Buyer Beware...

You won't believe what I did.
I can't believe it, either.
I'm smarter than this!
But, at a weak moment I order it.
What was I thinking?
Oh, you know you were a little curious, too!
It promised to take away all the wrinkles...
Well, I don't have a lot of WRINLES...well, none yet...but what if I get one next week?
And, when I laugh I always scrunch up my nose...everybody says so....I'm sure that's bound to do damage...a lifetime of nose scrunching can't be good for anybody's face. And I laugh...a lot. My Dad called me "Giggles" growing up. And "Sunshine" (In fact, my friend Heather calls me that, too, now that I think of it...I love that!)...because I was always smiling. They don't call those laugh lines for nothing, you know.
So, the ads said that this was a miracle cream.
And, the product was so good they put jars of it in the gift bags at the last celebrity award show.
That sounded pretty impressive.
And, the best part was that the ad said I could get a bottle for the price of shipping and handling.
I mean, what could that possibly cost?
It didn't look like a big bottle, for Pete's sake!
So, I went on-line and ordered a bottle.
It only took a day or two for my Hydroxytone to show up at the door. I couldn't wait! I opened it up and there were two bottles in the box! Wow! Bonus!
And with it came a packing slip.
At first glance, I saw they charged my credit card the $6.95 shipping.
Good.
Then, after studying it further (and you had to really look at it closely) I saw that they were going to take out two payments of...
$69.95!!!! EACH!!!!
That's a lot of money for two tiny bottles of moisturizing cream!!!
I promptly called the number to talk to somebody and they gave me the run-around. I had to jump through some hoops, get a return RMA number, and make sure I had that on the return address label, and include it on the invoice which I needed to include in the box which I needed to mail back to them certified mail (all of this costing me $15.00)...it was a lot of time and money and hassle. The guy on the phone tried talking me into just keeping the cream and testing it for 30 days...he was a smooth talker, too! I think he could have sold refrigerators to eskimos. It almost made sense. If I had the cream in hand, why not try it for 30 days and return the used jars if I'm not satisfied. (But, he even said he couldn't promise results - ever...many women don't see any results for 4-6 months...so that would be over $600 later??? Uh...really???? He snuck that disclaimer in our conversation, but then rushed on to rave about what could happen - I could win the lottery tomorrow...I mean, I could find a ticket outside my door, because I don't play the lottery...anything can happen!)
After hanging up, I read ALL the fine print - and if I would have done as he said, they would have already taken money from my credit card - it was right there on the packing slip! AAARRRGHHH! I was SO MAD!!! I mailed it out the next day as discussed - to the tee - certified mail, so I have proof that they received it.
It was a hassle, and an expensive lesson - but not as expensive as it COULD HAVE BEEN! (Only $6.95 s&h plus the $15 to ship it back. Whew!)
And, I guess I'll take laugh lines over frustration and worry lines any day!!!!