(FranchisePick.Com) In December, 2007, Pure Weight Loss (formerly LA Weight Loss) announced it was closing all its 400 centers nationwide by Jan. 4., 2008. With no notice and little explanation, Pure Weight Loss left thousands of customers without a weight loss program, without the half-million dollars they’d collectively prepaid for Pure Weight Loss […]
(FranchisePick.Com) Pure Weight Loss (formerly LA Weight Loss) continues to provide business schools with an ongoing case study in customer service “worst practices.” Customers report that the 400-unit weight loss chain aggressively promoted long-term, prepaid contracts up to the day they abruptly announced they’d be shutting down - permanently - in a […]
(FranchisePick.com) FranchisePick.Com readers report that their attempts to recover refunds due to them from the bankrupt Pure Weight Loss company have added insult to their injury - and additional mailing costs as their refund applications are being returned. Here are a few comments posted in recent days:
Hi I joined them in dec end […]
(FranchisePick.Com) Kudos to the PA Attorney General Tom Corbett & his staff. Unlike Pure Weight Loss & Prez Vahan Karian, who have ducked the press and the customers they left stranded when they abruptly closed their 400 Weight Loss Centers, Corbett’s office HAS been available for comment. Here’s the latest from the PA Attorney General’s […]
(FranchisePick.com) Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett announced the filing of a lawsuit against the Horsham, PA - based Pure Weight Loss chain, which closed abruptly on January 4, 2008. Here’s the story as posted on the AG’s site today.January 24, 2008
Attorney General Corbett announces consumer protection lawsuit over sudden closure of Pure Weight Loss chain; […]
(FranchisePick.com) According to the story on CBS4 in Miami, Pure Weight Loss Centers may have broken the law when they left Florida dieters stranded by abruptly closing their weight loss centers. Their investigation continues.
Source: CBS4.com
Defunct Weight Loss Centers May Have Broken Law
MIAMI (CBS4) ― When one of […]
(FranchisePick.Com) It’s official. Last Friday Pure Weight Loss filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection from more than 100,000 creditors. In the Pure Weight Loss bankruptcy filing, PWL estimated its assets at $1 million to $10 million and its liabilities at $10 million to $50 million.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Posted on Wed, […]
(FranchisePick.Com) Today’s “What the Fun?” moment is brought to you by Pure Weight Loss,
the weight loss industry’s Lazarus…
David Copperfield…
Marcel Marceau…
and the second opening scene of Monty Python & the Holy Grail all wrapped into one.
Says Pure Weight Loss: I’m Not Dead!
12/14/07 Philadelphia Daily News reporter Krista Hutz wrote:
Pure Weight Loss, Inc, formerly […]
(FranchisePick.Com) According an announcement on the Pure Weight Loss website: “We apologize for any inconvenience that the closing of Pure Weight Loss Centers has caused. Refund applications are currently being evaluated. If you have not submitted your refund applications, please do so at your earliest convenience.”
Here’s a copy of the Pure Weight Loss Refund Form: […]
(FranchisePick. Com) When Pure Weight Loss abruptly closed hundreds of weight loss centers Jan. 4, thousands of members started asking where are the products I ordered? Where are the fees I prepaid? And now: Where are my confidential financial and health records?
FranchisePick.com received this email from a stranded Pure Weight Loss member who expresses concerns […]
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