I received a phone call from Luecke Baker & Assoc(LBA) stating I owe 276.20 to Consolidated Media Services for four magazines I supposedly ordered in October 1997.
I've never dealt with this company and never received any magazines. I explained I felt this was a scam, but the response I got was to write to LBA at their address in Peoria, Il.
I started to research the address and found this web site. I was glad to see that my suspicions were correct. Thank you in advance.
Anthony of Las Vegas, NV November 13, 2007
I was contacted my a Miss Glenn of LBA who said I owed 240.30 to Consolidated Media Services. I was told that I had subscribed to magazines that included a Polo magazine back in 1998. I have no interest or no experience in polo nor would I subscribe to any such magazine.
I also find it very interesting that a collection company would have a listing of magazines that I had supposedly subscribed to. LBA would not give me an address or phone number for Consolidated Media Services. LBA wouldn't even let me confront CMS. Why not?
Mary of Ewa Beach, HI November 13, 2007
Luebke Baker & Associates calls my home at least twice daily saying my husband owes money for a magazine subscription. The time they are claiming this to havce happened was when my husband and I were moving to Germany for 3 years (we were both in the Army. We would not have subscribed to magazines when we knew we would be out of the country for 3 years. I have asked for the contact information of Consolidated Media Services but I have been told I need a written request for that. I have asked for the bank account information that was used for this supposed purchase but have been provided none.
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Katherine of Lexington, MA November 10, 2007
My name and address are being used without my knowledge or consent by CMS public space verified who sold it to Automobile magazine. The first time I started finding the undesired magazine in my personal mailbox at my home I called the subscriber dept. at the magazine and removed my name. Then I started getting it again. I complained again and they said We did stop the magazine but the agency keeps putting it back on. When I asked what agency? they said: CMS public space verified. Automobile magazine says they have removed my name again but that I now have to contact the agency in order for them not to put me back on the subscriber list. I looked up CMS which has a long list of complaints against it and previous FTC rulings.
Lynn of Duchesne, UT October 8, 2007
I set up a subscription with Consolidated Media Services three years ago. They told me I had a month trial and would recieve a vacation. I was set up to pay 80 a month but could cancel within the first month after looking over the paperwork they were suppost to send me. Well I never recieved the paperwork and started recieving magazines that I didn't even order. I got my first bill from them and sent it back stating that I would like to cancel. They called me up a few weeks later and told me I had to pay for the month I used so I paid them 80. They then told me that I was cancelled and would not hear from them again.
I stopped recieving magazines up until this month I recieved a Better Homes and Garden and I'm sure it had to come from them. Then I just recieved a phone call Luebke Baker and Associates stating I owed more than a thousand dollars but could settle for 399.99. I told him that I had cancelled and they told me to pay the 80 and I would be done. The gentleman told me that yes I did cancel with Consolidate media services but because they prepaid the magazine companies I owed the full amount but it was okay to settle for a lesser amount.
Heather of Darnestown, MD October 2, 2007
I received a call from Consumer affairs yesterday (10/1/2007) stating that I owed 230, but he was willing to settle for 179 for a magazine subscription that I never received. I asked for the contact info for Consolidated Media Services, as he stated that he was calling as a collector in their behalf. He would provide me with no such information. Follow that with a second and third attempt to get me to pay him the said owed monies. Very frustrating. As I just logged on to the internet to do a search for the contact info for this, Consolidated Media Services, I am alarmed at the number of others that are being pursued as well. Where to go from here?
Garry of West Hazleton, PA September 27, 2007
They said it was a free magazine offer and i was suckered in and now they are haunting me for money for magazines i didn't order. i paid some of the money cause i just started repairing my credit. now today sept.27.2007 I got 5 phone calls saying that it went to a collection agency .Now my credit is in jeopardy for this .I paid them 200.00 something a year or two ago and told them to cancel it but evidently they didn't.
George of Stillwater, NY September 27, 2007
I remember like it was yesterday, my credit card being charged 100's of dollars on statements 2 months in a row, I contacted my credit card co. for info on the co. taking this money, i then tried contacting them after several attempts, they said they were a magazine business, i assured them them we had not received any magazine subscriptions. my credit card co. worked with me and denied payment for fraud and unauthorization, we never heard anothe word until today 9-27-2007, 10 years have passed and the nightmare is back!
Roger of Bear, DE April 27, 2007
I received a phone call from CMS stating they are going to start billing me next month for a magazine subscribition that was paid in full in 2003.
After paying over 300 in 2003, they billed my debit card once again, which forced me to close my bank account so I wouldn't be overcharged again.
I have not heard from these people since 2004 when I cancelled the subscribtion. Now they want to bill me 66 a month for 24 more months, for magazines which I no longer receive.
Suzie of Liverpool, NY January 16, 2007
I received a phone call today from Luekbe Baker and Associates, a collection agency. An account had been reported to them stating I owe %588 for a magazine subscription going back to the year 2000.
I remember several years ago I had a problem with a magazine company taking money from a credit card of mine for a magazine subscription. I had to fight with them back then to stop the billing and discontinue sending me anything in the mail. I never received any magazines and now seven years later I can not recall what the outcome of the dispute was.
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