viv3labs (vitality clean)
They advertise that it's FREE; then charge $118. for 60 capsules 250mg. At COSTCO you can get 60 capsules250mg. for $12 bucks!!! That's w/a promo of 25% off... but even with the other 25% added (their reg. price): $15.

Let's put those crooks out of business! Also: vitalRezV (clipper health) is scamming the same game with slightly different pricing but just as bad. Also they are trying to force you to buy 3 months at those exorbitant prices. That's triple $118, or triple $79.

Put viv3labs & vitalrezV out of business!!!

Buy Resveratrol from COSTCO. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CARD, GET SOMEONE WHO DOES TO BUY IT FOR YOU.

I was surfing the web and came accross a site of a lady promoting these two products that she claimed worked wonders for her and made her feel great and made her loose weight, etc. it looked like a blog and she seemed like an normal every day person. She had links on her blog to these sites were you could get free sorts of trail samples of these two products one called LIFE CLEANSE and the other called ACAI BERRY DETOX and all you pay for was the postage.

I have just recently moved from South Africa to Sweden and am still looking for work so my only payment method is my SOuth African credit card, so I thought well that won't cost too much and sounds like a good deal. They then also said you as a special offer you get one months free supply... the lady with her blog made this stuff sound so great that I couldn't wait to get it so I ordered it and now just over a month later I received my credit card statement today and saw I had a billing for almost R2000.00 South African Rands and on closer inspection and after doing a search on the internet I came across this site and realised I had also been scammed... I have to get my money back from these horrible people...

I am in a new country far away from my home, my friends and family and have no job and now have to some how come up with all this money to pay for something I didn't order when putting my faith in these people when ordering a product and going onto a site that said my credit card details would be secure... it scares me to think what more could have happened PLEASE HELP ME TO GET MY MONEY BACK!!!

In regards to the Acai Berry & Life Cleanse pills, it is not clear that if you do not cancel within the 15 day trial, of which you need all that time to actually see any results - in my case an increase of weight despite a healthy diet of daily salads and vegetables as well as daily exercise - that you will be charged for not only the first bottles sent to you, but also automatically new bottles are sent out to you for which you are charged.

You cannot communicate via email, you must make a phone call to the UK. I sent back the still half full trial pack, as well as the unopened new bottles that had arrived within 2 days at full postage cost to me, and was told someone would contact me after I had cancelled the subscription to discuss if any refund is available. I received an email with 3 days just stating that no refund was available, that I agreed to the terms & conditions, which I understand, but beware!!! there is no clear instruction and you do think that you are just signing up for a free trial only - not for an ongoing subscription. Also, there is NO discussion on the subject of refund. They say 'no' and that is it. I tried entering in to a dialogue with them and that doesn't work. We all need to ensure that our word about this scam is out there to save others from incurring the costs so many of us have already fallen victim to - that's 89 pounds per bottle - & they charge you for the free trial, so I'm up for 4 bottles, postage & handling & I still sent everything back to them... By just stopping the pills and keeping up the healthy diet, I have lost the 2kgs put on within that 15 days - don't fall for this scam!!!

I ordered supplies of the products Acai Berry and Colon Cleanse in July and had the following email on 27th July 2009

Thank you for your purchase of the following product(s):
Life Cleanse
It can take approximately one working week, for an order to be processed and delivered (for some areas and in exceptional cases it might take up to 10 working days). You will be notified separately about the shipment of your product.
Your statement will reflect that you have been charged by Viv3Labs in the amount of 3.95 £, VAT included where applicable. We would like to remind you that shipping and handling costs are non-refundable as stated in the Terms and Conditions of this purchase.
We strive to do our best to provide you with excellent customer service.
You can also contact us on the following phone numbers:
Toll Free UK - 08082389891
International number - (+44) 2031399027
We would like to ask you to always provide your account number and order ID to our Customer Service representative so that we can identify you more quickly in our system.
Enjoy the product!
Thank you and best regards,
Viv3 Labs Customer Support Team

A similar email arrived for the other product.

When the package arrived I called them on 3rd August and cancelled future deliveries; my first call was to a person who did not understand my dialect and was abusive and hung up. I called again and received an apology from another man, who assured me that my orders were now cancelled and that my Visa Debit card would not be charged with any monies.
On Monday 17th August I became aware that the bank was holding back money for a pending transaction to Viv3 Labs and I sent them an email which was returned because emails are not received by the email address from which their email had been sent some three weeks before.

I then found some information on this website which I found helpful and calls and emails were exchanged as follows -

Phone call to them on 17th August in which they advised me that I would be emailed within three working days.

Email on 19th August from them

Dear Customer,

Thank you very much for contacting our Viv3 Labs customer service by phone.
We would like to inform you that on 2009-07-27 you were charged for the shipping and handling cost on your free trial. The 15 days free trial starts from the day of the shipment of the order and implies that you have 15 days to test your order for free.
As stated in the terms and conditions of the purchase that you accepted during the purchase process, if you do not cancel your account during the 15 days trial period, you will be charged for the product separately and thus the free trial converts into a regular subscription. We confirm that on 2009-08-16 you were charged for the product for the amount of 118.63 USD .
We have cancelled your account. This cancellation implies that our company will make no more charges and no more products will be shipped to you.
Best regards,
Viv3 Labs
Customer Service

I replied the next day on 20th August to the addresses I found on your website; suggest you address all emails to all of those people. Note the correct email address for VIV3LABS -

'[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'
For the attention of Viv3.com, Clay Douglass and Mitch Platt
On 27th July I ordered a supply of each Life Cleanse and Acai Berry and an acknowledgement was emailed to me quoting the details above. The products duly arrived within a week and immediately I started taking them I realised I would not be wishing to continue this arrangement and tried to email your company without success as the email was returned undelivered. I then called you on the UK number 08082389891 and spoke to a man who obviously did not understand English whereupon I asked if I could speak to someone who could speak English and he used a very rude expletive and hung up, by which time he had already had a note of my account numbers and order number
I called back the same number later that day and spoke to another person, who was very polite and took a note of my cancellation request assuring me that there would be no further charges on my account, and that he had cancelled both orders. All this was done before Wednesday 5th August.
On Monday of this week I discovered you had taken steps to remove £75+ from my bank account. This meant that a direct debit was not paid which has resulted in a charge of £35 on my account together with a charge of £12 from the Credit Card Company for the failed Direct Debit. When contacting your customer service by telephone, I explained that these orders had been cancelled two weeks earlier by phone and requested that this money be repaid into my bank account immediately and was told that I would be contacted by email within 72 hours. I have since had your email which advises me that there will be no refund.
I have read your terms and conditions, and it clearly states that a customer may request a full refund within 30 days of their purchase. In total, I am requesting that you refund me with the full £122 which is what this error on your part has cost me. I had purchased this product on July 27th, therefore the 30 day period has not yet ended; the terms and conditions clearly state that within thirty days a refund may be requested. On using the link http://viv3labs.helpserve.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=26&nav=0 I have found the following: -

"Our refund policy is as follows:
* 1. You may receive a refund of any Product that you ordered up to thirty (30) days after your order is placed.
* 2. Customers are restricted to receiving a single refund per product ordered. Repetitive refunds are not permitted unless the product, as delivered to you, is defective. VIV3 reserves the right to refuse a refund to any customer who repeatedly requests refunds or who, in VIV3’s judgment, requests refunds in bad faith.
* 3. In order to process your refund, you must supply VIV3 with Your name and delivery address. If you provide us with insufficient or incorrect information your refund will be delayed.
* 4. Depending on the bank that issues the credit card, your refund can take up to thirty (30) days to appear on your credit card statement. If you have any questions about whether a refund has been issued by VIV3, please call Our Customer Service Department toll-free at 080 8238 9891 or (+44) 2031399027 outside of the UK.
* 5. Shipping and handling costs are not refundable"

Therefore I request the refund to which I am entitled for this product.

I have studied reports on the internet today and note that you have over 100 complaints in the last month on the same subject and would be grateful for your early reply on this matter. Failure to contact me very quickly will ensure that I pass this matter on to ‘The Judge’ in the Scottish Daily Mail as has already been done by another of your unsatisfied customers. I will not hesitate to take legal action is the small claims court if necessary.
I hope you will resolve this matter for me very quickly.
Yours faithfully

The reply was as follows and arrived within two hours

Dear Customer,
Thank you very much for contacting our customer service at Viv3 Labs.
As indicated in our previous communication to you, you have accepted the terms and conditions of the purchase, indicating that unless you cancel your account within the 15-day trial period you will be charged for the product, in addition to the shipping and handling charges.
Please note that for this reason we are unable to credit you account for the product you received.
The terms and conditions are available on the website at the bottom of the page.
Best regards,
Viv3 Labs
Customer Service

I wrote on the following day, 21st August

Sirs
As you are now fully aware, I have studied the terms and conditions and these entitle me to have a refund of charges paid within 30 days of delivery of order. As you also now know, like hundreds of other people I have had monies removed from my card account after having cancelled the supply of your product which I did only three days after receiving the package. You will not get away with this. It obviously a scam and it is my intention - if your agreement to a refund is not forthcoming - to give you maximum publicity. I live in Scotland and come under the law of this land, and so I already know what my rights are. I would like to hear from you as quickly as possible. For your information, I quote an email I have copied from the Consumer Complaints website which lists you among the top scammers on the internet.
Quote from Consumer Complaints Website -
"I am an ex Local Billing employee, the owners of www.acaiberryexclusive.com, www.acaiberry-lifecleanse.com and other sites with these fake diet products.
The owners of those sites are Clay Douglass ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/claydouglass) and Mitch Platt (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mitch-platt/4/271/878) and their plan is to scam as much possible and, then, go for another product and do the same (SCAM).
It is easy to contact them through the information which appears on the site registration of acaiberryexclusive (in www.acaiberry-lifecleanse.com they used a marketing company to hide the real owner):

ACAIBERRYEXCLUSIVE.COM - Who is Information
Registrant:
Douglass, Clay [email protected]
Viv3 Lab Limited
Unit 5, Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow, WL EH49 7QY
GB
Domain name: ACAIBERRYEXCLUSIVE.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
viveraglobal, Hostmaster [email protected]
Viv3 Lab Limited
Unit 5, Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow, WL EH49 7QY
GB
+44.08082389891

Also, you could find these scammers on the following email addresses:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

And, finally, the physical address of the company at Barcelona (they are operating all business from there and you could inform this to the police):
Local Billing / Tucana Corona
C/Pau Claris, 100
08009 Barcelona

Their reply came on Monday 24th August

Thank you very much for contacting our customer service at Viv3 Labs.
You did agree to our terms and conditions in which we clearly state all costs and conditions of the purchase. On the other hand we always strive to provide excellent customer service and therefore we prefer not to dispute with our clients. We would like to resolve this issue by granting you a refund for the amount of 118.63USD.
If you accept this condition, please contact us back and we will issue your refund.
Best regards,
Viv3 Labs
Customer Service

I immediately replied on 24th August

I accept your offer of refund of $118.63.
Thank you, I look forward to receiving this in my bank account.


Dear Customer,
Thank you very much for contacting our customer service at Viv3 Labs.
As indicated in our previous communication to you, you have accepted the terms and conditions of the purchase, indicating that unless you cancel your account within the 15-day trial period you will be charged for the product, in addition to the shipping and handling charges.
However, as part of our customer care, we strive to provide excellent customer service and would therefore prefer to resolve this issue by granting you a refund for the amount of 118.63 USD .
We would like to confirm to you that we have reviewed your claim and issued the refund following your request. The amount of 118.63 USD was credited to your account today.
Please note that it normally takes up to 5 working days for the refunded money to appear in your account. However, depending on the banking policies it could take up to 15 days in exceptional cases.

Best regards,

Viv3 Labs
Customer Service


And the refund reached my bank on 2 September - yesterday

I hope this may be help to some of you.

I ordered a free sample of a diet supplement from these people and gave my card details to cover the cost of postage and package . The site was a secure site. I tried unsuccessfully to phone using the number given on their web site and also tried to send an email to cancel any further products. The phone is on an answer machine and the emails bounce back. Meanwhile a further sum of £150 has been taken from my bank account and transferred to an account in Cyprus.

I am not able to contact this company and would appreciate it if any nobody has a number, address or valid email address they would pass it on to me.