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Urban Nation Complaint - Big Fat Rip Off - Magazine sales - door-to-door
Magazine sales - door-to-door - Complaint
WILLIS, TEXAS -- This is the 3rd time that I've made the mistake of purchasing magazines door-to-door from this rip-off company. Shame on me! They use street-smart kids to make their sales, and then cash the check and a publication never comes. I'm going to complain to the Utah Division of Consumer Affairs, the Fraud Division of the State Attorney General's Office, and everywhere else that I can. Scam artists who take advantage of young kids to sell and then never any product received.
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Posted by Dryad on 2010-07-20:
I'll leave this one up to someone else.
Posted by lakisha j on 2010-07-20:
The word that I am looking for stats with an 'S'.
Posted by Dryad on 2010-07-20:
Kisha, can I buy a vowel?
Posted by lakisha j on 2010-07-20:
You sure may.....
Posted by GenuineNerd on 2010-07-20:
This has been an ongoing problem for years. Hucksters promoting the sale of fraudulent magazine subscriptions and other overpriced junk would send groups of teenagers or twentysomethings, often from troubled backgrounds, to solicit door to door, often violating "no solicitation" or "Green River" ordinances in the towns they visit. These promoters would lure these teens/twentysomethings via ads in alternative weekly publications, bulletin boards at supermarkets, high schools, college campuses, and other public buildings, and over the Internet, with promises of "travel", "$10-$15 hour jobs", "jeans and T-shirt jobs", etc., only to take advantage of these youngsters, mainly by telling them to go door to door to sell overpriced magazine subscriptions or other items, putting them up in low-end motels in every town they visit, and subjecting potential "customers" (or should I say, "victims") to high pressure sales tactics. Often times, these "victims" have been robbed or assaulted in their own homes by these hustlers, since they won't take "no" for an answer. Any monies collected by these "sales crews" are used for booze, drugs, and partying, instead of being sent to the magazine publishers, etc. Law enforcement nationwide have received numerous complaints about these door to door hucksters, ranging from soliciting without permits, to non-delivery of merchandise/magazines, to assault, burglary, and robbery. And the youngsters hired by these companies often have past juvenile or adult criminal records. They would also often misrepresent a local school, church, or other charity as a way of their trying to put your trust in them. All these people are are scammers. If you buy magazines from a door to door salesman, chances are you won't get any magazines. You would be better off to go directly to the magazine's publisher and subscribe directly.
Posted by Helpful on 2010-07-21:
What magazines did you order?
Posted by Dryad on 2010-07-21:
Helpful, why does is matter what magazines the OP ordered?
Posted by Helpful on 2010-07-21:
Dryad, partial just curious; however, there are some magazines you can really get a great deal on over the internet, if you know where to look. I thought if I had the magazines the OP was interested in, I could point them to a way of still getting them without paying much of anything.
Posted by MRM on 2010-07-21:
Theres only one magazine that I love and subsribe to and that is "Maximum PC."
Posted by GenuineNerd on 2010-07-23:
There was a recent incident in the Cleveland area, where a motel clerk was raped by a youth representing a magazine sales crew.
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