I found usacomplaints.com while looking for background info on the company that defrauded me and I wanted to share my experience and to provide others with (hopefully) useful information that may aid in their own search for a resolution. I have not found one yet, but I will.
Ever hear or see any advertisements for a product called Avlimil? Unfortunately I did. I responded to a radio ad that offered a "free 30-day trial" (for only $4.95 S&H fee) of a new "natural remedy" designed to enhance sexual desire among females. Based on what seemed like a low-risk proposition, I followed the instructions and went to their website to take advantage of this offer. On June 2nd, I filled out the online form, entered my credit card info to cover the S&H and double-checked everything to make sure I understood exactly what I was committing myself to.
I received my "free 30-day supply" on June 22nd but I put it aside, unopened. After a very busy two weeks away, I returned home and noticed in the mail I had received yet another package from Avlimil. Along with another batch of pills was a flyer stating that Avlimil is "now available through Managed Care direct" - program they created to "help defray" the costs. There was no invoice inside or other info indicating this was part of any order I had placed. My husband asked me about the pills (especially since I had not even tried the first batch yet) and wondered if I had committed to receiving them on a regular basis - I assured him this was not the case.
Two days later our credit card statement arrived and my husband showed me that we had indeed been charged the original $4.95 S&H back on June 2, but had then been charged $35 on June 29 for the most recent batch of pills. Then I finally opened the first package I received on 6/22 and noticed it included a "welcome to the program" letter, which stated that I am now "enrolled" in their "cycle" program and would receive regular shipments of the drug.
This was very disconcerting because I NEVER authorized any enrollment, nor was any "automatic enrollment" disclosed on the online form that filled out for the free trial. Just to check and to re-read what I had filled out, I tried to return to the original page I had bookmarked, from which I placed the order and when I went back to that link, it came up "404." This was not looking good.
In retrospect, I should have inspected the first package when I initially received it, but it just wasn't a priority at the time. If I had, I would have learned sooner that I had been arbitrarily signed up to a program without my prior knowledge or consent. Now I focused on 'damage control.' I found the Avlimil home page so I could obtain a phone number in order to call and immediately stop this recurring shipment. Got the number and called it yesterday and a recorded message intructed me to go back to "[email protected]" I did that, and then got on the phone to my credit card company to find out about how to dispute the charge for $35.
While I was on the phone to the CSR, she told me "Hmmm, they just charged for another $35 yesterday (July 10). Bottomline is that only three weeks out of my "free 30-day trial had elapsed and already I had been billed for two additional shipments of the product - WHICH I HAD NEVER AUTHORIZED to begin with.
It had become clear to me that I was stuck in a continual billing cycle from a obviously shady business. It seemed that the only prudent thing to do at this point was to close my credit card; which seemed the best way to ensure that no further charges against it would be made by this Company.
So what about the "Company" in question? They call themselves Warner Healthcare - a division of Wagner Pharmaceuticals. Trying to unearth info about them has been the most sickening part of the fact-finding quest so far.in conducting extensive searches, I have found that Avlimil, Warner Healthcare and Wagner Pharmaceuticals also lead straight back to these other entities:
Lifekey Healthcare, MioPlan, Enzyte (a famous and certainly credible "penis growth formula" advertised extensively across hundreds of porn sites) and one complete scuzzball named Stephen Warshak. It's funny, in coming across Avlimil press releases and news plugs all across the net carried by multiple sources, I've seen them refer to themselves by their spokesperson (interchangeably) as both "Wagner AND Warner Healthcare, " along with "Warner Pharmaceuticals" and "Wagner Pharmaceuticals" (guess they haven't yet figured out which names sound "more credible." As an aside, do a "whois" domain search on all of the above domain names and the registrations always comes back to either Mike wagner or Stephen Warshak of Cincinnati.in every case, the primary email address for EVERY SINGLE ONE of those domains is [email protected]
I've got to hand it to them though, they REALLY had me fooled with their marketing literature and packaging - it really is convincingly done as if it did come from a reputable pharmaceutical company - it would appear to most people that you're dealing with a company of substance - perhaps one even actually in the pharmaceutical business - not hardly. What I've found is that all roads lead back to one patently deceptive, scumbag who, as I've learned from reading many complaints now, has used this "unauthorized enrollment" scam in marketing all of his products.
Frankly I can't even tell you if his herbal remedies are worth a damn because I haven't even ingested any of it yet nor will I. I figure that given the deceptive and wholly fraudlent sales practices I've experienced firsthand, something tells me the product itself is nothing other than a useless placebo. So I bought-in to wishful thinking and clever packaging and got taken.
So now I am going to try and pry loose the money they stole from me. I don't know if I will succeed, but I'll give it a good try.
Debra
sacramento, California
U.S.A.
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