Applied for a subscription – Forbes Magazine Review

Another update. It is 5 months later. They have tried to charge me, every month, for a subscription that was cancelled less than 24 hours before it started. They could find nothing about my subscription by name, zip, address, or (get this) card number! My card provider decided to give me a new card. They were as perplexed as I was. New card, new number. Forbes is still an excellent source of information, but this app, and whomever is behind it, are crooks. And they aren’t even good at being crooks. Simply incompetent. I can Not imagine needing to add to this review again. If they somehow get my new card number, that will be time for escalation. Thank you. Just an update. It is one month later. Who ever is in charge of this app tried to charge me again, despite having agreed to cancel everything. My cc company had no problem denying these people. Now the only question really is, are the creators of this app in any way associated with Forbes? Let us hope not. ******** Took over 24 hours to be approved, digitally. It only took a couple of seconds to start receiving junk mail asking for money. Was unable to login to the app, which is what the subscription was supposedly for. Every screen I went to was asking for more money, trying to get me to subscribe again. The people on the phone were really nice, tried to be helpful. They could not find their way thru this murky miasma of a subscription fiasco. Several calls did nothing. Email did nothing. One screen, showing their magazines, told me I could look at the magazine cover for three minutes. This can NOT be the Forbes I have learned to rely on, the Forbes that is one of the highest quality info sources I’ve ever found. What an embarrassment for Forbes. 24 hours is what I offered them, to get this straightened out. 24 hours is up. Unsubscribe, here I come. The unsubscribe process needed to be another phone call. The person was, again, very nice, altho she was initially unable to find the subscription. She eventually did find it, and stated I am unsubscribed. Time will tell. And now, this abortion of an app will be deleted.
Review by Sempil on Forbes Magazine.