weird marketing strategy

[Spirit of the Forest]

Wait, are they billing you, or not?

Because if they are, and you're ignoring it, won't they eventually take it to court?

[Beep_Boop]

Seriously, does this kind of marketing tricks work in this country?

Well, clearly it has worked on you, hasn't it? I mean, no offense, but who gives his address to a magazine subscription lady hoping she'd pass by his place?
To me it sounds that you signed up to a magazine subscription and you're being billed for it - fare and square.

Pay the bill, contact them to cancel, and learn from your mistake.

[Rip]

They certainly think they have contract with you. Next you'll have collecting agency getting after you. Now, if you're quite sure you never signed any contract with them you could contest it, but this is no small company. While they might well have irritating marketing habits, I would not expect them to be involved in actual fraud or anything like that. I'd bet you did enter into legally valid contract that you better cancel now and pay the existing bill.

[Rip]

If you look at the bill again then it doesn't even have paying date, just HETI.

Because the original due date is already long past.

Now I am getting ideas why they are sending the bills like that... Maybe most of the people would pay that and ask for cancellations later and they are using the same marketing strategy on me, which of course not going to work.

That would be basically a scam. As I said, the company is bit too established that I'd believe that.

The sales offer was for 4 subscription for certain amount at once, where I paid the amount and gave them the address to ship it when its published. Like buying limited subscription on advance.

I recall (it's been ages that I have ordered something) more often than not the small print in these kind of "Offers" is that they automatically continue as regular subscription unless specifically cancelled (that what "jatkuva tilaus" means on the paper you shared BTW). Anyway, I don't know the relevant papers, I hope you're right and they somehow screwed their bookkeeping. In that case you should still contact them and contest the bill, before you have a collecting agency to talk with and you have to start with, "yes I have got these bills and no, I have not contacted the company telling they are invalid..."

[omundu]

Same thing happened to me last year. I had bought a year's subscription of some lehti and pretty soon these invoices started popping up in the mail. I was none too pleased and a stern phone call was all that was required. I will admit to being taken in by the occasional pretty saleswoman in the past as well

[wolf80]

Walking in the street and shopping malls have been pretty annoying these days, Fortum, Lahitapiola, and any other sales representatives as per shopping centres. Sometimes I feel for them for such job choice, but again it gets annoying to be stopped by them every then and after when your concentration is on something else.

Why do people even stop? I honestly don't get that. You can spot these sales people from afar, when they try talk to me I just wave my hand, give them a stern look and say "NO!" without stopping. Abroad some WWF and Greenpeace people started to jump directly into peoples way, which made it kind of more fun for me. One once landed on the ground, another one must have gotten a pretty bruised shoulder. After all not my fault if somebody jumps in my way and I can't stop so fast... And never ever would I have had the idea to flirt with them and give them my phone number! *facepalm*

[betelgeuse]

Me: I can prove in court that I haven't done anything wrong, so, I'm not going to pay anything

What would you have done if they had claimed a verbal contract?