How To Spot Free Trial Acai Berry Scams
Avoid Acai Berry Scams!
Acai berry is the new craze. There are so many products with the same name that you will really find it hard to find the original product. The people always cash on the things which sell well in the market and the same thing happened to the acai berry. There are many scam offers which are offering the free acai berry trials which are nothing more than a way to get money from people.
The free trials offered by these scammers are meant to steal your personal information and money. They do not intend to help you at all.
How the Acai berry scams work
Now that you know that there are acai berry scams, you will have to know how to avoid them. First of all you will have known how the acai berry online purchase and delivery scam works and anything which is like this is scam. You will be providing your card details in order to pay for the delivery and handling charges. This will vary with your location but will normally be around 3 dollars. Once this has been done, you are asked to wait for several days until the product is delivered to you for free trial.
Now the biggest problem is that the people do not read the details. The details will be saying that you will be charged after the trial and you will have to ask the company to stop charging you for newer orders. What happens is simple. You get charged even before the product arrives and you test it. The trial product will take more than a week to reach you whereas the trial, according to the details, will end after seven days. This means that you do not have the product but the company has finished your trial period and is charging you already for the new orders.
These scams use the well known ‘negative option’ marketing technique. What they do is simple. They want you to opt out instead of opting in. This creates confusion and you do not know what they are charging you for. You will have to go to the details of the offer and will have to opt out for each thing. They will be signing you up for other offers and will be charging you for that as well. They may also do other negative things like hiding the details page by putting it somewhere else and only providing a link to the page. They will not give you the details on the same page where offer resides.
It is truth that the scams are well designed legally. They have the legal protection. How they do that is easy to learn. They will have to give you an option to cancel the trail and the order after the trial. They do it. But what makes them scam is that they do not let you do that easily. They hide it so deep that you do not find the options. Also, they bill you after expiry of seven days.
If you try to cancel your trial order, you will have to go through a long process. Even if the process is kept simple, there are many other hurdles. They will provide you a long distance number and your phone bill will mount with every second spent on that call. Additionally, they will keep you on hold for a long time, even for an hour or so, and you will then know how deep the trouble is. The cancellation of order by email will not work and you will not be replied when you submit a written complaint.
In some of the cases, the trial acai berry companies have even sold the individual details to the other companies and the identity frauds have been committed.
Avoiding the Acai berry scams
Avoiding these scams is easy if you know what methods they use in order to get your money. The best thing is to avoid the free trials at all costs. Most of the times, the free trials are scam. No one would be ready to give you huge quantities of the product for free if they are confident of their product. The good producers know that their product will sell and they do not need to offer the free trials.
The next thing you can do to avoid scams is to stay away from the websites which give a lot of testimonials after every picture. Most of these companies will tell you that they are testified and endorsed by some doctor but in fact they are not. Most of these companies were recently sued by Oprah and Dr. Oz for using their names when they had neither endorsed the products nor testified them.
In some cases, you will get the product. After all there are certain scammers who are looking at the bigger picture. They would want to continue the fraud. They would give you the acai but the acai would be so poorly processes that you would gain absolutely no benefit from it.
Always try to buy the acai from a website which you trust. The reputable websites will not give you any free trial product but will certainly give you pure acai.