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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Lawanda was magnificent…. She answered all my questions (and I had many) with care and professionalism and warmth. I had called another magazine company to get some info on my subscriptions... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Customer beware. My order for a dictionary that I paid for was missing from the box that was damaged in the mail due to poor packaging. I have pictures of the post office's message about it... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I got many enticing offers in the mail and started to doubt my subscriptions with you were valuable. But prompted by your c/s agent, decided to analyze further and found that when I add on the efficie... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Have bought magazines from this company for several years and they always come within 6-8 week. If any questions Customer Service answers fast and complete. Web site shows me all my magazines and thei... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I absolutely love getting paper…

I absolutely love getting paper subscriptions through discountmags! I accidentally cancelled 4 magazines thinking I was cancelling just a free digital issue. The customer service was excellent she was so nice and helpful. She went over what I cancelled so I can reorder again. Your service is great and I was so appreciative your excellent customer support helped me resolve so easily. I have recently purchased many magazines and I will continue to be a loyal customer in the future

8 September 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Discount Mag Employee gives excellent service

After trying in vain to cancel online 5 magazine autorenewals with Discount Magazines, I called customer service and was connected to Latasha. She identified herself and spoke in a cheerful, pleasant voice. She asked my email address and immediately brought-up my account. She cancelled the subscriptions at once, reassured me that my credit card would not be charged, and sent me emails confirming the cancellations. She was very efficient. After my frustration of not being able to cancel the subscriptions online, I was pleasantly surprised how pleasant and polite she was. I am writing this review to recognize an outstanding employee.

25 August 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Paid for year. Received 2 issues

Garbage! Paid for a year. Received 2 issues. Been trying to get money back since April. Get an email every 3 weeks saying waiting for distributor. Stay clear and far if you can. Don't recommend!!

31 July 2025
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello,

Andrew with DiscountMags here. I am very sorry to hear about the trouble you are having with your magazine subscription and our company. If you could contact us on our customer service phone number at 1-800-673-8187, or via email at help@discountmags.com, I will be happy to assist you.

Look forward to hearing from you and have a great day!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Lawanda was magnificent….

Lawanda was magnificent….
She answered all my questions (and I had many) with care and professionalism and warmth.

I had called another magazine company to get some info on my subscriptions from them and got so frustrated cuz they wouldn’t let me talk to anyone until I committed to buying a medical device!

Lawanda should be leading classes for all your phone people (maybe they are already all great!)

Thank you
Helane Hurwith

23 July 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Buyer Beware

Buyer Beware - please make sure you read the refund policy before purchasing. If your magazine goes out of business, Discount Mags will NOT refund your money. While they state "Our #1 priority is ensuring all our customers have a positive experience with us"... Apparently that is not the case as the refunded amount was less than $35.00 - and that seems to be worth losing a customer over

10 June 2025
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello Susan,

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you encountered ordering through our website. While it is true that our refund policy does not cover magazines ceasing publication outside of 6 months, we still refund any order for any unsatisfied customer within 6 months of placement. Unfortunately, publishers often change the frequency of their magazine publications without notice. We do love our customers and do our best to ensure a positive experience, and it looks like although your purchase was over a year old and outside of our refund policy, we still offered a Gift Certificate equal to the remaining time on your subscription as compensation. I apologize if this wasn't sufficient.

If you need anything else, please contact us at help@discountmags.com or via our customer service line at 1-800-673-8187, and we will be happy to assist you.

Have a wonderful day,
Andrew

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very unhappy customer.…

I ordered a magazine subscription back in November of 2024 and waited for the first magazine to arrive. It was April of 2025 and still nothing. I tried to get onto their site for help and it was backlogged. I reached out to them again over a week ago and finally got some response. They said they would contact the magazine and get back to us in 3-5 days. Still nothing. Very unhappy customer!I wouldn't recommend this company.

26 November 2024
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello,

Andrew here with DiscountMags, just reaching out regarding your order with us and your recent TrustPilot review. I have reviewed your order and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you encountered. Unfortunately in instances like this, the publisher made a mistake and did not have your order on file, and we have no way of knowing whether the customer is receiving their magazine unless they let us know. I see you first reached out to us on May 22nd and were promptly responded to by our customer service team, which I am glad to see. They contacted the publisher and as soon as the publisher responded to let us know the order was on file, they offered to either resubmit your order or cancel and refund it. It looks like you chose to cancel and refund, and were refunded the full amount for the order.

I do apologize that your magazine was not delivered in a timely manner, we do recommend that the customer contact us as soon as possible in the case of missing issues. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you to improve your experience with us. You can also contact our customer service line at 1-800-673-8187.

As a small business, we are heavily affected by both negative and positive reviews. If you get the chance to amend your review to accurately reflect your experience, I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Have a wonderful day,
Andrew

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Discountmags is legit

Discountmags is legit! Responsive customer service and a better than anticipated turnaround from order to digital delivery. And you can't beat the price. Highly recommended!

23 April 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Never shipped my product from Discountmags

Never shipped my product then would not refund me. They said it was over 30 days. Well when you don’t respond to me for 2 weeks what do you expect! This company is a rip off! I disputed my charge and will get a refund, F’in crooks do not do business with this company!

22 April 2025
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello Robert,

I wanted to reach out regarding your order, initially I was unable to find an order under your name. Upon asking for more info via the TrustPilot interface, I did not receive a response from you.

After doing some digging it does look like you may have ordered a book from your wife in February of 2025. You did not contact us again until April, and stated the book had not been delivered. Unfortunately most companies have a deadline on missed packages, and you were outside of our 30 day window. We still made an exception and issued you a full refund, once you resolved the dispute with your CC company.

I sincerely apologize for your bad experience. Please let us know if there is anything else we can do in the future.

If you need anything else, please contact us at help@discountmags.com or via our customer service line at 1-800-673-8187, and we will be happy to assist you.

Look forward to hearing from you,
Andrew

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Queen Lawanda

This wonderful lady named Lawanda was the most helpful, kind, most patient and caring person I have ever have in my lifetime to help me anywhere. I am 78 years old and she helped me with her time and most important kindness and patience I was blown away. I felt like right away she was my best friend. I thanked her so much and all she said was she was going to help me no madder what!!!!!

18 April 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No delivery, no response, but took my money.

I ordered The New Yorker for 2 years on 11/11/2024. DiscountMags.com accepted the payment and shows the subscription as active but I have not received a single issue. I have inquired/complained 5 times in the last 2 months and have gotten no response. I guess when a deal is too good to be true it isn't.

11 November 2024
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello Peter,

I wanted to reach out regarding your New Yorker order and sincerely apologize for any issues you are having. I was able to locate your order placed on 11/11/2024, your estimated delivery date for your first issue was on or before 02/03/2025. I do see that you reached out to us via email a few times, our customer service agents did respond and received no reply back. It is likely your email service is filtering our responses, or they are ending up in spam/junk. I attempted to contact you via phone today but unfortunately was unable to get through. If you could kindly contact us on our customer service number, or possibly check your email to ensure our responses are not being rejected, I would be happy to assist you with your order.
P
lease contact me at help@discountmags.com or via our customer service line at 1-800-673-8187.

Look forward to hearing from you,
Andrew

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing Customer Service!!!

I previously signed up for a year subscription to People Magazine through Magazines.com. Even though my shipping address was correct on the order they have been sending it to someone else and I could not make the change to the correct address. They don’t answer the phone and don’t respond to emails. Your price is $31 more a year but I would pay that any day of the week due to your AMAZING customer service. I called multiple times because I couldn’t get my order to process and I wasn’t on hold for more than 30 seconds!! Lacie helped me first but I had to call back a couple times and I was lucky to get John!! He stayed on the phone while we tried regular pay, Apple Pay, PayPal and nothing worked. He was so extremely patient and friendly! Lacie and John went above and beyond to help me with my order!! I finally got it to go through and this is the only place, going forward, I will purchase magazine subscriptions!! I hope Lacie and John’s supervisor(s) will get a copy of this, very long, text because they were both just the best! As I was writing this I actually just got a call from your company because I must of dialed again by mistake. Who does that?! No companies I know!! Should I need to call in the future I know it will be such a pleasant experience like this was!!

13 March 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very bad experience

Very bad experience. Purchased a digital issue of a magazine. Interface is poorly designed, full disclosure, I was in technology for 40 years designing interfaces and testing and assessing customer usage, I can be critical. Was not able to see or download my issue. Contacted customer support. Their response almost a week later told me what I already knew and suggested I look at an image of a window with arrows and directions. It was so small I could not read anything in the image and found no way to make the image big enough read. I still do not have the magazine issue I purchased! I'll never buy another item them! NEVER!

26 February 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing Customer Service

I made a silly ordering mistake and Lawanda corrected with ease and kindness. Would highly recommend this website and business solely on customer service alone!

27 February 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I received the best customer service I…

I received the best customer service I have ever had. We placed an order through Paypal. Our credit card company filed a dispute with Paypal on our behalf, but we had the credit card company close the dispute within a few days. Unfortunately, Paypal would not close the dispute and held it open for over 3 months. My credit card was charged, but DiscountMags was not paid for 100+ days. Paypal told me that since I did not personally open the dispute, I could not close it. For the entire time that the Paypal dispute was highjacked, DiscountMags customer service tracked the transaction to try to determine when it would be released for them to issue a refund. I can't imagine any other customer service doing that. Paypal finally released the funds and DiscountMags issued a refund. 10+ stars for DiscountMags, zero for Paypal.

7 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fraudulent Service or untrained customer service ?

The only reason you got 1 star is because I could not comment without a rating.
Husband paid for 12 months of NewYorker. As a long time subscriber (directly through New Yorker) I have NEVER encountered such hideous and unacceptable service. I was told my husbands order (see number below) was on hold and his card reimbursed.it was not. Was then transferred to 3 different people and finally told that I had to verify all of my ‘credentials’ so they could confirm his purchase. WHAT??? This makes no sense. Next message is to BBB and my Justice Federal Credit Union Fraud Department

8 January 2025
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello Laurie,

I wanted to reach out and sincerely apologize for any issues you are having, and any confusion regarding your order. I was unable to find any evidence of previous contact regarding this order from 12/29/2024, for a digital subscription to The New Yorker. I have reached out via email as a phone number was not attached to your order.

If you do not see the email, please contact me at help@discountmags.com or via our customer service line at 1-800-673-8187.

Look forward to hearing from you,
Andrew

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Zinio pricing questions, finally resolved

I grabbed a great deal for the NY Review of Books, only to find out that I needed Zinio to access it. The Zinio website seems to say that there is an additional charge after a couple of months, but nothing very clear on the DM FAQ.
Andrew from DM contacted me (copy in the response) and cleared up the confusion. He also gave me the special price that I had grabbed two weeks earlier. So I am completely delighted to get such a good price and can endorse people's praise for the customer service.

7 January 2025
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello Cliff,

I apologize for the delayed response time. We are still behind from the holidays, as a small business we get a large number of tickets around Christmas and are still working through them.

I see you initially placed an order for the digital version of New York Review of Books on our site. This subscription is fulfilled through Zinio like many on our site. You can view them either on the Zinio website, or through the Zinio app.

I apologize if you initially missed this. I also apologize that the last agent you dealt with may have misinterpreted your message. . They did end up cancelling and refunding your order after you requested it, though it appears you had changed your mind and no longer wanted it cancelled. I am however glad to hear that Zinio customer support was able to help you with viewing their product. Unfortunately we cannot re-instate an order once it has been cancelled.

Be assured there is no additional charge to view a subscription on Zinio after purchasing on our site. Anything indicating that on the Zinio website would likely be them attempting to sell you on additional subscriptions.

I do apologize for the inconvenience you have dealt with throughout this ordering process. I would have attempted to call rather than email, but unfortunately there was no phone number associated with your account. I have instead issued a $10 Gift Certificate to your email to compensate. We highly value our customers and do our best to make the ordering process as smooth as possible and in this instance it seems we failed. I sincerely hope you will give us another chance. As a small business, reviews on sites such as Trustpilot and BBB greatly affect us.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Please see your email for your gift certificate details.

Have a wonderful day,
Andrew

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I wanted to cancel a renewal

I wanted to cancel a renewal. I called and it was done in a few minutes and my PayPal credit showed up in a few minutes. I have bought from this company many times and would recommend it as the best place to buy magazones

26 November 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I'm trying to cancel my subscriptions

I'm trying to cancel my subscriptions. Well, first I was trying to change the address, because I moved. But their website says when I change the address it's only for their billing. If I want the magazine delivered to my new home, I need to contact the publisher. No! So now I want to cancel, but their website doesn't have a cancel option. And their phone number is not posted. Not good!

19 November 2024
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Reply from DiscountMags.com

Hello Michael,

We attempted to contact you through TrustPilots request system but unfortunately you never responded. Without an email or last name I am unable to locate your order to help you.

All orders can be cancelled within 7 days of processing by the customer via our website. Outside of that window, we have a no questions asked 6 month refund policy, just reach out to us via email or our customer service phone number. Our phone number is listed on our site on the FAQ page, as well as here, the BBB site, and easily found via a quick search with any major search engine. If you need to reach us, you can do so via the email help@discountmags.com, or our customer service phone number, 1-800-673-8187.

Yes, it is true that updating the address on our website is for billing purposes only. This is because, as a third party, we do not ship any magazines ourselves. However, we can provide publisher info so that you can update your shipping address with them.

If you need further assistance, please do email us or reach out at the aforementioned number.

Have a wonderful day,
Andrew

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Jenny excellent customer service

Jenny she went above and beyond
to help me correct the situation. She
was kind and courteous in all
aspects she kept me informed
about everything and she got the
situation corrected. I greatly appreciate Jenny and her kind and courteous help. Thank you again Jenny,

5 November 2024
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