My 85 year old Dad decided that he did not like Prevention Magazine and did not renew the subscription. We sent the renewal offering back with the word cancel on it. We did the same with the second renewal offering. He received a letter from a collection agency yesterday threatening him for non payment of $17.94 for a subscription he was even curtious enough to spend the postage on twice to say no thanks anymore! Unbelievable! I did other research and I guess this is the way they do business, if you try to leave them they threaten you!

It seems Prevention Magazine is up to their old scams. I've never ordered the magazine in my life. I just started receiving it one day out of the blue. Every single time I threw it directly in the trash. Recently, Prevention/Rodale has been leaning on me hard saying I owe them money. They're sending me collections notices! Why doesn't any government agency shut them down???? This is a long-time, prevalent, illegal scam. See references:

http://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/business-reviews/magazines-dealers/prevention-magazine-in-new-york-ny-10299/#rating
http://www.prevention.com/community/forums/welcome-center/feedback-suggestions/prevention-magazine-running-subscription-scam
http://www.topix.com/forum/business/financial-services/TN8L9NOLVD3F4CJRR#comments
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/prevention-magazine-c50057.html
http://www.complaintsboard.com/?search=rodale&everything=Everything
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Telemarketers/Preventioin-Magazine/preventioin-magazine-preventi-wfw35.htm
http://www.scamclub.com/reports/Prevention-Magazine-2834.html
http://srv349.rackco.com/showthread.php?t=3610

After many complaints (both telephonic and emails), I finally received some sort of contact from Rodale suggesting that Prevention would no longer be pursuing me:

Discussion Thread
Response (Diana)
Dear Lauren,

Thank you for contacting Prevention Magazine.

We have canceled your subscription. You may receive one or two more issues, please keep them with our compliments. If you receive further billings, please discard them.

If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us or you can visit http://www.rodaleinc.com/customer-service/frequently-asked-questions.

Sincerely,

Diana
Prevention Magazine Customer Service

www.prevention.com

I have always pay my bills on time. Out of the blue, I received a debt collection company threatening me to pay up for subscription to Prevention Magazine which I never renewed after it expired. This is absolutely scam. Normally, a respectable magazine will stop sending magazine once you expired. When I call them, they have the nerve to tell me that I am "automatically" enrolled into the renewal program which I seriously never sign up. I told them that I will not fear to take up legal actions against them if they will not cancel my future subscription and write off my balance. I am not obligated to pay them just because they kept sending their stupid magazine after it expired. Never signed up with prevention magazine unless you decided to pay them until the day you die. They are just mafia who try to bully you to buy their magazine. I wish some media/news will pick up this new so that they will not victimize others.

I too received the notice to 'do nothing' AND have my subscription Magazine AUTOMATICALLY RENEWED. I didn't want to keep the subscription, so I called the number they list to cancel - 800-813-8070 and just like other consumers, every time I called, it rang busy. And I called literally 45 times! So, I did a search about canceling Prevention Magazine and found this site. That's when I learned that others had the same issue.

I decided I wasn't going to go down without a fight. I located Prevention Magazine's customer service phone # (610) 967-8527 and called them to cancel. I was on hold for about 8 minutes, but finally reached 'Julie' and was able to rectify this situation. After I was satisfied that my sub had been canceled, I complained to Julie about the constantly busy phone number. She said she'd have someone look into that line. I highly doubt anything will change, but at least if anyone else runs into the same problem and are able to track down this website, they can use the number above to cancel their sub.

BAD, BAD business practice! No wonder magazines are shutting down left and right.

I received a request for payment from North Shore Agency, Inc. stating their client, Prevention Magazine, had not received a payment for a subscription they claim I ordered. I have never ordered a subscription to Prevention Magazine. I will not pay for something I did not order. Any suggestions on how to best handle this? I do not want this to show up on my credit report. Thanks.