Area Circulation Harrasment Virginia Beach Virginia

Check this article out... http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/04/moi.shtm

Interesting read

I am familiar with Area Circulation and IMA International Marketing Association /CRC Community Reading Club.

The BBB is not the best place to go to file a complaint. You can but my advice is to go to your states Attorney General with your complaint.

I worked for a company like this. We would get tons of BBB letters. Nothing scares a company like that more than the Attorney General.

Basically you the consumer are pushed into something you don't want. You have the right to cancel as well as given a full refund.

If you ask them to cancel your account they will not. In fact they will run you in circles.

Ask them " yes or no can I cancel?"

They have to say yes. But they will do everything to get your mind off of canceling.
They will have you believe that they have already prepaid the publishers up front for the entire service of magazines which will come to hundreds of dollars.

Now expect them to try and settle out your account. Say you owe a total of $900 for a 5 year service they will often times settle for more than half that given you can pay all at once. I have settled out accounts for way less just to get some money.

They cover there tracks with verification tapes but it is how they go about the whole sales process which is very manipulative.

I have heard verification tapes where the customer being sold the product was pushed the the verification tape so fast they didnt understand what was going on.

The sales rep makes sure you repeat what they say.

I will tell you this from my experience and the experience of friends who work for certain companies.... about 60% or more of the customers are coached through the process and into the sale.

Now don't just let this happen. Contact your attorney general contact the
Federal Trade Commission.

If everyone can come together we can put a stop to companies doing business like this.