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Slimming Centres

I got complains!!


I went to De Beaute Salon to sign up a facial package. It's a treat for myself. 

They advertised $288 for 10 X Collagen Facial. That's not too bad! So I thought I'll be quite happy with this one and went down to their office with glee.

I swore to myself that I will NOT be persuaded to spend beyond $500. NO! NO! NO!

And I walked out spending $723.32

Sigh. 

It says Face. Skin. Body. Spa. But the sales consultant made it seem like they specialise in slimming!

Basket. I very the pissed. See they made me fill up a form that says this:



And they made every single potential customer fill up that survey form! Face, skin, body and spa leh! Not everyone comes here for slimming!!! 

Have I always been overweight?

*ROAR*

WHO TOLD YOU I AM OVERWEIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Wah super insensitive man!!

The sales consultant kept pushing and pushing and in the end, weak, useless me, I relented and signed a $388 10 X Radio Frequency Anti-Cellulite Reduction which I don't even believe in or need!!! 

(Well, since I believe I only ever need exercise to maintain a healthy weight.)

The only reason I did that was because they had too many things free free free lah! And the consultant KEPT saying that it's such a good deal, that she kept asking her friends to come sign up.

And here I was, knowing it's just another smart marketing ploy and fell right into it. Well, for every smart marketing ploy, I'm entitled to fall for it ONCE!

RIGHT? Right?

Ok, here's the deal. For $732.23 nett, I get the following:

10 X Collagen Facial (45 mins)
10 X Radio Frequency Anti-Cellulite Spot Reduction (10 mins)
10 X Ionto (30 mins) Body Wrap
20 X Presor (30 mins) Body Wrap

Sigh, okok lor. I didn't get the super happy and super high feeling I should get when I have given myself a treat. :(

INACCURATE ADVERTISING!

How can the authorities let this pass?

Check out this ad dated 17 Dec 2008, The Straits Times, Singapore.


#1: Buy 10 GET 10 FREE right? I thought was sign for 10 and get that same treatment 10 times free! So misleading! What they give you is something of lower value free. Then just state that up front lah!! 



#2: This one is SUPER MISLEADING. SMS TODAY AND GET THE FOLLOWING FREE right? And they put a "worth $XX" there somemore you know? Let's take the Radio Frequency Face-lift for example. It says there "(worth $3,600)"!

So I asked them, since you giving me 1 session free for that, you mean your one session costs $3,600?? 

They gave me grandmother, merry-go-round story that basically concludes to mean that $3,600 is how much a PACKAGE of that Face-life is worth. Not what they are giving free. So how can they put it there??!?!

As a consumer, I see that, and naturally (no matter how unbelievable it seems to be getting $3,600 worth of something free) assume that they must mean that!

It's misleading. It's wrong. It's inaccurate. 

Shame on De Beaute!

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Posted by Ju Ann at Saturday, January 10, 2009
Comments (9)
  1. Josephine

    January 10, 2009 11:42 PM

    Scary hor?
    I am that kind of person who is easily being persuaded. It is better for me to avoid this kind of places. I have to learn to do them DIY.

  2. Borneo Falcon

    January 11, 2009 12:54 PM

    Sometime i pity those marketing person. Do all the talking and etc sometime I just feel like giving them some "charity".

    But with the economy so bad now, no more Mr. Nice Guy. A straight NO when there is any promotion.

  3. Ju Ann

    January 11, 2009 4:09 PM

    josephine: DIY? You have your own masks?

    Borneo: ya but they are ever so chirpy and somehow I never feel happy after saying yes to their incessant sales talk leh. :(

  4. eugene

    January 12, 2009 11:27 AM

    Ai yo yo, dont ever believe all those gimmicks dear.

    if anything that would sound so tempting then we will have to be more cautious than ever to believe it is true.

    Just like Josephine says,DIY is the best option for there are many off the counters wonderful brands,

    for me i use BIOTERM,,,, nice one lei

  5. Ju Ann

    January 12, 2009 1:23 PM

    eugene: ya lor! :/ no more next time!!!

  6. May Lim

    February 6, 2009 10:26 AM

    The best is eat right, sleep well, exercise enough, if not ,after spending thousand of $ in the sliming centres is a waste of time and money. The best person to help u to lose weight is u yourself

  7. May Lim

    February 6, 2009 10:26 AM

    The best is eat right, sleep well, exercise enough, if not ,after spending thousand of $ in the sliming centres is a waste of time and money. The best person to help u to lose weight is u yourself

  8. Janice

    August 6, 2009 5:44 PM

    hihi would you mind to do a review on the RF slimming you signed up? Now they are having 20x for $288 very tempting

  9. Anonymous

    February 3, 2010 11:52 AM

    Hey me too was conned by them.They keep forcing you but once you sign up service very bad..make you wait so long even after you make apt.So fed up.Lousy place la.

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