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This is truly outrageous. Your mother must haveput it on a credit card - can you call them? You may want to go to the Better Business Bureau about the magazine company if they won't cancel this or at least negotiate.
Carol
I had canceled some of his magazines but they still kept coming and the bills kept coming.
I finally wrote each of them a note and they canceled all back due and quit sending them.
THE THING WAS - MY DAD WAS BLIND! It is not like he could ever have subscribed to the magazines or got any enjoyment from them. He didn't even know they were in the mail. I would think it would be similar with dementia.
Once I wrote and told them they were sending and "selling" subscriptions to a blind man and they had better STOP the harrassment RIGHT NOW - Everything got cleared up.
Why did they keep giving her more "credit"?
This seems like it would take decades to accumulate.
Obviously, there is something wrong here.
Is it a credit card company she owes? Because no magazine company would allow her to accumulate $ 9,000 and not cut her off. So there must be something illegal that they are doing if she owes a company $ 9,000 they are taking advantage and they know it.
If it is a credit card she owes then the credit card paid the magazine company and if she has dementia then it would seem someone else should have been monitoring this situation before it got to $ 9,000.
If she has dementia but still lives alone and makes decisions then she probably owes it. Maybe she doesn't have dementia but just really bad decision making skills.
If she has dementia and it is a company write to them and tell them they are harrassing her and tell them to drop it!
If it is a credit card company, a lawyer can usually get them to settle for a lot less especially if your mom has dementia.
Time LIfe sells music, documentaries, books etc... do they sell magazines too?
Is it a Time Life -magazine or one of those get a new war documentary every week?
The only tv show episodes you could extend out until 2021 would be Gunsmoke episodes!
I sat down with my dad and we called and canceled a few things that were recurring on his credit card that he had never signed up for.... and one item that he had okayed.
One item was something the credit card company themselves had added for "credit protection & credit score checking" they had been charging him $ 5.99 a month for several months!
My dad has NO credit history and he has no credit to protect so this was really awful.
Another item was a monthly charge for "girls gone wild"
which he'd okayed. How he read them his credit card info I will NEVER know. Anyway,,,both the GGW people and the guy with the credit card affiliated "credit history protection" were very adament that he keep their services.
I finally had to get on the phone with the "credit history protection" people and make it CLEAR he had no use for it.
The next month my dad started getting multiple charges for vacation clubs and all kinds of monthly items that were . 99 cents, 1.99 cents, 5.99 and he started getting all kinds of paperwork in the mail for his trial offers!
The first month there were about 10 charges the next month most of the charges went to 9.99 or so and more kept coming.
One of the two original people we had canceled services with did something to sign him up for all these other items and my dad was completely nice to them on the phone but he was too nice and I did have to get on the phone and say... he really, really absolutely is canceling.... and I always ask for their names which makes them mad for some reason.
So some maniac with my dads credit card info did all this crazy stuff!
The card had a $ 500 limit so that was the limit.
It was a pain and time consuming to fix and I finally just filed a FRAUD report with the credit card company and canceled the card and that took care of it.
They wrote a letter apologizing and fixed it.
It was very obvious that what someone had done. I hope the credit card company knew who and did something about it.
But my guess is they canceled the charges and just let whoever did it get by with it.
I would say my dad deserved it for subscribing for the Girls gone Wild trash but ... I am the one whose time and nerves it stressed!
I wrote to each of the magazines sending a copy to billing, customer relations, and fraud dept (don't know if they have one but mark it FRAUD DEPT)
In each letter I told them they had been sending magazines to a blind man and billing him. In addition I added he obviously did not and could not have okayed any subscriptions or renewals.
I told them my father could not pay them or deal with the fraud they had commited on him and for them to send any further bills they had to the attorney general in the state of XXXXX to the Elderly abuse and fraud department.
I never heard from any of them again and dad received no more bills or magazines. He had stacks of unopened magazines and mail.
I hate all the people who take advance of the elderly.
We recently went through my mother-in-law items helping her to move and I could not believe all the letters and request for money from the "Bishop" "His Holiness" whatever and when she'd send $ 50 they'd send a "personal" letter requesting $150 etc.. and etc... and she being a good catholic and wanting into heaven kept paying it.
The letters were supposedly personal and signed but the "Bishop" obviously had no knowledge of her poor mental situation, financial situation, her loneliness and fear. But she was flattered by these personal letters from him. To me this is no better than the other crooks ripping off senior citizens.
These were completely separate from her regular weekly donations and masses she paid for to get her husband into favor after he died.
Oh this just happened recently and I am really burned by it.
She needed that money. Okay,, now I need to breath. LOL