Fons & Porter Subscription
03-13-2010, 09:44 AM
#32
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Boise, ID
Posts: 430
My mom loved receiving magazines and paid all the invoices when they came. The next thing I knew, her house was filled with duplicate issues, magazines she never had time to read, and she didn't know why they kept coming. Sadly, dementia was starting. When I took over her finances, it was startling to realize that over a one-year period, she had paid out over $2,000 in magazine subscriptions and it took me another year to get them stopped.
03-13-2010, 11:28 AM
#34
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 12,930
Originally Posted by Diana
I just renewed their Quilter's Club of America. Could not get it to function on their site with my discounted $39 subscription, so I called them to place the order. Got my confirmation and they had charged me $59. I called them and they said they could not refund the money, but they would add three months to my subscription.....then I went into my account and they now have two subscriptions lasting only 12 months, not 15.,but I now have two subscriptions running simultaneously.
I'm calling again today.....or oops, they don't work on Saturdays or Sundays.
Frustrated in TX.
I'm calling again today.....or oops, they don't work on Saturdays or Sundays.
Frustrated in TX.
03-13-2010, 11:40 AM
#35
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Winchester, VA
Posts: 1,552
Originally Posted by craftiladi
I thought I had read on this board sometime ago that someone stated that F & P out sources their billing & invoicing...so I ignored the other notices to pay but this one came w/ the magazine I recieved today.
Thanks everyone for your responses. I will look up the # and give them a call.
Thanks everyone for your responses. I will look up the # and give them a call.
REASON?????
EVERY BLOODY MONTH, the magazines would be on the newstands days or weeks before my THEIR errors is time I could have been spending quilting, or something that I truly want to do in the limited free time I have.
Is it convenient to have magazines delivered? Certainly - but that is not worth the delays etc.that I have had to put up wtih........The "savings" after your initial year are not generally enough to warrant putting up with all of the other stuff.........
03-13-2010, 12:19 PM
#36
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,162
[quote=Granna of 5][quote=ToucanSam]Well, on a related note, I subscribed to Southern Living 2 months ago. I have yet to receive ONE issue. I called today to cancel and the representative told me that it could take 30-60 DAYS to get my paid subscription refunded!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a funny one. I started getting Southern Living which I never wanted and never ordered. I wrote, emailed and tried to call, all to no avail. I am still getting So. Liv. and simply donate it to a thrift store. At least someone is getting good use out of it. So far I have received six issues. And NO bill. Go figure.
Here's a funny one. I started getting Southern Living which I never wanted and never ordered. I wrote, emailed and tried to call, all to no avail. I am still getting So. Liv. and simply donate it to a thrift store. At least someone is getting good use out of it. So far I have received six issues. And NO bill. Go figure.
03-13-2010, 03:59 PM
#38
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 5,142
One of our local quilting shops lets customers put their old magazines on a "free" table. Anyone that comes in is welcome to take them. Another one (that has a LOVELY retreat center) puts them in the retreat center for the quilters to help themselves from or to use for inspirations. I bought 11 grocery bags of old quilting magazines on a garage sale and have spent many hours going through them. Thrift shops will also take them if you have too many.
03-13-2010, 04:33 PM
#39
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,260
Originally Posted by ToucanSam
Originally Posted by lots2do
The latest thing in the magazine subscription world is automatic renewal if you've used a credit card to charge a subscription. They just keep it coming!
03-13-2010, 04:36 PM
#40
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1
I subscribed to Quilters Home because it was supposed to be different & funny. Different it was but not funny. The main man is crude & rude. It took me 4 months & 4 letters to get my money refunded for issues not sent. Of course by then the subscription was almost up. I told members of my quilt guild, so that will be a few $ he won't get.
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