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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Don't Take the Bait: Free Acai Berry Trial Scam

By Travis Van Slooten

If you have been trying to decide whether or not you want to get acai berry supplements, you may have come across a few free acai berry trial offers. While it may seem, at first glance, like a great way to test the product before you spend your money, you need to be aware of a few things first. In order to avoid getting scammed and possibly being charged a substantial amount of money, you owe it to yourself to read up on how scam companies operate. More importantly, you need to know what to look for so you don't become a victim yourself.

Scams are not uncommon especially when you have a product that's selling like hotcakes. With the interest and money that the new product is producing, it's a given that opportunists would want a share of that too. What they do is lure interested buyers into trying out free acai berry trials, but when consumers are hooked, what they actually get is not only the free products they signed up for but a whole lot of other charges they never expected to be paying for.

Recently, a group of customers successfully sued a company for, quite literally, stealing from them. These customers were drawn in by a free acai berry trial offer. However, upon signing up for the trial, they were automatically signed up for a number of other product subscriptions. While the acai berry trial was free, as promised, all of the other subscriptions were most definitely not, and these customers were being charged huge sums of money for products they did not ask for and did not want. When they contacted the company and tried to cancel these subscriptions, these cancellations were put on hold for months on end. And the whole time, the charges kept coming in. Eventually, the customers took the case to court and the company was forced to pay them back $350,000. But while this story turned out well for these victims, not all of them end so happily.

Of course, the best way to sidestep the issue entirely is to stay away from any company that offers free trials. Most genuine companies may offer, say, a free bottle with an order of a 6-month supply. But if a company is basically saying that it?s giving away its product, that probably means its making its profit some other way, and you might not like how it goes about doing that.

This is not to say though that you should be wary of all acai supplements. There are still a lot of decent companies that give the right value for your money. While you may not get a free trial, you can at least be confident that you will be getting all the nutritional benefits that should come with it. What it all boils down to is whether you are willing to try out these free acai berry trial offers at the risk of losing your money and losing out on the real health advantages of acai. - 17273

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