The Dollar Stretcher Magazine is simply amazing. Their main focus is frugality/saving money…read more They're mostly online, but they do have a (small) print version. You're probably here looking for information about TDS's freelance writing opportunity, yes? I am a freelance writer, and my niche is frugality. I had been looking around google one day and I came across a website that gave me links to a bunch of freelance magazine opportunities, where I found TDS. When I first saw The Dollar Stretcher, I was kind of concerned that it would be a scam. The website isn't very well laid out, or pretty like most websites are today. It's not hard to navigate or an eyesore in any way; it's just not well designed, or pretty. I was, like I said, concerned, so I looked it up and found nothing on it. I decided to give it a shot, thinking it may be a new business or something. I went ahead and sent in my article on April 17th, 2013. I received a reply a little over a week later, on the 25th of that month. It was a generic-sounding email sent to me from the editor of the magazine/website telling me that they were accepting my piece, and their payment was $0.10/word. I was informed that they were going to be sending me a check for the amount after they edit and proofread my article (I would get paid the final word count), They also would be sending me a copy of the volume that my work is featured in. At this point, I was extremely excited, but I was even more skeptical. I don't think that, at that point, I had much faith in my writing skills or whatnot, so I found it extremely hard to believe that they would accept my writing. Especially since the first article I sent in was written in ~20 minutes (I didn't want to spend too much on something that might have been a scam). Fast forward a few weeks, and I get the check, along with a letter from the editor. My first check was for $57.60. I was still skeptical, as I'd read about people faking checks. Fast forward about a day and I've deposited the check into my account. I was giving it a few days to bounce back if it was a fake, and lo and behold, it never did. The Dollar Stretcher is, in fact, completely legit. That was when I finally accepted that it was true; I was a published journalist. I later went on TDS's website and searched for my article, which I found here: http://www.stretcher.com/stories/13/13may20c.cfm?FPMon I was ecstatic; not only was I published in a magazine, but they credited me! (I don't know why that was such a big deal, I'm sure I knew they were going to credit me. It just became real all of a sudden.) I even have an author's profile with them. (http://www.stretcher.com/menu/author.htm) Not too long later, I submitted another article, and some more after that, all of which were accepted. I was paid and credited for each and every one of them. I had told my aunt about it, and she told me that she actually subscribes to The Dollar Stretcher. It made me realize that TDS has connections all over the US (world?). I got my copies of the volume my work was printed in a month or two after they were accepted. The magazines were rather small, only 9"x6"x .110" . It wasn't what I was expecting, exactly; the magazine I received was printed on regular-feeling paper and stapled together (though it looks better than it sounds). On the front it says the price was $3, though I got it free for being in it. It was black and white, and had 14 articles in that issue. I've got to say though, there is a whole lot of great writing and information on the website and in print - their writers really know their stuff. So, if you're thinking about writing for TDS, let me be the first to confirm that they are completely legit and /do/ pay. If you're a possible customer, give TDS a shot, there's a bundle of great information that will /definitely/ help you save even more than the amount you would pay for your subscription. The website's free, too :)

Good luck canceling your subscription with this dirtbag paper. And they list their street address…read moreas 1111 Third Ave. W., Bradenton, FL 34205. I went to that address and the Bradenton Herald was nowhere to be found. What a bogus business!

BH Management: PLEASE CALL AND HELP TO SOLVE THIS MATTER!!!!…read moreCannot get to anyone of authority. I am owed over $400 for subscriptions which weren't cancelled when I tried. Now several months have passed and I still get people on the line who can't help and who can't be understood. Must I go to the expense and hassle of small claims court? L.T. Graham 941-254-4144

Gerald was so rude and dismissive, I cannot believe he is a manager there. I have been a Verizon…read morecustomer for over 20 years and have never been treated so poorly. I upgraded my daughter's phone who is serving in the military overseas so she cannot get it herself and no one explained to me that the SIM would be locked and she could not use the phone for at least 90 days! I have been paying the bill for a year and a half just so that she can keep and use that number while she is overseas. She uses an overseas SIM card so that her local calls don't cost an arm and a leg. She has been unable to use the phone and Gerald was very rude about the whole thing. If Verizon can unlock the SIM at 90 days, they can unlock it at 30 days. He also would not guarantee me that it would even be unlocked after 90 days or if I paid off the phone in full. He just shrugged his shoulders and walked off. It is ridiculous that I have to pay for a phone and my daughter can't even use it. You should consider some additional customer service training for management.

It's nice to see that a couple of people had good experiences. I don't know if these are Verizon…read moreemployees or their family members, however, I believe 1 or 2 of them. The fact that someone is impressed that a Verizon CSR transferred the data from one phone to another sounded great until you hear that Verizon charged them for that service! That's ridiculous! It's also nice to hear that another person empathized that customer service jobs are hard, if that was a real review. The other good review I saw was a person who was purchasing a few things and the CSR was helpful with that process.... of course, let's keep that commission rolling in. There were so many bad experiences and I truly hope this doesn't sound like I'm trying to one up any of them, because all of those experiences are horrible and deserve to be told and read. Here is my experience which is so difficult and disgusting to tell still upsets me. Today started with me looking for any Verizon store to visit other than Cortez Rd and 14th Street. After being there with my husband and kids for hours to open a 5 cellphone business account, in-car wifi, house & business wifi, as well as home & business landlines. I was then told it was taking a long time due to their computer issues. I was then told they couldn't set up a business account for me, even though my business was verified through my sunbiz.org account. I was then told by the manager (I don't remember his name, but I remember that he had tattoos, because we were complimenting each other's tattoos when I first arrived), if we couldn't finish in 10 minutes I would have to return the next day because it was closing time, even though we had been there for over 3 hours. Due to the stress of that, my husband noticed signs from me that an epileptic seizure was coming on. Seeing as it was 8:01pm my husband was told that if he went outside to get my rescue medicine, they wouldn't let him back in with it. OR... I could go outside alone walking on the concrete and hope that I would successfully navigate around the concrete parking bumpers without having a seizure and/or serious injury. So obviously we left and I due to the extreme stress, I had a seizure in the car. Then, 2 days later we went to Verizon in Sarasota. We thought that we had a great experience there, and though it wasn't great, it was good. However, I never got a lot of the features that I was told I was getting. It's very sad. You guys are the McDonald's of cell phone companies, you can have the worst customer service, charge a lot, and not care about the hard earned money that your customer's give you, because no matter how many customers and respect you lose or how many people you upset. It will never be important enough to you or enough customers to put you out of business. That's why you will never change or follow through with your empty promises. Hopefully, Yelp is correct and I will find a. CSR in Palmetto who will actually care and help.