SMC Roundtable – Beware Acai Berry Free Trial Scams

Health, diet and fitness products

The acai berry is a miracle fruit that sprung from the rainforests of the Amazon. It carries a multitude of health benefits to regular users, ranging from the minor to the major. Perhaps among the greatest and most controversial benefit that has been attributed to the use of acai berry products is the role it plays in fighting off and preventing the occurrence of Cancer.

Jan
06

Is Acai berry effective at fighting disease?

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You may have heard of the acai berry — if you haven’t then you must have been living under a rock — and have heard all about how good it is for us. Some people just accept that a certain food is good for us if we are told that is the case by a book or even the TV. Others — hopefully the people reading this — want to find out why a particular food is good, what benefits it provides, and whether we should start to introduce the food into our family’s diet.The acai berry is good for a number of reasons, but mainly because of the massive amounts of antioxidants and anthocyanins that the berry contains. Other good sources of these essential nutrients include red grapes and, as a comparison, the acai berry contains as much as 10 times the amount of antioxidants and 30 times the anthocyanins. Impressive already! Antioxidants and anthocyanins are essential for our bodies to function, but may actually fight diseases such as cancer and diabetes, as well as combating bacterial infections.Also in the acai berry are an abundance of healthy mono unsaturated fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols which all help your digestion and improve the effectiveness with which red blood cells can carry oxygen to the rest of the body.

Jan
04

Visa Says: No More Bad Marketing of Acai Products

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Credit card processor Visa has shut 100 Acai merchant stores recently because of their misleading form of marketing. Acai has health advantages just like any other fruit. During the introduction of this fruit into the market, it has become a big hit. People with malicious intent took advantage of this hype.

The method they use in marketing Acai scam products is by posting articles claiming that the fruit can do amazing health wonders even if it cannot. Another one is by posting falsified testimonials from some of the famous people like Oprah.

This is all done to get the online surfers to try the free trial Acai product. To make a purchase you need to have a credit card to pay for the shipping and handling. What the online users do not know is signing up for the free trial product will automatically enlist them to a monthly subscription that cannot be canceled.
Acai products have many wonderful results to the user. However, with the bad name these scammers attached to this product, it is no wonder that many are afraid to try it out. Acai products such as supplements and vitamins have a good effect in the body. Try it out and do not let bad marketing habits scare you.

Oct
26

Acai Berry: Winning the Battle Against Cancer

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The acai berry is a miracle fruit that sprung from the rainforests of the Amazon. It carries a multitude of health benefits to regular users, ranging from the minor to the major. Perhaps among the greatest and most controversial benefit that has been attributed to the use of acai berry products is the role it plays in fighting off and preventing the occurrence of Cancer.

Can acai berry really fight of cancer? Cancer is considered as a lifestyle disease that has plagued and taken the lives of many. The percentage of the population that has been affected by the disease is rising in numbers and will continue to rise until a means can be found to win over this war.

The acai berry hands over to the cancer patients and people at high risk of developing cancer an edge over this tough battle. Free radicals, which are the byproduct of the body’s normal metabolic and immune processes, once accumulated and combined with various environmental factors and carcinogens, can lead to the development of cancer cells.

Antioxidants found in acai berries are absorbed by the human body and it targets and kills rapidly growing cancer cells while nourishing normal cells, providing cancer patients a glimmer of hope on prolonging their lives and emerging victoriously in the fight.

Some other articles I found on this subject:
The Acai Berry – Is it a Miracle?
Drink Up – Acai Juice Can Be the Difference-Maker
A Warning Against Free Trial Offer Acai Berry Scams

Jul
24

CCN to pay $1,375,000 for deceptive Acai marketing!

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Guess what? Central Coast Nutraceuticals Inc and its owner Graham Gibson have faced the biggest penalty of their lifetimes and a record highest-ever penalty announced to the online scammers.

CCN had beautifully designed their order form for Acai free samples which had pre-selected costly products along with the free-trials in order to “up-sell” their low-selling highly expensive products. As a result, if the customer did not look out for these pre-selected products other than Acai then he/she ended up paying for whatever he/she never wanted to buy. And the annoyed customers couldn’t really do anything, but to protest against CCN’s deceptive online marketing campaign which was apparently run for distributing free-trials of their so-called high-quality low-on-pocket Acai health supplements.

The furious customers who suffered at the hands of spurious ways adopted by CCN filed complaints and for the first time in the history an online marketing Acai  berry scam was penalized massively forcing CCN to pay off over $1,375,000.

Yeah, don’t worry there’s nothing wrong with your eyes. It is indeed one million and three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Perhaps CCN wouldn’t have really made even half of this amount with their entire campaign, but the bottom line is that they’ll have to pay for their wrong deeds. So who still says online scammers don’t get punished!

Apr
23

Reasons to Love the Acai Berry

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There are many reasons why you should love the acai berry. This tiny little fruit, which is found only in the Amazon rain forest, can do many different things. It contains a huge amount of vitamins and minerals. In fact, there is no other fruit on the planet that contains as many vitamins and other nutritional supplements as the acai berry, and for that reason alone, it can be a great part of your diet.There are many reasons to love the acai berry other than for its nutritional supplements, although that is a great reason. The acai berry can help you lose weight in several ways. It can actually speed up your metabolism, for one, and it can make your digestive system healthier and more effective. It can also help flush your body of toxins and other wastes, which will result in an immediate weight loss. The acai berry contains a large amount of antioxidants and fibre, two important health supplements that few people get enough of. If you need essential fatty acids or amino acids, you’ll find both in the acai berry. Finally, the acai berry contains a number of different vitamins. With all of this and more, what’s not to love about the acai berry?

Apr
09

Acai Diet Review

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Acai berry is a famous and a very beneficial product from the Amazon situated in the country of samba dance – Brazil. It basically is a very high energy fruit that is made from an Amazon palm tree whose nutritional benefits are very powerful and unbelievable.According to recent studies acai berry is one of the most powerful fruits or berries on earth. Acai actually has a purple colored pigmentation, inside which is the actual hidden secret of acai berry that pushes acai way ahead of its competitors in today’s market. It contains plentiful of amino acids and antioxidants that you won’t find in any other fruit as such.Acai has a lot of benefits such as:

  • It helps to maintain the proper pH balance of the body which is very essential for the normal functioning of the body that is very much essential for the immunity that is the self defense mechanism of the body.
  • It is also known to fight harmful diseases like cancer, diabetes and many more infections.
  • Also it has been found that acai might be of use in heart related issues.
  • It also might be helpful to maintain the muscular health of a person.
Mar
21

Acai Berry Functional Fusions for Healthy Skin

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If you are like the rest of the world, you want to look young forever. While nothing can promise you this; Acai Berry Functional Fusions can help you look younger for longer. It’s made from Acai Berry Puree and combined with only the best juices which work together to provide you with the most health benefits possible.The main difference in most of the other Acai Berry beverages on the market and Acai Berry Functional Fusions which is made with the Acai Berry Puree is the puree offers you the whole benefits of the actual berry. This is the closest you will come to eating the actual berry itself. This is what makes Acai Berry Functional Fusions so successful at giving its drinkers such amazing results.If you want to preserve your youthful looks and retain your skin’s natural beauty, you will want to drink Acai Berry Functional Fusions. This beverage will provide your body with many health benefits, a lot of these benefits will directly help with your skins aging. You will be able to enjoy a great tasting fruity drink, while providing your body with nutrients which will help you increase your health and help you maintain healthy skin; healthy skin is what will allow you to appear younger and youthful for a much longer time.

Feb
24

Acai Berry Juice? Or Acai Berry Purée?

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There is a lot of confusion — especially on the web — when people talk about 100% juices. The fact is, juices are rarely 100% acai berry. When an acai berry is mashed and hot bottled it is a purée The bottles of acai juice you see in the big stores — and in lots of places online — are not purée, and quite often they are mixed with other juices and are most certainly not 100% pure.Because the acai berry is so very volatile it cannot be transported or kept without processing. The less processing done, the more natural the product, but also the more difficult it is to keep. Supermarkets require the products that they sell to be able to be kept on boats, on wagons and on shelves in warehouses for a long time; 100% acai berry purée just wouldn’t stand this kind of treatment.Fortunately for us, acai berry purée is available online where retailers are much more flexible about how much they order, when they order it, and how much they are required to store. Acai purée is only available online, and only certain online retailers sell it, but it is worth the effort to hunt it down and buy some.

Jan
29

Acai Berry And The Power Of The Media

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If you ever doubted that the media is an incredibly powerful thing, then take acai berry as a perfect example of that power. This time last year the acai berry was a rather obscure food that was available only through very specialist shops or by mail order. The benefits of taking acai berry into your diet were recognized by very few people indeed. One person — a very eminent professor who knew what he was talking about when it came to nutrition provided by certain foods — featured the berry as his number one super food.This book — the Perricone Promise, by Dr. Nicholas Perricone — wasn’t exactly an instant best seller. That is, of course, until the biggest media queen the world has ever seen managed to get her hands on it.Oprah featured the Perricone Promise on her show; she also highlighted the section about the acai berry being the number 1 most potent super food. In one fell swoop both Perricone (and by association his book) and the little South American berry all became household names. Sales of acai soared, and it is now the quickest growing dieting aid in the US.Not a bad little pay day for Dr. Perricone and his powerful acai berry.

Jan
16

Acai Berry Free Trial Offer Often A Scam

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Many people are being inexorably drawn towards Acai . This little berry has been in the media a lot recently, and pretty much everyone seems to agree that there are huge health benefits to be had from Acai.Where ever there are people interested in a particular product, there are unscrupulous businesses and individuals that try to make a quick buck from the craze. In the case of the Acai, this practice can be seen quite clearly in the number of different Acai berry free trail offer websites that ‘grace’ the internet.Whilst a Acai berry free trial offer might seem — at first sight — to be a perfect opportunity to try for yourself, the truth is far more sinister. The problem is that the Acai berry free trial offer is not in fact free at all. The victim is signed up for an expensive monthly subscription that is often difficult to cancel. The prices eventually shipped are many times more expensive than they should be.To see what kind of ‘offer’ you are signing up for, it is essential that you read the terms and conditions on the site. You will notice that these contain really quite draconian clauses that bind you in for a lot longer than you initially thought! Buy Acai from a reputable source instead.