SUBMITTED: Monday, June 27, 2005
POSTED: Monday, June 27, 2005
As I stated in my complaint, initially Ashley was very nice, however her parting shot in her final e-mail was "Give it up" (I have all of our e-mails regarding this matter). Once again, she tries to justify her deceptive advertising: "The CURE for Turtle Lips-in 7 Seconds!” “Plump Lips in 7 Seconds or Your Money Back-GUARANTEED!” “Everyone and I mean everyone who tried it LOVED it! EVERYONE could feel it working. It took awhile for some (by a while I mean no more than 30 seconds) but eventually not a soul failed to Plump their lips!” “I hadn't really noticed but over time my lips had actually grown. A permanent growth” (which would be a medical miracle).
Her reply to my complaint is its MY fault her product didn't work because I only tried it for three days (I tried it for a week before making my first request for a refund; I tried it for another ten days before asking for my money back a second time).
Nowhere does her ad say it can take days or weeks to work, or that you need to exfoliate your lips as she told me to do in one of her many messages - quite the contrary!!! Ashley is engaging in deceptive, false advertising - it is immaterial whether I used one bottle, two bottles, three bottles, ten bottles 100 bottles - her product DID NOT work in the advertisied 7-30 second time frame (I wouldn't have tried more than one bottle if the first bottle had worked). The focus of her ad is: Plump lips in 7 -30 seconds for EVERYONE and 100% LIFETIME moneyback guarantee. Her ad goes on and on and on for pages. If her "lifetime" guarantee is limited to using one bottle it must be mentioned once in fine print because I never saw it when I placed my order. More importantly, Ashley never mentioned it when I requested my refund after trying her product for a week. She told me to continue using it for a full thirty days - I had nothing to lose because there was a 100% Lifetime Moneyback Guarantee.
If Ashley is not trying to resell items that have been returned by dissatisfied customers, what difference does it make what condition they are returned in? And, excuse me? I'm taking advantage of her? Her deceptive advertising has cost me $6.00 shipping & handling charges for the items to be sent to me; $4.30 return postage fees; $9.99 for the cost of the lip plumper she refuses to refund my money for (plus, the cost of the three exfoliators I purchased to use on my lips per her suggestions - to improve the performance of her product).
I used her product in good faith for over three weeks; it
did not produce its advertised results - I call that false advertising. After receiving a partial refund, I tried for over two weeks to resolve this dispute directly with Ashley before filing my complaints with eBay, PayPal and ripoffreport.com. I've been ripped-off, not her! As is my custom, I paid for my purchase through my PayPal account within five minutes of receiving notification that I submitted the winning bid. And, by the way, although I'm relatively new to eBay I have a 100% customer satisfaction rating. It's no longer a matter of money, its a matter of fainess. I lived up to my end of the transaction, that's more than Ashley can say about her product or her guarantee.