Thursday, October 9, 2008
DIET PILLS, HA!
I don't know about the rest of you but I've been trying to lose weight the past few years. I work in an office that I sit for 8 hours and I go to school at night where I sit up to 3 hours. When I'm home I usually exhausted so again I'm sitting and don't have the strength to work out like I would like. The results is that it looks like I'm carrying a keg around with me everywhere I go. No, it's not a beer gut because I don't drink beer. Therefore, like many Americans I turned to diet pills to help me lose weight. The only weight I have lost is that my wallet has gotten thinner. That is not the results I was looking for. I think that it should be a crime for companies to advertise products offering amazing results that never happen. I have bought at least 20 different diet products in the last few years with no results. I understand when Sinbad stated that he had tried the Jenny Craig program, as a result he would hang out at McDonald's waiting for someone to dump their tray. He would then tap on the glass and ask were they going to eat those fries they were throwing away. He said that with the Jenny Craig program, the only reason you lose weight is that you are so broke that you can't afford to buy groceries. I understand completely what he is saying. These diet pill programs cost so much and they will happily charge your card every month if you don't cancel with them. I have found out the hard way that the introductory offer is just to get your credit card information for them to run every month. For example, I order some diet pills and it takes about 2 weeks to get in. Now the program is suppose to be good for a month so I only have two weeks to try the product before I get my next order. The funny thing is, that by the time I receive my order, the company is already charging my credit card for the next month's supply. That is why I restate that the only weight lose I've received is a thinner and lighter wallet. I think I will have to set up a training program with the school so I can lose this keg. I guess exercise is the only diet pill that gives accurate results.
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Lesson learned!
K. Smith
Eng. 226
You really hit the nail on the head with this blog. I couldn't agree more that the tactics that some companies are using when they sign you up for repeated charges just because you wanted to try it out. I've learned that you get around it a bit by doing this: Call to place your order, then just after the service rep has finished taking your order and information, right before they hang up with you, tell them you do not authorize further payments from the very beginning. This way, if they do charge you, you can take action, just make sure to notate the service's rep's name. I learned that canceling the automatic re-charge authorization right from the beginning does keep me from having my money taken. Seriously though, buyer beware.
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