Weekly calling me. In January 2011 I started receiving Rolling Stone Magazine. I called a number in the magazine and said you must have made a mistake. I never heard back from them and they still keep on sending me the magazine. I called both rolling stone and us weekly yesterday and they gave me 2 different numbers to call saying that they themselves do not get the subscriptions-they have a 3rd party do it. I called both numbers 800-890-8180 and 800-283-1549 and they both said I have to call US Periodicals in Arizona 623-466-5043. Since they are on pacific time I looked them up on the internet. All I saw was fraud, fraud and fraud. They have a website listing all the fraud! I quickly called the number and it says I have the wrong #. I called back one the 800 numbers above and they put me on hold and said they tried the number 623-466-5043 & it works just fine. I tried the number over and over again but there is no way to get thru. Please help.


Shirley Lieber
215-740-2850C 215-412-3503 H
Lansdale, pa 19446

1122 keats court-new address
336 bradford lane, - old address
Both in Lansdale, pa 19446

I hope this helps, please call me with any questions!

My 80 year old Mother just started getting subscriptions to Playboy and Penthouse in my dead fathers name. My father passed away 10 years ago. I started with Playboy Subscription Customer Service and they gave me the number for Priority One Clearing in Clearwater, FL. They told me that they could not help me they were just a Data Processing Center and gave me the number to US Periodicals who they said generated the order. By the time I got thru to them they said the order was cancelled. Interesting...I asked how the order was generated in the first place and they indicated that my father ordered Penthouse 5-7 years ago and him and 600 other customers were supposed to get a free subscription to Playboy and the computers just caught up with the order so now he will be getting a free subscription for Playboy for a year. I explained that my father passed away 10 years ago and the customer svc rep became very rude. I told him I was not happy with his explanation and that it was a scame on old people. "He said give me a break lady - oh your poor Mom - I guess she will just pass out from getting a Playboy in the mail. Give me a break. Big deal she got a Playboy in the mail - big deal." Ok - I am reporting this to the Better Business, Dept of Ageing and my states Attorney General. There are laws...

I received a phone call stating that my New York Magazine subscription was about to expire. That was true. I said yes to a renewal but told the person to send me the statement. Upon receipt, I submitted a check for $70.50 for a 3 year renewal on March 30, 2010. It is now June 1 and I have been trying to call the Us Periodical office to no avail. I just get a recording. My subscription has expired and it seems as though I am out the $70.50 .

I already posted this in a comment, but I figured an actual complaint would be good awareness.

I recently just got a hold of US periodicals after placing an order in late 2008. This was a subscription for 3 years of Globe Magazine for 154 dollars. The magazines never came. As of March 2009 (as to follow the 60-120 days that they "may" not send magazines in the fine print due to processing) I called the company repeatedly and received no response, they literally seemed to disappear off the face of the planet, every time I called I was disconnected. I decided to cut my losses (we've all been ripped off at some point), that was until recently when I received a renewal notice in the mail. Behold I have a way to contact the company. This morning I called U.S. Periodicals at 623-466-5043 and raise inquisition of why I had not received my magazines and why they would be sending me a renewal notice less than a year into the supposed 3 year subscription, the customer service rep's response was something along the lines of "why didn't you call us?" When i explained that I have been trying to reach the company repeatedly over time and that they seemed to disappear and I had not received any of my magazines, he again attempted to justify it with "you should have contacted us with (insert information here)."
I finally lost my temper and said something along the lines of "So, you ripped me off and now expect me to pay another 96." To which he told me I was lying. I was flabbergasted and wanted to know why I wanted to be out 154 dollars, and note I was in a bit of a mood and called him a stupid fool. The customer service rep, then began to yell at me " we didn't rip you off, " I said yes, you did which was greeted with the repeated use of "F*** You C***".

After calming down a bit, I decided to call the number back figuring this was a customer service rep and he had no excuse to speak to me in such a way regardless of the allegations. My son who heard the whole ordeal from the other room attempted to redial and sort this out peacefully received a professional sounding voice stating, "Your calls are no longer welcome here, I'm gonna have to block them."

So to sum it up, not only has this company ripped me off 154 dollars, they have also verbally insulted me. I am posting because I want everyone to know that this is a scam and someone who obviously has no respect for people, regardless of age.

Someone from US Periodicals called to sell me a magazine subscription. I told the marketer that I did not respond to telephone marketing and that he could send me the offer in the mail if he chose. What they in fact sent me was an invoice! I hadn't even opened it to check, since I had made no commitment over the phone. Then, someone else from US Periodicals called me again and got me to confirm that I had gotten an invoice in the mail. When they referred me to a collection agency and I listened to a tape of the second phone call, I realized that they had, by getting me to admit that they had sent me an invoice, gotten me to "consent" to taking the subscription. I had no such intention! These people have been tacitly dishonest and manipulative.