On August 29, 2008 I ordered a magazine subscription from 2 college students who were selling them to win a trip. The receipt they gave me had the address of RLA Inc. in Aubrey, Texas and the name of the sales company was Kenmore sales Co. It said on the receipt to wait 120 - 160 days for my first subscription. I waited about 30 days past that, and when I still had no magazine; I called RLA (972-347-2626). I was informed that it had been sent to the publisher and I should wait 2 more weeks. Well I waited until today (7/24/2009) and called back. I spoke to a woman named Tissa K. She told me to wait 2 more weeks. I told her I had waited eleven months and I wanted my money back and I felt that I had been scammed. She said I had not been scammed and I would wait for my subscription and enjoy it when I received it. She hung up on me. I called back and spoke to her again. I asked for her supervisor and she said she was the supervisor. I asked who was above her. She told me the owners Mike and Renee Mackovih (whom I looked up online and could find nothing) were above her and they were out of the office for two weeks. She told me my information was sent to the publisher again but she would not tell me who the publisher was. After going around with her again she hung up on me for the second time. I called the publisher of Disney and Me who is Redan Inc. They informed me that they did not have any of my information. I called RLA back again and received Tissa's voice mail. I did not leave a message because it will do no good. I am going to go to the Better Business Bureau with the information I have and the legitimate magazine publisher also requested me to fax a copy of the receipt to them so they could help me stop any kind of fraud. I have to ask though, what kind of company only has one person that answers the phone, only one voice mail, and only one person to send out rebuttal letters? If this is a legitimate company they will get back with me about my "lost" subscription.

On 5/28/08 a young man, (Rich Poole) came around door to door selling magazines. He talked his way in and proceeded to sit on the floor and chat about his family and played with my dog, he was simply a very nice and polite young man. He showed me where my neighbors purchased magazines to help him win a trip overseas and started showing me the magazines and asking what I liked. I rattled off several magazines, none of which he had, but he was persistent. Finally I decided on 'Prevention'. I have seen the magazine in the doctors office and really like it, so I figured why not. Plus it was helping a young man win a nice prize.

Well in 4 days it will be 160 days and I have yet to see any magazine. Granite the receipt does say allow 120-160 days for delivery, but dang are they going to wait until the exact day/hour/second to deliver the darn thing. The subscription was $38.00 which is not cheap. These days I could use that money for a lot more things than a silly magazine.

What gets me is they ask you to allow 120-160 days for delivery but only give 3 DAYS to cancel IN WRITING. They don't even provide a phone number. This was totally out of my character to prepay for anything, especially from someone going door to door, but if they train these kids to be scam artists then they are doing an excellent job. Because this guy was so smooth and charming that it almost made me sick. The only reason I finally gave in was to get him out. He even gave me a little pink slip that said something like 'bug off Rich's got this one'. He asked that I tape it to my front door, because some girls would be coming around right behind him in a competition. I didn't post the note, but sure enough the next day there they were 2-girls going door to door too!

Oh well live and learn!!! I guess I'll just go sit in my doctor's office and read his magazine to compensate for my loss, because I highly doubt I will ever see my magazine or my $38.00 again.

A young lady, by the name of "Nikki Willis", if that was her real name, came to my door selling magazines in hope of winning a trip out of the country. I made a purchase of $40.00 and have yet to receive my product. I called the company only to find out that the number had been changed to a talk line.

If anyone from this company comes to your door selling magazines..don't fall for it!