These people are COMPLETE scam artists! And they show Cult like mentality! They go around and recrute young kids to sale these magazines and they prey on the week, poor kids that dont have anyone or anything! Then they promise them a better life and they take them far away from home, work them half to death and dont pay them! They have kidnapped some of these kids and they have prostituted some of them among other crimes they commit! They have been charged with fraud several times because people never get the magazines they payed for! The leaders, bosses, supervisors or whatever they call themselves are VERY much criminals and I advise if these kids show up on your door step that you descretely call the police to have the names and ages of the kids checked out! So Parents and Children alike, BEWARE of these people! They are not who/what they say!
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Get a grip on your life
It's not all like that ###! Its not all a scam! And people do get their magazines. I used to work for several different companies...including aci...and they all got their mags. Some people just aren't good enough sales people, so they have to bad mouth it. They're the pathetic ones. And why would you want to call the cops on someone who is just out there doing their job? Would you want to go to jail for doing your job? Hell no you wouldn't. You'd wanna get paid for doing your job...just like these kids do. Its not their fault for anything you think they've done wrong. Its what they're taught. If you feel its a scam...don't do it. Its your own fault if you do it when you think its a scam. Use your head and stop trying to blame others.
There is a magazine crew travelling the US and scamming people. They recently were in TX you can see compaints at the below links. When some one comes to your door watch out for names liek Terri Miller, Sean Yannotti, Kevin Oxford, Emerson Winfield, Donna Stubbs, Devon Wescoe and Matt Nagengast.
Atlantic Circulation Inc. — Took my money, no magazines ever delivered.
I don't understand why this hasnt been stopped earlier! Help stop them.
Report, and complain about your situation
go to and fill out complaint forms be sure to use names so that they are easier to track down. :
www.fraud.org
www.consumerfraudreporting.org
and most importantly contact your State Attorney General.
The list is at consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygernerllist.php
Please help stop!
I have to agree with whoever it was that said those kids are just doing their jobs. some of them work harder than half of americans with different jobs and i give them credit. I myself did the whole magazine sales door to door. granted I didnt always have the best experiences, the good always out-weighed the bad. Its not my fault or any other mag agent, that some of you "jones" are illiterate and believe the dis-honest kids...reality...if a kid says they live around there, goes to school or college there, part of some sports team, or anything outside of a contest, its your mistake to fall for it. All im saying is when i was a magazine kid for a year, ive had countless people cry to me, yell at me, argue with me, and tell me the only reason they "helped out" was because they liked me. Half the time those same people assumed they'de never get their magazines, but you wanna call my mother? She gets all her magazines. Stop bashing kids who work harder than most of you do, for a living. Thanks...Kristi Leigh Dumas:)
I was a mag agent myself and still get Maxim magazines in the mail haha.
Actually, I was a mag agent FOR Matt Nagengast. Only for the experience of traveling. Half the kids there are troubled, have warrants, runaways, druggies, etc. I left after awhile. Matt's an alright guy, I do hope he makes it out of the business and succeeds.
Now Kristi, I must disagree with you. Is it really the consumers fault for trusting the younger generation when their own kids participate in magazine contests in school? Besides, all the kids that work for ACI can make more money flipping burgers part time. It's not because the lack of sales, but making half of an already [censor] front (9 bucks?) is ridiculous. Cramped motel rooms, cramped [censor] vans, being respected by how many magazines you sell even after work hours... really? My worth isn't measured off the fronts of a Humpty Dumpty magazine. Most of those kids have no dreams, no ambitions, just want "money" to buy SWEET NEW CLOTHES AND GEAR!1!1 and smoke and blow lines. Didn't get any sales? Or a low number? You're not doing [censor] tonight. Need to go to the store? Too bad, you sucked [censor] today.
Consumers aren't at fault for trusting kids at their door, it's the "kids" that are at fault for having [censor] for morals. They work hard because they are forced to if they want to sleep in a bed and not the floor, or go to the store to pick up something to eat at night. I was one out of like 3 people that had a drivers license. AT 18. Not even the car handlers had a license. Half the time they were in jail for smoking a blunt in a parking lot.
Don't try and defend this "business." It's a sickening "profession" and needs to be taken care of.
If any mag agents are reading this, go home. Your moms and dads miss you dearly. Stop idolizing your boss. You're nothing to them.
Double-O Six for life. Bahaha. Slave trade for life. Moms, Dads, bring your kids home already.
I really believe that noone knows exactly what they are talking about in this matter. So i will tell you my story. I had absolutely nothing. Drugs & alchohol was my life. I was a disgrace to my family. Mag crew came to my town, and when they offered me a job, i said yeah right. For a few weeks, i thought about it. And i decided to give it a shot. What's the worst that could happen. My first few days, it was different, from my usual drug filled days. It turned out that i was good at selling magazines. I made 80-200 a day. And i was off of drugs. No desire to do drugs what so ever, the hotel I was in was a drug free/alchohol free hotel. (Thanks to Matt Nagengast). I went from robbing & lieing to people, to finding something that I was actually good at. My family for the first time is proud at the person that I have become, thanks to mag crew. Without them I don't want to imagine where I would be, probably smoking crack and robbing people instead of selling them a magazine. Mag crew gave me hope for my future, it showed me how powerful of a person I could be if I set my mind to something.
There are some bad companies out there. ACI is not one of them. Well I can't speak for the whole company, but Matt Nagengast is not one of them. He gives people the opportunity to change their lives around everyday, and he cares. And he has changed more lives than ANY ONE PERSON COULD DO IN A LIFETIME. I promise you that. I'm one of them.
In the case that you feel that you have been "scammed", you could possibly have been. But not by our company. The chances are, if you did not receive your magazines, you did not fill out the receipt properly. Or your address was illegibel. You should have looked over the receipt properly before signing at the hearts
Mag Queen, as much as I can appreciate your shot at this, Matt Nagengast smokes more dank than anyone I know in my entire life. Yes he regulates to make sure there are no hard drugs like coke, ecstasy, [censor] like that, but there is plenty of marijuana in matts crew, please. Don't [censor] everyone. As for alcohol, there's an abundance of that too.
"Weeds not a drug, blee blee blee." Well yes, it is, and so is alcohol, so there is plenty of both.
Is it really so hard to be honest or not post at all?
I'm glad you got your life turned around (if you're even telling a true story) but selling magazines isn't a future, it's a 100 ton paperweight that will keep you down for as long as you're stupid enough to buy into this mess.
Wait till you have a bad week with no sales. Then you'll be nothing all over again.
Also, you pay for the hotel daily after your second week or something. I can't remember. It sure as hell isn't free. 12 dollars per day if I remember correctly.
Yes this so true how ever this hits really close to home My son was one of the kids he worked for them for about 6 months he left when he turned 19 and all was good to see him traval and not just being lazzy at home doing nothing i thought was a good exeriance became a real scare for me . He was sick for a while and asked many timrs to come home for a while but they just got mad so he droped it wel he started to get Deprest and called to talk and said he didnt know if he wanted o come home cause he didnt want to let the team down but when he was having a bad week they told him he could go home the droped him off at bus stop and said this bus wil take you to grey hound theirs a ticket fir you waitting well, they gave him 6.00 and said goodluck. No Bus ticket No food And no more Money he spent it on the the bus well he called Collect and I wired money and sent for him thank god he got home safe But i fill for those who dont have any one to send for them and now i also pray for them as well . and yea they are crimials my son said his driver didnt even have A driver LIC and went to jail many times in many states and they do drugs and drink they pay them then steal every thing they buy ' one of the managers just asked my son on myspace for his pass wor for his ipod and came with nothing they wait for them to go work then say they brokin so they have nothing
listen, what i posted months ago wasnt necessarily true. granted, i did have my fn, travel, met some incredible people both on and off doors, but the truth is, everyone holds their own opinion. for some, mag crew is the best thing to ever happen to them and for others, its the worst thing. we've all got glam stories, and horror stories as well, but, we are all entitled to our opinion. ive made mistakes my entire life, but i dont regret any of them. and that goes for mag crew as well, had i NOT joined, i wouldnt be the cold hearted, selfish, mean spirited, ignorant [censor] i am today. with every experience, we all leave with something, me, thank god i left with simple knowledge of the world around me...thanks to mag crew, im much more efficient as far as being independent, intellegent, and head strong. so thank mat and company, i appreciate the [censor] talk, down put, low life terms you all put not just me, but all of us through, without that, i'd still be simple minded and easy hearted, instead, im a mean yet sterne person. so, once again...[censor] YOU 006 AND MATT, have a splendid [censor]ing day. AND FOR ANYONE WHO TRIES TO TELL ME OTHERWISE, TRUST ME, I KNOW IM RIGHT ON THIS ONE, so go ahead and waste ur time, because you dont know me and have no idea...have a nice day all:):)
HMMM IVE SOLD MAGS...THERE IS WEED...BEER...AND YEA THE PAY IS ###...THEY JUST MAKE IT LOOK GOOD...MATTHEW NAGENGAST...IVE SEEN THIS NAME ALL OVER THE INTERNET TODAY...HES AN ALRIGHT GUY...IF IT WERE MY JOB TO HIRE PPL AND HAVE OTHER PPL TRAIN THEM SO THEY CAN MAKE ME MONEY..I WOULD PROLLY ACT JUST LIKE HIM...HE'S A DICK WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD DAY...HES SMILING IF YOU MADE HIM SOME MONEY... THE CARHANDLERS/SAFETY COORDINATORS DONT HAVE LICENSES...THEY HAVE ALL BEEN TO JAIL...AND THEY ALL HAVE DONT DRUGS...ITS NOT LIKE THESE ARE SOME EDUCATED MAG KIDS...THESE ARE KIDS WHO GO IN EVERYNIGHT THINKING ABOUT COOL ### TO SAY SO PPL LIKE TO SALE MAGS...IM NOT ANSWERING MY DOOR...BUT DEVIN WESCOE HIS GIRLFRIEND COULD COME KNOCKIN ON MY DOOR ANYDAY...BUT ON AN OTHER NOTE...HEY IF YOU DONT HAVE A JOB WANNA TRAVEL, AND GET ###, BLUNTS AND BEER...YOU'D BE BETTER OFF WHERE YOU ARE NOW LOL OH AND ### YOU 006 YOU ROLL INTO MY TOWN AGAIN...OHHH YOU BETTER BRING YOUR HOME BOYZ...ALL OF THEM...CAUSE YOUR GONNA NEED'EM THIS IS A LOUD AND CLEAR MSG.NOT A THREAT BUT A PROMISE...CAUSE ILL BE ASKING YOU WHO'S THE ###! NOW YALL TEAR IT UP GET ALOT GET A LOAD GET BUNCH ;p
AND YES MATT DOES SMOKE AND DRINK JUST TO CLARIFY THAT...YOUR DUMB FOR POSTING LIES AND ### ON HERE...
It's a lifestyle change. Some people come onto a crew with nothing and either leave a better person or stick with it to get higher in the company and prosper. Others that have something better at home leave sour and resentful. Regardless, business is business and 006 is the real deal.