Acai Berry Scams

People receive hundreds of e-mails, these days. Most of you must have received emails telling you about acai berry supplements which guarantee that you will lose 30 pounds in a week. Moreover, most of these acai emails claim that you can get their acai supplement for free. Do you really get the supplements free or are these emails associated with acai berry scams? Following paragraphs will explain the truth.

People are becoming more and more health conscious and 'calorie' and 'diet' have become the buzzwords in the society. People are constantly searching for healthy foods which can keep health hazards away and which can help them lead a happy and active life. Acai berries are recommended by dietitians for a number of benefits they offer. In today's technically advanced world, with strong and effective network communication, producers or manufacturers advertise on net and people order the products with a click of the mouse. Acai berry scams exposed till date, tell us about the various tricks used to fool the on line customers of acai berry.

Acai Berry Scam

People have been intrigued and fascinated by celebrity stories and they like to read how Oprah or Dr. Oz lost their weight quickly by following an acai berry diet. Without knowing the details of the story, people just blindly follow the celebrities or the current trends. In most cases, they realize it afterward that the 'free trial offers' for acai berry were not free at all! In fact they cost them more than 4 times as much as it should cost them per bottle.

Good quality freeze-dried acai berry should cost $40. It is observed that in these acai berry scams, the charge per bottle is usually around $80 and you get crappy drum dried acai berries, which cost about half as much to produce. Finally you pay about 4 times more per bottle than you should.

In the e-mail, they say they just charge you for shipping. The deal was okay if this was true. But the reality is totally different. They demand your credit card number and charge you every month for a subscription you didn't sign up for. The terms and conditions are so hidden that you come to know about them when it's too late.

The way it works is like this: You enter your credit card number to just pay $2.95 for shipping and then you receive a free trial of acai. You pat yourself for a good deal until you read the fine print hidden about 10 pages deep in their 'Terms of Service'. You are shocked when you read that by agreeing to the 'free trial' you are also signing up to have an Acai supplement mailed to you every 30 days and billed $60 - $90 a month. Wait, this is not the end of the story. Forgot about the free trial bottle you were supposed to receive? If you don't cancel within 14 days you will be charged for that bottle as well!

After reading about acai berry scams, how to cancel this subscription, will be your first question in mind. You will have to spend hours trying to cancel this subscription. There will be no one to contact, so it won't be possible for you to return the crappy product. If you somehow succeed in contacting someone, he will say you have to call their customer service number to get return authorization. When you obey his instructions religiously, you are put on hold and shuffled between different people until you give up. If you don't believe me, you can call or email them without purchasing any product and you can tell them that you did not sign up for a subscription and please stop sending the product. You will understand everything very clearly.

Acai Berry Scam Alert

NEVER sign up for free trials with some fly by night website. You should check the BBB Web site to see if it has received complaints about the company. On January 5, 2009 the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has published an alert to consumers about acai companies which are using wrong marketing practices and misleading the customers.

Acai berry scams don't imply that acai berries are bad! You may like to read information about:

• Acai Berry Powder Benefits
• Acai Berry Side Effects

I am sure, after reading so much about acai berry scams, you won't even open an e mail about acai berry. I hope this article succeeds in keeping you away from all such fake offers from the web world.