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Vital Information on Acai Berry Scams
There are internet scams all over the place—scams that make outrageous claims about the acai berry, such as the fact that you can lose a lot of weight, improve your digestion, improve sexual performance, or improve energy levels by taking a couple of pills per day. Many offer you a free trial but it’s really a hook to get you into a monthly drop-ship scam, where you get a month’s supply sent to you every month at an exorbitant price. You have to give your credit card in order to get the free trial but the fine print talks about the drop-shipping that is really going to occur.
The Drop-Ship Scam
The website sends you a free two week supply but your credit card goes in their database to be charged every month. It’s almost impossible to get off the list and you could spend thousands of dollars on the acai berry product before you actually get off the list. The only real way you can go about stopping this is to telephone the company via a lengthy and expensive phone call and you will not likely get to do this while you’re on the free trial time period.
How to Get Out of It
In many cases, you’ll need to shut down your bank account or credit card account in order to get them to stop shipping you the product. There isn’t any good way to stop these nasty and unauthorized payments to the company via your card. The way out is to read the fine print before giving your credit card information; look for a statement that says you’ll get monthly shipments for a certain amount of money. Read the terms of service before giving your credit card info to anyone, especially one of these internet sites. Make sure there aren’t any hidden fees, subscriptions or other fees included.
You need also to know that the acai berry is not well researched and it has no documentable health claims so if you run into a site that makes exorbitant health claims about acai berries, be wary of such a site and don’t buy from them it’s probably an Acai Scam. Most claims should be backed up by at least one and preferably many studies showing it does what it says it does. It has not been properly evaluated by the FDA so there are no real studies out there to validate the claims made by these companies.