First Class Sales, Inc. - purchased 2 year subscription of Animal Baby magazine - didn't receive any issues

Complaints.com received the following consumer message on July 24, 2002:

From: Marshall Almeida [marshallx AT earthlink.net]

RE: First Class Sales, Inc. - purchased 2 year subscription of Animal Baby magazine - didn't receive any issues

On February 16 of this year I purchased a 2 year (24 issues) subscription to "Animal Baby" magazine from a door to door representative of First Class Sales, Inc. In May, when no magazines had arrived, I called the number on my receipt to complain.

Their customer service rep told me it could take up to 4 full months for the magazines to begin arriving. On June 16th (4 months after the purchase date) I called again, and was told it would be looked into.

One month later I'd received no magazines and no response from the company. When I called back, the message on their answering machine said that First Class Sales, Inc. was no longer in business.

I've filed a formal complaint with the local Better Business Bureau in St. Louis MO. (where the company is apparently headquartered).

This sounds like the same scam described in a post here in June. The magazine was Men's health, and the company name was Circulation II. It could be that this is one of those companies that just takes customers money, folds up, and reopens under a new name. I'm not holding my breath on any kind of refund.

M. Almeida