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Miracle Health Products For Sale On The Internet

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With the cost of medical care spiraling out of control, its understandable that many who cant afford doctors or pharmacies look at advertisements making promises to cure whatever ails them. A number of internet entrepreneurs have sent out email blasts or attached advertising links on web pages, advertising products that are difficult to resolve in terms of effectiveness, but simple to determine in terms of what they capture from your wallet. This isnt to say that there arent some good products marketed by some ethical entrepreneurs, but what gets annoying is the hype for a health product that doesnt have any documented proof that it works. ppTo try to illustrate this point with a recent example, lets take the case of the Acai Berry. This is a product being heavily hyped on the internet through email blasts, although some might refer to this as spam. The Acai Berry product claims to back someone lose unwanted pounds, boost energy levels, improve your digestive system, and promote deep sleep, just to name a few. The subject line claims an endorsement from some entity known as American Dietary, stating specifically that American Dietary recommends Acai Berry. A quick search on the Google search engine doesnt pull up any American Dietary organization, so this is strike one against the Acai Berry. While a Google search may not always be the respond to doing your due diligence on a product or service, it can be a good starting point. ppWhile the Acai Berry product, being distributed here in the form of pills, may be a good product, the health benefits it claims to provide are preposterous. It claims to flush out 50 pounds and to detoxify your body. The vender of this product is so confident youll like it, that theyre willing to send you a free bottle, provided youre willing to pay 4.95 for shipping. To the average person, this may sound reasonable. Most people get so mad by the prospect of losing weight and sleeping better and so forth, that they fail to click on a itsybitsy link known as Terms and Conditions. You see, when you pull out your credit card to pay the 4.95 for the free bottle of Acai Berry pills, you are given a period of ten days to try the product. After which you are automatically enrolled in a convenient home delivery view that will automatically bill your credit card 74.95 per month to assure a constant supply. If you buy into the hype for this product, it is not mentioned anywhere that you are automatically consenting to 74.95 a month being charged to your credit card. The order form only mentions the 4.95 shipping charge and the box next to a sentence that reads I agree to the terms and conditions is already conveniently checked. ppTo most people, they think they are only agreeing to a onetime 4.95 shipping charge to see if they like the product and that if they do, they can order more, and THEN pay for it. But this deceptive marketer has gotten you to fork over your credit card number and made you authorize 74.95 a month which you know nothing about. If you continue to read the fine print in the Terms and Conditions section, it states that it may take 2 to 3 weeks to receive your promotional order, and that you can cancel at any time during the tenday trial period. How many people are going to remember all this two to three weeks later, following an order of the Acai Berry product In carry out, the Acai Berry product, through this vender, is going to cost about 900 a year, payable in 12 montly installments of 74.95 each, and unless they know where to find the web site that offers cancellation, our happy purchaser has no telephone number to call under the terms and conditions fraction. Now a support number is listed in the contact link that appears at the bottom, but this isnt readily apparent, especially to someone who has no idea that their credit card is being faded like this. A cursory search on the internet reveals that if the Acai Berry product is that good, it can be bought through other sources for 20 or 30 a month, WITHOUT a monthly credit card commitment. ppBut wait, the scam gets better. Now please note, that this isnt a criticism of the product, but rather a criticism of how it is being marketed and how the chief aim is separation of the buyers money from his wallet, or in this case, credit card. The Acai Berry is supposedly backed medically by Dr. Nicholas Perricone, on daytime talk shows, one of which is the Oprah Winfrey show. No offense to Oprah here, but objective about every miracle medical product from Human Growth Hormones to the Acai Berry has claimed to have been either endorsed by Oprah, or perhaps in order to avoid a fraudulent claim, states as seen on Oprah. This should be a tipoff that a product such as the Acai Berry, which claims dramatic weight loss, should come under more scrutiny. But back to our medical expert, Dr. Perricone. A quick search on Google reveals that Dr. Perricone made his fortune authoring books and selling high end skin and dietary supplement products. Critics say he never had any substantial scientific research to succor up his claims, according to Wikipedia, and never conducted any research himself that might be subject to scrutiny by peers in his field. In so many words, Dr. Perricone argues that hes a minority voice going against the mainstream of the dermatology community. The doctor has made a lot of money but apparently cant be held accountable for his medical claims. ppThe advertisement for the Acai Berry product continues to state that we are offering the week supply for free. You objective have to pay for the minimal shipping costs! The reality is that you are signing up for a credit card commitment of 74.95 a month that is canceled only if YOU purchase specific action to cancel it within a specified period of time. With the two to three weeks that it takes to receive your supply, one has to wonder if the delay is designed to net you to forget about trial periods or even who the name of the company is, that shows up on your credit card billing statement. By the time the first 74.95 charge appears on a buyers credit card statement, the company who sold you the Acai Berry product may be out of business, or changed names to perform cancellation of your order more difficult. ppAll of this isnt meant to pick on the Acai Berry product, but rather the way in which its marketed. Too many offers advance in email inboxes, usually the result of unwanted spam, that ask you to use your credit card to pay for shipping charges to sample a product and then automatically obligate you to monthly payments for continued use of that product or service at a much higher rate. If its not intentional, then why isnt it disclosed in the advertisement without forcing the buyer to read the fine print in the terms and conditions section Some terms and conditions sections are so lengthy that the monthly costs arent disclosed until youve read about six paragraphs. Its interesting to imprint, in the case of the Acai Berry, under the terms and conditions section, that if youre considering litigation against them, you agree to bring suit against them in Arizona in Arapahoe County. A hastily search on Google reveals, get this, that there is NOT an Arapahoe County in Arizona. The moral of this article, therefore, is do your due diligence and make sure your credit card isnt being obligated to future montly charges.

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