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

I would NOT BEING SCAMED BY RD. PLEASE EXPLAIN.

how do I go about getting the free gift you say is waitind for me?

As big as RD is I can't believe this is happening. I want my Surprise!

Have been subscriber thirty yrs. never thought RD would treat people this way.ac703

I did not read all the complaints but I read enough that I agree with them. Please do not send out these free gift cards if you do not have free gifts. As the card states it was a SURPRISE. Readers Digest has been a staple in our home for years but this is totally out of character for you. Please reply with your answer.
Thelma Jaye

Digest is becomming a scam on prizes and all else you guys might as well be the New York times!

I have always liked Readers Digest, amongother well-established companies. However, in the last few years I have noted that Television commercials and programs, as well as the latest magazines, all lack good taste.comedic programs are sarcastic and lewd, TV ads assault my senses...yelling at me, irritating me with continuous repetition of the name or number of their company. My grandchildren really learn good manners while watching some jerk slurping soup during social or business meetings, paying no attention to those around him...AND TO THINK these awful spots are okayed by high executives within a company! I just cannot buy products from companies whose top executives allow their own perverse values to be made public. I will just have to cancelthis magazine, sincethe executives of this company will not honor their own offerings.

O.K. I give up, What on earth is a [respctable?] magazine trying to do but iritate all the above people? There has to be a reason why you want to get us all upset because we renewed for another year.

You guys should let your left hand know what your right hand is diong before you advertise. Is the gift a joke or an exersise for your readers?

I believe this a very poor way to show people that they are important to you, to say that we have won a prize then give us the run around. I have read Reader's Digest and your books for years and I think this is absurd! You really want our business, don't you!

MBM

I agree with all of the above comments. Another complaint I have, is when I renewed my subscription and was told I could get a subscription for a friend FREE. She has never recieved her magazine. Is this another scam?

I have recived a card stating, I have a free gift waiting for me. I went to www.rd.com/surprise and what a surprise I got! I dont even know how to find out what it is, or how to register for it.

I am complaining about the back covers. There used to be art work that was worth studying. The last few issues have been almost naked women! Almost porn--not something I would want young children looking at. What happened to the "family magazine" RD used to be?

I got a card, was able to get the free gift (a book) but to get it you have to subcribe to a book club where they send you one book every so often for a fee. You have 30 days to cancel, so I got my book and cancelled the subscription without any problems. However, by reading the posts here I noticed that other people have not been so lucky, so be careful with this thing.

Shame on the R.D people for acting the way they have to all of us that have enjoyed the book!

Why would a company as popular as Readers Digest pull a stunt like this?

What a farce. Has anybody got them to tell how to tetrive the gift?

Shame on RD, I've been getting the magazine for many years,and to think that they would stoop so low to get you to that site what a scam. Another American Icon going down the tube, money talks. Mine will be silent next renewal.

Disappointed in NJ

I do not understand why RD is doing this. Please explain.

Sincerely'

Wesley KENT

READERS DIGEST YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN... FREE GIFT...HA! HA! NO SUCH THING AS FREE ANYTHING...JUST TAKES EVERYONES
TIME ... THEN CANT' FIND THE FREE GIFT...NO MORE MAGAZINES FOR ME.

I am surprised that a magazine that I have been reading for 50 plus years, would stoop so low as to send these scam notices with my subscription.

It's not that I care about the free gift, it's the principle of the thing. I don't need to subscribe to another magazine that considers it's readers acquisitive fools. There are too many good magazines out there.

I recently subscribed to your mag. and requested LARGE PRINT. You keep sending me small print. If this cannot be corrected, please stop my subscription and return my costs.
It may be in my wife's name.

Barbara Bouchie
meetoo0658@comcast.net

Was able to access www.rd.com/surprise but was unable to proceed beyond that point. Was there a point to being sent this postcard?

Seems to be a waste of time.

What is the answer? Readers Digest is a credible company, been around for years so what's the deal?

Is anyone from Readers Digest going to address this issue so the readers who receive the card can access their gift?

I agree with all above comments.. What surprise?

To Whom Thia May Concern: well, I totally agree; why send this card with hopes to recieve a FREE Surprise, when I got onto the website, there wasn't any evidence of how to get a FREE Surprise, nor what the FREE Surprise was, or is? Wake up people; we cannot read your mind, But you can read the following; "if I cannot recieve a FREE Surprise from a card sent to me, why would I want to spend monies to get Readers Digest?" Thank you for your attention to this e-mail, and I surely hope someone will reply back sooner, not later to me on this matter! Sincerely, Mary Rose Kimmel, Garrett, IN

I agree with the complaints about the rd.com/surprise card that you got with the digest. To me I think it's a gimmick to make you pay more for you subscription to readers digest, and I don't think that's right. Because I couldn't even get online either to try and claim my gift either.

I agree with the complaints about the card that came with the digest. I even tried to get on line for my surprise gift, but still didn't couldn't get on.

I will not be renewing my subscripton, to readers digest, after this shameful bit of trickery, we expected a more up front and straigh foreward aproach from R.D. SHAMEFUL, SHAMEFUL, SHAMEFUL..

Don't forget to sue for psychological nudity!

Why doesn't somebody who HAS received the so-called "free gift" POST in here WHAT the heck it was and whether it was WORTH all the hassle?

Sounds like it's just a come-on to sell more RD books, and THEN you might receive a "free" BONUS book or item, ONCE YOU ORDER their books...

Would like to hear WHAT EXACTLY anyone received as their "free gift" and whether it was worth all the chasing around trying to "claim your gift by logging on to www.rd.com/surprise."

Surprise!

Cancel my account # RDA/[protected]
You probably won't but I'll feel for trying.
This will be the end of over 60 years reading. Now it's terrible. This scam is the end. Surprise, Surprise!

The last note was from Carol Slater, Nov 19, 2007
Customer Service?

I toally agree that this is a scam...shame of rd for doing this type thing...the company should be better than this..Next year, I will not subscribe to rd.

Sick of the mag. LOADED with drug ads then they try to scam us with the "free gift" that turns out to be a subscription. Last time for us.

I agree with all the subscribers complaints to Readers Digest. The CEO and Customer Service will offer no remedy to all the compaints. I ordered a subscription for my daughter for a Christmas Gift. I was billed 3 times in different amounts. Finally after 30 minutes on the phone with Customer Service, we agreed on a price. The price listed on the Web site is not the price they give you when you receive your billing. It is doubled. The magazine is 75% advertisment with very few real stories.

I suggest that all of the subscribers not renew their subscription next year.

After 4 attempts to enter the information to "obtain"
this "Surprise Gift",

After three sucessive efforts to enter the data to receive the "gift", I can only concuude that I apparently do not know my own "e-mail address"!

Someone @ Reader's Digest needs to check out their data base.

Readers Digest is getting to be worst then Publishers Clearing House with their nonence mail.

I WILL CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION . YOU PEOPLE ARE REALLY NOT RELIABLE AT ALL. I HAVE BEEN TAKING YOUR MAGAZINE FOR EVER. I GUESS NOT ANYMORE.

THIS COMPANY NEEDS TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE! I feel a heart-felt appoligy to all subscribers would be a good start. Then a large donation to a well known non-profit organization in leu of their deception of a free surprise gift to the people that keep them in busness, US!, THE SUBSCRIBER! This company continues to send gift cards out and deceive. THEY ARE NOT LISTENING! Alot of money flows through this company,SUBSCRIBER MONEY! I urge all of (US) to cancel your subscription. If we STOP the flow maybe they will listen.
THANK-YOU.