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RD.com / Surprise review: How do I know what surprise is mine! 145

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I received a card stating a free surprise gift is waiting for you and when I went to the www.rd.com/surprise, I was confused and don't understand how to get to the surprise and the more I think about it, how do I know what surprise is mine, there was no number or code for me to put in, my name, etc.

Help smb!

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Miguel A Barraza
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Jan 03, 2008 3:32 pm EST

I'm still waiting for my surprise and what's up with you guys. I agree with the others writers. Disappointed.

Miguel A Barraza.

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Betty Strantz
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Dec 30, 2007 3:57 pm EST

What a surprise--really a come-on. Shame on you!126

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Betty Strantz
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Dec 30, 2007 3:55 pm EST

Well, I looked up the "surprise." And it was all a come-on. Shame on you!

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carol L. verdini
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Dec 24, 2007 6:06 am EST

HOW DO U DO IT AND RECEIVE THE FREE GIFT PLEASE!

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Ruth Reed
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Dec 19, 2007 5:23 am EST

I am so disappointed with Reader's Digest and this free gift scam.

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Thomas Franceskino
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Dec 15, 2007 8:49 am EST

I also received this card, We have been customers for many many years and now I am very disappointed and if a gift is promised it should be given and not some junk either this probably will be our parting of the ways with readers digest we do not appreciate false claims..

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elizabeth armistead
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Dec 11, 2007 6:25 pm EST

I also agree with the comments about the ads - I have been a subscriber for 35 years, and remember the days when you had a quarter inch thick mag with no ads. I understand the need for advertising to keep the mag price low, but the first thing I now do is tear out several ounces of cardboard in order to read the mag! I wonder how much cheaper the mail price would be for the lower weight of the mag. Also, why do I want to read all the insert material of medicines I don't take (if I do take them, I get the inserts with my prescriptions!).

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elizabeth armistead
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Dec 11, 2007 6:15 pm EST

I agree - yesterday, Dec 10 2007, I received my RD mag with a card saying a free gift was waiting for me as a preferred subscriber. Following the link given, there was no where to log on, and no idea what the gift is... I was shocked to see this has been going on for over a year... has anyone notified RD, and what do they have to say about this?

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Harriet Veili
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Dec 07, 2007 1:27 pm EST

Is it a SCAM, and if so, why? Neshha!

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Harriet Veili
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Dec 07, 2007 1:21 pm EST

I received the Surprise Gift Card, too, but can not log on to claim it, Why, Why, Why?

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Judith Hince
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Dec 06, 2007 3:29 pm EST

I have tried several times to access this WONDERFUL SURPRISE and nothing shows up on the screen to even go anywhere. It says something like click here but nothing happens. What a sad thing for RD to do to customers like me who have been with you for so many years. Just send me a gift in the mail if you really care about my loyality and apperciate my many years of business. Otherwise take that little FREE SURPRISE NOTE of the magazine before you send it to me.

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Sherry Buzzard
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Dec 05, 2007 8:15 pm EST

Like all the other complaints I, too, could not get anywhere on the www.rd.com/surprise site. No surprise really. This was just the icing on the cake. I was already frustrated at all the medical ads, many of them in a hard paper that made turning pages difficult. I will not open another Readers Digest. They will be thrown in the trash as soon as I receive them. Can't wait till my subscription runs out.

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Robert Brod
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Nov 29, 2007 6:14 pm EST

Google search for "http://www.rd.com/surprise" lists
http://www.rd.com/rd1/surprise/ and takes you to the correct location. This is a scam to get you to buy books rd sends you every few months that are not free but the first book is, that is the surprise! BE WARE!

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trudy dunne
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Nov 17, 2007 5:40 pm EST

Agree wholeheartedly with the other complainers..."free" means just that... I cannot believe the depth that Reader's Digest has sunk to. This was at one time a premier upstanding publication... now it is all ads and this was the final straw! I shall not renew when it is time and will announce to all I know of this lates scam to make you purchase what you dont want/need! SHAME ON THE 'BRAIN' THAT ORIGINATED THIS VICIOUS, CONNIVING OFFER... HANG YOUR HEADS!

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perry j. allen
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Oct 29, 2007 7:35 am EDT

I usually ignore these promotions, but I have been a continuous rd subscriber for over forty years and I thought just maybe there was free gift. I have had no luck accessing a free gift. I did not realize that rd got involved in scams.

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Ida Stone
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Oct 07, 2007 9:15 am EDT

What a waste of time, to get this so called surprise gift. Readers' Digest has sunk to a new low.

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Linda Emanuele
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Sep 26, 2007 9:24 pm EDT

What gift? Can't even log on!

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Linda Emanuele
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Sep 26, 2007 9:23 pm EDT

Some "surprise gift." Can't even log on! What is RD up to?

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Michael Enfield
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Sep 24, 2007 8:27 pm EDT

My complaint is that RD sends notices to me quite often trying to make me believe my subscription is about to run out, and I need to renew IMMEDIATELY, when in reality, I still have a number of months left. It is just a ruse to get people signed up for years in advance with their subscriptions. I expect the elderly especially, will be taken by this, thinking the notice is valid and renewing, not realizing they already have probably several years left on their subscription. All in all I am extremely disappointed with RD marketing. With SURPRISES and fake renewal notices, they must think we are a bunch of nincompoops out here.

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Cynthia Gaunt
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Sep 22, 2007 8:18 pm EDT

I don't subscribe to the Reader's Digest magazine, but I have
been happy with the books and music that they sell. So there
is some quality to their other merchanidse. Reader's Digest magazine is a good thing to read while you're sitting in the doctor's or dentist's 'office.

From now on, we should just ignore the card or envelope telling us there is a surprise gift and realize it's just a way for Reader's Digest to promote their magazine. We don't have to sue them with a class action suit, just don't go hunting for a surprise that doesn't exist. You just have to know how to play the game.

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Chumley Smithers
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Sep 19, 2007 5:22 pm EDT

Stop teasing! We come to this website to find slimy, cheap, lascivious dirt, and you're cheating us out of it!

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Helen Campagna
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Sep 19, 2007 2:21 pm EDT

I will not be renewing my subscrition when it runs out as a result of Readers digest scaming me. Perhaps if everyone who got the scaming card ofering the surprise gift would do as I am ( not renewing) it would teach them a lesson and perhaps other companies, too would get the message.6ddfd

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Helen Campagna
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Sep 19, 2007 2:15 pm EDT

This is a glorified scam... I will not renew my subscription when it runs out. Every one who does this will help to prevent R.R from doing this again and perhaps other companies and publishers will think twice before fleecing the public with their scams.

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Nancy Healy
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Sep 18, 2007 11:14 am EDT

I was able to find the free prize. It was three children's books. If I accepted them, I was agreeing to receive "additional" books for a charge. Like a book club. Yes, I'm very annoyed. Plus there is a program tracking those who go check on their surprise.

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snitha jmith
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Sep 13, 2007 11:05 pm EDT

booooo! bad r.d. if you're giving away "gifts" then they should be free. free of cost or cancellation requirements. it's not a gift if you have to work for it.

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Dr.John Fencyk
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Sep 06, 2007 9:10 am EDT

This second notice that I could not bring up the info for free gift? What do I do now? Advise smb!

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Dr.John Fencyk
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Sep 06, 2007 9:02 am EDT

Brought up the www.rd.com/surprise that said to click on but there wasn't anything to click on too? What's going on with the free gift? Advise plz smb!

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Mr.-Mrs. Bud Weitzman
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Sep 02, 2007 1:01 pm EDT

AS with the other complaints mine are the same. Why offer a free gift to "Preferred Subscribers" like us when you make it impossible. Why send out so many gift cards when you (Reader's Digest) have no intention of caring it out? Is this what we call a scam or bad advertising?

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dolores briehler
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Aug 19, 2007 7:40 pm EDT

Just a run around - no "gift". I always thought rd was so reputable.

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Paul Talmadge
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Aug 17, 2007 7:03 pm EDT

When I went to "www.rd.com/surprise" I got a message that the site could not be found. This is awful PR from Reader's Digest. I have a free surprise gift for RD. Contact me RD, and I will give it to you.

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janie eatman
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Aug 17, 2007 12:20 pm EDT

I am still trying to get my account straightened out on CDs and there seems every department is screwed up. You cannot receive something for free without paying for it later.

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Elizabeth Johnson
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Aug 15, 2007 4:15 pm EDT

I agree with all of the complaints. Very,Very,Very disappointed and disgusted. You have our address -- so send us the gift. No problem with that.

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Eldon E. Proffitt
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Aug 14, 2007 12:42 pm EDT

I am sad we have been had!

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mable zwiesler
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Aug 13, 2007 12:01 pm EDT

Readers digest has always been one of the hardest companies to get problems taken care of. Now this stupid gift thing is not surprising me. I"m surprised they are still in business.

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Joan Christopherson
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Aug 07, 2007 7:28 pm EDT

I tried to access /surprise website and could not get it. I kept getting and error message. After reading the complaints from others with similar experiences, I feel RD owed its faithful readers an apology for this shoddy program and needs to let us know that it won't happen any longer. This is inexcusable!

Joan C.

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SANDRA GARCIA
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Aug 01, 2007 12:27 am EDT

I don't understand the purpose of the card. Can somebody to explain me, please?

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Vonda R Hill
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Jul 18, 2007 6:19 pm EDT

Total agreement here! Same sad story... different subscriber. I have received several of these cards and never have been able to find the correct place to "claim my gift". This is very frustrating. My mom asked me to go on the computer for her so she could claim her gift and once again I was very unsuccessful! :( Why is this so difficult?

How can Readers Digest be so successful at marketing their magazine all over the world but not be able to master a web site that their loyal customers can access with ease?

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DONNA JANISZEWSKI
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Jul 17, 2007 7:27 pm EDT

I received a card in my readers digest book saying i won a surprise, so i pulled up the www.rd.com - Surprise and i find nothing. Bad business.

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Carol A White
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Jul 14, 2007 4:00 pm EDT

Never mind Juan. I finally found it. What a come on just to get you to subscribe again. WHAT A SCAM.

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Carol A White
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Jul 14, 2007 3:52 pm EDT

JUan,

I agree 100% with Audrey. I can never find what surprise I have waiting for me much less how to get it. If you have such a big brain tell me how to find it.

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