A copy of Redbook magazine appeared in the mailbox yesterday, addressed to me and indicating a 2 year subscription on the address label. Not even a sample “Subscribe to me!” copy.
It wouldn’t have been the first time something strange has appeared in the mailbox. Why I would subscribe to Redbook, I have no idea. I certainly didn’t subscribe to it intentionally and it definitely doesn’t have anything of interest to me.
I logged into Redbook’s customer service part of the website and found that I did indeed have a 2 year subscription with no balanace due, but no indication of who subscribed me. Since there was no point in keeping a magazine that’s just going to go straight into the recycling bin, I decided to cancel the subscription. The site told me the subscription was placed through some agent and that it would be canceled, but that I would need to go through the agent to pursue a refund.
Still no idea where it came from.
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A similar thing happened to my daughter. She recently started getting Allure and Golf Digest. She phoned and was told they were fully paid, one year subscriptions. Worried that someone had hacked her credit card number, she asked if it was paid for by a card and was told that it wasn’t but they couldn’t tell her who paid for it. Both are Conde Nast magazines and they cancelled them both for her.