Consumer Digest Weekly reviews and complaints
Fraudulent claims truth is hidden in &7 day cancellation& clause
I was victim to this same scam back in May. The comments were identical. The product names have been altered-otherwise the "deal" is the same. Their deception is when you sign up for the free trial you must cancel within seven days (that is their claim and I have to go and read the fine print to verify the truth of it). If you don't they begin monthly billings that go on indefinitely. These are easy to miss because they are billed using names different from the product. My AlpineWhite order was billed as ONLINEHEALTH and again as MYBRITES. Please don't fall for this subtle thievery like I did. Tony T.
Company Business Name: Alpine White andEverWhite
Country of complaint: United States
Address: mratucker@hotmail.com, California
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Acai Berry TEst
I find this to be offensive, misleading and decietful; the ad claims to be independe study as well as claims the company chosen was reputable and signing up did not include any hidden fees as quoted: "To get started, I volunteered to be the guinea pig. I applied for a bottle of the Advanced Acai. While there are ton's of Acai berry ads online, Advanced Acai is one of the most credible and trustworthy suppliers on the market. It included the free trial of the product and it did not try to fool me into agreeing to additional hidden offers. Another reason why I chose Advanced Acai is because it is the most concentrated and purest acai products on the market. This would give me the most accurate results for my test." However upon clicking on the suggested links, you are taken to the Advanced Acai website and after entering your info to get the trial offer, you are then hit with the usual "hidden" fees statements "cancel in 20 days or be charged monthyly for $79.95"; further research on Consumer Digest Weekly revealed what appeared to be bogus or staged websites with no real legimacy. Thankfully I took time to read. As much as I'd like to loose weight, its a shame you have to be tricked by companies that prey on a persons desparation! Thankfully I'm desparate, but not stupid! BUYER BEWARE AND READ!
Company Business Name: Advanced Acai
Country of complaint: United States
Address: Cleveland, Ohio
Website: consumersdigestweekly.com
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
The company (ies) exposed (Acai Berry) give THEMSELVES away, with a little intelligent research. By clicking from one ad to another, the "News Channel" becomes Channel 6, or 7, or more - given enough time to research. But who needs more time? How can the same ad involving the same words have different channel numbers? More to the point, the ad, with the same exact words and so-called test trial, features different women - different pictures - on the different "channels." OK! We get it. WHAT I DON'T GET is how the website www.complaintsboard.com, which does such a great service exposing this and other frauds, can then ALLOW ADS FOR THE SAME EXACT FRAUD RIGHT BELOW THE COMPLAINTS! And, to me, worse, these are ads carried by Google and Yahoo! How far is known fraud allowed to spread, especially by the largest and, supposedly, trusted companies online? Just how important is that ad money?
Yes Consumers Digest Weekly is a scam and the promotion for Acai Optimum is a trick. There is NO FREE TRIAL! They give you 14 days FROM THE DAY YOU ENTER YOUR INFO ONLINE which actually only gives you about one week to let them know not to charge you if you don't like it or see no results. Who is going to see results in one week. They they charge you $79 for the "free trial" they sent you and then charge you $100 every 60 days for 2 bottles of pills. She did say something about me paying a $17.98 membership charge and then getting the bottles for $40 instead of $49 each. Plus the phone system they are using made it sound like she was on the other side of the world.
The so called unbiased article in "Consumers Digest Weekly" is in fact an ad for this dishonest and misleading company. So it is only fair to assume that the product does not work and I would even suggest that how do you know the ingredients used are safe? A company like that would use anything as filler for the pills. How does that saying go - if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and looks like a duck then it is probably a duck. Beware of this product and any other product in an advertisement called Consumers Digest Weekly.
Misrepresentation
This company had two scams links on Weather.com. While I cannot attest to the effectiveness of the two products Acai berry supplements and teeth whitening regimen, I question the way these products were represented. The link claimed to be independent but then proceeded to cheer-lead the product. I consider this to be misrepresentation, similar to a blogger given a free product to blog about. These sights misrepresent themselves as independent consumer advocates. In fact this is nothing more that false hype and advertisement.
Company Business Name: Consumer Digest Weekly
Country of complaint: United States
Website: consumersdigestweekly.com
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
false advertising
This is a front for a very deceptive teeth whitening product. So far, they have used 6 different names of individuals who claim to be saving by using their trial products. You only pay for shipping to get started but then you are automatically enrolled for monthly shipments for both products, each costing around $90/month. So, you pay $180/month until you call to cancel. This is not a savings for teeth whitening. Also, they use the same article changing the name and picture of the suburban mom who swears by the product. Consumer Digest Weekly is not a consumer tool but a front for fraud. BEWARE!
Company Business Name: Consumer Digest Weekly
Country of complaint: United States
Address: Colorado
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I came across the CDW article and was intrigued after noticing something dodgy within the review section. I looked in to it further by checking out the tooth whitening suppliers website and discovered the fine print terms and conditions there. Obviously a scam, i went back to CDW to post the following review alongside all the other glowing ones already on there... and was given the response of "your message is being reviewed". Ha, obviously will never make it up there! Dishonest, dodgy scammers!
Message to CDW:
Funny how the following review has been posted exactly the same twice by two different people:
"My teeth are pretty yellow from drinking coffee and I'm not about to give that up, LOL. i can see how this might work better, can't wait until my trials get here."
Also, if it takes about one week to receive the product... then you only have about one week remaining to cancel the trial (and thats if you can get through on the number provided) before you start getting charged extortionate amounts of £... according to these t's and c's below. Seems dodgy to me!
TRIAL OFFER TERMS
Your trial includes a 1-month supply when your pay £4.95 for s&h. You have two weeks to try PRODUCT. If you do not contact us within two weeks, you agree to be billed £69.95 for the trial and become a member of the Home Delivery Program. As part of your membership, you agree to be shipped a new 1-month supply every 30 days and billed £69.95 to your credit card until you cancel. You can cancel your membership by calling [protected] Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Return/Refund Policy: All orders are subject to applicable sales tax. Shipping and processing fees are non-refundable. Note that we cannot accept and process packages marked "Return to Sender".
I was on WBZ TV channel 4 11:00PM news on Aug 16 Tues night
2011 this year. They did an article on these scams and warned the public. I want to do more about it. I have arecording saved to my computer and also on my Facebook. I will put it up on YouTube and I plan on bringing it to the Massachusetts Attorney General to try for a class action lawsuit. Anyone out there who is a lawyer please contact me at Electric123@juno.com These ads originated from the site...
Whitepages.com and Dailyconsumer.com
I have just seen the ad - this complaint is what it says beware I was nearly taken in by it today but read the small print it is totally misleading - why is this allowed to ?
As of today, Stacie is testing Acai UltraBerry Slim and Colothin Extreme Cleanse (she claims they were the most credible products). Another poster mentioned two other Acai and colon cleanse products that Stacie tested. I'm thinking Stacie must weigh about 50lbs right about now. I fell for a similar deal but I can't remember the name of the site I was on - I think it may have been a sponsored link through CNN. I didn't see ANY fine print about monthly charges throughout the entire S&H order process. I only noticed I was being charged when my credit card statement came in. Fortunately, I was able to cancel the automatic shipments, even though the time in which to cancel had already passed. I am curious though, do any of the products advertised actually work as described?
i was also drawn in by this tooth whitening scam, only when i recieved my first product with a copy of the terms and conditions i realised i had signed up to a contract taking £149.99 a month out of my account with additional shipping costs. i havent yet recieved the second product. i contacted my bank who informed me that 4.95 and 126.99 were due to leave my account, i desputed this and spoke to the fraud team at my branch and was told that they had had 100s of calls from other costomers in the same situation after ordering these tooth whitening or diet supplement trials. They also said there wasnt much they could do as it is all in the "small print" . The only way i could stop these fee's coming out of my bank was to close my account, IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM PLEASE DONT BE SUCKED IN!
I have only just seen this post!
after yesterday when i bought the products!
how do i cancel?!?!
im a student and i really cannot afford loosing any money in the slighest!
This is Michal, I'm CEO of Illumi-brite.com - based out of Las Vegas Nevada - all our product/contact/customer service information can be found here:
http://www.illumi-brite.com/commerce/label.php
We don't do monthly automatic billing. Never have. The "Illumi-birte" listed here simply isn't us.
I also got scammed by this company I ordered the free trail which I never received but my bank account keeps getting charged, I have tried contacting them to cancel by email and by phone and the numbers so far does not work. Now I am having to go thru my bank and pay them to reject these charges, I was looking up their number on their website and again today I got a email saying thanks for your order. They still have my information from the first order 10 days ago and now every time I go on the webisite they email me and charge my card again for another order, and all I'm doing is trying to get a contact number that will work for them.
I have been a victim of this scam too...and I was surprised to see that they have also managed to replace some pages on the internet that contained complaints with more false advertisements.
I just got scammed too. It is awful that people and companies do this. My credit card company sees this as a scam and has taken proper action to stop the payment and to report to authorities. They have also changed my credit card number and are rushing me a new card, free of charge.
Can someone please advise what number to call to cancel these teeth whitening sharks, I ordered the first bit of kit, with a £2.95 cost for shipping. I then went o n to order the second piece of kit and noticed that there appeared to be some sort of monthly tie in so decided to just go with the first order. I am worried by this as on the receipt it says two orders accepted, in which case I would like to call and clarify my order is is for the one item and to clarify that I dont want to receive or be billed for any for items in the future. My mobile number is [protected] so would appreciate a text with number or my email address is leonorahconwaykeene8@gmail.com
Please somebody help
Leonorah Conway Keene
Hi Tony, thanks for the too late warning. I orderes these products yesterday, if i call tomorrow and cancel, will I be charged monthly. Also, does one have to call the individual companies and cancel them seperately?