Magazine Rewards Plus
Reviews and Complaints

Cancel the magazine subscription order Here's my customer ID # [protected]. The number provided [protected] gives several different special offers and promotions and never gives you the option to speak to a representative. This is not a good business practice. I want this cancellation to take place ASAP .Do not with draw any more funds from my banking account. Send me a written statement in the mail stating my account has been canceled. I will be following with my bank and the Better Business Bureau with this matter. January 2, 2016. Thank you

This is Gregory J. Cook, and I'm writing to complain about the Magazine Rewards Center. On December 22, 2015, I'd emailed them in order to canceled my subscription. But when I heard back from them, they will not cancel it. Do they, or are they not whiling to cancel any subscription? The magazines that I've gotten from them is Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, and Sports Illustrated. I don't know why they can't cancel them.

This must have occurred October 20, 2015 because that is what this company told me. I was charged $19.95 on November 26. I was talking with another company that I thought was legitimate (Holsted Jewelry) and accepted their offer which turned out not what I expected. They in turn offered me magazines they said were free and I said okay. Not knowing I would be charged for the magazines that I never did receive. I never received anything; magazines, gift card, or anything of value from Magazine Rewards Plus. When I called them to dispute the matter they said that I had accepted the offer and too bad they were keeping my money. They are a scam! I never received magazines or the gift card they said I was entitled too for taking my money. You had to redeem the gift card within 30 days that I didn't even know about. Fraudulent company. SCAM SCAM SCAM!

This company charged me initial $1.95. Promised me a gift card of which I never got. The nasty woman said I was sent a letter to access gift form on internet. I told her I did not receive letter and I wanted my $19.95 back that I was charged. She said no refunds because they sent me a letter. I again said I did not receive it and told her to cancel the membership. These people are scammers. The letter can after I cancelled. How can I get my money back?

Hey guys. So I fell for the old "free gift card" with trial of our services for $1.95 fee. Immediately after I got off the phone I went to the internet to search for their reviews and saw nothing but bad things. So I called my bank and told them what was going on. They said the best way to stop them from charging me multiple times without my consent was to cancel my card and get a new one. They can't charge a card that no longer exists. Hope this helps anyone that is having trouble with this company.

These people are thieves. I enrolled for their magazine rewards program and they were supposed to have a bonus gift card. So I received this post card in the mail that they ask you to initial and send back. I went online to try and redeem my gift card but what they don't tell you is that it expires in 30 days of enrolling, but you don't get the card until 2-3 weeks after enrolling. So I had a few days to do it, which I didn't know because its written on the post card (barely) which I just received. Then I call to cancel and request a refund, but they don't do refunds they say. WOW. I just paid 20$ for NOTHING because it takes 2 months to receive any magazines. You can tell they get calls about this a lot because they kept telling me to read the 2nd to last sentence which is very misleading. No help, nothing. I hate companies like this that get your money then act like they're not accountable for anything. I ONLY ENROLLED TO GET THE GIFT CARD AND THEY KNOW THIS THATS WHY ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO REDEAM. THEN THEY SAY IT TAKES 12 WEEKS TO GET THAT ANYWAY SO YOU WILL PAY FOR THE GIFT CARD BEFORE YOU RECEIVE ANY MAGAZINE OR GIFT CARD.

I wanted to cancel my membership in Magazine Rewards within the trial period. Called several times at different times of the day, but always get message that the number is temporarily out of service, Please cancel Customer number [protected] I want to cancel all the magazines and the membership.
I will contact the Better Business Bureau
Maria Kellner

I purchased Clothes from Avenue and the cashier said that I raised enough points to receive three different magazines for three months. She showed me the phone number on my receipt to cancel at anytime well when I called it was just a voice system. I tried every option to cancel my subscription
but the system was programmed to "not understand" what my commands were. They used my debit card number information that I used to buy the clothes and charged me $54.03 for these three magazines. They used trickery to steal my money.

I did not join. Any frp member,! I did n't give permission for anybody to take money out of my bank! Please put back my money I you had no right to take it out, if I didn't join! Please refund my money back. You need to tell the sales person to slow down when she talks. She made a mistake and she s the one who signed me up without my permission. Please refund my money! My id # [protected], my cancellation # 73338, # [protected]. My order date was 12-22-2013.

Wow! Someone needs to stop this scam! I ordered a product called clear tv from a tv commercial (Not qvc; shop nbc or anything like that). When I called to order - there wasn't any person, just automative ordering. After the order for clear tv was placed, the next thing they asked is if I wanted a three free month trial of great magazines like martha steward, men's health, reader's digest, taste of home... And i'd get a $50 gift certificate for walmart. I clicked okay. I was waiting for the prompt so I could pick which magazine, and it just went into some other questions about more products. Ithere was no mention of cost! Pushing "0" or anything didn't help. There was no way to get a real person!

The magazines started pouring in - all five of them, which also included la cucina italiana which I never heard of! (They may have mentioned it on the auto phone call, but it went sooooo fast with no option to repeat and no summary of what just happened!)
So, I figured i'm getting all of them for trial. After the fourth one came for martha steward and men's health, I knew i'd been scammed. Of course, still no gift certificate.

I found this little card within my junk mail that says "our records show that you accepted our membership offer on 4/10/2013 to enroll in our program and get 4 years of club benefits for monthly payments of $14.95 starting 5/10/2013." it listed all the magazines and "values" and said "all for a total of $360..." what!?!?

It read "please send this notification with your initials on reverse as proof of acceptance during the trial period and we will send you detailed instructions on how to claim your gift card and cash back bonus."

"what trial period!?!? So much for any gift card! They have charged me over $76 already.

I called the [protected] phone number on the card and cancelled my order - I was surprised they had that as an automative feature! Then I called back and pushed for a customer rep. Some"rep."I told her I never enrolled in this. She said was she'll forward it to quality control and they decide if I get my refund. I tried to tell her what happened, and she just repeated herself. I said if they decided, I want what happened on my notes for the request. She just repeated herself again. Wow! I told her they will return me my money. She repeated herself again. (I wonder how much she gets paid just saying one sentence? What kind of"customer service" is that?!) I told her that these magazines aren't even open and you can come by and pick them all up.

We'll see what happens, but I have no faith in this. Thank god I have citi; they've always helped with scams like this.

There needs to be a federal law prohibiting this kind of fraud and these guys need to be held accountable for what they've pulled!

This is a scam! Do not fall in it! I saw this advertising on travelocity, they were offering $25 cash back and $25 gift card for amazon. I called, was persuaded by the representative to register, after I gave my credit card number I did not have a good feeling about it, the rep could not give me a straight answer, all she could say was "you will receive a notice in 14 days at that point you can cancel or continue subscription" and she kept repeating that with every question I asked. When I asked her I wanted to cancel, she said she could not do it at that point, she said to call a [protected]. I called the number and when I entered the phone# I called from as asked by the voice operator, the called went dead. I tried 3x with no luck.
I called my credit card company, explain the situation. My credit card company called magazine rewards with me on the line, we spoke with a representative (Amisha) who advised I had to wait from 5-6 business days for the system to have my information, they did not have it so soon (?).
Four weeks went by, I never received the notice in the mail but my credit card was charged the $19.95 (And would continue charging every month). My credit card company called magazine rewards again. We spoke with another rep (Cary) and explained we had spoken to amisha in the past, cary said there was no one by the name of amisha. I was able to cancel the subscription but they still kept the 1st payment of $19.95 because as cary said there was no record of my previous call.
My credit card company gave me credit since I had opened a dispute claim with them from the beginning. The 2 representatives from magazine rewards were rude and sounded like they did not want to deal with me. Cary hung up the phone in the middle of the conversation.
Once you subscribe, they say you will receive a notice by mail in 14 days, at that point you decide if you want to keep the subscription. If the magazines are received in 4-6 weeks, how can you tell if you like the magazines when you have not received them at the time you have to make your decision? This whole deal is a rip off. I am very lucky to have capital one as my credit card company, they were excellent in resolving this issue.
And by the way, there was never a mention of the $25 cash back or the $25 gift card for amazon. Beware, stay away from magazine rewards.

They have fraudulently billed my credit card for a subscription that I did not place. As I explained to the person on the phone at [protected], I have no used for Redbook Magazine, as my children are all grown and I already receive the magazines that I want and read. The charge of $19.95 is fraud and they gave me a bogus web site to email my request too! In repeatedly trying the bogus website I found this website, in-which to submit my complaint.

I was given this e-mail address to tell you my problem
I purchased this rewards thinking I was getting a package in the mail to tell me how to get my $50.00 walmart card..which I understand my time is over...I have been paying for this rewards club since August with no walmart card...I would appreciate it very much if you would please send it to me..I bought the Food Lovers diet and this magazine rewards also I would like to keep this, but with out my walmart card I do not see why I should.. thanks for your time...
Arla Jean Butts
836 Aberdeen Street
Akron, Ohio 44310 e-mail [protected]@yahoo.com

I called into file a claim with my furniture warrarty company and was transferred to Magazine Reward Center for a "promotional offer" and gift card from Walmart. I know if something sounds to good to be true it is and I actually thought about signing up for it... I guess they caught me in a moment of weakness. They offered me a 30-day trial of their service (catch #1 you don't even get a magazine within 30 days, so the caches of you really canceling within the first 30-days are rare). The service was 3 magazine subscriptions, coupon offers and a $50 gift card to Walmart - you see as he explained publishers want people back to magazines because they have lost so many due to the internet. The cost is 4 payments of $74.95 and the first charge will be made at day 30. He kept saying over and over that I should try the offer and take advantage of the gift card and then cancel before the trial is over.

I asked him how the process worked and he said that I would get a welcome packet, then I needed to send that in, then I would get the gift card, then the magazines. Hummmm... sounds like the process would take a longer than 30 days. I started to give him my credit card while I was doing a search for the company online and found many other people who had been conned at retail stores into signing up for a Free trial and then were charged large sums of money for magazine subscriptions they never received and then were not able to cancel.

I decided not to go through with the transaction and did not give him the rest of my information. I called my credit card company and warned them that I did not approve any charges coming through and they noted my account and told me if my account was charged to call back and dispute the charges.

Please watch out for this company - do not sign-up for their program.

Hastled into signing up for 3 "free month subscription" which never arrived. Then, my credit card was charged for the magazines which I never recieved. I have called multiple times and cannot speak to a representative, only their automated system which offers no help. Submitted a request to be contacted by a representative online but recieved a message saying it will take 5 days to be contacted. I was not presented with any information that I would be charged after the free trial. They got my credit card information from a department store where I had purchased items and this "free trial" was added to my purchase. I thought othing of it at the time since I was not given any information regarding future billing and was charged nothing for the magazines when I purchased my items at the store. This company is taking advantage of customers and makes it impossible to contact them to remedy the situation. SHAME ON MAGAZINES REWARD CENTER AND SHAME ON ALL THE STORE WHO ARE PROMOTING THEIR DECEPTIVE AND UNETHICAL BUSINESS.