I've now subscribed twice to different mags from this vendor. Its a shame that the first one that I really liked went out of stock, but it was a good read. My second subscription I sampled the whole range, and the quality and tracking was just as good there. No samples, just took a leap of faith based on encouraging early reports. Here is my full review:
Quality: 8/10 (I'd give as 10/10, its as good as anything I've ever read before, but I'm just getting back into reading after a long hiatus (5 years+) and so its been too long since the old days when we could get certain mags whose name starts with an E such that I can't really do a fare comparison because its been so long, and they aren't supposed to be similar reads either to what I used to read back in the old days). Anyways...as far as non-verified publishers go...they are a 10/10 for me personally, but others may differ if they have experience with verified publishers that I don't have.
Pricing: 8/10. Much better than what you are going to find on the "Reddit publishers". Better also than some of the other vendors selling the same format of magazine on this site.
Tracking and Shipment: 10/10. I received very high quality tracking immediately after my subscription and the tracking is through Shopify, so I get notified whenever there is an update. Its been consistently same day or next day that Unknown Research has been able to get my mags shipped.
I think this is a small time publisher and so things may go out of stock in the future, so I just made a third order to stock up on the longer reads before they run out. They still had a great extremely long read in stock earlier today and so I cleaned out as much stock of that as I could afford since it doesn't interfere with my day job.
Not a scam at all. This seems to be a small publisher and so they are able to be very quick with shipping and whatnot as a result...but that also means you need to jump on something once it is back in stock.