North American Fishing Club

[slipperybob]

 Originally Posted By: Craigums

So if I sign up for this club to get the magazines and they send me a bunch of books and dvds I can just keep it and tell them to shove it if they try to bill me?

Nope, signed an agreement of __________. To recieve further mailings and try before you buy products. They've got free return postage.

[Craigums]

Perch Jerker...Its cool i know your not directing that comment at anyone in particualar.. Its just An aweful lot of hype in the letter they send out. I think if they just flat out said what they were about I'd be more comfortable making my own decision about the product without having to draw my conclusion from other peoples experiance

[slipperybob]

The marketing/sales dept can do pretty good job of selling an idea to people. It's a business...like if you're a Sam's club member or not. Get member's exculsive deals, member's discount, member's frequent buyer points, etc.,...

[Matt Breuer]

 Originally Posted By: sparcebag

Doop & castmaster there is a law in Minnesota that is for unsolicited material (not ordered)---you can keep it and refuse and charges

Yes, he's serious. They'll keep sending bills, but you never have to pay them if you didn't ask for the item.

I too am a life member, and I love being one. Networking is great through the club. Met a lot of nice people.

As for field testing, you write a long detailed report, and they only pick a small excerpt from you field test article. That's why it's so small in the magazine. Look at the rating numbers to get the true feelings of the people, the quotes aren't informative.

And yes, if you fill out a field test profile after every item you get, you will get stuff to test. IF they send you an energy bar, make sure you fill out a new profile afterwards. A pack of $.80 hooks, fill out another profile. Eventually you'll get something good.

[Doop]

Matt and Sparce...I'm having a difficult time understanding this. Why would I get a call from a collection agency then? I'm guessing which eventually and probably already is on my credit.

[slipperybob]

The one problem I had with NAFC is when they double billed me and I unknowingly double paid it. Then they said I missed one payment for something. They called. I refused. They sent the amount to a collection agency. I got monthy collection letters for a whole year. Phone calls every so and so.

That's just bad bookkeeping on the part of NAFC and bad verification on my part. All in all $19.00 to stop the harassement. I'm a life member and their customer service given to me was very poor show. I suppose all the little packages and postage sort of evens out the allegedly unpaid bill. I don't think it was mentioned in my credit report or just not mention to me from any loan officer. Yet I'm still a life member.

Likewise when I first joined FM, I recieved a few cold shoulder comments. I'd seriously thought of not coming back for a while. Yet, I'm back.

I guess I err on the side of beauty rather than ugly. LOL's

Maybe someday, I'll make it to the list of field tester. Until then, my opinions are my own and reflected on the internet.

[NyQuiLlama]

My advice is to try it out, look over the magazine, and if you like it become a life member. The dues for life membership don't amount to much if you consider that you will be getting the magazine (which is pretty good) for life. The other stuff is just bonus stuff, but you can get good things.

I think it would be dishonest to sign up for the items without the intent of paying for them, regardless of the law.

[PerchJerker]

There is a lot of hype in the letter, trying to get you excited and trying to get you to join. But everything in the the letter is true, they don't send out wrong or misleading info. But it can be difficult to comprehend unless you read everything carefully. But .....

You will get their magazines. You will get free products to test if you sign up the way they tell you to sign up. They will occasionally send you products to preview, which you can decide to buy or you can return them at their expense (and if you don't buy the first one or two they won't keep sending them out to you). All the other benefits they list are real also.

If you like that and want to check out the magazine, then sign up. If you don't want them to send you other stuff, call them and tell them that you only want the magazine.

[SWMuskeye]

Perch Jerker,

I used to work there too, as an intern and later a writer. I think it is a great magazine with better editorial content than most. I have most of the books, and the content is good, albeit a little elementary.

Also, in the past it had the greatest freshwater readership in the world at over 3 million subscribers! I think that even beats In-Fisherman's subscription totals!

It's too bad that some have had bad luck with the mailings, from what I understand a phone call would usually do the trick, but according to some here, maybe not...

[Burnham]

i was part of north american hunting club- im almost posititive that its from the same company or whatever because they sent me stuff to join north american fishing club(i wasnt fishin much then so i didnt join it)...well they were honest, but like previous posts mentioned they really make it sound like a big deal and its not. i got a bunch of coins and they will send you books without ordering them. There were some good deals, i purchased a knife and a whitetail book for like $7 i think. i didnt bother to renew my membership the next year. its not something i would join, but i didnt have any problems or anythin.