Reader's Digest Complaints & Reviews

For the last 3 to 4 years RD sweepstakes is fooling the public.Now i recd a cover posted on 27/12/10 fro Panvel HO recd by me on 8/01/11 and contents that I will receive a cover with envelop marked as "urgent enclosures".In the letter there is no phone no and e mail address nor mobile nos and address given as P.O.BOX NO 30 Panvel HO PANVEL -410206 INDIA AND THE LETTER SIGNED BY Mr.VIKAS MALHOTRA AND PERCY POONEGAR as chairman and finance director respectively.If they want us to contact them why they are not mentioning full phone nos/e mail address etc.

Dear Sir,
Every now n then I am receiving Reader's Digest sweepstakes letter along with Lottery ticket that I am Grand Prize winner of Rs. 32,00,000.00 Cash prize. They have sent me three numbers of dummy cheqes, saying that it is just example of cheques not original cheqe amounting in lcks of rupees.

Pl. advice,

regards,
Mr. U V Vernekar

Hi,

I have recieved a letter from readers digest regarding sweeptakes is it really true? Just i wanted to know whether any body got benefited from this or not. Does it make any sense of replying to these letters? Please let me know.. please dont cheat.

Thanking you.. Gowri cs w/of Sudarshan T, manjunatha Nilaya, near shanthappa house maruthi nagar, Arsikere. Hassan Dist karnataka ph no [protected]

Reader digest is cheating everyone with the prize letters.
Anyone replying to the prize mails will have to buy books which are useless. The prize letters will have one line mentioned in somewhere in the pile of pages received. Once you reply to any of the letters you will get a gift of some useless object and a book. You will continue to receive these kind of gifts for many months and there will be follow up letter which says you have to pay the due amount. The money will gradually raise and they will respond with harsh followup letters if you don't pay the amount. In the end you will end up paying a huge sum of money over months and you will know that you will never get the lakhs or cars

Never fall for readers digest and I suggest you go for better magazines with good standards.
In my experience Reader digest follows a third rate business tactics which is not even followed by telemarketers.

dear sir, my name is sandepogu sindhuri, i have received a letter from reader's digest sweepstakes department verifying that i have been listed as a potential winner for thank you prize worth 18, 000, 00 as of september, 2011, i am really thankful for that.it has also been mentioned that they will be sending me some documents regarding the prize to my home within 14 days from the day i receive this letter, but i did not receive any such documents mentioned yet, hope u consider my complaint and let me know ur answer, please inform me to my email address, [protected]@yahoo.com or contact me on my personal number.., [protected].thank u.

Respected Sir,

Mr. J. Mathew Sir this Miss C. Mellita Jeyashree. For your kind information. I am no more Mrs. Mellita Jeyashree as i have got divorced from my husband. So i kindly request you to send all my two year money as cash or cheque leaf and the gifts you regard to give me please give it to any orphanage home or old age home instead of giving me. It will be very useful for them. So i again request you not to send any of your sweepstakes committee 's letters, any official corresspondence or any other of your Reader's Digest informations.Please don't send it to my address.

Complaint resloved

I Ms. Aruna Dubagunta (RD001126/RDIN11/16975) received a Reader's Digest Notice of Rs.1800000.00 or brand new accord car prize claim assessment letter. The winner ll be drawn on January 2012. I haven't received any document yet to return my ' thank you prize entry confirmation slip '
Kindly send me the documents on my following address or Email address

[protected]@sify.com (Email address)
mobile no: [protected]
correspondence address :

ARUNA DUBAGUNTA
24-1-65A KUNDETIVARI STREET
DURGAPURAM NEAR SAMBAMURTHY ROAD
VIJAYAWADA 520003
Thank You.

I UPPADA RAGHU (RD001132/16471) received a Reader's Digest Notice of Rs.1800000.00 or brand new accord car prize claim assessment letter. The winner ll be drawn on January 2012. I haven't yet received any document to return my ' thank you prize entry confirmation slip '

Kindly send me the documents on my following address or Email address

[protected]@gmail.com (Email address) OR [protected]@rediffmail.com OR [protected]@yahoo.com

mobile no: [protected] /[protected] OR [protected] (Option)
correspondence address :

UPPADA RAGHU
A - 103, # 45-53-1/2
COSMOS ENCLAVE,
ABID NAGAR,
AKKAYYAPALEM,
VISAKHAPATNAM - 530 016. (A.P)

Thank You.

YOUR TIMELY RESPONSE IS HIGHLY SOLICITED

i, Mr. Rajib Das have recieved a noyice from Reader's Digest regarding Thank You Prize.
The notice/letter says that i am a potential winner of Rs.1800000.00 or brand new accord car prize.
hence i am confused about what to do now.
kindly reply me on the following contact adrss-
[protected]@gmail.com
or [protected]/[protected].

MR RAJIB DAS
VILL KAHIBARI
PO PATBAUSI(PATHSALA)
DIST BARPETA 781301



THANK YOU!

i am Mr. Borade (RDIN1100/RD001131/AP11_019627) received a Reader's Digest Notice of Rs.[protected] or brand new accord car prize claim assessment letter. The winner ll be drawn on January 2012. I haven't received any document yet to return my ' thank you prize entry confirmation slip '
Kindly send me the documents on my following address
MR.BORADE ROSHAN UTTAMRAO
A/P PIMPALGAON KHAMB
TAL NASHIK
DIST NASHIK
NASHIK 422010

I`am MR. Ravindra pai S.A.
. i had recieved a Reader`s Digest N otice of rs .[protected] or chevrolet captiva car prize claim assessment letter.i haven`t yet recieved the fourthcoming document yet to return my 'thank you prize entry confirmation slip' so kindly send me the fourthcoming on the following address or contact us at :
[protected]@gmail .com or [protected]@gmail.com d/o Ravindra pai S.A or [protected]@facebook.com

TRADE COMPLEX
NEAR BUS STAND
SRINGERI KOPPA, KARNATAKA.
PIN -577126

Dated on the 2nd February, 2011
12th March, 2011.

To
M/S. Reader’s Digest,
Mumbai.

Kind Attention: Director, Finance.

Dear Sir,

Sub: Double payment of Annual subscription for the Reader’s Digest for one year.

Ref : Subscription No.[protected] against Account No.[protected], and my E-Mail
to you on 02/02/2011 ([protected]@rdasia.co.in is no more friend, but a foe?)

This informs you that the letter dated 21.12.2010 has demanded annual subscription for the Reader’s Digest, and I have offered Rs. 449/- to be debited to my ICICI Bank Credit Card No.[protected]. On the bill I have mentioned in pencil “I presume the payment has already been made”. On Verification it is confirmed that the payment has been made through a demand from your Delhi Office and the amount has been debited to my Credit Card on 28/12/2010. Despite my request in the bill and an E-mail on 10/01/2011, an amount of Rs. 449/- has been debited to my same Credit Card by your Mumbai Office on 22/01/2011. This shows that the magazine, with multi-establishments, is having no coordination and interaction with each other and also shows explicitly how the Company cares for and responds mails sent by the Customers. On this I would have renamed the Magazine DIGEST READERS instead of Reader’s Digest.

Surprisingly enough a parcel containing a book which was never ordered by the undersigned has been sent to my address with a demand for Rs. 699/- which I shall neither pay nor return the parcel till I get a response for this letter refunding Rs 449. Now I can presume that “NO” reply envelop is not being kept in the Sweepstakes junk intentionally, thus making the reader a forcible buyer as he replies in the “YES” reply envelop, taking him for a sucker.

Further, I would request you to instruct your staff concerned to stop sending predated Sweepstakes Articles to me from this date as I feel something fishy in this.

So kindly look into the matter, against double deduction and refund the amount of a sincere and honest Septuagenarian.

Today I received a second gift parcel of the same books for the annual subscription. I apprehend to receive two prints of the same Readers’ Digest magazine every month. Kindly stop it.

Thanking you,
Yours truly,


S. Balasubramanian.



09/05/2011

Sending Sweepstakes documents to wrong addressees. A/c.[protected]‏


Kind attention Mr. Rajesh Mundra,
To day I received Sweepstakes Documents bearing Ref Code:[protected]. The letter is addressed to me and signed by Priya Gandhi, but containing the Sweepstakes documents in the name of Anju Agarwal. Some months ago the documents in the name of one Mrs. Sen, and another time the enclosures were those of a 20 Bn. NCC Cadet. What bunkum is this? Is it a serious effort to deprive both contestents from participating? If your staff are jealous about our participation after buying products of Reader's Digest for a value around 50, 000/- INR, please send no further junks.

There is also a postal Complaint of not including a 'NO' Reply envelope in the cover resulting in the dispatch of a non-ordered publication and demand of money which is still under correspondence. A copy is attached.

Best wishes with thanks,
Yours truly,
S. Balasubramanian,

reader digest — Order not received

I have purchased the “Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things” in my online shopping through your website. You have promised the free gift along with it, Rs 499/- is debited from my account. Till date I have not received the items.

When I contact the company It say "due to some technical error at our end, the recent online orders are kept on hold and are expected to place the same in another 2 weeks of time". Pls. I request don't shop with them " Reader Digest" very bad service after debiting the amount, now it's we are at their mercy.

reader digest — online shopping

sir i order online reader diesest invoice no - rdcar[protected]
dt 16/06/2010 on behalf of luckydraw scheme.but till now no information
no email no reciev reader diesest.

I support Rajesh's point. I am also a victim of the same mental harrassment.
I was a big fan of the magazine till now.

I have also received unwanted gifts and copies and now 'am asked to pay 699/- for accepting the same which I am not going to.

It seems the company is finding it difficult to survive in the higly competitive market and resorting to such mean strategies. But let me be very clear, this is infact working against the company and loosing the customer base very fast.

Thanks,
Sushil Kumar Agarwal
Bhubaneswar.
Customer id no:[protected]

Reader digest is cheating everyone with the prize letters.
Anyone replying to the prize mails will have to buy books which are useless. The prize letters will have one line mentioned in somewhere in the pile of pages received. Once you reply to any of the letters you will get a gift of some useless object and a book. You will continue to receive these kind of gifts for many months and there will be follow up letter which says you have to pay the due amount. The money will gradually raise and they will respond with harsh followup letters if you don't pay the amount. In the end you will end up paying a huge sum of money over months and you will know that you will never get the lakhs or cars

Never fall for readers digest and I suggest you go for better magazines with good standards.
In my experience Reader digest follows a third rate business tactics which is not even followed by telemarketers.

Readers Digest — received a letter

hi i received a letter from readers digest yesterday that i won a huge amount of money and i posted it by saying yes. now only i am coming to know this is a scam. what should i do for the posted letter. do i get any problems

hi i received a letter(urgent envalope) from readers digest yesterday that i won a huge amount of money and i posted it by saying yes. pl confarmed my winning in my mail([protected]@yahoo.co.uk & lord.[protected]@gmail.com).i am send this later by return post.my a/c[protected].


ravi ranjan
sm banda

Dear Friend,

Last week I have recd. a Cover thru VPP for Rs.580.00. Since I was not in station, my wife has taken the delivery of the Cover paying Rs.580.00. After I came back to home, I saw the Cover, I think it is only papers may some book, but I have not ordered any magazine or anything, I do not know how it was sent to me. With out my knowledge & without any information how you can send me some paper that thru VPP, I am not able to understand. I donot want to keep this without any information, I am sending it back, pl refund the total amount of Rs.630.00 which includes Registered post charges back to you. The details of the cover recd is as follows:

Ref. no. 68940, 12-MI314-RD[protected]/0-1306, date of receipt 21st July 2012.

Pl clarify and refund the amount immediately either thru cheque or thru payorder.

Thanking you.

With Best Regards,

M S Sreedhara.
Bangalore.

we are also yet to receive it.

readers digest sweepstakes — Stop sending mails

I have been receiving emails and SMS and i want to unsubscribe it. Please tell me how so that I will no longer recieve the mails and SMS

Reader digest is cheating everyone with the prize letters.
Anyone replying to the prize mails will have to buy books which are useless. The prize letters will have one line mentioned in somewhere in the pile of pages received. Once you reply to any of the letters you will get a gift of some useless object and a book. You will continue to receive these kind of gifts for many months and there will be follow up letter which says you have to pay the due amount. The money will gradually raise and they will respond with harsh followup letters if you don't pay the amount. In the end you will end up paying a huge sum of money over months and you will know that you will never get the lakhs or cars

Never fall for readers digest and I suggest you go for better magazines with good standards.
In my experience Reader digest follows a third rate business tactics which is not even followed by telemarketers.

when will relise rs.3200000 grand prize & 300000 super bonus prize.

i am sachin
plz send me mail on
[protected]@yahoo.co.in

when will relise rs.3200000 grand prize & 300000 super bonus prize.

i am sachin
plz send me mail on
[protected]@yahoo.co.in



what happen sir, above is my complate, , i have not receive any reply since 6.4.11 to till date from ur side...
plz send me mail to this id.:[protected]@yahoo.co.in

My partner entered a sweepstakes competition to win big prize money ammounts and a Mercededes bense. She was told to pick yes or no for a subscription, if you tick yes you get the chance to win alot more, if you tick no you still go into some form of draw. She ticked no, it asked again, this is another chance, its not too late tick yes and subscribe to RD magazine to be in the running to win more. She ticked no again, it thanked her and said she was still in the smaller draw. Few days later we recieved a RD magazine and a subscription bill for around $50 AUD. IT IS A SCAM, they continue to harrass her for the subscription money even after the magazine, and future magazines were returned and they were notified of their mistake. SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM !!!

I have also fell into readers' digest sweepstakes scam and subscribed for a year last year 2010. I asked to cancel this year's subscription and they say that my subscription "has been terminated as per requested". BUT... they didn't cancel my bill of SGD99.00!!!
They still ask a "Active Debt Collections Service" to ask for payment from me and say in bold that "We are instructed that this letter is a FINAL DEMAND."

What the [censored]??? I don't owe them anything anymore!! Stop asking me for payment!!! I sent another letter to them already. Will update here when they reply...

Reader digest is cheating everyone with the prize letters.
Anyone replying to the prize mails will have to buy books which are useless. The prize letters will have one line mentioned in somewhere in the pile of pages received. Once you reply to any of the letters you will get a gift of some useless object and a book. You will continue to receive these kind of gifts for many months and there will be follow up letter which says you have to pay the due amount. The money will gradually raise and they will respond with harsh followup letters if you don't pay the amount. In the end you will end up paying a huge sum of money over months and you will know that you will never get the lakhs or cars

Never fall for readers digest and I suggest you go for better magazines with good standards.
In my experience Reader digest follows a third rate business tactics which is not even followed by telemarketers.

I am sorry to point out that a company like Reader's Digest is involved in cheating people through this type of lottery. If they want to promote their publication they may go through so many other methods. why this dirty game of cheating.
er R K Chhabra

Reader digest is cheating everyone with the prize letters.
Anyone replying to the prize mails will have to buy books which are useless. The prize letters will have one line mentioned in somewhere in the pile of pages received. Once you reply to any of the letters you will get a gift of some useless object and a book. You will continue to receive these kind of gifts for many months and there will be follow up letter which says you have to pay the due amount. The money will gradually raise and they will respond with harsh followup letters if you don't pay the amount. In the end you will end up paying a huge sum of money over months and you will know that you will never get the lakhs or cars

Never fall for readers digest and I suggest you go for better magazines with good standards.
In my experience Reader digest follows a third rate business tactics which is not even followed by telemarketers.

yes i agree

I have also feel cheated.I got the above expereance.