Atlantic Circulation, Inc. review: No Magazines 58

my son left central oregon with this company on a road crew. he called me two to three times a week for the first month he was gone and the stories he told me were horrible. even their most basic needs were not being met, they didn't get paid but their money was sent away to somewhere. they were starving and sleeping in tents in a campground...big difference from the phoenix inn where they stayed originally while "in trianing" in bend oregon prior to hitting the road. last call i got he made from a strangers borrowed cell phone and the call was cut short because "someone had seen him" and i have not been able to locate him or have heard absolutely nothing from his since that call on july 3 of 2008. our family is actively seeking my son as are other families in our area who had children leave on that recruiting bus. the local police and sheriff departments refuse to file missing persons reports because they are adults who left on their own accord and are not at risk to anyone or themselves and have no known medical problems that require medication. we are at out wits end on where to turn with this. finally the site "parentwatch" is helping with some of the basics that we couldn't locate on our own such as just the company name. the kids were told that it was atlantic publications international which is non existent. which makes me wonder just how much bull they have told these kids and what they are actually doing to them and with the money collected for the magazines i'm now reading have been ordered and payed for but never delivered as well as other kids horror stories about the road crews, long hours, lack of basic necessities and their escapes. more people need to be aware and many need help

this is all bull ### comments. i am a kid on a mag crew and i love the crew. This ProGRAM has inspried me to change many behavoirs in my life. Matt My BoSS has showed me that u can do anything u put ur mind too. If u talk to half the ppl that buy magzines from me they will tell u that i am a respectful young lady and i made a diffence just like them to me. U just gotta have faith that one kid really is doing the right thing and u will get ur ordered maGS jUst call the office [protected]

I ordered a subcription magazine for my brother in January of 2009 & I called today, March 23, 2009 because he still has not received the magazines & the girl I purchased the subscription from said he would receive it within 6-8 weeks! It was $73 so I wrote a check although she said she preferred cash because she could win more points. So I called this # that I found online [protected] & spoke with someone about my brother still not receiving his magazines & my check already went through on 1/29/09 & she said he would receive it May 19th because it takes up to 120 days & I explained to her that the girl I purchased the sub. from said it would be 6-8 wks! She said "No, it takes up to 120 days." And I was furious & said I just hope this isn't a scam because I don't want to have to go to court over this & she said "We're not a scam, it's in the system to be sent to him & if he doesn't receive it by then, u can call back to cancel your order but u can't cancel it now because you have to cancel it within 2 days of the purchase."

Just note that I did a google search on Atlantic Circulation, Inc & there were several websites that came up where people were stating they were scammed by this company so be careful! And if my brother doesn't receive his order BY MAY 19TH, I WILL TAKE THIS TO COURT & REPORT THEM TO THE Better Business Bureau!

I ordered a mag for my boyfriend Jan 9 09, Still no magazine, I spoke to a rep and she told me the same thing she told you. Now Im trying to call again and I get nothing but a busy signal! I dont know what to do anymore, Im a my wits end! This is ad because I know all kids who really are trying to fundraise for school or something are now going to suffer the consequences of this stupid company. Im out $56 dollars, and NEVER buying anything from a kid again, even if its family. Did you ever take it up with the BBB?

If you are unable to reach the company by telephone, they have an email (customerservice@atlanticcirculation.com) mailing address (2550 Kingston Rd. Suite 113 York, PA 17402) as well as a fax number(1.717.755.3484) this is all on my receipt but the email address.A telephone is not your only option. If you want your magazines or your money returned I would think you would try to get in contact with them any way you could, before you complain. If you click the link when you Google Atlantic Circulation, Inc. there information comes up with all contact info. If you have time to write a letter to the BBB write the company a letter to. I received my two magazines and my money was returned for third one because the magazine was not made any longer. I called and wrote a letter and they responded.

I just ordered 3 magazines from 2 boys. I had a bad feeling when they left so I hopped online and did some research and was appalled at what I have read. I immediatley contacted my bank and put a stop payment on the checks...since both boys needed to make a sale...stupid me.
Well $50.00 to cancel my checks and I will chalk it up as lesson learned. How can we put a stop to this B.S. Upon further reading of my receipts one from each boy...the receipts both have the exact same receipt number! Unbelievable I can't believe I didn't catch that before it cost me $50.00

it is truelly sad that companies like this use the school system as a story. Cause now when there is a real fund raiser I am not going to give them money...unless it's girl scout cookies!
6months ago I fell for another scam...Local high school putting together their spring fliers to hand out at games and wanted to know if I would advertise with them...well, I needed to do some advertising for my business and thought this sounded good...well, $89.00 gone and that too was a scam! These people make me sick and need to be stopped for good!

I fell for the story by the Atlantic Circulation solicitor too, and once the girl left, I started to think something didn't feel right. I first thougt I was doing a good deed and it turns out I am being scammed. I even asked her directly if it was a scam, and that didn't even phase her. Anyway, I ordered 24 issues of readers digest for $50.00 +13.00 Postage and Handling. I checked the internet and saw he same horror stories about the company, and also checked the readers digest site, and found they offered 10 issues at $10.00 and 20 issues at $15.00. There wasn;t even a 24 issue offer available. I immediately put a stop payment on my check (thank goodness for a friend that works at the bank, and wrote to the ":scamming company" via their website. By law, you do not have to use their cancellation form...they simply need notice within 72 hours, however, I will follow their "required process". I have a screen shot of the complete note which will go to the Attorney General, BBB, and every other consumer relations assistance organization I can think of if they try to cash my check or I get any indication of foul play. I was so upset that I also have also noitified my credit card companies, and they are on the lookout for anything suspicious. I will also be checking my accounts online on a daily basis. Thank goodness I have a service that keeps an eye on my accounts for me too. Little did the sales person know I also have the complete transaction on video, so I hope that will come in handy if they make any attempt to cash the check or get money from me in any other manner. It's a shame that the almighty dollar has become the most important thing in most people's lives.

I am so thankful for my intuition! A kid came to my door today trying to sell me magazines and gave me a full and detailed story about why he needed the money and the points! Apparently he's a home-schooled kid who gets to take his "senior trip" to Hawaii if he can raise enough money. He gave me some line about being nervous because he's only been asking people for 3 days and wanted me to affirm that he was doing ok. Later on in our conversation I asked him if he had really only been doing this for 3 days since he seemed like such a smooth talker to me! After more talking and more suspicion on my part, I began asking questions, direct questions like, "How do I know this isn't a scam?" He told me to call the number to which I replied, "How do I know you don't have 'your people' working the phones?" I realized that there was no way I was giving him any money (he even had the nerve to ask me if I could pay anything in cash since he got 'more points' for getting some or all the payment in cash). I told him that I'd have to talk it over with my husband but for him to come back tomorrow. Man oh man, did he ever pull out all the excuses as to why he couldn't come back! His mom, who was doing this for several years now apparently, would be so mad at him or the company works on a first impression basis or he is not allowed to come back because of some rules or policy. He got really upset and tried to guilt me into giving him the money because he was almost in first place with raising all the money and if he got to first place before anyone else, he'd get an extra $2000 when he got to Hawaii.
Some of the other comments sound almost legit, however the kid who stopped by my house this morning was not too legit to me! Unfortunately the people who are reading my comments have probably already been scammed-how else would I find this website or company had the kid not stopped by my house this morning? Tell all your friends and neighbors to beware! Post signs, send emails, make your status update on fb to warn people. If you want a magazine, you can go to the store and buy one-no one needs to come to your door to tell you what you need!

Well I see they moved. Same company, different address back in [protected] College Ave., Mountville, PA 17554) but same result. Paid $73.00 for two subscriptions and got nothing. Got nothing but BS before and after filing a complaint with the BBB and still no magazines. Ms. Laura K. Potter was the customer service supervisor that gave me the runaround.

I received the same song & dance from a young man claiming to have just joined a program after high-school graduation that was teaching him business and communication skills. His goal was to speak to as many people as he could to try to raise money for his program and at the same time earn points towards a vacation in Europe. He asked if he could collect our business cards claiming he would get additional points for each one. I thought that was pretty interesting since he was visiting a residential neighborhood in the middle of a business day. Seems most professionals with cards would be working, right? He was a pretty smooth talker and despite my better judgement my husband wanted to help his "cause".
Yesterday my young neighbor from across the street came over to tell us how she went to work for this same company a few days earlier (interesting since she graduated from high-school quite a few years ago). Apparently she and the young man who stopped at our house were arrested for soliciting. This company left them in jail in a foreign city with nothing but the clothes on their back and refused to help them in any way. I'd think you'd learn the soliciting laws in the city you were doing business in before sending young inexperienced people out on your behalf.
Needless to say, I can not stop payment on my check because it has already been cashed. We'll see if I get my magazine in 120 days!

Atlantic Circulations INC is a scam and I was suckered!
I ordered a magazine back in February I paid 48 with a check and 13 in cash so 61 dollars. I ordered it for my daughter and she has yet to receive an issue. Unless you want to count the old one she received complete with the address box cut out back in April.
I have called, the first time I was told it takes 120 days and every time after that I get a busy signal. I have also faxed them and gotten no reply and now that I have an e-mail address I will attempt that but suspect that we will not see the magazine(48issues) or the money. I will not be taken in again.

Everyone on here is getting so upset and threatening to do things to the company, thinking that will make a difference! Those kids selling magazines are 'Independent Contractors' and that means the company is not liable for any actions that occur because of them. I used to be a kid in the 'contest' 10 years ago, and I don't think anything has really changed since then. If these people can get away with rape and murder, somehow I don't think they are too concerned about 50 to 100 dollars. Sorry to break it to you.

I read the complaints after giving the kid a check. Lucky me I read this while the kid was next door. I just asked him to give me my check back. THANK YOU for the warning. A friend of mine told me the same I've read here happened to her.

I too read complaints after writing check. I heard the same line of BS as mentioned above...points, competition between boys & girls, learning communication skills etc. Also lucky for me I was able to find Brian at the next block. I told him I wanted my check. He gave it back to me. Done deal. Lesson learned

Thank God my bank doesn't charge me for a stop payment on my checks! Just yesterday had a kid come by, just like everyone else. I told him I didn't like magazines, so he said his school program would donate them to a children's hospital near by if I ordered children's magazines (which of course earned him triple points). He was even nice enough to cover the $13 shipping cost for me for the extra points. Well I'm a sucker for sick children, so I did it. After he left -i.e., he jumped into a white minivan that peeled out- I checked my "tax deductible" receipt which stated that Atlantic Circulation is not affiliated with any schools. That's when I began to realize parts of his story didn't line up. When I read up online, I kicked myself so hard! I filed a police report, but they said that they can't really do anything because Atlantic is a "legitimate" company, and since I don't have any info on the sales rep, its a lost cause.
Now I'm usually a pretty good judge of character. After all, I'm a car salesman (the honest kind), and I've seen these high pressure tactics in use before. But they have these kids brainwashed pretty hardcore, they flow very smoothly. If you're like me and you have a heart, be careful, they'll do everything they can to use it against you.

I was supposed to receive several magazines from your company and I gave a check and I never received my magazines.

This company is bad news. While I sympathize with all the readers who have lost money to this company, this does not even touch upon the true evil of the masterminds of this scheme. A dear high school friend of mine went missing 6 years ago while selling magazines in a trailer park in New York for Atlantic. Fragments of her skull were found recently in a nearby state park. I'm not sure if it was the magazine officials who had anything to do with her murder, but at the very least they failed to report her disappearance to the police in a timely fashion. And why did they send an 18 year old girl into an isolated (it could only be accessed by dirt road) trailer park known to be dangerous by herself? Please warn any young people looking for "that opportunity" to BE WISE! Look up the story of Jennifer Hammond and be warned.

I fell for the same story as most of you. This kid even had a patch from HPD where he claimed an HPD officer had given it to him, he also has lots of military patches where he claimed he collected them and buyers had given some to him. I knew something didn't seem right when he asked for cash but being a mom and wanting to help him I only have him a check. So I called my back also and put a stop on it. My back incourage to me change my account since they have all my informtion from the check I gave him.

My name is Solar.

Now look.

Atlantic Circulations Inc. is a company that clears and sends out subscriptions for the independent contractors (A bunch of kids in traveling door-to-door magazine sales crews) who you get at your door. The business of door to door magazine sales has been around since the great depression. It began as a work reformation project founded by the government, at a time when hundereds of other federally funded work opportunities openned to the public, such as Job Corps, and LaborReady. While the door-to-door magazine sales failed officially in the long run, it has reached beyond federal funding to keep the program alive. These kids are honestly competing for a 2 week trip to most anywhere in the world they want to go with the condition that the destination be agreed upon by all 4 contest finalists. When an agent on the sales crews gets to 35, 000 points, they truly do get a $2, 000 bonus as well.

This is a pyramid scheme in it's definition. Atl. Cir. Inc. Is not the company responsible for your misfortunes. They are not actually selling you anything, just clearing all orders that are sent to them by the sales people. These crews are all managed by managers, and then there are supervisors, and then there are agents. It can have more levels than this example, but generally, Atlantic takes their half of the sale, the supervisors take their 10% of each agents "production", or what is remaining after the clearing house gets their portion, the manager then takes half of the remainder, leaving roughly 23% of each sale for the agent. A manager would then be responsible for housing the agents. Any good manager will always make sure that the hotel rooms for the agents are paid for, even if it means they all share a room for the night. Everyone takes care of eachother in making sure everyone is fed, and it really is a family atmosphere, for these young people who most of which come from broken homes. They are learning positive communication skills, as well as responsibility, comradery, and getting to travel and share in life's experiences while they do it. Some of us are among the most interesting people I have ever met. Talk to us, see how we work. If you like us, buy a magazine. I won't even go into the lists of highly successful people who started off selling magazines in door to door crews, but this is a system taking kids off of the streets, people without anywhere to go, and showing them love, and teaching them the power of communication. I have heard some horror stories, believe me, but not from my crew. Not from most crews.

So when you are about to say no, remember. You aren't buying a magazine. You are supporting a lifestlye. Granted there are "scam crews" that won't send your receipt in because their receipt are counterfeit, more than likely. These crews are often the ones who have to endure the most abuse and unfair conditions. Like I said, many of these people have no home to go back to.

If I could ask any one thing from you, Mr. and Mrs. Jones... It's not to call the police. We deal with the police each and everyday.

I put my email address on every receipt, and if you don't recieve your magazines in 4 months (that's worst case scenario), I will make the calls to take care of it.

Here's the thing... As an agent, I can assure you that these kids are more than likely not:

Homeschooled
In R.O.T.C.
In High School (We travel a lot)

If they say they are, then that doesn't mean they are representing an illigitimate business, it just means they are lying to make the sale.

P.S.
The troops and children DO get their magazines.

Tip to make sure your agent is good for their magazines:
Check their paperwork. Their receipts should ideally be in numerical order or close. Double receipt numbers more than likely means that this is a "scam crew".

sometimes people just leave. i feel for jennifer, especialy living in littleton my whole life, but most jobs wouldnt contact the police if someone didn't show up for work and most times police wouldnt do anything for that anyways. its not the company's fault.

we LOVE working on our crews. our crew personally turns in all of our magazines. we believe in good business practices. don't punish all for the bad deeds of few.

This company is a total scam I worked for them and they even scam there employees!
I would suggest never to trust or buy from atlantic circulation inc ever and I do mean ever!My own family ordered from me and never got there magazines.There is nothing but drugs and drinking that goes on after they get home and the violence is too much.The kids that do the sales are not all bad but you can bet the person they work for is.This company was the worst experence of my life allwe deal with on a daily basis is thug bosses like Brandon S. of Blue Dimond sub. Jake B. of Berlingery sales the only manager I liked was Melissa B. she was very nice and treated her agents like gold the others are like the maffia so never spend your money with A.C.I again

my name is charlie b. i too worked for aci and they pay there people. how do i know? well i used to make 200 bucks a day. to all those haters out there, quit cryin cause you used to suck at your job, and now that your home[at mommys, may i add] you have nothing better to do than cry about the past. GROW UP

I did submit a complaint to the BBB (waiting), the kid who sold me the mag really made me believe this was for charity, it is not, You can get through to a live person on [protected], but they told me they work for subcontractors, so Atlantic Circulation, Inc is only a processing company for these people who are doing wrong, she had my order in the system. She told me to write a letter explaining why I want to cancel. I wrote a letter explaining why, I faxed it, mailed it, then sent a complaint in to the BBB, which I think everyone should do, it's important that Atlantic Circulation, inc knows that they are processing orders for people who are misleading. I told the woman I just don't understand why I can not cancel something that will not start to ship out to me for another 120 days. The rep kept explaining to me that there was nothing she could do and that Atlantic Circulation, inc will forward my cancellation request to the original sales company, but its up to them if they refund me or not. lol I'm sure they will right, has anyone ever recieved his or her funds back from Atlantic Circulation, Inc?

Personally i have preformed legal work for one of these "crews" The boss matthew was falsy accused for scaming a person in new york. After talking and meeting with all parties we found out that his "crew" was not the ones who took the money. In a settlement the couple were given credit towards mag purchases. Now they are still continued customers. Be careful, if you are dealing with anyone else check id's. I can personally vouch for Matt's crew as for any other i do not offer gurantees.

I knew something was wrong! I followed my gut on this one. I'm a college student living at her own apartment complex, and i got a knock on my door today, and it was a young man, not much older than myself, who was extremely charming in personality, very friendly, and right off the bat shook my hand and told me that his name was _____ (don't even think i caught his name) and he had to do this for a public speaking class as part of a program that he was doing to study abroad. He told me he was part of a program that helped him earn points so that he could go to study in Italy next semester, and as part of it, the boys and girls were split into teams, and the girls were winning, so he needed my help. He said he was majoring in business, and gave me his emotional story. I will admit he seemed like a really friendly and sincere guy.

He said he needed to raise funds as part of this program, and whipped out a pamphlet with magazines. He asked to come in when I said I'd be happy to support him. He sat down at my kitchen table and made friendly personal converstion and asked me about school, music, etc.

Then after pushing me to subscribe to two magazines, I let him know i could only afford one right now. it was a two year subscription for 49 dollars, and thats when something started telling me this wasn't right. He asked me if i wanted to pay cash or check, and when i said check, he said, "well do you want to help me secure it with just partial cash?" and I thought, hmmm okay? that was another sign that something was wrong. I gave him 10 dollars cash and told him I would pay the rest in check, and wrote out a check for 39 dollars. When i asked who to make the check payable to, he said Atlantic Circulation, INC. And i thought "...why am I making this too some company i've never heard of?" I knew something was wrong, and when i gave him the check, he said thanks a lot, and I told him good luck. He said he had a tag to put on the clip next to my apartment door to let the girls he's competing against know that he already got my support so I wouldnt be bothered. He showed himself to the door and left.

Right as he left, I ran to my computer and looked this up and found that I was totally right all along. I felt stupid for going against my gut feeling! and to make it worse, he didn't even put the tag on the clip next to my door. I found it crumpled on my floor right at the entrance of my apartment.

Within 10 minutes I called my bank to put a stop payment on the check. They charged me a fee, but I was just lucky that this jerk wasn't getting the money he thought he was from me.

It was so awful, and I can't believe people can sleep with themselves at night.

I am a kid on this so called scam crew...it is ### that people think every kid selling magazines is trying to scam them ...well it isnt true the rea; scam artists are the managers . they make up all of there own prices and pay the kid how ever much they want. That is why im not with the scam crew ### anymore. Most of the kids are drug addicts and theifs...### MAG CREW!

I am a college student myself, living in student apartments and I was also scammed by Atlantic Circulation, Inc.

After the boy who took my momey left, and I thought about what just occured, it was obvious to me that it was a total scam.

The boy selling magazine subscriptions had a very unclear story, with missing details, and whenever I asked him a question, his answer was hesitant and mis-matchy.

I thought I was being generous, but in reality I was being scammed.

Just recently someone from this same company came by my apartment AGAIN, trying to sell magazines- this time a girl.

The lines this girl said were all the same as the previous guy- they must be taught to say something and have to rehearse it before going out to scam people.

I feel nauseus at the memory of these incidents, and how these people sleep at night knowing that they are taking money from innocent college students like me and my neighbors.

Ugh, I feel stupid as well. This guy came today with the exact same story. He was in a public communications class trying to win a trip to Paris. He got points for selling magazines. He had all these military badges and said he got extra points for those. When I said I didn't have any cash, he looked all disappointed and said they got extra points for cash. He also said that other people were going around and volunteered to put a sticker on my door, but after he left, I found the sticker on my table. What a scam! I stopped payment on my check. Now I have to pay a fee to stop the check, but at least it's not $49. I paid for the children's magazine.

He kept talking so fast and said he was all nervous and didn't know how to talk well, etc. They just give you no time to say "NO". I learned a lesson today. I thought I was helping someone out and helping children in hospitals.

THIS COMPANY IS DEFINITELY A SCAM AND IS NOW IN THE SMALL TOWNS HERE IN NEW MEXICO!

PEOPLE BEWARE AND DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR MONEY OR ANY OTHER KIND OF INFORMATION TO ANYONE THAT SHOWS UP AT YOUR DOOR OFFERING MAGAZINES OR TELLING YOU "SAD STORIES"!

**USE COMMON SENSE WHEN DEALING WITH THESE SCAM ARTISTS**

I recently was aproached in a Walmart by two young guys selling these magazines subscriptions. One said he was in college, the other said he recently returned from Iraq. I'm an officers wife, and wanted to help, so I bought one magazine subscription for 36.00 dollars. During the whole transaction, I had a gut feeling that these two guys were scam artists. I even asked them if the walmart knew they were soliciting in the store, but I still wanted to trust that they were being honest. I was careful not to give them any of my bank info, or credit card numbers, so I gave them cash basically to go away. I did not appreciate being singled out and put on the spot like that. So today, I pulled out the receipt and found all this info on the magazine scam. I really wish that I would have followed my gut instinct and reported these people to the store managers. If I end up getting my magazine, I will be very surprised. If I'm approached out in public again, I will let the store manager know next time.

A young man came to my door in February. Well, it seemed strange from the beginning and I told him to save his pitch because I didn't have cash on me and I don't give my account information to solicitors. He went on to tell me of how he was in the lead for this contest. The store is right around the corner so I told him I would order one magazine. As I was getting in my truck, the kid asked me if he could ride because it was beginning to rain and they wouldn't be back to pick him up for hours. I allowed him to ride. Anyway, as I was getting the money out, I looked at the price of the magazine in the store and did my calculations for the magazine I ordered. The store was less. I made it back out to the truck and I told the kid, I'm sorry, I feel this is a scam. If you needed money this is not the way to go about it. You are hurting people and taking advantage of them. I gave him 30 dollars anyway said a little prayer for him and let him out. Although, he completed the transaction I don't expect any magazines. My advice to people is this: stop giving out your account information to strangers. These kids are professional hustlers. Don't fall for the sob story.

Personally I have been working as an agent for about 1 month now. Agents are told what to say and do so we get clothing, shoes and a small bit of cash in our pockets. It is true that we get 2000 for college/towards entrepreneurship goals and a 2 weeks trip to Europe if we get 35, 000 points. If we dont sell any magazines we get yelled at and get no points. I dont think this is a scam, but there are some crews that are scammers. Just be careful of who you order from.

Do not "Donate a Mag to a chilodrens hospital its fake and they do it just to make theyre drop count. Half the time they send the mag to you or a family member of theirs. I did the mag thing for years and regret some of the things i did but backe then i had the dog eat dog way of thinking

Hello, I will not give out my name or my information, but I use to work for ACI, I was a mag crew agent. Yea they really pulled a fast one on me, promises of money and I got to trvel the U.S. In nice hotles and have fun. Wow was a scammed...
I worked for three months and for that time I went through alot, Its commision based so either you sinnk or float in this business, and the only way to float is to lie out of your @$$ completly so you can make the sale. There is this thing called our quata, its the least amount of sales expected out of you; mine was 10 sales a day. If I did not make quata I would not make full pay on my sales and everytime a check was brought in (no matter how much it was worth) I only recieved $5 for it. Im talking about 100-300 $$ checks here.
Now I did learn alot about the job and what they do, It is sadly not a scam, just a very messed up slavery. The reason some of your orders did not come in is becuase of the following (Some sales agents will not turn in a sale and keep the money, 75% of the orders have to be sent in, the other 25% "are lost in the mail" meaning the managers keep the money and never send in the reciept, and the last one is the order was not filled out right.)
We stayed in very crappy motels where the whole crew ended up contracting scabies, well all the kids did, the managers had time to go to the clinic and get it cleared. All the kids working on crew had torn up nasty peeling skin becuase the bug was not treated for a very long time.
Our work week, We have to be awake by 8:30am to get ready for 9:00am meeting, Sometimes if we all missed quata it would be earlier meeting. Meeting was to see who was in what van and which town they were to sale in. We arrive in our town at 11:00am and work different neighborhoods until 10:30 pm, we get back very tired from walking and have to stay up until 11:00pm meeting to go over the day. I hated 11:00pm meeting, this is where you would get humiliated if you did not get ur quata, even if you were one away. All the managers called us names from [censor], [censored], not worthy, [censor], well the list goes on. We worked 6 days a week and got wednesdays off. Well we never really had wednesday off, The managers would promis us something for our hard work and the when wednesday comes, we end up useing that day to jump to the next town, we also had to work when we were in the middle of jumping, so really we never honestly had a day off. No crew in the nation has a permit to sale, so its all ileagle. We were stopped by the cops almost everyday becuase someone will call. I was always told to keep many things secret. Like our hours we work and how many days we work and how much we make. So they can let us go and not hassle us. Its a lie parents when thekid says he does not have to pay for his room and board. They pull $12 out of our total sales to pay for a room.
Did you know a manager will make well over $2000 a day and the kids working under him/her only make 50-100 a day(and thats if they are meeting quata) I was able to come home beacuse the cops forced me to come home. My last day there i brought in 3 checks, 1:$185 2:$200 3:$51, I only made $15 off of those sales, and I had to ride back home on a grey hound that they almost did not pay for. So parents who read this bring it to your kids attention that not everything is how it sounds. I thought I was going to become rich off this but unstead I was used like a slave to make some one else rich.
Well there is more but I cant type it cuz it will give away who I am so until next time, Peace and Love to all who are still stuck in a mag crew.

theres scams everywhere, atlantic circulation is the most reputable company ive worked for, and trust me ive worked for some of those scam companys .ive seen these companys treat people horrible, so im not arguing the fact that there is bad things going on, but i know for a fact that ACI is legit. if for some reason you dont recieve your magazines its not the company, its dirty business done by these (so called helpless kids). i run a crew and i tollerate no drugs, alcohol, or dirty business. i get bad apples walking through that door everyday looking for a job. i take these kids who would end up on the streets, doing drugs, selling drugs for that matter, and probably commiting crimes. so when i take these hopless cases and turn them into sucessful young adults on the right path, i get no praise. you never hear the good stories because theres no drama. and as far as the office number its correct, i call it everyday!

LETS GIVE THESE LEGIT KIDS A BREAK, ITS ONLY MAGAZINES. 50 DOLLARS WOW I SPEND THAT ON TOILET PAPER.

I was visiting a friend in Portland, OR. when we were stopped by two young men who were pleasant but very misleading in their true intentions for stopping us. What seemed like a simple survey to rate which magazines we liked the best turned out to be, "okay now out of your top three favorite magazines, which do you want to buy?" We were caught off guard and basically guilted into buying a magazine so that these kids would receive points for some contest so that they could go on some trip somewhere. Afterward, I too felt that something was wrong with what just happened. I felt bad for spending all that money but I felt that I was really almost tricked into doing it. But I really wanted the magazine I had purchased (with cash, which was supposed to get the kid more points) this was 3 months ago and I have yet to receive my magazine nor has my friend.

Is this a contest or what? If not then [censor] on that, they shouldn't be lying to people just to get their money, someone should be held accountable for this. These kids were obviously trained to scam people because they are very good at it, to be frank they are conniving and sneaky and manipulative. What the hell kind of environment have these kids been in?

The thing that still makes me wonder is when the two kids were talking about shipping and handling. The boy who was selling a magazine to my friend waived the shipping price because someone had given him a donation earlier in the day, but the boy who sold me mine didn't have that luxury. So this causes me to think that it's not a scam, and that maybe SOMEDAY we will get our magazines. But as of right now, whoever is behind this and in charge of sending the magazines needs to get their act together and start sending what we paid for.

Someone else posted something about the fine print saying something about it being a contest and if you are chosen you get the magazine, well that is crazy BECAUSE I DIDN'T PAY $62 TO ENTER A CONTEST. Aren't there laws against selling people things under false pretenses? I thought I was buying a magazine, not a [censor]ing raffle number. This is [censor]. I'm praying that I didn't throw that receipt away during many of the moments I've kicked myself for falling for this scam.

And to "Solar" who posted earlier, I would support a "lifestyle" if I was asked to support a lifestyle. I'm angry, we are angry because we thought we were buying magazines, not paying so these kids can stay off the street. At least be honest with us for christ's sake.

Who can you trust when there are companies, organizations sending kids on the streets to basically hustle money from people? This whole [censor]ing world is corrupt, man, playing on our weaknesses and compassion.

Alma, 20, CT.

SolarDisciple... perhaps you should post your e-mail address here so you can take care of the hundreds of people who have been ripped off.

Savannah came to my house last night. Parts of her story were inconsistent, but I wanted a Parent & Child for my daughter who is a new mother. $55.00 for 4 a year for 32 issues a year for 4 years. Good deal, eh? Well, if it turns out that Savannah scammed me, I'm going to find her.

WHEW! I actually got on the computer while Jaime was still here at the house and read a few of the complaints. I took my check back, thank GOODNESS! My only regret is that I brought this person into my house...I really hope that doesn't lead to any theft or anything.