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Representative Chris Bennett continues to call my office for a gentleman who is an employee. Mr. Bennett is rude and offensive and holds our organization responsible for this personal debt and has resorted to calling me the receptionist a [***] which I took very personal. He has also offended our AP representative and is now harassing our CFO.

I got a collections call from Katie saying they are taking me to court for a $284 fee for one year of marketing reports from Progressive Business Publications. They have only sent me involces...never a publication. Sounds like a scam to me. Brad

Anyone on this site interested in participating in a class action lawsuit? I have an invoice for $795 for materials I never ordered. None of their publications on their stupid site even apply to me as I handle independent contractors only. Anyhow, I initiating a class action lawsuite. I called PBP's 800 #, left a nasty message and a female called saying she wanted to resolve the issue but yet two weeks later I get an invoice for $795.

I urge everyone to file a compalte with their attorney general and the Better Business Bureau. This company has over 534 complaints filed with the BBB in the last 36 months and 232 in the last 12 months. The Missouri Attorney General sued them in November of 2005 for violations of the state's merchandising practices and the federal Junk Fax Prevention Act. It is my intent to move forward with a law suit against this company as they do not stop and my 'invoice' keeps growing. I have never ordered anything from this company, never signed a contract, or exchanged credit card information yet they claim I owe them $795 for their publications that I've never received. Join the masses, stop this company, and file with the BBB, AG, and stat a law suit.

Lori Appleton called me also, from ICR. I got on line immediately to find out about this and found over 100,000 sites about scamming complaints against this company and the Progressive Business Publications Company also. I then contacted through the net also, the BBB in that area. Today I received a letter from both the BBB and Progressive. and Also a copy of Progressive letter in response to my complaint. Well all is done and we are off thier mailing list and they are "graciously"removing our company from any further actions from ICR, oh how generous, sarcasm, and they cancelled our account, wow how unbeleiveable. The only bothersome part is that the BBB took thier explanation and said only if i am dissatisfied with the outcome will they be taking any further actions. If i found this many complaints against them why isnt anyone in authority doing anything about this company!~ Thanks for the ear, hope none of you experience this, what a waste of time and hassle....My complaint should not be mistaken as just 1 complaint on the collection agency, My real complaint is with the Company: Progressive Business Publications of Malvern, PA. They may be in tangent with this collection agency too!

so yeah these people called, Bekki Morgan. she sounded nice at first so i was very nervous when she told me that we had a "delinquent account". i researched on the internet and found these forms and she said that "these were people who didn't want to pay their bills". i'm soo annoyed hopefully they don't call again. if they do i will have no problem yelling at them! yeah they had sent me one but i didn't say i would agree to pay for it. and they slept my last name wrong anyways.

I got a call from a very nasty b**ch named "Lori Appleton" who decided she was going to spend ten minutes trying to convince me that she was right and I was wrong. She didn't mention my birth date, but she claimed not only had I ordered a subscription to some stupid newsletter, but that I ordered it for three other managers in my company. Then she asked for the name of my CFO as well as the owner. She threatened my credit and pretty much tried to play her whole hand. Even telling me that she 'reviewed the telephone transcripts' and that I did agree to a yearly subscription with an opt-out option. In a round about way, I told her to get bent. She was very full of herself and needs to remember that Karma is a bigger b**ch than she could ever hope to be, as am I. It is a shame that scams like this are allowed to continue. This is telephone spam and should be treated like internet spam. DO NOT TAKE HER CRAP. If you get a call from these 'people' send the information to the US BBB, the PA Attorney General, your state attorney general and the US Postmaster. MAYBE if we all keep telling enough people, perhaps these folks will be brought up on criminal charges.

SCAM SCAM SCAM. What a lousy business practice--tricking people into accepting "free" subscriptions and then hitting them up months later to collect on the alleged "debt" owed. Give me a break. Summary of my experience: Lyn Gregory called to say I had a magazine publication that went into collections b/c I didn't cancel during my free trial. She refused to fax me anything but a bill. And she wouldn't even fax me the bill until I told her I was going to pay. She wouldn't even entertain the idea of sending me information on how to contest the charge... She told me that the only thing I could do at this point was to pay. That there was no one I could talk to at the collection agency or at Progressive Business Publications (the esteemed publisher who apparently sent my name to collections in the first place) about contesting the charge. After she told me I was being circular b/c I kept asking her to send me information on how to contest the charge, I politely asked her to send me information via mail and/or fax, thanked her for her time, and hung up the phone.

We are a public library. I was contacted by Lynn Gregory of International Credit Recovery. Told we had ordered something from Progressive Business Publications in July 2008 and had never paid for it. Also said bills had been sent to library director's attention. No such bills were ever received, no such publication was ever received. We will contact NY State Attorney General: Consumer Fraud Division.

Amanda Sprague called me from ICR and told me the same: our company owed $264 for a subscription to Marketing Report that I apparently approved subscription to back in January. I have no recollection of this nor have I seen a copy. At first, I was worried that it was legit but when Amanda faxed me the invoice, I looked up the company names and found out about their incredibly sketchy history. I wrote a letter stating I would be investigating the situation and to remove me from their database. I also said I would be contacting the BBB to inform them of the situation. I have yet to hear a response.