A Scottish shipping firm has become the centre of an international investigation into the sales of diet pills. The company they were working with is now being investigated by trading standards in the UK, as well as officials abroad.
Phytoscience, a pharmaceuticals distribution company, started working with Trading Planet Ltd in May. Since that time customers have been complaining in their hoards about an offer that seemed to promise a £1 trial of ‘Life Cleanse’ and ‘Acai Berry’ products. They failed to see in the small print that it contained a clause allowing Trading Planet to continue to send them further batches of the diet pills for £79 if they failed to cancel the agreement within 15 days.
Phytoscience said they have received many complaints from angry customers as their warehouse address was given as the return address. Their director, Chris Swainson, even said he had been sent rude letters to his home after furious consumers tracked him down.
He said that Trading Planet, who are believed to operate from Spain, are one of 12 clients. Phytoscience promised that if the deal was proved to be a scam they would ‘drop them like a hot potato’ but said that if they were working legally, they would continue to work with them.