Zoe

This is another marketing technique that you have "to opt out" to be removed from their mailings. I don't like this. I did not order this, and I agree with the others who post that you are not obligated to return or to pay for it. I am surprised that McCall's Quilting would try this. :cry:

summerstorm

I do not subscribe to Better Homes and Gardens, but received an invoice recently. It thanked me for ordering online.

However, I was on vacation on the date they said I ordered and had no internet or phone service for over a week.

The payment was to be sent to a billing center in Iowa, not B H & G. I made notes on the invoice and put it away incase there is problems.

I saw alot of this when I worked in accounts payable and wonder if they have just targeted the individual market?


Sharon

sylvia77

Yes, I got the same thing except I watched it. I also sent it back as it was stuff I already knew.

singalong

I also liked the box and have been looking for one. Of course I was not as smart as you to get in touch with them!!!LOL


do you remember what or where they said you could get one

pookie ookie

I had this same problem with Reader's Digest trying to milk my elderly father. Hate, hate, hate this marketing ploy.

Now, I'm worried the quilting world is going to do it to me. Annoying.

Take a sharpie and write "Return" on unopened, and unwanted, packages. Then leave 'em out for the postman.

Kitsie

I just received my first subscription copy of McCall and did not get a DVD.....yet! Thanks for the warning. I'll be on the look-out for that little trick! I did receive my free pair of "stork" scissors - HA! very cheaply made from Asia and totally dull at the points. Why do companies like that who obviously have money for decent scissors send such junk?

dharinger

I also received the DVD. It clearly said that I didn't have to do anything if I did not want to keep it, but they kept sending me notices that I had to return it or pay for it. I sent them a rather not very nice email and they did respond and told me to keep it for free and they wouldn't send me any more. Then a couple of weeks later, I received a refund check for my magazine subscription. Evidently, they figured if I didn't want the DVD, I didn't want their magazine either. I've never been kicked out of a magazine subscription before!

nannya54

I may be totally wrong but.... I understand that if you ever receive something in the mail that you didn't order, it's yours at no cost. That's, I'm pretty sure, Federal Law. There was a whole segment on 60 minutes or some show like that years ago. That's when I stopped sending $$ for all the address labels and stationary and years later, I'm still getting them in the mail. Check with your local postmaster. He/she will know.

JS

I too received this and it made me angry also. I did not order it and had to take the time to stick it back in the mail. Sorry to hear about your problem. I think that sort of thing is what they count on.

Pat RLH

I was advised many years ago that if you receive something in the mail with your name/address on it, but you didn't order it, legally you don't have to return or pay for it. But, I would at least send the letter/order notice back to them (after copyng it) with NO or something to that affect on it in Big letters. Pat