All the reliable and credible scientific literature done on acai is related to the antioxidant capacity and composition of the berry oil. Companies promoting acai as a weight loss aid deliberately hide the content of their product. They claim to provide a product in pill form that is acai. They don’t reveal what percentage of that pill is acai and whether it’s made from freeze-dried or spray-dried powder. Acai does not possess the ability to drive, create or stimulate weight loss. It is considered a superfood based on its nutritional profile. A superfood does not mean that it supports weight loss. The product that this company sells does not work because it cannot work as claimed.
If you try to contact any of the companies that sell Acai Miracle Weight Loss Pills, you will most likely be connected to an answering service. When you ask the service if they had a way to contact the company directly, they would probably tell you that they didn’t have access to any phone numbers except the toll number listed on the website. If you ask what the name of the company was that they were providing this service for, you will most likely find that the trade names are not registered, in other words, the company is hiding. They do not provide a physical address, a reliable phone number to a company’s headquarters, or be searchable through Google or the state in which they do business.
All of these companies have the earmarks of organizations involved in scamming the public. There is no recourse. In their terms of service and privacy statements, they are very clear about taking private information from customers with the intent to sell and resell. In addition to this, they clearly state that they will use ‘cookies’, an internet term to describe the act of monitoring their customers’ internet usage. Essentially, they are saying that when you buy a product from them, not only are they going to sell and resell all of your private information, but they are saying that the purchase in effect creates a customer contract that allows the company to monitor and spy on their customers. so they can get more private information to sell and resell.
This is what the Terms of Service actually state on one of the websites:
1.2 Third Party List Information.
XXXX collects information from individuals when an individual provides information to a third party and XXXX subsequently purchases, licenses, or otherwise acquires the information from a third party (the “Seller”). Such purchased information may include, but is not limited to, a person’s name, email address, mailing address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), date of birth, gender, salary range, credit card information, education and marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and online interests, and any other information the individual may have provided to Seller (collectively, ” Third Party List Information”). When acquiring Third Party Listing Information, XXXX seeks assurances from Seller that Seller has the right to transfer the Third Party Listing Information to XXXX and that Seller has the right to provide offers from advertisers to individuals whose personal information is included in the list of sellers.
In other words, it appears to be a phishing scam. Their terms of service allow them, by “contract”, to use your personal information in any way they want! Phishing refers to the process of tricking you into providing personal information, such as your bank account or credit card details, or your passwords. Phishing is prevalent on the Internet today and you should be very careful about this phenomenon and protect your personal information.
The Acai Berry Diet [http://ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q5=acai%20berry&q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search!&Search=Search] The “free trial” is a sophisticated “bait and switch” scheme. If you do not cancel the product after receiving it, your credit card will be billed approximately $80 for your “Free Trial”. Not only that, you will be billed EVERY month around $80 until you cancel the monthly subscription. But since you’re promised 50-pound weight loss, a typical customer would probably give the product time to see if it really works before canceling. But when they see that it doesn’t work, their credit card could have been charged $80-160. Some of the terms of service refuse any return, so the customer is left with the invoice and the ineffective product. In other words, it’s a perfect scam.
Always check the terms of service and privacy policies of an online store before buying anything. A reputable store should have trusted icons like Hacker Safe, McAfee Secure or BBBOnline that validate a business’s physical address, phone number which should also be listed on their home page or “About Us” page. You can also use a free browser plug-in from McAfee.com called SiteAdvisor to indicate whether a website is safe while searching on Google, yahoo, or msn. If a website has not been validated, you will see a question mark; otherwise the site will have a green check mark. Additionally, some sites have been flagged if they have been caught sending spam emails or using fraudulent schemes.
