Electronic Cigarette Scam - Beware!
It has come to our attention that an electronic cigarette company is conducting a scam.
They are “giving away” an electronic cigarette known as the e-igarette.
Before doing so, they ask for customers card details.
After the e-igarette has been sent, they start charging the customer for refills.
The amount of money taken can be up to 80 pounds a month, and according to our last caller the cartidges never arrived.
As a debit card rather than a credit card was used in each instance, the banks have refused to refund the money.
We have had three people call us about this in the last week. Other electronic cigarette companies we have spoken to have also had customers reporting this problem.
According to the scammed customers we talked to, the name of the product was the e-igarette.
Two of the people we spoke to alleged they had bought the product from freecig.com. This website now redirects to:
http://www.trendycig.co.uk/quit_smoking.html
We believe these products are imported by Dragon Trading.
A third person bought the product from a booth in a city center.
There have also been illegal claims that the electronic cigarette can help people to give up smoking.
Studies have shown that the electronic cigarette can reduce nicotine cravings and increase the nicotine level in the blood. However, there have been no long term studies which demonstrate that the electronic cigarette can definitively help smokers to quit, and as a result reputable electronic cigarette companies do not make this claim.
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Thanks for the heads up, I actually was going to get my free e-cig but now that I saw this, I am not going to!
Kudos!
Most honest suppliers do tend to offer you your money back if you are not completely happy with the product so the "Free E-Cigarette Scam" becomes pointless.
I Also hate the guy's that say one cartridge is equivalent to a pack of 20 analogues (real cigarettes). I my experience they last for about the same as 5 or 7 depending on how much you use it throughout the day
there are hundreds if not thousands of scam running on the internet, be always wary about it.:,~
Just an update r.e. Sam’s point – some current scammers make it very difficult to get money back. They charge a restocking fee if they do take the item back, and make it difficult to get in contact with them. The Canadian Better Business Bureau has actually issued a warning about this, and some customers we have spoken to have changed their cards after being unable to stop the payments.