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I received an offer in the mail that would allow me to get 3 months (copies) of Gun Tests magazine at no cost and no obligation. I did receive two copies of the magazine in the mail and decided that it was not for me. The last issue arrived about 2 -3 months ago. Today I got an EARLY WARNING NOTICE from North Shore Agency notifying me of a $20 debt to Gun Tests!!!

Gun Tests turned me over to a collection agency, to which I must respond within 30 days or they will go after me for the money. In my 60 years on this planet I have never had to deal with such BS.
 
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It has happened to me in the past. Free magazines come in the mail, then the next thing you know, they have billed you for the continuing subscription. Then you have to find the customer service number to try and get it cut off and get them to drop/credit the charges. It was not easy to find the number and stop the subscription, but that is what you need to do. I think this is their business model. Most people just pay the bill or accept the charge.
 
purist said:
.......Today I got an EARLY WARNING NOTICE from North Shore Agency notifying me of a $20 debt to Gun Tests!!!

Gun Tests turned me over to a collection agency, to which I must respond within 30 days or they will go after me for the money. In my 60 years on this planet I have never had to deal with such bills**t.
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Over the years I've read of many others posting on various forums of the same scam from Guntest Ragazine. I detest companies doing business in this fashion and never pass up a chance to inform others of scams like this. It's just plain BAD business.
 
You may want to see if you can involve the US Postal Inspectors, as this amounts to a misuse of the mails. The magazine is sent via USPS. This smacks of fraud.

Worth a try.

Do advise the collector that this is a false debt, and that you will deal firmly with them if they try to collect.
 
I'm at the opposite end of this. I keep getting magazines that I haven't subscribed to or only bought a one year subscription and now years later I still get in the mail. The only one I renew is GnA and yet four years later I'm still getting Peterson's Rifleshooter and few others. They aren't secretly charging my cards and I don't get why they keep sending them when I have even called them a few times to tell them so I don't get into trouble. And suddenly I started getting the Blue Press despite the fact I don't buy anything from them??? That one is more of a catalog than a magazine though but it's still not like getting the monthly Cheaper Than Dirt junk ads. I think Blue Press has a price tag on the cover. I hope you can clear this up and there isn't some fine print bit you missed saying you can get the three free months as long as you promise to pay the next three years worth or some such
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I had the same thing happen to me. They are paid. I want no more of their magazines. It's not like the mag. is good or something.
 
The Blue press is I think the Dillon reloader mag/cat. you must have gotten on the mailing list, I have started getting it after I had them send me 2 powder hoppers for the square deal loaders that I have, I dont think they will dun you for them. Jeff
 
Purist, contact your state attorney general's office and if necessary file a complaint. Then Contact Gun Test, see contact info in post #9, advise them why you will not pay their fee and then advise them you have contacted the A.G.'s office, and if they, Gun test, have any questions they are can contact the A.G.'s office.

Best of luck,
 
Just ignore it. It's not like they're going to hire expensive lawyers to collect the chickenfeed subscription fee, ruin your credit rating (you didn't agree to borrow and then repay any money...), or in any other way cause you any grief, unless you let them... They may have wittingly or unwittingly sold their cancelled subscriptions list to some sleazy outfit that's using it to trick or scare or bully you into paying up. In any event, you're well shed of what's probably the worst example of a "gun magazine" ever published. I'm amazed that they're still in business --- I guess P.T. Barnum was right...
 
I subcribed to them once years ago. Never had any billing problems but when they did a water jug test on self defense ammo and try to pass it off as gospel, I let my subscription expire.

Their tests are not worth the money anyway.
 
Yeah, they did that to me too. I never did pay them. Had something along those lines happen with some magazines that I allegedly ordered from publisher's clearing house too. I gave up trying to contact anyone at the collection agency and just throw the letters away.

The AG and/or Postal Service aren't going to care. At best you can file a form with them that no one will do anything with.
 
See if they included a post paid envelope with the bill, write no thanks on the bill stuff it in the envelope and put as much pf their other junk mail in the envelope as well. It will cost them several bucks or more just to get the envelope mailed back open it etc. I get offers for American express credit cards and I am very thought full and mail it back with on their dime with a big no thank you. Sounds like they are scammers.


Good luck
 
GatorFarmer said:
Yeah, they did that to me too. I never did pay them. Had something along those lines happen with some magazines that I allegedly ordered from publisher's clearing house too. I gave up trying to contact anyone at the collection agency and just throw the letters away.

The AG and/or Postal Service aren't going to care. At best you can file a form with them that no one will do anything with.
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The AG helped me out with a similar problem. You never you.
 
I'm thinking of subscribing to, TV Guide via a card they put in their magazine. They offer something like 58 weeks, and bill in about three installments of about $6.50 each.

The catch is that some thick or holiday issues count as double issues, so the subscription isn't as long as it seems it'd be. Well under a year, I guess.

Has anyone subscribed to them, and were you satisfied?

I don't like paying $3.99 a week for it at the grocer. That mounts up fast! (I don't take the newspaper, so can't use their guide.) I usually don't get it unless they have a story I want or a roundup of new shows.

But if I can get it for most of a year for their sub. price, billed in such easy payments, it seems wise to take the offer. Unless...they keep dunning me to renew, or something.

Do your issues arrive in time to do any good? I don't want to get issues that are already out of date!
 
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VMI77 said:
It has happened to me in the past. Free magazines come in the mail, then the next thing you know, they have billed you for the continuing subscription.
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It has happened to me.
Simple solution-
On the first bill form you get, simply write CANCEL in great big letters and mail it back.
Worked every time for me.
 
jrm53 said:
The Blue press is I think the Dillon reloader mag/cat. you must have gotten on the mailing list, I have started getting it after I had them send me 2 powder hoppers for the square deal loaders that I have, I dont think they will dun you for them. Jeff
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I think Dillon provides the Blue Press magazine to any and all past customers free of charge. For that matter, they never charge me for anything related to repairs or updates and are the best folks you will ever deal with. I have received the Blue Press since it's inception and have never been billed for the magazine. It usually has a few good articles and it's fun to browse and drool over the new goodies.
The only "FREE" deal I ever tangled with was one of the old mail order "Record clubs" that offered a number of records for a few cents each, followed by a minimum purchase, and then a one a month selection at the club price. What they didn't tell you was the limited selection list. Anyway, after the trial period it was like trying to shut off Hoover dam with a wine bottle cork. It took nearly a year of nasty letters and phone calls to convince them I wanted to cancel and was not going to pay for all the records they sent, which were all returned....That broke me of "FREE" offers.
 
Texas Star said:
I'm thinking of subscribing to, TV Guide via a card they put in their magazine. They offer something like 58 weeks, and bill in about three installments of about $6.50 each.
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TV listings are available free via the internet and most cable and satellite providers. There is even a TV Guide channel. (I didn't know that the print version was even still offered.) The biggest problem with the print version that I'd found in ye olden days was that there was simply no feasible way to cover all the channels available.

But if you want it for the articles, they did used to do a decent job of getting it out in a timely manner, subject to the whims of the post office. Soap Opera Weekly - which I get free for business reasons - generally arrives in time (for me to throw it in the trash bin, but eh).
 
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