Viking Magazine Services

These people are scam artists. Im not even sure how they got my number but they called me with an «unbelievable good offer» and i was pressured into saying yes. I was going to be paying over 500 for MAGAZINES. The moment i got the letter in the mail i called to try and cancel. It was like pulling teeth trying to get someone to cancel my order. If you get conned into signing up just MAKE SURE you cancel within the 30 days otherwise you will be stuck with these bills and mountains of useless magazines.

I fell into this con, unfortunately. I have been paying them for the past 14 months and I have dumped over $ 400 dollars into some useless magazines. I have told them to take me off automatic payment a hundred times and they said they cannot and will not do that. They force you to pay them. They constantly call me and try to trick me into extending my contract by saying something along the lines that the payment is going up and in order to keep my payment as is I must act now. What they don’t tell you is that you are pretty much agreeing to lock in the prices by signing up to pay for another year or two. I would compare it to leaving a leaky faucet on in your bank account, money just drips out and it keeps going. Please do not sign up for this endless paper trail. It’s such a waste of paper because they send you so many magazines. Even ones you didn’t ask for! I keep getting yachting, fishing, and science magazines. It seems worth it but if you look at the bigger picture you are spending about $ 600 dollars or MORE within a year and a half for magazines. Biggest and stupidest mistake I have ever made.

Zero would be a better score of these vultures. They are masters at missdirection, changing the subject when asked about cancellation then call you twice a day on the house phone and cell phone insisting that there is not excuse for not cancelling within 14 days. I tried to cancel after only a few days realizing my enormous mistake of joining in the first place but they put me on hold and disconnected. Then after calling back, they insisted that I change magazines rather than stopping and unfortunately, I agreed without realizing that the 14 clock continued to tick from the first day. Now I’m being harassed multiple times a day even though I’ve told them that I will never pay them and I have tried to stop this within the 14 day and several times after. DON’T EVEN TALK TO THEM, THEY ARE VERY SLICK, PUSHY, AND WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY UNTILL THEY BLEED OVER $ 5,000.00 FROM YOU. Get a lawyer to advise you before you agree to even talk to them. They are MASTERS AT GETTING YOUR MONEY!!! HANG UP INSTANTLY, NEVER TALK TO THEM!!!

I received a call from Viking Magazine and they said I won an Ipad since I signed up on some website. (I can’t even remember). The man on the phone told me I could be entered into a drawing and get a couple of gift cards for $ 250. Of course it sounded too good to be true so before I could even say «What’s the catch,» the man said I had to pay for magazines weekly. I told him I was not interested in the magazines and I don’t feel comfortable giving my info out over the phone. He tried to reassure me that he was new and didn’t know anything about the payment process. He said it’s not a scam but I VERY optimistic about giving anything over the phone!
I was transferred to the supervisor and she tried to reiterate what he said and made a couple of jokes. I immediately told her I didn’t want the magazines and that I was not giving up my debit/​credit card info over the phone. In the meantime, I could hear a whole bunch of other people in the background trying to solicit other callers. She said the same thing about having a safe payment system and that she wasn’t even going to charge my card. She said she just wanted to make sure it was an active card… Uhhh, no thanks! I know my card is active and YOU don’t need to confirm that for me! I eventually hung up once I realized I wasn’t winning a FREE gift and I HAD to buy their stupid magazines.
Given the reviews on this place, it may be a real business but it also seems like a headache if you need to cancel.

Someone called me from here today. They asked for someone else, and refused to give me any information about who they were or why they were calling. Then, the woman hung up.
I called back. We have been battling some identity fraud, so I thought maybe they were just a collection agency we hadn’t discovered yet (don’t share your SSN with your SO if you’re not married). I proceeded to be harangued and harassed by the second woman, who refused to tell me the name of the company, the nature of the call, an address where I could send a cease and desist letter. I dropped a «damn» and she hung up.
Called back 20 minutes later, and someone answered and hung up. One more try, and I got «Julie» who told me the name of the company and that they do magazine subscriptions! What?! She agreed to remove me from their calling list. We’ll see if it works.

Sometime in early April a phone marketer for this company called my husband’s cell phone and told him that he had won a gift certificate plus some magazine subscriptions and took our address, his social security number, debit card number and my cell phone number. I only discovered that he was sold and billed for $ 948.10 when a late payment notice came to the house via mail. They never sent a confirmation of order, copy of a contract, cancellation form or any other correspondence regarding this. My husband has absolutely no memory of this phone call or transaction as he is disabled with long term diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury, Hydrocephalus, & Asphasia. This is all documented by his doctors and he has been disabled since 1992. Due to these conditions he is unable to comprehend the very magazines he was sold. He is not competent to conduct financial or business transactions outside of simple cash purchases for himself. I hold Power of Attorney for him and conduct all our business.
This past weekend we called the customer service of this company to cancel this service and they played back the recording of the original phone call in which he is clearly slow to answer and is not really understanding what is happening. Nevertheless they are now calling him constantly and harassing us both for payment. The customer service person responded to all my questions by parroting my questions back to me, belittled my husband and myself and refused to work with me in any way to correct this situation. They also recorded my conversation without my permission.
SHAMEFUL SCAM, BEWARE! THIEVES!

Received a telemarketing call from this company and they had a lot of magazines that I currently purchase at the store. The telemarketers were very respectful and did not make me feel pressured. I was a little upset about having to get confirmed twice but it turned out to be a good thing because I was able to change the titles on the second call. We’ll see if they deliver… so far Im happy.