Exactly my experience too, except we're in Alabama and they were calling our home phone.
I *think* I resolved it today by emailing all of their advertising executives, customer serive and CC:ing Lewis H. Figh III, the president of the company.
I receieved an immediate response and apology.
Still hate to think they are doing this to countless others.
My story is eerily similar to all the above.
Send your stories to all the GunHunter advertising executives via email/phone.
If that doesn't stop, begin contacting all the advertisers which support the organization and be sure to cc: customerservice@buckmasters.com AND (importantly) lfigh@buckmasters.com (Lewis H. Figh, III, president of Buckmasters).
If there is enough "rebuttal" to their advertisers and on hunting forums, etc., they will hopefully re-think their strong-arm tactics.
Get the word out on the dark side of this organization.
The only way to get it to stop AND to make them re-think their strong-arm sales tactics is to hit them where it hurt$.
This means getting their corporate sponsors and advertisers in the loop. Let the GunHunter magazine sales account executives know of the situation. **** Don't leave off the president of Buckmasters (Lewis Hale Figh, III, of Montgomery, AL) in your correspondence either. ****
I got it stopped within 2 minutes of my email to all of the above voicing, politely, my concern about the harrassment.
I even recieved an apology.
But I am still upset at the number of stories just like mine that are out there. The go back for YEARS of the same tactics.
To: "Jan Tullis"
Cc: lfigh@buckmasters.com, smaloch@buckmasters.com, dgross@buckmasters.com, mdavidson@buckmasters.com, cswink@buckmasters.com, jmulder@buckmasters.com
You don't even have to have had a previous membership for their tactics.
I thought I was doing my husband a favor by getting him a ONE YEAR subscription to a hunting magazine. It resulted in multiple-per-day phone calls claiming we owed $130 for a membership. No amount of rebuttal to them would work, only made them more vicious and ugly.
They sent threatening "collections" letters, phone calls claiming they were sending us to "collections".
Horrible, horrible, horrible organization. If they ever show up in my area, I will be there with a big huge sign warning people not to enter any "contest" or agree to any type of transaction with this scam.
Ignore the "collection" notice. It's all a part of their scam. You don't owe them anything.
To get the calling stopped is another story (as evidenced by the stories told here).
Their tactic is to intimidate you enough until you give in. Extoration may not be too light of a term for what they do.
If I could become a part of an organized movement to stop them, I would. They really ticked me off... and I don't get ticked off very easily.
Google the name: "Lewis Figh" - president of Buckmasters.
LEWIS H FIGH, III
7201 TIMBER MILL DR, MONTGOMERY, AL 36117
[protected]
When I searched the internet for the contact info for the President of Buckmasters, I came up with:
LEWIS H FIGH,
7201 TIMBER MILL DR,
MONTGOMERY, AL 36117
[protected]
This company is horrible. Complete scam.
Followup - phone rang last week. Guess who?
Buckmasters! Must be re-cycling through former pi$$ed off victim's phone numbers.
So much for taking me off their list, huh?
LEWIS H FIGH,
7201 TIMBER MILL DR, MONTGOMERY, AL 36117
[protected]
