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Annoying calls from 702-520-2306 b/c magazine purchases?
How many tanga folks are getting repetetive phone calls from number 702-520-2306 out of Henderson, NV? After some on line research appears is coming from magazine purchases…mainly ok magazine and discover magazine. I have never purchased ok magazine but have discover and several others from tanga. I know a few yrs ago many here from tanga were having same problems after magazine purchases here and if I recall, it was addressed by tanga. Is likely coming from outside company other than actual magazine companies themselves. Tanga…can you address if you sell our info when we purchase from you to other outside companies? Thanks for any of your or tanga owners input. This is not worth anymore purchases if I have to put up with daily phone calls at any given hour!
From the FAQs (http://help.tanga.com/entries/449717-does-tanga-sell-your-information):
Does Tanga Sell Your Information?
Nope, no way, no how.
The only information we give to a third party is what is necessary for you to receive a magazine subscription that you ordered. In that case, we have to supply your name and mailing address (not your phone or email address) to the magazine publisher so they can send you the magazine.
If you get a telemarketing call from anyone representing themselves as Tanga, they received this information in some other fashion. Never give them any information over the phone.
Bottom line? We don’t sell your information and never will. However, if we had some embarrassing love letters that you sent to an old high school flame and could get a good price, that might be a different story…
Magazine companies are awful, in my opinion. We used to have a subscription to Psychology Today and let it run out. They kept sending us mags (so we wouldn't "miss any") and then trying to get us to renew. We didn't do it. Then some company claiming to be a collection agency started calling us saying we hadn't paid for the magazines we had been receiving. They got very aggressive. I've heard similar stories here and elsewhere on the web.
It may not be the same thing, but if I had to bet on someone giving your information to someone else, I'd put my money on the magazine, not Tanga.
I agree with Sonjahi. I've had a similar experience with a magazine company before. These people disgust me. You see, I cancelled my subscription because I got laid off from work and I was on a tight budget. But even before I realized it, the company charged me again for the renewal and kept sending me mags. I had to change me CC number and dispute the last charge. I never authorized that. And after a week's time, about 6 salespeople started calling me, selling me vacuum cleaners, home security system and a magazine subscription! So you see, if there's anybody selling your information, most probably it's the magazine team.
and by the way, I reported the magazine company and their phone number to consumer complaint sites such as http://www.callercenter.com and in about 3 days, 6 other people posted a complaint against them, too.
A while back I started getting random magazines in the mail. I'd cll them and tell them I didn't order them and had no intention of paying for them. They'd tell me they couldn't stop the subscription because it was through some other company and I would have to contact the other company. The other company of course doesn't answer the phone. So I wrote a letter to each magazine explaining as before that I had I had not asked for the subscriptions and suggesting that any magazines I continued to receive would be treated as a grift. I kept copies of the letters in case they try to charge me later. Curiously they seem to have figured out how to stop the subscriptions without me contacting the other company now.
Unfortunately this doesn't help with the original problem. But it does add to the argument [2] that magazine companies can be scum.
I have found that my state attorney general has instructions for reporting telemarking fraud, harrasment and such. But that still requires that I can track caller ID or have some way to identify the harrasing entity. In some cases it required that I actually receive the call and talk to the person on the phone as if I was willing to participate in whatever they were soliciting me for long enough to try to gather a bit more information on the company to identify them. No idea if the calls stopped because the callers gave up on me, or if because the AG did something more than send me a "Thank you for your report" letter.
If you can get the solicitors on the phone, pleasantly waste their time. Oh its a beautiful day out. Oh I think I have a peice of paper here with that information you wanted. Ooops, no its in the other room, just a minute while I try to find it. No I didn't find it, I think I left it at the office, what did you say your number was? I'll call you back in the morning when I can get that information so we can sign up.