EDIT:
-Still want to try Acai for yourself? Use a supplement provider that you TRUST. Botanic Choice, for instance, has two Acai supplements that are both under $20 right now. You can get their Acai Berry Extract 5:1 for $9.99 and their Acai Slim Complex for $19.99 and still won't come close to what you'd really spend on those "free trial" scams, and you'll get a better quality product.
Update: These scams have also been implemented with Hoodia and Resveratrol supplements. The same deal applies to these scams as the Acai scam. BE CAREFUL. Don't participate in any "free" offers asking for your credit card. Also as with the Acai supplements, if you feel that Hoodia or Resveratrol are for you, we suggest you visit Botanic Choice and check out the great deals on their Hoodia-Slim™ product and their Red Wine Extract product.
No, there are no free offers in this post. Instead, I'd like to share with you how these free trials of Acai diet pills work and why they are complete scams. The internet has recently become completely saturated with free trials of this trendy "wonder-supplement" which appears to have sprung up out of thin air.
Basically it works like this:
These companies (and there are plenty of them) pop up and create a dirt-cheap supplement which supposedly contains Acai.
In order to get their product sold, they use internet marketers to push free trials of the supplement through advertising. These free trials ALL require you to pay shipping. This is not because the companies can't afford it, rather this is how they acquire your credit card number.
The companies usually pay these marketers around $30 commission for each free trial that they are able to get people to sign up for. Yes, you read that right; for each FREE trial they are able to "sell," they get $30 commission.
Where does this money come from, you ask? It comes from the $80-90 bill that appears on your credit card bill for next month's order. Want to cancel? Too bad. Most of these companies give you such a short time frame to cancel that it is over before you even receive their product. Even if you do call you'll have a hell of a time getting a hold of them to cancel.
Now I believe that it is every internet-goers responsibility to do their own due diligence and read the fine print on anything they sign up for online. These companies, however, are scamming thousands of people every day. Search Google for "Acai trial" and see what comes up...a bunch of spammy looking barney-purple websites pushing free samples of an Acai supplement. This is because these marketers understand search engine algorithms and know how to get their website to the first page of Google for specific searches.
Even if you search "Acai scam" similar websites come up trying to sell more free trials of Acai, so its likely that this post will go completely unseen, but hopefully someone benefits from my information.
Cliffs:
-Stay away from any free offers of Acai that you encounter.
-Don't give your credit card information out to anyone you don't completely trust.
-Don't buy into the hype these websites offer...they are designed to make you want to buy the product. Instead do your own research for yourself and decide if Acai is right for you.
If you've personally been a victim of one of these scams I'd like your feedback. Comment this post and let me know what you think of these companies.
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3 comments:
I got scammed on the Resveratol ads for Free trial when you pay $6. or less for shipping. Product never arrived and then they send email after 2 weeks that I was charged $79.95. for the same product because I didn't email to cancel. I never received a product, I thought the scam was the shipping charge, the product charge was nasty.
The spam email that got me to try that trial, did NOT have the "fine print" about the upcoming $79,95 charge. But I was able to contact the company and cancel ANOTHER charge and get out of the plan, AND never paid the $79.95 charge OR the charge for that first free trial (since i didn't get back in time) by contacting my credit card company and protesting the scam. My credit card company never paid, and the scam company never contested.
I ordered the "free trial" of Acai berry pills for a modest shipping fee only. I DID read the fine print and told the representative that I did not wish to have any further charges on my credit card. She assured me that there would be no more charges. I was very clear on that. Less than two months later I had three charges all on the same day, one for $89, one for $1, and one for $2. I had to cancel my credit card, and I will never order anything but airline tickets on the Internet again.
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