Scams: Beware!

As any other consumer, I get wrapped into infomercials and any diet pill I see on television. Approximately 2 weeks ago, Oprah featured Dr.Oz on her show to promote his new diet pill: a colon cleanse plus acai berry pill. The cleanse is suppose to detoxify your body while the acai berry, a super fruit from the Amazon, is suppose to increase energy and suppress your appetite. Unlike any other fad diet, I figured, well it's on Oprah it has to be pretty legitimate right? So what do I do, rush to the Internet to get my "two free trial bottles, money back guaranteed!"
I mean, I get a full dose of this fabulous, weight loss pill and only have to pay shipping and handling, a measly $5.95! Wrong! As I went to order it, I could only order 1 bottle and after looking up reviews, I also found an article saying, "read the fine print." I am always very skeptical about ordering products online, but most of my friends always tell me to "lighten up, everyone does it."
The article posted by this lady stated that she ordered the exact same product and after 13 days still did not receive the pills. On the 14th day, her credit card was charged $80. Turned out the fine print said after the 13 trial day period, you will be charged. In the end, the lady had a whole hell of a lot of depth and no weight loss.
The point of this blog entry is 1. to warn you about Internet scams and 2. to warn you about fad diet pills.
Internet scams are occurring all over the net and millions of people are getting their identify stolen and racking up massive charges on their accounts. I have read a numerous amount of tutorials about consumers who buy products online, especially trial products, and if you do not cancel within a certain amount of days (usually written in the fine print) you get charged a lot more than expected. These companies are clever, because then when you try to cancel, you are on hold FOREVER and when you finally get through, they pass you off to another representative who again puts you on hold FOREVER. There are many articles in which I have provided links to that you can read about scare ware, phishing, and other scams by companies.
As for this breakthrough diet pill, first of all you cannot find the ingredients in it ANYWHERE, why because there are the exact same products on the market for about half the price. After hearing about the Dr.Oz diet, I called Complete Nutrition in Omaha and GNC right here in Kearney and was told that basically this is a marketing strategy for this company, they do not want you to know the ingredients because it is so similar and they want you to buy it online so they can screw you over. You cannot buy these two pills in stores, because they want to charge you twice the price, plus more after they screw you over, and make consumers buy it online.
After going to GNC, I got 2 similar products for less than $50 when the online companies were expected over $80 plus the shipping and handling. Moral of the story: NEVER buy "free trials" online and always search in stores for the products you are wanting, usually you get them cheaper and don't have to take a chance at losing money.
As for Oprah, being a credible source, she should think twice about every featuring fad diets on her show, so far no results for me (so far), and the reviews about the product are very negative, making her look bad!