Before you order that free trial of that latest greatest diet pill seemingly endorsed by your favorite celebrity, the one thing you must absolutely do is scroll to the bottom of the page and read the fine print. Trust us, just do it. What your will find will likely be eye-opening, if not comical.
Typical Terms & Conditions
In fact, our advice is to start reading any diet pill page from the bottom to the top. Once you land on the page of the latest, greatest diet pill seemingly endorsed by your favorite celebrity offering a risk free trial offer, do yourself one favor and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page first. Only after you are satisfied that the fine print isn’t disclaiming responsibility for everything else on the page should you waste your time reading what’s above it.
But the fine print alone isn’t enough. While you are down there on the bottom of the page, click on a link called something like “Terms and Conditions” or “Terms” and see exactly what you are agreeing to when you submit your order. Here’s a sample of things you are likely to find lurking down there in the font that’s hard to read.
Your Free Trial Isn’t Really Free, But Is An Excuse To Bill Your Credit Card $80 Or More Monthly Without Your Permission.
…if you decide to keep the dietary supplements, you will receive FREE acceptance in [The Diet Pill] Club and will receive a fresh supply of dietary supplements approximately every 30 days at the same low price of $79.95, plus $3.95 for shipping….
So here’s what your free trial gets you at over 90% of the diet pill sites you will encounter online - The Free Trial Re-bill. The free trial period of 4 to 14 days typically starts on the day the product is shipped. At the end of that period your credit card is charged the full value of the product, regardless of whether you have received the product or even used it enough to decide whether you like it. Not only that, but consumer’s consistently report that it’s virtually impossible to reach a person willing to allow a return of the product without first charging your card. In fact, we haven’t found an online report of a single person who was able to actually cancel a free trial of a diet pill without their card being charged first for the full amount.
But the fun doesn’t stop when your card gets charged $80 plus shipping. You also unknowingly agreed to become part of the “club” and allow the company to continue to charge your credit card $80 per month every month thereafter. This is the heart of the re-bill and it’s really big business online right now, particularly in the diet pill field. Trying to get these recurring charges reversed on your credit card can take weeks of effort and calls.
This is the way the diet pill business works online for the vast majority of online sites. Yes, Attorney Generals across the country are looking into these practices and bringing cases, but to date the re-bill is still the norm. In fact, on our most recent google search for “free acai trial”, every single paid ad was a re-bill offer.
So unless you just like being charged hundreds of dollars over a few months for your free trial, be aware of the re-bill offer and avoid it at all costs.
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