Viking Magazine Service review: They won't let me cancel! 137

I completely agree with you! I tried calling the company a few days ago. The $60 a month is getting difficult for me to keep paying and I'm not that thrilled with the service. My boyfriend and I live on our own and he's out of a job so I'm the main bread winner and I need to get rid of frivolous expenses. They told me there was nothing they could do and that they would put me in collections as well. I never received any paper work about the 14 day period to opt out and I signed up back in December. I also don't remember them saying anything on the phone when they dragged me into this mess. Have you gotten any answers on how to retaliate? I CAN NOT afford to keep paying - but it seems as if they'll run me into the ground anyways. What crappy customer service... I will tell everyone I know how poorly I was treated by this company.

Viking magazine started calling me about my sons over due payments of their services. My son has been deployed since sept. Of 07 and he has not received any magazines. To stop the harassment and not damaging his credit I gave them his credit # and I told them that they can have his address so they can send the mags to him over in Iraq and they said that he will have to call when he gets back and then start to receive the magazines. That angered me because he will be gone for another 13 months. Then told me that the bill was 550.00 Talk about getting ###ED.

You know, these companies are all alike. My credit has been destroyed by companies like this (and an ex husband). So when my boyfriend who is 11 years my junior, gave them my bank card number, of coarse I am panicking. He is 21 and I have taught him credit by my mistakes. This happened not even 10 min. ago. He didn't know about the lurkers who act as vultures on the less informed.
They roped us in first with the $3.50, then 5 subscriptions for $15. Cool, I thought and I asked about mags we were interested in. They had them, so I said "yes". Just then the boyfriend/ husband came home from the smokes run and I put him on the phone so I could finish folding clothes. All of a sudden it is $800 "about" dollars and 60 months! Well I don't have to tell ou how freaking fast I was back on the phone...wrinkled clothes be damned! I say I can't just pay the $120 for a year? I don't know if I even like these these mags enough to commit for 5 years! He says "no our offer is for 60 months only". I say okay then we are not interested, but you have our bank card number. Will you delete it? He says "of coarse" like I am a horse's ### for asking.
I hope this does NOT turn into some craziness as I am afraid I will not be able to keep a professional tone about it. I will go to court if I have to. I am sick and tired of being pushed around by these companies! They called after 9 pm even! That is illegal within itself! My number is unlisted and I am (as far as I know) on a NO CALL LIST.
So, to all of you who have been taken advantage of, here is what you need to do. First, report to the BBB (better business...) the have a BBB logo on their home page, the care about reputation. Next, and you can do this online, dispute with all 3 credit reporting agencies. You can do this for free, so do not fall for the pay a one time bull [censored]. They have an explanation section for each dispute, so Mom with the son in Iraq, dare them to find him and ask him if he really ordered it, or was it a girlfriend. Bread winner lady, I dunno what to say. The only thing I can think of is that you seem very surprised it is a $850 charge. So maybe they didn't tell you (like me) until after they got the card #. That is an arguement. And finally the first complaint. You did not pay attention to the calls and what they were saying. There really isn't a whole lot of hope about that. You are screwed. Sucks.

This company is a ripe off the offer that they tell you is a lie i never once was billed for the low price that was quoted and the customer service is extremely Terrible but i guess after each ripe off sale to them they have something to smile about please tell anyone you no dont fall for this scam.

I agree with everything you guys are saying, those people keep calling me and I told them from the very beginning that I did not want magazines because I don't read them. I hate those people, they wanted me to pay for some magazines I didn't even receive. The rep never told me about a 14 day cancellation period, that stupid lady lied. The stupid lady had the nerve to call me and telling me how to pay my bills, I told her to go to hell and hung up on her. Viking magazine sucks and their customer service is terrible! I do not want their magazines, I do not want them calling me. They need customer service training!

It seems these companies are like sharks - waiting for the next victim. I just started my phone service, had it bundeled in with internet, cable TV and phone. Well, the installer came to my place last Tuesday and put in all the cable boxes, modem and new phone. I should also point out, that I requested an Unlisted (private) number.

Much to my anger: The cable guy had been gone for all of ONE HOUR when my new phone rings... excited I run over (thinking it was the cable company checking the service) and I get this ### from Viking Mags blabbing about my magazine subscription. At first I was like "Umm, ok" then as they went on and on I asked them "Wait, how the heck did you get this number!?". They replied "It's the number we got from your previous enquiry".

Well, at this point the penny dropped. I realised they were liars and scammers, I replied to this person "You got this number from MY previous enquiry did you? When was that exactly?" Person says "Oh, it doesn't indicate when". I reply back "Well that's very interesting, because unless I made the enquiry in the last ONE HOUR your are a LIAR! I only had this phone number activated by the cable company ONE HOUR ago, the guy just left and my phone number is so new I DON'T EVEN KNOW IT! So how is it I "gave" you this number prior to ONE HOUR ago when I do NOT know what it is!?".

Silence.

I finished by saying they were scammers, that my number was supposed to be unlisted and that I was going on to the DO NOT CALL list immediately. I closed by asking this ###, "Before you go...do me a favor, I can't find the order form with my new number on it...can you give my new phone number please?". The jerk did. Too stupid to realise the irony of the situation!

They are TELE-STALKERS...avoid like the plague!

Aw yes... Viking Magazine. I too got a phone call from this company. I am disabled veteran and was pulled into conversation with Viking Magazine. When a subscription was made, what I thought would be nice turned into disaster. I started to receive magazines I didn't have interest in, so I switched them out for different ones. When I did that, the rep ended up adding onto the subscription and didn't cancel the ones I didn't want. Consequently the bill came up to over $1000! Yes, I said a thousand dollars. AND it was mistakenly too late to cancel. Of course it was paid out of my savings, but now they are asking for more money. And after I paid the debt, a sly man called me up and said he was "updating" my account and I caught him trying to add additional $60 a month on these magazines (I had already paid for). He even challenged my faith when he saw that I received some inspirational magazines. I'm not joking. Just for future knowledge, PLEASE take caution and take heed to my warning, DON'T order from Viking. It may cost you money you didn't plan on spending.

I just received a rather nasty call from a lady from this company.

A few months back, my husband started receiving all kinds of magazines in the mail. The magazines he was receiving?! "Ok", "Us Weekly", "Oprah", "Rolling Stones"...magazine that he would never in a million years read. I asked him why he was suddenly receiving subscriptions to these and he replied that he had no idea. We weren't paying for the magazines and they we had just opened a new bank account which I check on every day-and nothing was being deducted from it so we just figured it was a mistake and once wherever they were coming from realized they weren't receiving a payment they would stop sending the magazines.

Well, the magazines are still coming. Tonight, MY cell phone rings and a lady asks for my husband. I ask her who she is and she refuses to answer and starts calling me by name and says "This is his wife, right?!". Finally I tell her that, yes, I am his wife and she tells me who she is and that she's with Viking magazine. She then tells me if I don't give her a valid credit card or bank card number right here and now she's going to turn ME in to the collection agency because I'm responsible for my husbands debt if he doesn't make arrangements to pay it. I laughed at her and told her she was more then welcome to turn me into a collection agency...I'm eight months pregnant and not working...good luck getting anything outta me! She tells me this date that he supposedly agreed to this subscription and that it was for five years! I told her that none of this makes any sense. For one, the magazines we are receiving and definatly not something he'd subscribe too. And second, he's in the army and deploying to Iraq in early August...I am positive he would not set up a five year subscription to anything at this point in time. The lady still argues with me and tells me if I want she'll change the subscriptions to something I would like to receive, but she will not cancel the account because it is the 14 day cancelation. When I told her I don't want any subscriptions she then threatened to put on the account that I was refusing to pay and turn us both into creditors.

As far as I'm concerned, they can turn us both in to collections. I'm NOT paying for a service that we did not ask to receive.

Is there anything I can do or any way I can turn them in?! What they are doing is completely wrong!

I sent Hank an email... Hmmm... Is it the economy in Minnesota that allows for seven dollars an hour? Who would do anything for THAT? No wonder the people who work there are so rude and defensive. I think McDonalds starts at $8-10 dollars an hour, and you go there to EXPECT bad customer service. HAHA

First, let me say that I like the service you provide. Furthermore, I completely agree with what your saying about commiting to a product and following through on a payment agreement.

However.

When I was called, I was legitimately interested in the service. My biggest frustration was the completely ditzy, obviously uneducated person I intially talked to. You would have to agree that your sales reps really do suck, at seven dollars an hour. You're company should consider two things. First, pay more money for a better qualified, more educated individual to intially represent your company to the consumer. Second, pay more money to keep the better qualified employee.

The first sales rep I talked to couldn't even tell me how your program worked. I asked four very simple questions.

1. What is the total and all inclusive cost of the service?
2.How do I change my magazines, and give me an example of the process?
3. How often can I change my magazines?
4.What happens when I move; and what is the process for changing my address?

Sadly, this sales associate lasted all of about five minutes with this order. I was then passed to a customer service supervisor who could answer these questions and complete my order.

Why even put such a poorly trained, poorly paid individual on the phone?

Also, at seven dollars an hour, these customer service agents are rude and defensive. Maybe if you paid them more, they would be more polite and pleasant to deal with. I've come to expect bad service at McDonalds, which STARTs at $8-10 dollars an hour. You get what you pay for.

I placed my order on April 28th. When I called today (July 2nd) to inquire about my order, I was met with a very rude and disgruntled agent who answered the phone simply, "Customer Service". Ummm... How about a "Good Afternooon, my name is Grouchy."

I had explained that I had ordered the service, made two payments (over $100) and recieved nothing. She very defensively and agressively explained that I ordered monthly magazines and I needed to allow 12 weeksafter the first payment for the delivery of the first magazine. Let me remind you I'm a satisfied customer politely inquiring about a service I've been paying for two months with no return. There was ABSOLUTELY NO reason to be defensive, rude, and condesending.

It IS wrong of you to advertise the "evaluation" period. The 12 week delivery of my first magazine surely exceeds the fourteen day window of "evaluation" after first payment was made. I had nothing to evaluate. I still won't in the next month. I can see how some people feel scammed.

I have to say I don't blame these people complaining about the quality of service. It IS LACKING a cheerful, customer first, empathic attitude.

On the good note, the grouchy agent DID offer to suspend payment for one month to allow my subscriptions to get started. Fair enough I guess while Viking Collects interest on my >$100 for another thirty days until I get my subscriptions.

Hint, being a previous call center employee, I know it helps to answer every call with a smile. It'll start the call off on the right note. Furthermore, for the uneducated employees of Viking Magazine, tell them to take note that being overly polite is better revenge on an angry customer. It pisses them off more than the defensive and angry call center approach. That they are calling to argue with in the first place.

Also, you don't need to inform the customer the bill is going to collections. They already know what happens if they don't pay a bill. Most people who are delinquent on a bill already have pending actions in collections and they are well aware. It is the job of collections to get the money from them.

I just received a call from this company, and I think I may be one of the lucky ones that is if the "supervisor" I talked to on the second call took me at my word when I said I'd "changed my mind". To Hank, all I can say is I work in sales, and the bait and switch methods used by your company are at the least unethical if not illegal. When it was 5 magazines that I already buy at cover for less than 4 dollars per week I was interested. When I was led to believe that it would be about 14 dollars per month, I thought shoot I'll probably pay six months at a time. It wasn't until the second call and after they had my credit card number that they informed me it would be 59 dollars per month for the first 14 months. Are you kidding me! I can't believe anyone would find value in a service like that. This company needs to be shut down. And you can rest assured that if Viking does infact bill my credit card that I will use this posting as well as others as evidence when I sue them in court. I DID NOT FALL FOR THEIR SCAM.

I was just called by Viking Magazine. I thought I might like some magazines and it seemed like a good deal. After I hung up with the second call I googled Viking Magazine online and found a bunch of complaints and rip-off. So when the 3rd lady called me, and informed me that we were being recorded. I politely said I changed my mind and I don't want any magazines. She asked me why? and I told her I don't really like magazines that much and I changed my mind. She said I shouldn't give out my card number if I didn't want to order magazines, and I replied that I'm allowed to change my mind and I don't want magazines. She asked me if she could change the type of magazines or the payments, and I told her no. So hopefully since this was recorded they won't be charging my account.

We shall see.

This company just called us, asked if I was Robert, I said yes,
then they hung up on me. It was almost like they just wanted
my "yes." I have read all these complaints and will not deal with
this company in any way shape or form. I don't know why they
wanted me to comfirm who I was!

dose anyone know there phone num iv been trying to cancel but theres no way to get a hold of them please thanks

they called me. went thru the same ###, $3.50 or whatever, then it was up to 15 or so.. Then up to $60 a month.

now within the first 30 seconds, i told the woman on the phone that i wasnt interested in spending any money.. that apparantly didnt register, because she kept going. so i said screw it. im gonna waste this ###'s time.. i was at work, gettin paid by the hour. so no sweat off my back. so i kept going thru the process "yup, yup.. um-hum.. sure.. etc.." at the end of the call she was like begging me to put in a good word to her supervisor for her to get a raise or a promotion. talk about desperate.

the supervisor calls.. once again, i explained how i wasn't interested, and they kept rambling on.. so i let it ride.. again same ### 1 word answers.. i told her that the selections they had were crap and i wasnt interested... and again.. didnt register...got all the way to the end.. and she said that someon else was going to call me and that it was a quick 10 second call. now, keep in mind, im going on 1/2 an hour here easy between these two broads.

so the 3rd broad calls me.. gets just about to the final authorization.. and says something to the effect of "since we offer you this service, we do ask that you pay the 57$ a month for 15 months, is that ok with you? and i said.. nah you know what.. im not interested, you better go ahead and cancel this ###. and i hung up..

those mother###ers called me like 4 times after that, and i didnt bother to answer, figured they'd get the hint..

finally im outside on my porch, havin a smoke, its about 3 hours after the initial call, and the phone rings. now meanwhile, i was in the process of getting a car loan, so i thought maybe it was the bank or something. so i answered.

and the guy was like. "oh you were only 10 seconds away from completing your order and it seems like your phone died out on us"

i was like. Nah i told that ### to cancel, i dont want your magazines.. your recorder doesnt work? i thought you recorded that ###?

and hes like "oh well what is it, the price, or the selections, why?"

i said dude.. $800 for some ### magazines? come on, lets be realistic here. im not interested. in fact i said it within the first minute of the first call.

and he kept trying to suck me back in.. and i finally just let him have it. i cut him right off before he could get a word in edgwise.. i was like "listen buddy.. you must not be hearing me.. i dont know if theres a problem with your english skills, cus it sure as ### aint mine... IM NOT ###ING INTERESTED.. i dont want to hear about your ### offers.. i dont ###ing care. cancel the ###.. your not getting my money. end of story.

he tried one more time "well surely there must be some..." i was like "dude are you ###ing ###ed? dont call me agian. delete my info. i am not interested. your not going to sell ### to me. no comission for you ###" And i hung up

havent gotten a call back since.

### you viking..

Im 20 year old college student workin and trying to pursue a career being a FBI agent..Back in the summer i got a random call from Viking magazine company from what i remember they like 15$ a month something like that so i wasnt thinkin at all and gave my card information over the phone a big no no my mother to never do. 2 months go by i recieve no magazine and they taking like 50-80$ out of my account i was pissed i dnt have money to just be givin away for some damn magazines. I got a baby own the way there are more important things.. My mama was pissed too we are from LA and we dont play people gettin ova on us for nothing she called the rude "customer service lady" and cussed her out. I cancelled my card and now they gon take me to court for fraud and take my name to collections.They call my phone restriced everyday almost like stalkers or something. Me and my mama gon fight this..If you get a call from Viking magazine so no thank you and go ahead your day because if you do you will be sorry.. ### viking magazine

I just hung up on a little ### of a guy and also I made a complaint to the better business bureau and I called my friend who is a lawyer. She said it is trickery what they do however you have to fight it in writing to the company and also dispute your credit report if they take you to collections. They can't report you unless you have prior written notice about it.

Hank, after reading your message, it sounds like this service provides a loan for magazines. I did not think of it that way (I mean, seriously..who would get a loan for magazines?). Had I thought of that, I definitely would not have gotten the service. If you all advertise "loan" how many people would get the service? Essentially, that is exactly what this is. When you compare it to making a car payment, and you say that after the 14 days, the service can not be cancelled because Viking pays for the subscriptions and you are paying the money back to Viking...hmmm...definitely sounds like a loan to me. Magazines are a luxury item and not something that we should be forced to pay for. I will agree that everything was said to me and I do not hold the company at fault but I would not recommend this service to anyone. My company is closing in a few months and I will be laid off, I'm a single mother to 3 small children...paying for magazines is not at the top of my priority list and it sucks that I am "stuck" with this.

this company somehow got my cell phone number and the house number. i don't remember ever subscribing anything. i have not spoken to them even once. i believe they started calling after i gave birth to my son. no information has been given to them. they just keep calling. and they do call after eight pm.if they call i just hang up on them without speaking to them. how do i get them to stop calling me? it is freaking annoying...

We are just going through the same thing except the company has added subscriptions and has not delivered the magazines we originally ordered or return any of the monies. We just filled with the BBB today.

I got involved with this company after they tried to rip off my son for four, 60 month subscriptions and one 36 month subscription. They wanted $897.00. They took him for $360.00+ before I got involved. My son is in the military and they tried to play that angle to get him to pay. What they failed to realize is that I commanded a squadron and that I understand pedators that prey on young people. I told them that I directed him to stop paying, to get a new card from his bank and never give the number to anyone. That's just free acces to your account. When I told them they were stealing from people, they told me I was an over protective father. To which I said thank you. I then got the supervisor to admit that the sales pitch is fast paced, but he said it's repeated three times and recorded. To which I responded, it doesn't matter. My son told me he cancelled to which the supervisor said, not in time. So I told him it's your word against his and his word was good enough. You need to be firm and stay in control and and ask to talk to a supervisor. You can put them on the defensive easily and it becomes clear they know they are stealing from people. Don't let them bully you with threats of collection. If it shows up on your credit report, explain the situation if asked. The bank/lender will understand that this company is a predator. This type of situation was a major topic of my commander's calls. They won't see any more of his money. More people need to tell companies like this NO!

Wow! They keep calling me and calling me telling me they have a great deal on subscriptions and this and that. Well after they get through the whole shpeal they want a credit card from you right then. I told them I wasn't going to give it to them and they said it was necessary for the order. That is was direct payment from the credit card company. I mean really? This day and age and they want me to just hand them all that information, and not be willing to send a bill every month. The first time they called me they told me that there were no charges applied to the card, that it was just a verification method. Okay?! Now, the last time they called, they said it was to ensure payment. At least if they are going to tyr and hustle me, they should have the same story and procedures. DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING FROM THESE PEOPLE. It is a scam, they lock you into a contract and they have your credit card information. Big mistake. If you plan on ordering magazines, do it for a good cause. Order through MADD, a portion of their profits go to the awareness of teens driving drunk. They are extremely pleasent, easy to work with, and NEVER ask you fro credit card information. They send you a bill every month that is usually no larger than 20$!

Please, the same thing has been happening to my daughter they won't let her cancel. I answered once and asked the woman why can't my daughter just cancel them she is a single mom of two and can't afford the magazines and she said that she didn't cancel in the alloted time. I then asked her if my daughter would have to keep buying magazines for the rest of her life since there is no cancellation policy and she had no answer. I put in a complaint with the BBB and Attorney General, this is enough my phone never stops ringing.

This is all ###.
For the lady whom says she works at viking is FULL OF ###! They do a three way call but YOU DO NOT REPEAT payments and the company name... nothing like that occurs. They are extremely misleading and shady. ### you, you viking [censored]! I can get a member ship with National magazine Exchange for 30 bucks a month and choose 6 months, 1 year, or 2 year subscription with them and receive a free watch with my subscription sign up and still not pay ANY where near what you chumps offer. You guys SUCK and should jump off a building you lying cheating honest americans out of their hard earned money mother ###ers!

Hi my name is Ophelia my husband is in the Navy. So when i perscribed with viking i used our joint account with N F C U. Make a long story short thay are saying that it will appear on his creit report and effect his military clearance. I will sue them if they attempt to collect.

IF YOU ARE WITH ME YOU CAN EMAIL ME @ englino@yahoo.com

I got caught up in this scam about a year ago and got stuck paying $360 to shut these people up. I never recieved the cancellation document and since it was past 14 days I got royally screwed! They are awful, dishonest people who have no shame. I had not heard from them in about 6 months but then the past couple of days Viking started calling me! I saw their 952 area code and just cringed! I was like who the ### do these people think they are. My fiance answered my phone and told them to not call again and the guy of course was so rude to him. (typical of Viking magazine people) They then called me back again yesterday! So I finally answered the phone, (I had already paid everything off to get these people off my back and told them to put me on do not call list 6 months ag0). Now 6 months later they had the nerve to call me back and say prices were going up ! WTF! I told them I have already paid you people off and to get off my back and to never call me again. I am worried they might start charging me again. These company is ridiculous and are scam artists. HOw do they live with themselves at night knowing they are ripping people off! Whatever you do stay as far away as possible from VIKING MAGAZINE!

i just got off the phone with customer service trying to cancel. me and my hubby came into a little money from some inheritance and went ahead and paid in full that was 2 years ago and we had a 5 year contract with them. i've only been recieving 2 of my magazines i've complained and complained about it for over a year and they just say they will talk to the magazine companies about it. well that's the same bull i got when i tried to cancel she told me they can't cancel and the only thing she could do was talk to the magazine publishers. rrrrrrrrrrr!

I got loured into a similar ploy by United Readers Service. Those ### are taking the money I could use for daipers and glasses so that i can actually see the phone number when they call everyday. If our country is so great, how could these types of scams be legal? Our economy is plumiting. People here in SO CAL are deeply in debt and these east coast snobs think that they can just trap undeserving people in more debt. It is right here in front of there eyes...in black and white. This needs to stop. These are not the types of enterprises our country has taken pride in protecting.

I just did the same thing but it was for another magazine company. They recorded me to but I was thinking they never record you saying you couldn't cancel the account or that you had to pay for everything. You were just agreeing to a payment plan not a contract. and They didn't have you guys sign anything either. Tell then to stick where the sun don't shine and if they don't you will get your lawyers involved and you will sue the living [censored] out of them. that should scare them off.

I am writing for what I have went through in the last few magazines which I did not want and have to pay for them but last month when they took out 39.99
out of my instead of the 29.99 I called and the customer service said I did not have to pay this month but I check my account and found out they did take out my account 29.99and they messed up my account again so I am going to pay off this account for these magazines and never pick up the phone again and talk to viking magazine employee again which I have been very smart over the years of avoiding them and other telemarketers

I'm a disabled veteran, and live on $900 a month, and these guys told me I could get 5 magazines a month for $15. Of course, I agreed out of boredom with sitting at home, thinking that it was a good deal. A few months later my rent went up, so I tried to cancel my subscription, they said I can't do that and the next bill was $50! That place is a total scam, the subscriptions aren't worth it, the junk magazines are irritating, and their customer service is the worst I've ever encountered.

There's no way to get out of this. The service sucks. they even sent me half naked women magazines, I'm not a lesbian please! They told me they're extras at no cost...?Bull for $60 a month they are, fishing magazines; what the heck, I'm no old man or weirdo either, and the actual magazines I received are actually have not come yet. I got lay-off thanks to absolute stupid people who can't handle their expensenses neither, but the goverment will close them eventually. Believe me they can be sued, but since I'm stuck with this magazines the best thing is to call them and change your selection every other month, since they're always late you'll receive double selection for what your paying them for so if I'm already stuck with them and they'll be stuck with my constant change of order. I will not be losing is them because they already payed the other companies get it! By the end of year I'll move to another state, and leave my accounts under my husband's name and since changing my name and putting a warning of identity theft with the IRS protects you, they will not find me and they have nothing on paper and everything is erased after 15 years, so no worries.

go kevin on the great post! i hate them so much right now! want to flippin cancel the subscriptions but cant! i dont know why, but great call on the $15 a month and having it raised to an undesirable price! sucks major ###! sorry to Lynn who did not get her choice of the magazines. but i mean try getting GQ or something like that with your mom around, very embarassing. should have stayed away from the first place! and he is right, u get a call from them, say no thanks and hang up, prior to telling them that "hey, put me on your do not call list!" so they do not call again.

Terrible company. I am laid off and barely make enough money to keep a roof over my head. Tried to cancel, but they hang up on you and treat you like a 3rd class citizen when you call customer service. I refuse to let these ###s collect any more money from me and I wish they would stop spamming my mailbox with magazines I don't want. ### Viking.

I'm glad I read this. I went all the way through the process about an hour ago and then went to the internet. After reading these I called Vikings customer service number right away and told them to cancel it. They had already attempted to charge my account but it hasen't gone through. I was suspicious once the price seemed to change, and am glad I found this. I didn't have any issues with the customer service being rude but that's little compensation for trying to rob me.

Oh yeah man, i totally agree. They are so silly.
Viking Magazine, what the heck, what a dumb name. This is so silly. I rang them, and was like "oh heck you, you unholy sinners" Yeah, i told those silly bunners whos boss. Then they rang me again and im like "oh my lord, you really are a pack of BIG CATS". I just cant stand them, whenever somebody says "viking" or "magazinge" or "phone" i just cry, i seriously cry, becuase its not as if i wasnt in enough debt as it was. Then those rotten rodents had to take some more of my money. grrrr. thanks for listening to me, thats a load of my shoulders.

I just got off the phone with the viking magazine company. They reeled my husband in after offering him a prize of some kind. Now they want us to pay 897.oo for magazines they are sending in. I told them we dont need them, I dont read them and my husband is deployed. So he couldnt have canceled even if he knew about this cancelation policy. These people are so rude and give you the runaround. They played a recording for me that basically had my husband's voice saying yeah and okay after every question the guy asked him. This guy was talking so fast, and my husband would have stopped him and told him to slow it down. He never just lets people talk like that when it's information he needs to know. Anyways, all this stuff about them confirming the order and stuff like that is bull. All they want is to get your info so they can make money. And they are targeting soldiers and their families. Wtf! My husband is out defending their freedom and they are conning him. I filed a complaint with the bbb and my husband is going to talk to his lawyer about this. Im thinking of taking this all the way. If you have been scammed and you havent been able to get out of this, send me your name and number. I am going to court with this if I have to and I need proof that this isnt the only time it has happened. we need to work together to get this company closed down. They cant just keep taking peoples' money like this. Here's my email: g_atita23_pr@yahoo.com

LISTEN UP FOLKS! HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO DO – TRUST ME ON THIS; I HAVE SPENT YEARS ON THE INSIDE OF THIS BUSINESS… I MEAN SCAM.

O.K. you’ve agreed to purchase these magazines because some wanna-be slick high school ### gave you the ‘speed read’ while you were trying to cook dinner. You were even stupid enough to go get your credit card “do you need me to hold while you locate that”… ring a bell?

O.K. here is where the ‘trust me’ comes into play… simply tell them to cancel, also tell them you are going to contact the state attorney general and for goodness sake call your credit card company and tell them to stop any future transactions.

Ohhh sure their “collection department” will tell you that you HAVE to pay… and that you’ve been recorded agreeing to the terms… and that it will ruin your credit… etc, etc. Well, you may have agreed to purchase the magazines… so what! AGAIN, tell them to cancel your order and put your name on their ‘do not call list’ and that you want the owners name because you are calling the state attorney general because you believe you were misled into this transaction. Believe me, they will NOT report this to any credit bureau and the prospect of having the attorney general poking around their little scam operation… you know, just to make sure their up to date and current on the ‘do not call list’ and that their ‘sales script’ is legal along with their lead source (no pds files) etc, etc… will have them simply canceling your order.

You’re welcome.

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viking magazine did the same thing to my 20 year old son, when i called them to cancel they said they couldn't cancel it cause it was over 14 days, well this is ### cause when they can take your word verbly, and use that against you as a binding leagal contract, they sure as hell can take it to cancel the order, you shouldn't havr o sign a paper to opt out . i think it's ### no magazines is worth 1000.00. and i feel we all need to obtain an attorney and sue these people . see how they would like to pay millions out .