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Have you looked on the database? There are a couple of unverified numbers there

Put in       the economist

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All we know thus far is that a geographical number is being sought for 0845 357 3626 which is "The Economist newspaper offer".

The 0845 number in itself means very little. It is a newspaper offer. Is that an offer to subscribe to the newspaper or an offer to buy a product? If it's the latter, what is the product and most importantly what is the company that provides it as that is the company? The company that provides it is the number you are looking for, the fact that it is promoted in the Economist is secondary.

CRW1303, please help by posting this sort of information.


On the subject of the database search engine, it works by finding exact matches. So nothing was returned when you searched for because there is no entry with that exact string in.

At present, there are three unverified entries returned when searching for but only two when looking for and this is because only two have been submitted with the word "The" proceeding them. Now you hopefully start to see how best to perform searches. Less is more; enter as few a words as possible; preferably a single word. If it returns many results, then it is not the end of the world. Use either a different word, or two words.

CRW1303 wrote on Sep 10^th, 2010 at 3:58pm:

So it's a flier that was put through your letterbox and nothing to do with any existing subscription or purchase of The Economist.

So who is the promoter? It should really give a name, address, maybe a web or e-mail address as well. In order to find an alternative, we need to know what company (and where) it is.

I put the 0845 number into Google and the first link is to LetsSubscribe.com. Referring to LetsSubscribe.com's contact page it gives the 0845 number as being for "Orders and sales". It also gives the following possibly useful information:




Now we may be on to something!

As an aside, the contact page for The Economist gives contact details for subscription enquiries: PO Box 471, Haywards Heath, RH16 3GY, tel: 01444 475647, fax: 01444 445572, e-mail: economist.subs@quadrantsubs.com. I strongly suspect that this company (Quadrant Subscription Services - the e-mail address is the clue here) is not the company you wish to contact.


So it would appear that we are looking for a number for Subscriptions Marketing Ltd (LetsSubscribe.com).

Looking at what we have in the database, I found the following which may be relevant:



It looks like the 020 7903 3xxx area is where we want to be. Try the number 020 7903 3950 and let us know how you get on.

So it is either a letter in an envelope or a postcard then? There must surely be a contact address and/or company name/number. Maybe even an "if undelivered, return to…" address that may be a clue. 

CRW1303 wrote on Sep 10^th, 2010 at 5:12pm:

It may well be that the company in question resides in MK42 (this is a PO Box, so it's not a physical address). It could be a third party provider.

The only other user of PO Box 142, MK42 0FA I can find by searching the internet is MS Society Publications. 

However, searching for pages relating to The Economist which contain "MK42" yielded this page:
http://www.btbmf.co.uk/mailing_houses_fulfilment_pages/mailing_house_case_studie...

The fact that the 0845 057 3626 number appears on the LetsSubscribe.com website is the strongest clue that it is definately linked to it.

I will post further if I come across any further clues.

I've renamed the title of this thread as I believe that we are looking for a number for LetsSubscribe.com.

I have just noticed that the OP says 0845 357 3626 and then further down that changes to 0845 357 3636. The latter is the orders number on LetsSubscribe's website. Which is it?

I am quite surprised that this correspondence that CRW1303 has received does not contain any company name, no reference to LetsSubscribe.com.