VitaCost.com

Full review
Here is a company that sells your credit card or bank information, without you knowing, to anyone willing to pay for it.

I purchased Vitacost vitamin products due to price. To my surprise I was nailed months later with a $14.95 credit card charge twice and one for $1 from a company called AP9 Shopping Essentials Plus, that I never made. I also learned they conduct business under the name Adaptive Marketing LLC and Trilequaint Corporation.

Vitacost sells your credit card info to unscrupulous companies. An intelligent person knowing what you now know would have less stress if you shop at a legitimate and ethical company such as Puritan Pride or the Vitamin Shoppe (at this time I do not know of any similar fraudulent activities conducted by these companies).

Know what's like to be scammed, ripped off, violated or have someone take over your credit card or bank account unauthorized? You may not even be aware you have been locked into some scheme to leech $14.95 or more from your account every month.

How do you know that this is fraud.. why else would a company charge you $1 within your billing cycle outside the $14.95 every month? They really screw you on their site and you don't even know it. You cannot cancel your credit card account if there is any amount still owing over two consecutive month cycles. By charging $1 it allows these shell companies to lock you into a vicious cycle you will not get out of easily. The resulting damage to credit card companies and individuals is lost time, lost productivity and stolen money. A person with any common sense would know this is an issue government must deal with swiftly and with relentless treatment for these unethical and criminal activities. The amount lost each year to this type of fraud is over $60 MILLION.

It just so happens when you shop online at Vitacost if you click on a banner ad (even accidentally) while shopping it will harvest your credit card number (if you entered it for a purchase already) and they will sell it to anyone who is willing to pay for it (e.g. see company above). This is real life it is criminals playing the system with your money and your life. Don't roll over and accept the beating. It is easy.. Shop Vitacost and similar companies and eventually pay the ultimate price and humiliation of being violated!

Vitacost is an unethical and immoral company that does NOT make its living from selling products. That is just an entry way just like Vista Print to collect your personal information and sell your credit card information or inadvertently sign you up for something unknowingly on a monthly un-revocable basis.

Your bank will tell you automatic re-occuring monthly charges cannot be closed.. and I understand why that law allows this practice. What I cannot fathom is why there is not a law preventing such fraudulent activity as compromising your credit card number for unauthorized purchases and being placed on a monthly renewal without your knowledge of it. You can prevent unwanted pregnancy either before or after it happens. Why would someone chose to take care of it after the fact when they could have avoided the pregnancy in advance?

I saw there are a large number of complaints online who shared the same issue although it was with issues with coupons issued by Vitacost for $10 off and others where free shipping offered. In these cases there is a statement you click to agree to the terms that is longer than War and Peace. Who reads through these multi-page 8 point text size pop ups? You assume what you are buying is what you selected within the framework of the order page and not some other hidden statements in an pop up agreement.

There is no doubt these were meant to be part of the scam. Why else would the dregs of society have to bury an offer.. hide it away where you will most likely not see it and not even be given a confirmation of what you unknowingly agreed to?

Sound advice - if you want an uncorrupted credit card, an unblemished credit history, and bank account safe from criminals you can begin by disposing of everything sent to you from Vitacost out, delete their emails - if you open them you become at risk, and not visit sites known to harvest and sell credit card numbers.

I don't doubt Vitacost sells vitamins and perhaps decent quality at a competitive price - I was a customer until I was a victim of these practices. Now that you know how they really make a living are you willing to save $10% -50% on a $10 - $20 item just because you will be RAPED and repeatedly VIOLATED every month for $14.95 for an unprecedented time for a service you never heard of and may never use.. let alone the lost time you will take to right a wrong.

I am not vocal about many things although when I am ripped off and there are those who don't know how to navigate the mine field of resolving a scam that even the government seems be helpless about and tens of thousands of people's lives are turned upside down there comes a time when someone has to bring the mountain to Mohammed and bring things to light.

May you never have to endure what others have gone through and are still dealing with having just made an innocent purchase at Vitacost (or Vistaprint). To your health and prosperity.