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Be wary of "free trials" for CBD gummies and oils advertised on the internet.
If you are curious about CBD but want to try before you buy, you may be tempted to sign up for a free trial on the internet. Don’t. Not if it involves handing over your credit card information to pay a small shipping fee as the charges are unlikely to end there.
While CBD may be relatively new, the deceptive marketing tactics some CBD companies are using to sell their products — specifically, “free trial” offers that carry future charges — are not.
Take Sera Labs, maker of SeraRelief CBD products. After receiving a tip from a reader who said he paid a “nominal” shipping fee to receive a “free CBD gummy sample” and was instead billed $189.75 for a 9-pack of SeraRelief CBD gummies, TINA.org set out to find the offer that led to the unexpected charges.
We couldn’t locate the company’s CBD gummy sample, but landed on a similar offer for a “free” bottle of SeraRelief CBD oil (see above). Like the gummies, the oil wasn’t actually free; in order to get the “free” bottle, you had to purchase two bottles at $46.61 each for a total of $93.22. However, this wasn’t revealed until after entering a name, address, email address and phone number, and clicking “rush my order.”
Some additional red flags:
TINA.org reached out to Sera Labs for comment. Check back for updates.
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