What You Should Know About Those Free Hoodia Trials
May 5, 2009 by Travis Van Slooten
Filed under Diet
The popularity of obtaining free hoodia samples is on the rise. If you don’t know very much about hoodia gordonii, it helps people lose weight because it’s a natural appetite suppressant. Hoodia is an all-natural supplement that is very safe and has virtually no side effects. Hoodia is becoming one of the top weight loss pills on the market.
There are so many companies making hoodia that it’s only a given that many of them would offer free hoodia samples to consumers. They hope people will like their samples so much that they will come back to them and make future purchases. It sounds like a win-win deal for both consumers and companies.
Unfortunately, agreeing to a free hoodia sample isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. For starters, most of the hoodia for free is not authentic. One expert believes that the percentage of fake hoodia diet pills on the market today could be as high as eighty percent! Only authentic hoodia gordonii has the potential to suppress appetite so taking a fake product isn’t going to do anything. You may be getting your hoodia for free but what good is it if it doesn’t help suppress your appetite?
Before you agree to receive free hoodia samples from a company, make sure the hoodia they are offering you is authentic and not fake. The two easiest ways to identify real hoodia from fake hoodia is to view the company’s CITES certificates and their lab test results which were completed through an independent lab.
In regards to CITES certificates, these certificates must be obtained by the government of South Africa before you can legally ship hoodia gordonii out of their country. If a company doesn’t have one, they are not using hoodia gordonii that is authentic South African hoodia gordonii. Companies that do bring in the real plant from South Africa for their products will proudly display their CITES certificates for all to see. To prove they have nothing to hide they will also have independent labs test their products for authenticity.
Displaying CITES certificates and lab test results is how genuine companies convey to consumers that the hoodia products being sold on their sites are indeed authentic. If you visit a website offering free hoodia samples and you can’t locate their CITES certificates or lab test results, you are probably looking at a company that doesn’t use authentic hoodia gordonii in their supplements. Getting free hoodia samples from these sites is just a waste of time on your part. They won’t work.
You should know that most companies will have you pay the shipping and handling on any free samples they send you. Also, sometimes agreeing for free hoodia samples may mean you are agreeing to be autoshipped more products at full price down the road.
When you are signed up in an autoship program, a company may ship you a 30 or 60 day supply of their hoodia every month or so. These programs can be cost effective and convenient if you are dealing with a company that is producing authentic hoodia gordonii supplements.
If you sign up for free hoodia samples, make sure you understand how to cancel out of the trial and that you know whether you are being enrolled into an autoship program. Many companies will try to make you believe it’s easy to get out of these programs. But, in many cases it’s not as easy as they would have you believe.
There are countless individuals who have found their credit is ruined because they naively agreed to receive free hoodia samples. Many of these people didn’t know they were going to be autoshipped anything in the future. When they would try to cancel out of the program, they were unable to get in touch with anyone, or their requests to quit were ignored. Yet, month after month their credit card is billed.
Be smart before you accept any free hoodia samples. Make sure you have read all the information involved in receiving the samples. Make sure you have a telephone number for the company. Before you agree to the samples, call the number and see if there is a person on the other end who can answer your questions about the free hoodia trial. Talking with someone can help you determine if the company is on the up-and-up.
You should go through this same process with any email address you are given as a point of contact with the company. Send an email inquiry with questions. How quickly did you get a response? Were your questions answered sufficiently? If you can’t make contact with a live person via email or telephone, it is probably a good idea to decline the offer for free hoodia samples.
These free hoodia trials can be a smart way to try hoodia without spending a lot of money, but you need to be careful before you hand over your credit card information. By following these simple guidelines you’ll be able to find legitimate free hoodia samples that won’t just empty your wallet!






