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Hi Donna
I have just been had by Me Mag i can not belive i was so stupid !!! they took the £1 and i cancelled on 15/06 after recieving the mag I`v been to bank today to find they have taken £65 out
Did you ever get your money back?
I have phoned both numbers that i have the 0800 and the Cardiff one and it is the same answerphone
I dont hold out much hope

I too have been scammed by this company and am desperately trying to cancel the subscription today,
they stated they were calling from New magazine, clearly not!

I stupidly paid £1 over the phone with credit card. Received 1 copy, rang to cancel anything further, left 2 messages. Next card statement they'd taken £65 out of my account. I have not had anything back.

I went for an interview at me magazine. I found the ad on www.Gumtree.com/cardiff. They advertise every day..obviously desperate for staff as they can't seem to keep any. I went for an interview on the thursday evening..Friday morning i had a call to say i'd got the job. I found it quite strange as I hadn't had a proper interview..they'd asked for no references..and just laughed and joked the whole time. Still..it was a job and I was in need of the money.
Told on our first day..we had to work 2 weeks in advance..only just realising that is because no one stays there longer than two weeks..so theyre working people for free!
Worked for these people for 3 days..realised what was going on - and quit.
My team leader Tony was a right B*****d. If i wasn't getting shouted at for calling peoples houses - I was getting shouted at , as I was ringing people who had already been scammed.
Every call i made to people who had already subscribed and lost money/recieved nothing..i would then pass on to my team leader tony..who would automatically just hang up the call instead of dealing with the problems on the phone and obviously having to face the people they were making a fool out of.
Before leaving..i took down the number that we are told to give people over the phone. It is written on a big board at the front of the office. On my lunch..i decided to try give this number a call..not even a real number.
DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM.

had a call, like an idiot paid £1 on my card, promised a petrol voucher, told me it was for cancer, as my friend going through treatment caught of guard, but alarm bells rung so transfered all my money over to saving account, so there was no money in account for them to take. bank has since blocked the card and are aware of this scam. feel sorry for anyone who has lost money to these people, when you try phone them all you get is message saying voice mail full. i was told that you have to phone back within 7days to cancel yr year subscribtion of £65, i told them did'nt want to be signed up for that.

I got a call to take get a magazine for £1, and if i liked it i could then take out a subscritopn. Not magazine arrive and now a lump sum of mney has been taken from my bank account

I got a call to take get a magazine for £1, and if i liked it i could then take out a subscritopn. No magazine arrive and now a lump sum of mney has been taken from my bank account.

Any ideas how do i go about getting the money back?

I haven't had any phone calls from these people,but have just noticed on my bank statement that they took £59 from me on the 28th of june.Around this time I was looking up information on a friend's relative from the late 1700s and entered one of those ancestor websites,which turned out to be American and unsuitable.Having entered my debit card details and been billed £1,it then seemed I was entering into some membership scheme costing £60 or so,and I backed out using their cooling off system within a few minutes.
Weeks later I found my card wouldn't work to purchase on the phone or www,and my bank told me it had been shut down because of fraudulent use.It turned out to be the £1 taken by the US site and not refunded,but it now appears they obviously passed my details to these Me Vip people to let them take the £59.I think I need to go to my bank again to ensure this isn't a standing order or something.What a pain in the [***] these things are to people who can ill afford it!

I have had an identical experience to that of Deb and Bookworm, and am now £65 worse off. I had a letter from them with a 'Welcome Pack' dated 20th August 2012; the letter said I could cancel my trial subscription if I rang the above number. I emailed them twice via their website and also rang the above number,in both cases asking them to send me a confirmation email. I spoke to a lady on 28th August and she said my subscription had been cancelled on 24th August. However she said they could not send confirmation emails! On 12th September I received a bank statement showing that £65 had been taken from my account on 7th September, 10 working days after my subscription was said to have been cancelled. I have tried to contact them several times since without success.
MeClub is part of an outfit called Me Finance, which is part of a multinational company called Me Group International.
I intend to report them to the BBC's 'Rip Off Britain' programme and possibly to the Office of Fair Trading. Has anyone else tried this?

thanks for the info looks like quite a lot of us have been scammed
i for one will be politely say no to all phone calls from now on
i will pass info onto my bank thanks again

I've been had by safe services too, they took the pound never got anything from them other than another withdrawal from my bank of £65. ,! They are scum I was dumb! They don't answer the phone, going to try money claim online.

Me too. What a plonker.  I have sharpened my pitchfork and when the mob is ready to take trash like this off out of society I will be there.

I also worked for these people and it appears they have not submitted any records of m y employment, e.g. tax and NIC deductions to HMRC. Check this out by contacting HMRC - I only found out when I applied for a tax refund.

I had a call from them using the name NEW LIFE Magazine, but cancelled my card when i realised it was a scam. They offered me a 20 pound petrol voucher. I have had so many problems with things like this i will be changing my number now. They said they were at Pembroke house, spring meadow business park, rumney, CF3 2ES. The tel. no they gave me for the office did not exist. Spoke to a woman with a bristol/westcountry accent.

Hi I got nearly scammed a swell but shut down my card in time thank god1 how did you get on? someone else has suggested going to one of the tv shows with this, i would love to see them shamed on tv!
ellie

Are you still looking to go to the tv about these people, i would be interested in helping, they contacted me with the name NEW LIFE MAGAZINE a couple of days ago, i am ex directory so they must have got my number from a company who rang me about a month ago to do a phone survey!

Can you tell me where you went for the job? I got an address in cardiff from new life magazine over the phone and want to report this to the tv people for fraud. the address i got was pembroke house ,spring meadow business park, rumney, a couple of days ago, is this where you went? they tried to take money from me as well but i cancelled my card.

I had a call from this company and figured out they got my number from a survey I did.
I thought well only a pound and that would go to a charity but when the info arrived I decided that none of the offers would be worth the £79 subscription so I phoned immediately but kept getting the message that my call could not be taken at that time and to ring back later.
Fortunately when I went online to cancel I saw some of these posts and phoned my bank who cancelled my card.So fortunately I will not be scammed any further ammounts

I got a call from these people; I asked them where they had got my number from and they said a telephone survey.  I dont remembering doing a telephone survey.  Anyway I was told £1 to cover cost of registering & Welcome Pack/Magazine; and wasnt I lucky that it was not necessary to give security number on card!  I asked how subscription was taken; would it be monthly direct debit?  The agent said "yes" and paperwork would be in welcome pack.  I didn't think £59.99 over 12 months was too much for a mag with all the offers promised; with the guaranteed £20 petrol cashback (even if you cancelled); which I will claim just out of interest!  When the welcome pack arrived it all looked very professional and the offers mentioned on the phone were repeated and, if genuine, would make it good value..I would use the £20 petrol, £20 cinema and £100 tavel vouchers.  But alarm bells rang when I could not find a direct debit form.  I would not have agreed if I knew it would be a one-off immediate payment; my finances would not cope with it.  I phoned my bank who said they could not do anything to stop a payment on the debit card but if it was taken I could make a claim (I thought you could only do this on credit cards ?).

I phoned the 0800 number; it took a while to get through but the agent who answered apologised when I complained about the misinformation on payment and  she agreed to cancel my membership. To make doubley sure I tried to log onto their website as the letter said this was the best way to cancel....and I saw rows and rows of links where other people were complaining the £79.99 had been taken from their accounts within days, even though they had cancelled.

I phoned my bank again, who had not been very helpful initially and reported the card as lost.  My card was cancelled and, on checking my account debits, it looks as though I did this just in time.  If not my bank will get another phone call;  refering to the earlier conversation with their rep.

What's this country coming to.???!!!!  Please dont respond to any sales phone calls if you have not requested them - they are using all the tricks in the book; especially now they can be in big trouble by doorstep selling.