Prevention Magazine
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Same thing has happened to me

I have recently received an invoice for payment for the Prevention Magazine that I did not order or subscribe. please, do not send me any magazines or invoices stating that I owe on this so called account. Please cancel this account and any further deliveries of magazines.

Thank you.
Dean Barber
3109 South 12th Street
Marshalltown, Iowa 50158

I received a bill from Prevention for a 13-issue subscription which I did not order. The statement says I ordered this on 4/24/19 and that the payment is due 5/23/19. There is no telephone number on the bill, so I don't know how I can clear up this matter. The bill shows an account number: [protected]

Please advise me what else I need to do.

A collection agency over a subscription renewal? unheard of. Even if it were true, collections agencies are regulated by the gov't and can't do anything except in some situations. Just keep sending everything back, unopened.

If they got into your account is because you gave them the information.

I received a rodale book and would like to teturn it. Where do I get the return lable?

I just received a 2nd different magazine, that I have never ordered. Golf Digest and Essence. And now a bill for GolfDigest. I've been on the phone and the nettrying to unsubscribe. Been told that an "Out Side Agency" - Blue Dolphin.Com Magazine Store [protected]. Called then and got JUST recodings. And a few contacts, I could not write down, except this one, M2Mags.com. This is a Noyice and a complaint to REVOVE my Name from all your records. without Putting my name directly here, for all to see and scam me more, here is the acct.# assigned me on the Essence Mag. - #[protected]#
singed, PP

I ordered from PCH and they sent my subscriptions for a while and then they stopped when I called them about it they did not want to talk to me. they were rude and told me I changed the address and it was my fault and they were not going to send my back issues and they wouldn't talk to me I got angry and they hung up. I will never order anything from PCH again. I had three subscriptions and have missed several months issues.

sorry i wrote this too the wrong one sorry about that ignore this

ok i found the number for you its [protected]. tell them you never heard of them and you want it taken off your credit report.a lot of people are having the same problem

I had some of the same complaints. I did order the magazine however; I kept getting a notice to pay for the magazine which I had paid for. You asked me to send a copy of the payment, which I did. That was not good enough. Sometime later I received a collection letter.
I called your company, I was then asked to fax a copy of the payment; which I did, but you never apologized for all the inconvenience
I went through. I truly like your magazine, but I would not renew again because of your lack of professionalism.

Sincerely,
Ms. Madeline Martin

The consumers have rights and are protected under the Federal Law. Why do you get so scared about being reported by a magazine? which I doubt they will do because it's not a free service. This is a scare tactic, highly illegal, and I can't believe people are still falling for it. Just send everything back, unopened, eventually they will leave you alone. No wonder my friends gave me my nick name, I don't fall for bs.

I also received a debt collection company threatening me to pay up for subscription to Prevention Magazine which I never renewed after it expired. This is absolutely scam. Normally, a respectable magazine will stop sending magazine once you expired.They have the nerve to tell me that I am "automatically" enrolled into the renewal program which I seriously never sign up. I told them that I will not fear to take up legal actions against them if they will not cancel my future subscription and write off my balance. We are not obligated to pay them just because they kept sending their stupid magazine after it expired. Never signed up with prevention magazine unless you decided to pay them until the day you die. They are just mafia who try to bully you to buy their magazine.

I am in the same boat as the last two respondents. My first collection letter ever and I feel it is unethical conduct to make cancelled subscribers pay to protect their credit rating - seemingly the only choice as you can't get hold of a person at Prevention.

I did not continue with this magazine subscription as the content was poor and repetitive. I am sure it was a $10 per year charge, but Prevention is claiming $17.94. I did not receive all editions of the magazine but it was no loss. I had in my mind written this magazine off for renewal anyway.

Now I have an RMCB Collection Agency letter, they say have sent me a number of letters, not true! If I pay I have surety that I will not receive another collection letter. One good thing though is that the magazines are not arriving - good as the very sight of them makes me annoyed and feeling unjustly treated.

This is all so familiar, we could have written these letters together. Not only am I distressed to be notified Prevention is turning me in for collections, but this is the FIRST notice of any kind they have sent.
This would seem to be a great way to avoid calls and letters from disgruntled customers...the magazine doesn't mess around with early warning tactics...they cut right to the final notice on an account I never knew I had!
Yes, I was a Prevention subscriber. No, I did not renew. Surprise! They want money and their collections guys want it NOW! And now I find I'm not alone.

I subscribed to Prevention Magazine for a year. It was a decent publication, but I opted not to renew it. Months before the subscription was to expire I received numerous renewal notices, which I ignored (as I have with any other subscriptions which I have chosen not to renew). At the end of the year I stopped receiving further issues. Imagine my surprise to receive a threatening letter from a collection agency demanding payment for another year.

Yes, Prevention Magazine turned me over to a collection agency for non-payment for a second year's subscription! I called the magazine and was told that I had "agreed" to an automatic renewal when I subscribed to the magazine. I knowingly agreed to no such deal! As a practice, I always avoid buying anything or subscribing to any service which requires automatic renewals or automatic shipments. (I find it is always far more complicated and time consuming to terminate such services or products than signing up for them is. I do not want the hassle.) If I had known that I was obligated to pay for an eternally renewing subscription to Prevention Magazine, I would never have subscribed in the first place.

I pay my bills. I have never been turned over to a collection agency for anything. That is until now. I will never subscribe to Prevention Magazine or purchase anything from Rodale Publishers again!

WTF is up with them?! Any other magazine I have ever subscribed to, if you don't renew your subscription, they just stop sending you the magazine. Not Rodale, though! The first time this happened I thought that maybe I had ordered another year and forgotten to pay for it, so I ended up buying another year of a magazine that I didn't want. This time around, I called the 800 number and cancelled. I also emailed the company expressing my dissatisfaction. I will NEVER subscribe or buy any Rodale products again.
I can't believe that this technique is even legal!

I just got a nasty collection letter in the mail from Vincent Maretti at Prevention, demanding I renew my subscription. Thing is, I do not have nor have I ever had a subscription to their [censor] magazine.

Hi
I really can’t comment on your magazine, because I've never read it. I've googled it and it seem like good reading for women. I; however, am of the male gender. I do not want this subscription. There is some mistake. In these days of internet tomfoolery I'm painfully aware of these mistakes being made. Could someone please fix this problem PLEASE expunge this account.

Acc. No. PVN [protected]

Thank You
Duane
P.S I thought the 666 was kind of cute.

When my subscription (#[protected]) for Prevention Magazine expired, I decided NOT to renew. I keep getting invoices for renewal that I did NOT ask for! The most recent billing said I must pay by 1/26/23, and "Unpaid Account" is stamped on the billing. I am afraid this is going to negatively impact my credit rating. How do I resolve this issue?

Your ads that promote diversity are nothing but hate speech and racial bigotry against whites!
Flooding our border with illegals is predatory migration to murder whites!
I will be boycotting these communist magazines that seek to genocide out and replace whites! Screw you! I wont give my money so you can plot murder against me and fellow whites!

I have paid the $36 one year subscription in full! Stop sending me bills! On 11/22/2029 I paid $11.88 with check #1585. On 01/10/2020 I paid $24.12 with check #1594. This bill is paid in full!
Thank you for correcting this matter promptly

I am missing the 12 booklets that were to be mailed as part of my subscription. I ordered in May 2019 and still have not received. I see other similar complaints. How can I get what they promised and so far have failed to deliver?

On Dec 6, 2018 charged my credit card yearly subscription charge. Where as I am not receiving any magazines since Nov 2018. Nor I was contacted to get my consent to continue my subscription. I have not agreed to renewal therefore I would like to get the refund.
Fatima Razzack

I too received the notice to 'do nothing' AND have my subscription Magazine AUTOMATICALLY RENEWED. I didn't want to keep the subscription, so I called the number they list to cancel - [protected] and just like other consumers, every time I called, it rang busy. And I called literally 45 times! So, I did a search about canceling Prevention Magazine and found this site. That's when I learned that others had the same issue.

I decided I wasn't going to go down without a fight. I located Prevention Magazine's customer service phone # [protected] and called them to cancel. I was on hold for about 8 minutes, but finally reached 'Julie' and was able to rectify this situation. After I was satisfied that my sub had been canceled, I complained to Julie about the constantly busy phone number. She said she'd have someone look into that line. I highly doubt anything will change, but at least if anyone else runs into the same problem and are able to track down this website, they can use the number above to cancel their sub.

BAD, BAD business practice! No wonder magazines are shutting down left and right.

and to think i cancelled my readers digest for this junk mail mag. and of course they billed me before i even got the free gifts and the magazine sample issue. it's my own fault for paying first, but now i can't get in touch to cancel. they can keep the money, i just don't even want to see this in my mail box to remind me how gullible i was.

I wish I read all your reports before I sent this card they lured me with, honestly I don't even remember if I agreed to subscribe to this pathetic magazine or not, but I do remember they promised to send 3 free reports of interest to me (well, you guessed right - weight loss, etc.), so I thought - $11.98 is ok, I'll read this magazine and cancel if I don't like it.

Instead of 3 free reports they sent me their magazine and free report on diabetics! Thanks a lot! I called them, and waited for my reports, but as you know, what follows - collection agency North Shore in a period of 14 (!) days. Their ( Prevention) invoice was of 12/16/2008, North Shore Agency request for payment was of 12/30/2008.

Like the only thing to do in December, 2008 is to dispute with Prevention magazine and Rodale, Inc. I don't care much about $11.98, but it's a matter of principle - they are scam and I refuse to pay a penny to them.

I received the same letter for the services (internet $25) i did not renew. I am going to sue them. It will take me one stop at the local court and clerk will help to fill in the application. I will be claiming $2000 for pain and suffering and fraud. They will send their layer (-$400). Then my case called - I will ask for it to be postponed . The next time their layer comes (-$400). If their layer does not come I will get $2000 by default. They will start thinking about their fraud. Pass this to everyone you know. You can do it to to those scummers.

Today my 85 year old Dad received a letter from a collection agency stating that he was past due on a subscription to Prevention Magazine that he decided not to renew. He is very scared and upset over this threat. My Mother passed away recently so the timing of this scare tactic is even worse. From reading the complaints online this seems to be standard practice for them. I am going to post my issue here and everywhere I can so others can be aware and not order from this company. What a pathetic way to do business, shame on them.