Magazine offers - 3 for £1, free gifts etc V

shazzer22

hi, i got an email this morning containing the following
"Thank you for your subscription order to Elle magazine.

Unfortunately, due to huge unexpected demand for this offer, we have totally exhausted supplies of the Pixi make-up gift and regret there is no alternative available."

Gutted! Obviously to many MSEers out there, never mind! I haven't bought a magazine for ages so quite looking forward to my first edition!

princessmoneysaver

I too have had problems with National Magazine although I'm not sure what I can do about it now. If you remember earlier I said that I had 2 payments come out this week, one for 99p & one for £1. I think I have worked out which magazines they have come from but I've been online banking & also in my bank today BUT I can only cancel one of the DD's as they have both been set up under the same reference number. Bank said they have cancelled the £1 one but can't cancel the 99p one as it's the same magazine sub looking at there system, we'll wait & see if anymore comes out.

TraceyB_2

I subscribed to the Maxim offer and have had the Men-U pack - but no magazines yet!

misty

Liz19 wrote:

Will not be taking out any more magazine offers via National Magazines. I am absolutely fuming! I had an offer for She Magazine for 12 issues for £12.60 last year in February. I duly cancelled the direct debit after it had been taken. I set up a new direct debit recently for Zest and today National Magazines took the £3 Zest sub and also a separate £17.40 as a continuance of my She sub under the same direct debit reference. I phoned them and they were not at all helpful. I have been onto the Bank and according to them this is not an unusual occurrence with National Magazines. The Bank is looking into it for me and I am hopeful of getting the money back but I just wondered if anyone else had had this problem.

I've not had an unauthorised money taken out but have noticed on the online bank when I look at the D/D accounts - it will say Cancelled/Active or restarted. I cancelled one recently but a red warning message came up saying there were two different amounts set up on the same ref and I could only cancel the latest one online I phoned the bank and they did it over the phone. I've cancelled d/d then restarted to get another gift(who hasn't?) and they use the same reference number BUT they should issue a new number for each new mag. I find the Zest offers are usually for the same amount as are Red for example. That way the amounts are unlikely to be different.

weaver

I was wondering if they would send the mag with the pamper gift, as they have altered the D/D so I emailed and said my D/D of £1.00 was taken on 15th march and would I be getting the gift

This is their reply:-

Thank you for your email regarding your subscription to Marie Claire.

Please be assured that your free gift was ordered on 9th March 2006.

Please allow 28 working days for delivery of this.

your payment of £1.00 will cover issues May to July 2006 and your next payment of £6.56, which is due to be collected on 4th May will cover a further 3 issues.

Should you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact us.


so Im happy with that, £1.00 free gift and reduced D/D payemts (not that Ill be continuing with sub lol)

Liz19

Frogling wrote:

Hi Liz19

I haven't had that problem, but it's disgusting that they took the money out for a subscription that you had cancelled. The bank will definitely put the money back into your account - after all, you are covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee. When you set up the new DD, you only authorised National Magazines to take the £3 for the Zest subscription, and so they are in the wrong for taking more than they should have done.

Please keep us updated as to what happens, and get back to National Magazines and demand to speak to their Customer Services Manager - don't be waylaid by anyone else asking what it's about/can they help you. I personally would demand a full explanation as to why they have taken money from your bank account without your authorisation. Good luck!

The Bank has put the money back in my account today so I am really pleased. It is going to make me very wary in future though.

creme_brulee

http://www.subscription.co.uk/home/mpurchase.asp?m=946&src=TMM6

three copies for a £1 - You are what you eat

purplemoon

Subscribe to eve for £7.90 for 3, plus free Kew bag- worth £49 apparently.
https://www.subscribeonline.co.uk/eve code M056P, and if they run out will offer you an alternative of the same value, 10 issues free, or a refund.
'Kew' have a website at https://www.kew-online.com. Not heard of them myself.
I can't get onto subscribe online at the moment, but check it works when I can.

lifeslove

purplemoon wrote:

Subscribe to eve for £7.90 for 3, plus free Kew bag- worth £49 apparently.
www.subscribeonline.co.uk/eve code M056P, and if they run out will offer you an alternative of the same value, 10 issues free, or a refund.
'Kew' have a website at www.kew-onlne.com. Not heard of them myself.
I can't get onto subscribe online at the moment, but check it works when I can.

I received my confirmation letter from Eve this morning for the DD amount of £7.90 so must have been for the previous free gift, I can't even remember subscribing. Can anyone tell me what gift it would have been without me trawling through pages of posts, I would be really gratefull, thanks.

bedshaped

As the title says 3 monthly mags for £1 plus a free project bag worth £18.99

Choose from.....
Cross Stitch Collection
Cross Stitcher
Papercraft inspirations
Simply Knitting
Scrapbooking inspirations

£7.50 per quarter thereafter if you really want to carry on getting them delivered - if not just cancel once youve had your gift and 3 mags

click here