National Home Gardening Club Mail Fraud Minnetonka Minnesota

Paid an exorbantant amount of money over a 12 month period to become a "life member".  The membership includes a few free gardening tools, a lifetime subscription to Gardening How-To magazine and the option to "test" gardening items for free.  The company began mailing me books and tools and then charging me for them.  I would return them.  The last tool they sent to me, a gardening saw, was returned the following day in March.  They mailed me a bill.  I contacted the company and told them I had returned the saw and they said not to worry about it.  For the next three months they sent a bill warning me that I would be sent to a collections agent if I did not pay for the saw.  Again, I contacted the company and they told me that all was fine.  2 months ago I noticed that my magazine subscription had stopped and my on-line account shows that I owe a membership payment, even though I am already a lifetime member.

 This company is a racket.  They do not exist as part of a gardening community, but as a means to trick gardeners out of money.  I learned a lesson by wasteing my money....I hope others will read this report before subscribing to this fraudulent club.