Warning Slimwise

Annemarie123

Advertising apparently free trial of slimming products. Avoid like the plague - they are scammers. Unless you read Terms and Conditions very carefully - they are in very pale greyscale at the bottom of the page - they will relieve you of a lot of money. They advertise a free trial with delivery costs up front ( they say £4 per product but they actually take £8). It looks as though you are paying for a trial sample but you are actually enrolling for a program and they deliver the product each month, charging your debit card on a continuing basis. There is no free trial, this is completely misleading, they take the money for the products, which are very expensive after delivery. They are based in the Netherlands and slightly change their name on a regular basis. Beware.

Annemarie123

Bumping this up as I feel so strongly about people being parted from their money under false pretences. This company changes its name on a regular basis presumably when its illegal operations are detected and reported - the more publicity given to this the better, it might save some people a lot of money being siphoned continually from their accounts. DO NOT be tempted to order from any company under whatever name advertising a 'free trial' of slimming products. There is no such thing. The products they are selling, (mainly Raspberry Ketone) are available on the High St for around £10 rather than the hundreds they are taking from people who have unwittingly signed up for a continuous monthly supply in excess of £100 per month. Find the Terms and Conditions and go through them with a fine tooth comb. Only go for it if you want to give someone carte blanche to raid your bank account repeatedly. Please PM me with your experience if you have been taken in by this as I am attempting to do something about it.

Heffi1

If it says clearly on the page they will continually send goods and charge you for them each month, then it is not false advertising, more like someone wanting a quick fix to lose weight and then cries when it does not work and also have to pay for the privilege


Always read the full terms and conditions before signing up to anything.


If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.


Buyer beware


There are loads of threads complaining about being scammed, when the person buying the goods did not read the article properly in the first place.


The only way to lose weight and keep it off long term is as follows:


Eat less - move more

Annemarie123

Quite right but the whole point is that website is designed to mislead and the T & C contravene distance selling regulations. It doesn't say clearly on the page what you are signing up for.The terms and conditions are tucked away, not clearly visible and there is no free trial. It appears that a small trial size version is being offered - this is a cynical attempt to mislead. The price of the item is not clearly displayed. What is in fact postage appears to be the price of the article - it does say this but in tiny lettering. People do not realise that they are entering into a contract for a continual supply on a monthly basis at an extortionate cost - this should all be clearly displayed on the web page together with an address and contact details.Cancelling is almost impossible - 14 days after placing order and despatch is designed so that the window for cancellation is impossible. Returning goods to Netherlands on a signed for basis is very expensive so they very kindly offer to let you keep them at a discount of 30% so that you only have to pay £107! The company trades under many names mostly illegally as they are listed as non trading and do not file annual accounts. It slightly changes its name on a regular basis. These are not the actions of a bona fide company. They prey on the vulnerable - people with a poor self image who think losing weight might improve their life. Intelligent educated people have been taken in by this. Agreed the only way to lose weight is to use more calories than are consumed but the myriad of crank diets out there indicates that this is a sensitive area where common sense is suspended.

Pollycat

Is this the ketone stuff?

If it is, there's lots of threads on here.

I Googled 'slimwise' and found this website:
http://www.slimwisediet.co.uk/

Bizarrely, when I click on the "Hurry! Order Now! Rush my trial bottle" button, it takes me back to Google.

Annemarie123

That's probably because they've changed their name again and therefore the url.

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

Is this the ketone stuff?

So is it this stuff?

hollydays

Heffi1 wrote: »

If it says clearly on the page they will continually send goods and charge you for them each month, then it is not false advertising, more like someone wanting a quick fix to lose weight and then cries when it does not work and also have to pay for the privilege


Always read the full terms and conditions before signing up to anything.


If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.


Buyer beware


There are loads of threads complaining about being scammed, when the person buying the goods did not read the article properly in the first place.


The only way to lose weight and keep it off long term is as follows:


Eat less - move more

Harsh to the op.im sure we all know eat less move more.

Heffi1

hollydays wrote: »

Harsh to the op.im sure we all know eat less move more.

If that were true then things like this thread would not exist, people want a quick fix and not have to put the effort in.


Eating lots of food and not exercising is a sure way to gain weight, why do some people think taking a magic tablet (that will not work even with all of the claims it makes) will make this weight disappear.


People nowadays have a more sedentary lifestyle and eat constantly, no wonder there is such an obesity epidemic in this country and others, we are sleep walking into diabetes and shorter lifespans, because we are too lazy to get off our behinds and exercise.


In the past people worked hard, at manual jobs, therefore the food they ate, was used as energy to fuel them, now we sit in offices for 8 hours a day, then come home eat food and sit in front of a tv/computer for another few hours. It is no surprise then that we are larger than our parents and grandparents were and are experiencing problems with our health.


And now we want a magic pill to take to make all that fat disappear, it is just a con, but people are desperate for anything to help so get sucked in by the advertising.


It would be very interesting to see a proper study done on people, blind testing to get accurate results and then tell everyone it is a con.


And still people would buy this rubbish in the hope that the medical profession got it wrong.


I stick by my earlier statement


Eat less move more and you are guaranteed to lose weight.

hollydays

Long post. I just see it as something free that someone ordered.

Thanks mum..yawn..
How did you get in debt if you are so exemplary? Because you seem to be someone who's never made a mistake in their life ?

Annemarie123

Really going off at a tangent here Heffi1. For consumer protection no matter what the product sold on the internet, it is subject to distance selling regulations. If these are not adhered to prosecution and penalties should follow. The website is deliberately designed to mislead in order to steal money from the unwary - it lacks transparency and is ambiguous and legally required information, such as a trading address is not there nor are Terms and Conditions prominently displayed. As I said before, these people are preying on the vulnerable, just as a mugger might steal from an elderly person. They are clever, slippery criminals.Taking the moral high ground and making judgements on those taken in by the scam, who ordered the product in good faith and have subsequently suffered stress and incurred financial loss is not appropriate.