LA Weight Loss: Caught Out Again
One of the most heavily commented posts on Diet-Blog was about LA Weight Loss and their underhanded sales tactics. Comments were overwhelmingly critical of this weight loss clinic (however there were some occasional positive testimonials).
LA Weight Loss has been caught out again – and must pay out $100,000 in refunds to misled customers.
Update: When visiting The official LA Weight Loss site, visitors are instructed to type in their zip code to find a center nearest them. We typed in several zip codes from major cities around the country and every time we were redirected to the LA To Your Door website described here. We couldn’t even find any locations in LA which is strange since that is the birth place of the company.
If there are still centers out there, they are few and far between and the company is instead marketing and promoting their at home/online program which is meal replacement based.
The Attorney General’s office used “under-cover” shoppers to investigate LA Weight Loss and found a:
“classic bait-and-switch routine in which employees pushed the sale of protein bars and nutritional supplements after consumers had enrolled in the program,” (source)
LA Weight Loss also claimed that their protein bars would “prevent you from getting saggy, baggy skin when you lose weight,” – a complete load of nonsense.
Consumers who believe they were misled when they enrolled in the LA Weight Loss program between Dec. 23, 2005, and Aug. 31 2006 may request a refund within 30 days. Get the full details here (in sidebar).
NOTE: This refund is only available to Washington State residents.
UPDATE: LA Weight Loss now offer an “at-home” program. The program includes access to an on-line community, customized meal programs, 4 weeks of LA Nutritional Bars, and samples of best-selling products — total cost $219.
Please Note: 24/12/08
LA Weight Loss Closings
This is just a short post to address the five or so people that email us every week about LA Weight Loss closing down and not being able to get a refund.
We aren’t affiliated with LA Weight Loss and we don’t have any contact information for them. We are sorry that you have been a victim in whatever is going on with the company. Please contact the proper governmental agency if you cannot deal directly with the company. Unfortunately, Diet-Blog is unable to help you.
Kind Regards,
The Diet-Blog Team
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