I also have been fraqudlently charged 79.00 for magazines I did not order and never would have ordered. Repeated calls are getting me nowhere...and they seem to have a sister company...Seattle Coffee Direct. They also charged me 79.00 for a product not ordered, and if you listen to the message, you get the same exact thing as with the magazine company. How are we to recoup these expenses????

I was researching an unauthorized charge for $79 on my account from SHOPCOFFEEDIRECT.COM when I found another charge for $79 from PUBLICATIONSMAX.COM - Come to find out, they are linked. I would encourage you to look through your bank history and make sure you don't have charges from both. This is so infuriating... Of course there is no way to get a hold of anyone at either business phone number. I am disputing the charges with my bank but there has got to be a way to stop this from happening!

A charge showed up on my account for $79.00 out of the blue. I double-checked with the wife and she didn't place an order. I have no idea how they got our account info (we shop online quite a bit) but they did and then they charged me $79, for what, I have no idea. I called them about 20 times over a five-day span and always the same thing - a recorded message of "all circuits are busy, try again later" and it hangs up; or "please leave a message", I did, three times, but no return calls; or "all circuits are busy, please stay on the line", I did, for an hour one time, and nothing! I had to call my bank and cancel the debit card and get a replacement - what a hassle that was. I don't see how these guys are still in buisness - and not in jail! What can we as consumers do? I'm calling the BBB but I don't if that will help or not. Somebody let me know and I'll join in to shut these crooks down!

Publicationsmax.com is also Seattlecoffeedirect.com

RE: message from maurabi
"an unauthorized payment of 79.00 to publicationmax.com was applied to my wachovia debit card on 11/27/09. when i called my bank to cancel my card, i learned that another unauthorized charge of 79.00 to seattlecoffeedirect.com has not been posted yet. the companies are one and the same, according to wachovia's dispute department."
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Ah a lightbulb has come on now, at least now I know how they got my debit number ~ I had made a purchase a year ago to Seattlecoffeedirect.com for xmas gifts ~ and successfully canceled that account in January 09.

Still the complaint here is ~
1) Using my debit was not authorized, the authorization was defunct when the cancellation went thru.
2) The account that this was used on was successfully canceled and thus should never have been reopened or used.
3) So now what do we do to companies that feel a "debit or credit card" on file gives them the right to use it anytime they want, even tho approval was taken back when a person canceled the order? I know there was no claus that says "You may cancel at anytime but a year from the date of your original purchase we have the right to charge your card, any amount and without sending you any product or advising you."

Where are our rights!? I'll be following up on this for sure...

I was charged $79.00 on my credit card. I don'e even know what it was for, I didn't order any magazines. It must be linked to facebook somehow. i managed to get the charges reversed and canceled the card.