If you buy a magazine subscription through Universal Subscription Agency will you ever get the magazine?

Question

magazine scam Universal Subscription Agency

Answer 1

Since you use the word "scam" in your question,
it seems that you have answered your own question.

I know nothing about "Universal Subscription Agency",
and will not make potentially libelous statements against it.
However, I can share experiences I had with a different,
but unnamed (for the same reason) internet subscription agency:

After ordering 5 magazines (3 of which went to my Mom at a different address), they sent me an e-mail after THREE MONTHS telling me that two of the magazines were no longer available. That's when I learned, the hard way, that even legit clearing houses (i.e., third parties that sell unsold magazines, newspapers, etc) are powerless to know whether a given magazine or newspaper is available at any given time. In another example, I used my frequent flier miles to subscribe to five magazines from the airline, which uses a different clearing house; a week later, I got an e-mail saying that NONE were available! I got my miles back, but it was very frustrating, because I was really looking forward to them; one was a very expensive architectural, industry-only, magazine that was offered for ridiculously low miles; the airline told me it had nothing to do with the fact that it was for within-the-industry people only, because the airline insists that magazines offered through them be available to anyone.

IMHO, it is unconscionable for the clearing houses to wait so long before telling the subscriber of such "bad" news. A month, maybe, but not three!

They would not refund the difference for the two magazines (it was a set price of $30 for 5 magazines, which sounds great, *if* you receive them!). I selected different magazines, but those were out, too! Suffice it to say that it took nearly TWO YEARS before I finally got everything I wanted.

Worse, their online customer service was incredibly difficult to use, and no customer service person answered their phones, even after waiting for 15 minutes with unbearable muzak.

As for the magazines that I did receive, they were okay, but it took the "10-20 weeks" before they first arrived, so keep records, as I did, so you know which ones you ordered, when they first arrived, and how many issues you actually received.

With such bad experiences, you might be put-off subscribing at all, but, sometimes the easiest thing to do is to contact the magazine directly, and tell them that you saw an ad for a very cheap rate, which, if you can prove it, may give you very satisfactory results.

Answer 2

Had one for Rachel Ray. did not renew it in spite of the shown fact that. The magazine is totally a venue for her conceitedness. replaced into very disenchanted interior the actually content textile of the "cooking" magazine. i admire fluff magazines when I examine in spite of the shown fact that. issues that at the instant are not inevitably considerable.. just to fill the time on the medical doctors place of work!