Health Supplement Scams

Whenever a new health trend or superfood is discovered there you can be sure there will be a flood of new products being sold seemingly that same day.

In the rush to put out a product for a hot new health trend, some companies sacrifice quality, and may even attempt to scam their customers.

The health supplement market is only lightly regulated, so it is up to us, the consumers, to protect each other from these unscrupulous business.

Some people choose to avoid these new trends because they are too worried about being ripped off, and miss out on some really amazing health benefits in the process.

The acai berry scam is one of the biggest and most publicized health supplement scams in recent history. The reason it was so huge was because the acai berry really is worth most of the hype it receives. It is at or near the top of the chart in antioxidant content, helps increase your energy in a healthy way (unlike coffee or energy drinks), and improve your skin and hair making you look much younger. With all of these benefits coming from a natural product with no known side effects, it is no surprise that it would become so popular. As the fruit grows in popularity, the number of companies selling it increases dramatically. Many of these companies are selling a legitimate product that really works, but some are cutting corners just trying to make a quick buck.

In this article we want to show you how to differentiate between the real deal and any acai berry scam products that you might run into while choosing one to purchase. If you follow these simple tips you will be able to find a legitimate product, and start receiving all of the possible benefits of acai. There is a very specific pattern that these acai scams use to lure people in. You will come to a website that will be offering you a free trial bottle of acai, and you just have to pay the shipping and handling. The site might also have pictures of Oprah Winfrey or Rachel Ray, even though neither of the two have every endorsed a specific acai product.

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It is observed that in these acai berry scams, the charge per bottle is usually around $80 and you get crappy drum dried acai berries, which cost about half as much to produce. Finally you pay about 4 times more per bottle than you should. In the e-mail, they say they just charge you for shipping. The deal was okay if this was true. But the reality is totally different. They demand your credit card number and charge you every month for a subscription you didn’t sign up for. The terms and conditions are so hidden that you come to know about them when it’s too late. he way it works is like this: You enter your credit card number to just pay $2.95 for shipping and then you receive a free trial of acai. You pat yourself for a good deal until you read the fine print hidden about 10 pages deep in their ‘Terms of Service’. You are shocked when you read that by agreeing to the ‘free trial’ you are also signing up to have an Acai supplement mailed to you every 30 days and billed $60 – $90 a month. Wait, this is not the end of the story. Forgot about the free trial bottle you were supposed to receive? If you don’t cancel within 14 days you will be charged for that bottle as well! fter reading about acai berry scams, how to cancel this subscription, will be your first question in mind. You will have to spend hours trying to cancel this subscription. There will be no one to contact, so it won’t be possible for you to return the crappy product. If you somehow succeed in contacting someone, he will say you have to call their customer service number to get return authorization. When you obey his instructions religiously, you are put on hold and shuffled between different people until you give up. If you don’t believe me, you can call or email them without purchasing any product and you can tell them that you did not sign up for a subscription and please stop sending the product. You will understand everything very clearly.