Pure Weight Loss Centers May Have Broken Law
Published by Sean January 22nd, 2008 in NEWS, Off-The-Mark
(FranchisePick.com) According to the story on CBS4 in Miami, Pure Weight Loss Centers may have broken the law when they left Florida dieters stranded by abruptly closing their weight loss centers. Their investigation continues. Source: CBS4.com
Defunct Weight Loss Centers May Have Broken Law MIAMI (CBS4) ― When one of the state’s biggest diet companies shut it’s doors after the beginning of the year, it left hundreds of South Florida customers not only wondering if they’d ever get their money back but also what happened to all the private medical information the centers kept on file. State prosecutors, wondering the same thing, have widened their investigation into LA Weight Loss Centers and Pure Weight Loss Centers to see if they broke any laws. “All girls want to look nice and I got a couple of pounds extra,” said Yaumary Rodriguez who originally signed up with an LA Weight Loss Center several years ago. Rodriguez said by staying on the plan she lost 24 pounds in the past year. “My goal was 30 pounds but when I got down to 24,” said Rodriguez, “I decided not to keep losing more” At the beginning of the year, Rodriguez said she decided she needed to go back on the LA Weight Loss Center plan to help her drop a couple of pounds she picked up over the holidays. When she went to her local LA Weight Loss Center in Cutler Bay on January 4th to pick up her next shipment of weight loss bars, she said she was stunned to find that it had changed it’s name to Pure Weight Loss. She received her second shock when she was informed that the store, which was still filled with LA Weight Loss products, was closing down. “The companies were closing,” Rodriguez said she was told, “it was the last date of work for the whole company. They just closed and they never sent a notice to the people they never say anything.” Read the entire article
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same thing happen to me i paid for 83 weeks and only received 12 weeks they got more than $500.00 then dropped me. I filled out a refund request form back in november. and still have not heard anything.
same thing happened to me. I paid (with a credit card)for 30 weeks and only got 11 weeks of services and bars. I also filled out a refund form and it was returned twice because apparently it was underliverable to the address that was provided to me. Now I’m stuck paying for somehitng I did not get!
Isent in the refund application with my receipts and the package I mailed came back unopened. I sent it registered mail just as I was told to do so.