8776582273

Called me twice on my cell phone.
I purchased a leather wallet from Americak (sp?) over christmas. Now they call to offer me this service.

I have received several calls at 8:00 am MT from Amerimark.  I have not answered and they will not leave a voicemail.  I did order items from Beauty Boutique and had the same problem as another post - poor quality items.  I will be contacting their company to remove me from their calling list also.  how annoying.

Just notice this today about them. 29.99 was charged to my bank account. I am going to try and call them tomorrow and have my bank block them. I have never bought anything from them. I am POed.
here is the # that was on my statement.
1-877-658-2273

FYI. It is illegal for telemarketers to sell to anyone over the age of 65. File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission as well as your Attorney General.

I, too have been charged 29.99 for HealthyLiving. I have called the number and got a hang up. I have called my credit card co. and the only way they can stop the charge is to replace my card. This is unacceptable because I have many auto pays coming from this acct. and do not want to go to the trouble of replacing them. There must be some way of stopping these payments. Please help!!!

Same here.  Charging my 87-year old mother $29.99 a month for "Passport To Health" that she supposedly signed up for in April '07 when they called to "make sure her Amerimark mail order arrived safely."  This stuff is pathetic, yet these companies go rolling along year after year, trolling for new victims.  I've reported them to the FTC and the NY State Department of Consumer Affairs.

We found a $19.99 charge on my Mom's checking account statement.  Mom hadn't been checking.  It has been there for a year.  Mom doesn't remember signing up for it.  
When I called the number above, I talked with a person and was given
866-345-4401 to check on membership.   When I called that number I was able to cancel the membership through a voice activated menu.

Hello,

I, too, just noticed a charge of $29.99 on my bill in January  2008 and in December 2007 for this same thing. I wondered what it was as  I never signed up for any health plan.  I bought a $3.99 item from them in November.  I called the number on the bill and got a voice message and cancelled the plan.  They said it would be refunded, but we shall see.  I, however, have not to my knowledge gotten any phone calls from them.  Their phone number is 877-658-2273.

Well, we just got burned by Amerimark for over $120.  Luckily, I checked
our bank statement today instead of hubby and I said "What is this charge on our bank statement"? I went back seveal months and sure enough on our debit card. I am fuming right now.  We are senior citizens on a fixed income.  Husband called Amerimark and the lady said she would send out a credit immediately.

Has anyone gotten a credit from them?????????  We will give them a few days and cancel our debit card.

At 11:15 AM (Central Time), my cell phone rang.  It was a pre-recorded message from . . . . ?   It surprised me enough that I didn't pay attention to what she was selling  --  I will next time.

The phone number was 561-482-7092.

they charged 29.99 to my card after an order for a protection plan??? then tried to say someone ordered it. I didnt and demanded a return. contacting FTC for a complaint

I'd first like to start off by saying, you all must have a lot of time on your hands to spend a lot of time writing about how this company is a scam and "ripped you off", or "signed you up" for something you didn't want. Maybe if you'd take the time to actually listen to what's being offered over the phone instead of saying yea, yea, yea ok, yea, ok bye, then maybe you'd realize WHY YOU HAVE TO CONFIRM THE LAST DIGITS OF THE CREDIT CARD YOU PLACED YOUR ORDER WITH. DUH!! I mean I know any [***] can call and place an order, I know I deal with you type of ignorant people all day, but how can you not know after a year or even 6 mo. your being charged for something YOU allowed to happen by simply agreeing to. This company offers these programs with NO PRESSURE and there's NO HASSLE to cancel them, believe me I know, I cancel them. It's funny the second you folks hear the words FREE COUPONS you jump on the band wagon but fail to consider the additional info your adhearing to, such as the Program/s you'll recieve in the mail in 10 business days to look thru and CANCEL after the 30 day trial. Please save us the time and some money on tylenol and please don't call us cause you all suck!

The same thing happended to my elderly grandmother and I called AmeriMark and they are supposed to refund the charges.  She ordered a pair of sandals and they tacked on an offer for some type of health insurance that was free for the first month. She is 74 and hard of hearing and didn't know she agreed to this.

These companies are predators for senior citizens and you are the one who sucks!

You are a complete idiot! I ASLO work at Amrimark. Yes, it IS a scam!!!!!! Amerimark dangles the coupons like a carrot KNOWING darn well it has these elderly customers attention. Amerimark also KNOWS darn well that a great percent of these customers are GOING to FORGET, and that's why they target them!!!!This is EXACTLY what AmeriMark banks on!!! Amerimark currently has over 66,000 members in their PastPort to Health program. We reps have asked how many members are actually using it and realize they have it.... we are told they don't know.

Bottom line, as many orders as Amerimark takes in a given day I have been told they still make at least 3x MORE money off of the memberships than orders.

Extreme pressure is placed on all the reps to sell, sell, sell these memberships. Not only are supervisors listening in on the phone calls to make sure we are offering them, they chastise us when we don't "persuade" customers to take them for the free trial period. We have to rebuttal 3 times with benefits, and seriously the benefits SUCK!!! That's if you want to call them benefits. In my opinion as well as many other reps, the program is awesome for people that have no medical insurance, and thats it! I have absolutely no doubt that the reps are pressuring customers into taking these 30 day free trial period memberships. Like I said extreme pressure is places on us to sell them. We are told we are going to be fired unless our sales improve, knowing we need our jobs we push it on our customers.

In addition, AmeriMark gives commission to their employees for selling these passports. The more you sell the higher the commission rate. To be honest, my rate is horrible. Why? I don't shove these passports down their throats like other reps. I don't believe in it, it's wrong. Of course I would like to make an extra $500 to $1,500 or more in commision monthly, but I do have morals. Obviously, the other 'Amerimark Rep' lacks morals. The reason she is mad is because when customers call and cancel the memberships and wants credit for it from when it started, is because she is loosing out on precious time on the phone with another customer she can scam into taking it. SHAME on YOU!!!!!

By the way, customers can recieve full credit for the membership for the first date of charge until current date if you DEMAND it. Amrimark of course will offer, several different time periods but as long as you stick to from the inital date until current they WILL give you a full credit. The have reps that sit on the phone for as long as it takes. Bottom line, as long as they still make money from it they still won. Be patient and DEMAND it!!!!!

if they were signing you up after you said no, you should always right down those dates, times and names of who you spoke to. the calls are recorded. now as for them calling you about it, because you are on the do not call registry, does not mean that they are restricted from calling you. this is because you are placed an order with them. if you would like for them to not call you, all you have to do is say your number is unlisted or you would prefer that nobody call you, as they have an internal do not call list for customers.

It does not matter if all of your phone numbers are registered with DoNotCall.gov.  If you have ever done any business with any of the mentioned companies involved in pitching Passport to Health, you have what they call a business relationship and they can call you whenever they feel like it.  If you do not want to receive any phone calls from any of their companies call them and ask to be placed on the Do Not Call list and then they cannot legally call you ever again.

If you receive any charges that you did not authorize for the $29.99 monthly charge for the Passport to Health you can call the customer service number for whichever catalog is charging you for the membership and they have to cancel the membership and refund all of your money.  No means No and they cannot refuse to refund your money.  A relative of mine got ripped off in the state of Ohio which is the home state of AmeriMark and she had to go through a supervisor in the Lincoln, NE facility to get her money refunded but she got all 6 months returned.  Hopefully this gets stopped as there are probably a lot of elderly individuals out there getting scammed and have no one to look out for them.  I think it is a poor practice.  If you have trouble getting help with this type of situation contact your state's attorney general's office.  Every State has a division for frauds such as this.  This is a good reminder that sometimes one should never use credit cards to place orders with catalog companies or online web sites.  Always pay by check as there is nothing for them to fraud you with.  Concerned citizen in Wisconsin

If you purchase either by mailorder, telephone order or web order you now have a business relationship with these companies and therefore, having your telephone number listed with the DoNotCall.gov list means nothing.  These companies can continue to call and harrass you until you tell them to mark your account Do Not Call.  If you want nothing more to do with them Ask to be removed from mailings or Do Not Promote and after the catalogs that are already printed in advance run out you will be free of the company.  Some companies actually print their catalogs up to 6 months in advance.  But something most people do not know if you call the customer service number for whichever company is taking the money from credit card, debit card etc and ask to have the Passport to health or whatever cancelled and your money refund they have to do it.  I did not know that until my cousin who used to work for this company in Ohio told me that.  She also said to watch your credit cards as she thought there was some funny business going on with parent company AmeriMark and their sales dept.  After doing business with them once and returning the defective item for a refund and upon receiving the refund called my credit card company and told them I thought maybe my card might have been comprimised and they cancelled the card I had used and issued me a new card with new number and put a watch on it for that particular company.  So that might be something one can also do to help protect yourself.

Call the customer service number instead of the cancellation number or the number being left on Caller ID.  Tell them you did not sign up for it, did not agree to it and that you want it cancelled immediately, and a full refund.  Tape the call if you feel that is the right thing to do.  They cannot refuse to refund your money.  Then ask them to place you on do not call but all of their catalog companies that they own are pushing this program.  My neighbor works for one of the companies and she says on a day to day basis has a lot of the Amerimark cancellations and has to transfer them to a customer service number but if the memberships originate from the New Jersey, New York or Nebraska call centers she can cancel and refund their money.  Do not take no for an answer and every state has a division in the Attorney General office for just this type of thing.  My neighbor has said many elderly people say they feel they are not going to get their order without saying yes and that is coercion.  But she did say she wondered if they were just signing people up in Ohio to get their commissions.  I think she said the people that sell these memberships get a $1.00 for every sale.  And if no one makes a mistake making these sales then everyone gets some kind of bonus.  Not sure what she meant by that but think that must be the problem.  And how many people do not know enough to check their credit card statements each and every month.  Or people tht travel and have a bank make the payments for them etc.  Probably lots of people getting ripped off out there.  It sure made me realize never to order from catalog companies or if you must pay by check or money order.  Nothing for them to use against you then.