Pure Weight Loss is Pure Frustration for its Abandoned Customers

by sean on January 10th, 2008

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A good story by Newsday writer Richard J. Dalton provides an all-too-familiar example of a Central Islip couple who could lose $2,200 in advance payments now that the Pure Weight Loss has closed all its centers nationwide. The article also provides information on state rules requiring bonds from health clubs and other member-based businesses - and how Pure Weight Loss (formerly LA Weight Loss) got around them.

Source: Newsday

Pure Weight Loss customers await refunds January 9, 2008

BY RICHARD J. DALTON JR. |richard.dalton@newsday.com

Nancy and Glen Urban of Central Islip have lost 113 pounds combined through Pure Weight Loss, formerly called LA Weight Loss.
Now they worry they may have lost a lot of money and the support that helped them lose the weight, because Pure Weight Loss, based in Horhsam, Penn., shuttered most of its locations last week.
The Urbans are concerned they could lose $2,200 in advance payments, joining many other consumers awaiting refunds.

In 2004, the corporate-owned locations of the LA Weight Loss split off and became Pure Weight Loss, which operated at least nine locations locally, from Forest Hills to Sayville, all of which have closed. Independently owned Pure Weight Loss locations in the southeast will remain open.
After the split, the franchise locations kept the LA Weight Loss name. That chain does not operate locally and could not be reached, but news reports indicate it will remain open. Read the rest of the story.

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