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

louise1234_2

They charged me as I posted a warning earlier!!

I am going to wait & see if OS goodies turn up, if not will make full complaint about this.

I'd call it fraud or theft charging card details wihtout card holders permission. It is very bad for a national magazine company to be doing this, maybe some bad publicity would make them realise the error of their ways?

I need some proof re original offer, when it says free gift will be dispatched. Hopefully someone still has a copy.

Trying2Save_3

I have received my Elemis stuff today from the SHE promotion. I've looked them up on the Elemis site and they are:

http://www.timetospa.com/uk/product.asp?catalog_name=TimeToSpaCatalog&category_name=Papaya+Enzyme+Peel+50ml&product_id=00265

and

http://www.timetospa.com/uk/product.asp?catalog_name=TimeToSpaCatalog&category_name=Exotic+Cream+Moisturising+Mask+50ml++&product_id=00285

Checked my bank statement and they have deducted £22 which is a year's subscription and I only wanted quarterly for £5. Telephoned and the lady said she would refund the £22 and then take the £5. Hopefully this will happen!

System

Free imperial leather gift set worth £22when you subscribe to essentials magazine. The set contains various shower gels and bath foams 9 are pictured in the ad.

dd from £4.99

http://www.qssa.co.uk/ipc/corp/subsorder.asp?title=xes&source=iesab

o845 676 7788 code 36t

Chocoholic

Trying2Save wrote:

Checked my bank statement and they have deducted £22 which is a year's subscription and I only wanted quarterly for £5. Telephoned and the lady said she would refund the £22 and then take the £5. Hopefully this will happen!

Did they send you a confirmation email stating £5.00 subscription price and then take £22 anyway?

Trying2Save_3

Hi, just checked my email and it does state £22. I must have made a mistake when I completed the form then, I only subscribed to get the freebie! I obviously need to check very carefully before hitting that final confirm button! Hopefully I can get it changed.

elona

This morning a huge box of Original source goodies arrived from Zest.
Two of hand wash, two of bath foam,two of shower gel, as well as a Zest shoulder bag which is huge! two of shampoo and two of conditioner . All for £3!

Seriously considering ordering a gift for daughter!

samuela66

elona wrote:

Samuel

how long did it take you to get the money back?

I am considering contacting Trading Standards but I feel like such a fool.

What do you think?

Contact trading tandards, at no time was I told £39.60 was being taken from my bank account, it took about 2 weeks in total for it to be retrieved, I thik this is there way at getting at the people who just subscribe for the freebies!

samuela66

louise1234 wrote:

They charged me as I posted a warning earlier!!

I am going to wait & see if OS goodies turn up, if not will make full complaint about this.

I'd call it fraud or theft charging card details wihtout card holders permission. It is very bad for a national magazine company to be doing this, maybe some bad publicity would make them realise the error of their ways?

I need some proof re original offer, when it says free gift will be dispatched. Hopefully someone still has a copy.

Hi Louise,
I have no proof of offer, i did it from this site, i got the £39.60 plus a £1 refunded so I prob wont get the gifts anyway! I will also be sending them the bill from my bank as I have gone overdrawn because of them!!!
S

elona

Samuel

Good luck with the "nice" people.

I was so pleased with the service from Zest that I have just ordered a gift subscription for my daughter who is away at uni. The offer finishes on 7th Feb and if you look a few posts up from here it is worth nearly £40 for £3 ( assuming I have the sense to cancel in time. )

starlite_2

there is a new magazine out called 'essential beauty' , one of those fortnightly things where you build up a collection. i just bought the first one for £1.99- the mag is pretty rubbish but it comes with two lovely eyeliner pencils- double ended and huge so essentially four different colours . it's really good stuff too, i wore it all day yesterday and it didn't smudge at all.