If I could have given this zero stars I would have! I have read these reviews and I wish I had read them first before dealing with these horrible people at America's Test Kitchen, who also own Cooks Illistrated and Cooks Country magazines and more!
These people are a real huge pain in the "rear end"! I like the Anerica's Test Kitchen TV program and I do honestly like the two magazines but what I can not stand is the continuous pestering by phone and by e-mail! I purchased their huge 2016 cook book and I think I signed my life of privacy away! They call and they call and they call and they call! I get calls from the Test a Kitchen, I get calls from Cooks Illistrated, and I get calls from Cooks Country magazines! They call every single day and I tell them to stop calling but they won't! I finally got them to stop with the constant e-mails, which was not easy! I had to get nasty! Why, after just the reviews on here that company has not stopped their annoying business practices, is beyond me!
I use to subscribe to both of the magazines and stopped because of their sales tactics of constant calls!!! I will not take these subscriptions again because of this! I also purchased their America's Test Kitchen 2016 cookbook! Big Mistake! The calling started all over again...worse! I also asked them if they send or sell supplements for each year once you purchase the cook book! No they don't but my idea was a good one, so they said! So if you want the 2017 seasons recipes and reviews...you have to buy the entire cookbook again, so you'll get what you already have plus 2017! I in no way want to keep purchasing the exact same cookbook every year, nor do I have the room for it! Some on here said that they even sent them the next years book with out them even ordering it....well, if they do that to me, I will have the charge taken off my credit card and by law, I gave a legal right to keep the book! I'm in no way responsible for paying for something I did not order! That is the law!
What else ticks me off is the fact that if you subscribe to their magazines and buy their cookbooks, you still have to "Pay" to use their web site! Really! Pay to use their web site! That's incredible and the absolute height of greediness!!! In my opinion! They use the excuse that there is no advertising....OK, fine, but when you've already paid for two very expensive magazine subscriptions and a cookbook, that should be payment enough! It should be a reward! Then after all their bragging that they don't have any advertising.....they pest you to buy this, that and the other by constantly calling you!
This is absolutely the worst company I gave ever had to deal with! I'm putting it in writing in a letter to them that I want them to stop annoying me with their unwanted sales calls, I'm telling them that's why I want nothing to do with them any more at all and I will not purchase another item from them, ever again! This whole thing is just crazy! They pride themselves on privacy to their customers and then they do this garbage! I've had it with them!
Beware peopkle! Don't subscribe to any of their ridiculously expensive magazines or buy a book from them unless you want to be annoyed every single day by phone and e-mail!!!
I'm over it! This company us nuts!!! read more