraud complaint with my local police department, and will be researching how to file a small claims complaint against their company to get my money (and court costs) back. It was "only" $54, but that could have gone to my family for something worthwhile...They've messed with the wrong family...I won't let go of this until I have my money back or put their company out of business!

my story was, a girl named lori Smith knocked at my door somewhat an hour ago, then offered me this kind of stuffs to help her get a scholarship program. she'd explained this and that; i asked her a question, so where r u going for college; she replied south carolina. i asked her, what degree are u trying to pursue, she said agriculture...? to tell the story short, i went online and search for this company. as soon as i came to this website and read all your comments, the first thing i have in mind was to call my bank and cancelled my check.

It's my turn... My wife just found our receipt for Family Fun that we ordered back in June of 2010...this handsom kid said he was with some soccer team trying to go to Germany for training...normal name "Steven Burton", but we have not received anything either...I guess I will call the company and see what happens

WOW - you can call me every type of lollipop out there. I "ordered" magazines for my daughter, neice and self in early September 2010. Check cashed pretty quickly. Same story as everyone else trying to get money for a trip to Europe, his name was Teddy Drum - not as bad as Krystal Ball but still...It is now February 9, 2011, no magazines and well beyond their 120-day delivery pledge. Tried the phone number - it was busy but will continue until I get someone on the phone.

i ordered 4-16-10 from a boy saying the same story about beating the girls in sales and winning a trip, etc... if i would order. i spent $51.00 for family fun to be delivered to my niece. as off today, they have not received one magazine! i wish i would have known about this scam earlier.

This just happened to me today. the two guys were extremely pushy and welcomed themselves into my home. I partly just bought something so they left. I quickly relized Iwas scammed and contacted the company threatening them with legal action due to these kids are legal responsibility of the company I sent in my reciept. i hope i get my money back the main guys name was darrek tainter and i found him on myspace just in case but atleast they didnt try giving a false name. I wish I wasnt so blind. foolish me, its christmas and some people dont care who they hurt. . but i did check his license. legal action should be taken! oh u have to send in a copy within 3 days of order!
oh this is his myspace picture.