Lipo-Slim (TM)

Another "great" offer through the letter box today. (Where do these people get my address from?). From the same glorious company who brought us Cellu-Svelte no less. (See the numerous postings on that in the April archive).

Obviously one miracle product wasn't enough to satisfy!

This time "better than liposuction without the surgery or expense" emblazoned across the envelope. Mmmh! Fantastic!

The product is called Lipo-Slim (TM) and will "extract body fat all night long so you lose at least 6 pounds a week".

Well, excuse me - but where does it go? Will I find great globules of it down the bottom of the bed? Will it dissolve into the air and the bedroom will be like a greasy kitchen after a fry-up?

No? This time it attaches itself to liposuction pads you stick to your feet and you put them in the dustbin (about a pound a night of it by all accounts!)

Please girls save your money - if 99lbs could be sucked right out of your body in this way (in less than 3 weeks) we would not be hearing about it for the first time in an advert - we'd have heard about it on TV and we'd be queueing up for it at the doctor's surgery!

All the best with your realistic weight loss efforts

Janice Elizabeth

www.weight-loss-motivation-program.com

Comments

[Cornelia Law]

Thank you for being on the web. I had nearly forked out £56 pounds for a 10 week course. I need to lose about 49lbs, and I thought this would be wonderful. It stated that it was now a success on the continent and America. I rang my sister in Holland and my friend in Florida, but they have never heard of the product. Not one woman's magazine has reported on it. They suggested that I look it up on the web. And bless you there is your article. Thank you so much for saving me £56. I am desperate to loose weight, but not my money.

Corrie Law

[amanda metcalfe]

To whom this may concern,
I recieved the leaflets etc about your product and sent my £19 cheque off to you for two weeks supply. That was sent on 21st janurary and i am very dissatisfied to find that nothing has been sent to me yet. The cheque cleared last thursday (27th jan) and I have nothing to show for it. Many people have said to me that it is a big con...please give me an explanation for this!
Amanda Metcalfe
12 Barningham Rd
Newsham
Richmond
North Yorks
DL11 7QT
Tel:07977039523

[Janice]

Hi Amanda,

Please let us know if you receive any response from the Lipo-Slim company. I'd be interested in what they say although they have previously taken a few weeks to send stuff I understand with their previous product Cellu-Svelte.

In any case I wouldn't hang about waiting for miracles and if you read the comments on the post Lose Pounds in the April archives you'll see why....

Janice

P.S.I have sent you a separate e-mail as well re your posting to the contact form in my main weight loss motivation site

[Lorna]

I stupidly sent off for Lipo-Slim not long ago and havent recieved anything. How do i get my money back?

[Lisa]

PLEASE...Is there anyone out there that has actually got hold of this product AND can tell me whether or not it works? I just want to lose some weight, not all my money!

[Janice]

I don't know anyone who has received money back Lorna but you could try writing to ask.

Lisa, I think their are better ways to spend your money if you want to lose weight - there's no such thing as a magic solution, I'm afraid.

Janice
editor Think Slim blog

[Michelle]

Hi

My friends and i were thinking about sending away for the 8 week course can anyone tell me if they have received there pads or are millions of women being conned.

[Lorna]

I would love to write to the company and try to get my money back but the address was on the envelope that i sent off, i cant find it anywhere else.

Does anyone have the address to these con artists?.

[Janice]

The address on the offer envelope is

Dr Kingston
Lipo-Slim laboratories
Freepost
ANG 7708
Bedford
MK40 2BR

The outer envelope had this

"If undelivered please return to
NL -0011
Unit 9 Trident Way
Southall
U818 7NL"

Janice

[Lesley]

Hi,
I too received the blurb on Lipo-slim today and read it all about 3/4 times. I was really tempted but then thought to check on the web - I'm glad I did.
Many thanks Janice.
Lesley

[Sarah]

I have trained in both Nutriton and accupressure and can state, categorically, that this product has no sound basis in either.

If anyone who is unsuccessful in claiming a refund please post a message. My main career is as a litigation solicitor and I can advise you on where to go for advice on bringing legal proceedings if you need to. This is something you can now do very easily on your own if you have internet access.

[Sally Phillips]

Dear Janice,

Thank goodness for your site and my husbands tight & sceptical nature. I, my husband and daughter have been ill over the course of the last two years and we as a family are all trying to lose weight. We even joined the local Gym, so when I received the leaflet for Lipo-Slim, my daughter and I thought it would give our weight loss program a boost and at my last doctors appointment i took the literature to him. He very kindly read it and responded today, telling me that he did not see how it could work but if it only used natural ingredients it could not harm me. We decided to have the product checked out and found your site. Many thanks for that and the time you obviously take to respond to the people who write. I have asked my husband to bookmark your site so I can revisit at my leisure. We are now going to also write to the BBC, who have a consumer program called Watchdog and report the UK agent for the product.

Best Regards

Sally-Dawn Phillips
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
England.

[Alison Butler]

Many thanks for this very interesting web site, i also was so tempted to give this product a go, but as i have been conned before with these adds thought i would go on line first,and am so glad i did, Thanks so much for all the comments i have read ,,i will now go back th Slimming World and try and start my weight loss again.
Alison

[Janice]

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments and for helping others by leaving them.

You know, I don't think there are any miracles for sale out there - just the miracle inside your own head when you decide to eat healthily and move your body - and that is completely free of charge.

Janice
editor Think Slim

[Lorna]

I sent an e-mail to watchdog today. If anyone else wants to you can contact them at www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog.

[Phyll]

Hi Janice

I am so pleased I found your site before I decided to post my order for the Miracle pads!!

Regards
Phyll

[Susan]

Do not send for these I have binned the letter it is a load of twaddle , I think Watchdog should be
informed about these people who prey on vulnurable women who want to lose weight

[Eileen Valentine]

Hi there,
I ordered these pads about a week ago, since then I have tried checking with the post office for the free post address and that box is not anything to do with Dr Kingston, I checked with my credit card company and it states that it has gone to Health and Life Science thats it nothing else

[Julie]

Hi Janice

Like many other women I was sceptical when I received the Lips-Slim information, and thought this has to be too good to be true! I've been pondering as to whether or not I should send of this this miracle pad!

I've been searching the web for details of the lab and the various doctors names, but none of them seem to exist! Then finally I came across your site, thank goodness. The comments people have posted are very interesting but all so very familiar. I too was thinking of writing to Watchdog to see if this is genuine. So strange how only the envelope you return has an address, and having read all the info, it doesn't even tell you how long it will be before you receive the product or what to do if your goods don't arrive.

I will be writing to Watchdog today..... I've still got all the info, minus the envelope it arrived in, I'll happily forward to Watchdog.

I wonder how much money they have conned out of us so far.... You hear so many stories about these type of companies, how do we stop them, apart from not responding??

Thanks again.

Julie
Northolt
Middlesex

[Lara Atkins]

Definitely too good to be true.

I found this website http://www.ukliposuctionalternative.com/
which seems to claim the same sort of thing except that you are applying the cloth to the affected areas.

I assume this is another con?

[Julie]

Reference my previous comments, obviously I meant Lipo Slim - sorry about that!

Julie
Northolt

[EILEEN VALENTINE]

Hi there again,
i have spoken again with my credit card company and are sending me a form to dispute the payment, they are going to investigate this thoroughly to stop this happening again with anyone else, if this is a con they must be stopped as soon as possible, quote my credit card company.

[Phyll]

Hi Janice

Thanks for our em-mail. I was wondering if you would be so kind as to send me the online slimming workbook you mentioned.

Thanks and regards

Phyll

[Emma]

I too have sent away for these 'miracle pads' i sent away for mines on 3rd feb 05. after reading this i wish i hadnt bothered. Any ideas how to get my money back?

Thanks

[Helen]

Hi

Sorry to say me too. I sent a chq off for 44.95 and have not heard anything since. I don't know what possessed me as never done anything like this before. Think it's all down to the time of year as well, new year new start and new you!!! if only. Be interested to hear if anyone pursues getting their money back and if they are sucessful. I haven't the heart.
Thanks

[Sylvia]

Gee... that's the same address of the Cellu-Svelte scam I received on my doorstep this month! I just hope someone will put a stop to this too-good-to-be-true offers!

I am desperate to lose weight in 3 months. I want to look good on my wedding!!! Any suggestions? HELP!!!

[fred]

ME TOO !!!!!!!!! £19
ALTHOUGH I DID WRITE 'VERY SCEPTICAL-NO ADDRESS' ON THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING THE CHEQUE !!
EVEN US BLOKES CAN BE DUPED........
SENT MINE JAN 21ST..........

[Ian Butler]

Weight loss this way was my only option weighing in at 350lb.

I bought the product & boy did it take a while to reach - over 5 weeks. I was
getting worried afetr spending 55 pounds on this mystical product. I feel quite thirsty in the mornings
after using the product but it sure lives up to its name. Lost 34lbs so far.

Ian,
Phone numbers removed by editor as Ian did not make this post (see next few comments on this post)

[Ian Butler]

I have now received several calls regarding this posting and I can confirm that I have never used this product, never lost 34 pounds and please do not ring this number as it has clearly been posted here fraudulently.

[Janice]

As editor of the blog I also rang Ian who was very surprised to hear he'd lost 34 lbs by sticking pads to his feet. Although as a responsible editor I would not normally edit anyone's post (except to remove blatant spam) I will edit Ian's previous post to avoid him being disturbed by calls all the time.

Janice

[Janice]

And of course by "Ian's previous post" I mean whoever was pretending to be Ian because he certainly did not post the message himself.

Janice

[julie]

Thank god I read this website in time so I could cancel my cheque. I posted my cheque on the 30th Jan and luckily they have not cashed it yet. First direct r a brilliant bank, explained my situation and they cancelled the cheque for free!
It's not too late for those who have recently sent cheques!

[MRS AMANDA MOON]

HI MY NAME IS AMANDA MOON I LIVE IN UXBRIDGE IN MIDDLESEX I ALSO GOT THIS LIPO-SLIM OFFER SENT TO ME I HAVE ORDERED THE 63.95 PACK AS I AM EXTREMLEY OVER WEIGHT AND GOT FED UP WITH FAD DIETING I HAVE TRIED SLIMMING PADS BEFORE WHICH WAS ANOTHER I GOT SENT TO ME BUT THEY WORKED WITH IN REASON I AM SO SORRY FOR ALL YOU POOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST YOUR MONEY DUE TO THIS PRANK I TO NOW WILL BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE AS THE MONEY WAS DEDUCTED FROM MY CREDIT CARD ON THE 9TH OF FEB ONE WEEK ON FROM WHEN I POSTED MY ORDER OFF IF I RECIEVE IT I WILL LET YOU ALL KNOW BUT I DONT HOLD OUT ANY HOPE AFTER READING YOUR ARTICLES THANK YOU.

[Jean Saunders]

Unfortunately I also have been duped by this scam, I sent of my credit card details for this company to take 44.99 with the view that these patches would be a wonderful thing. How wrong can one be! I have had ziltch since January, and I'm going to try to get my money back. It will be a very long time before I order anything from the post again. I will need to see what I'm buying before I give over any money.
This has certainly taught me a valuable lesson.
Jean Saunders

[Sharyn]

Hi, I live in Bedford and have tried to trace this Company via the postcode. It is coming up as a 'private school'. I have also sent money and not had the product sent so I have contacted Bedford police, with whom I am going to take this website and thankfully, I photocopied the form down to them. I will post a reply when I get back.

[karen]

Hi.
I too received the info on Lipo-slim,and was ready to send my £19.I'm so glad I had the sense to look on the web before popping it in the post.Thanks everyone,I now know there are no miracles out there to lose weight,except hard work and willpower.Karen

[Sharyn]

Just came back from the police station and was told that as my money was only taken from my account on 4/2/05 that I had to give them a chance to come up with the goods!
So will write to them first and then if no joy will take it back to the police after a couple more weeks. I urge all of you who have already lost money to contact your police or use the address on this website to try and get your money back. If they get loads of letters they may realise that we know their game!
Good luck.

[karen]

Well todays my 32nd birthday and when a parcel arrived this morning i thought it was off a relitive to my suprise it was my lipo-pads two days ago i wrote to watchdog.I have yet to try them you never no lipo-pads might not be a con and give it a few weeks and we could all be a lot slimmer and thanking lipo-slim.GOOD LOOK to all of you i hope more people have recieved theres today lets hope it works,i'll keep you updated.
all the best
karen

[Emma Munro]

I too ordered the Lipo-slim pads about a month ago and unfortunately shortly afterwards found your website. However they did arrive today so I will be interested to see if they work.

I don't suppose anyone knows yet do they?

Emma

[fred]

4 weeks and they arrived today !!!!!!!
got the product, but still feel like a prat for sending off for them in the first place !!
here goes.............

[suzannefry]

i sent a cheque to you 27/1/05 for payment of the lipo slim pads i have not recieved them yet. is there any reason why please reply waiting in anticipation for delivery

[Michelle]

I also sent them a cheque on the 24th January and the money cleared out of my account on the 8th February i have today been onto Bedford Trading Standards and they are trying to locate the company i have not received a single thing but there is one good thing i could not remember the address but thankfully someone has put it on your website, i sit and wait to see if the goods arrive, any further help would be appreciated.

[Jean Saunders]

I received my patches on February 14th, so far I have tried them once, they did exactly what they said they would do. I lost 2lb in just one night. Here's hoping for more good results as time goes by. I'll keep you posted. At least we now know this isn't just another scam. Thank goodness
Jean

[Sharyn]

The postcode relates to an area called Brickhill Drive that has a private school on it. The exact postcode is the schools!
Did Bedford trading standards say they would contact you Michelle?

[mandy]

Please will everyone who has either a copy of the order form or the original order form of these products, contact Bedford Trading Standards. Preferrably by email on consumer@bedscc.gov.uk with the reference number 195226 If you can't email them, contact them on 01234 228897 please. They are going to follow this up and will try to trace the person behind this. DON'T SEND ANY MONEY OFF TO ORDER PRODUCTS!!!!

[Eileen]

Hi ya, I have just sent an email off to Bedford, the addy that was posted by Mandy.

[Debbie]

Sent you an order on the 25th January and have not received order yet!

[jennifer wincott]

I ordered these patches about 5 weeks ago for myself and my two sons sent debit details for £60 still not received anything, havent got any address to contact them but still have all the paper work they send in the post

[karen]

hi
After recieving my lipo-pads on 14th feb i have lost 4lb its working lets hope it stays off.To all those who have not got them yet it did take ages for them to arrive but it seems people are now starting to get them,i will keep you posted
karen

[JANE T]

I'M YET ANOTHER PERSON WHO HAS SENT OFF MY CHEQUE
(26TH JAN, CLEARED 9TH FEB) WHO STILL HASN'T HAD THEIR PADS, WILL BE WRITING TO THE ADDRESS YOU HAVE SO KINDLY SUPPLIED. WILL POST ANY COMEBACKS (IF ANY) THAT I GET ON SITE.