Dietpillcritic.com was started after we began to see many diet pill companies popping up and starting to take advantage of many unsuspecting consumers. The incredible ease of producing a dietary supplement nowadays has allowed virtually any fly-by-night company (small or large) to begin mass production and distribution of just about anything they wanted. This ease of entry, together with the insanely large margins of the industry, makes this a prime market for anyone trying to make a quick (and a big) buck. Not surprisingly, many of these companies have started using shady tactics to sell their product to the masses.

Our goal is to expose the companies that use these sketchy tactics in hopes that we can help the end consumer. Whether you’ve been warned of a dangerous product, avoid a scam, find a better product, or simply avoid paying too much, we hope that the reviews on dietpillcritic.com will have benefited you in one way or another.

Commonly Used Tricks

To be frank, most of the diet pills on the market are nothing but junk. And we try to call them on it. The following is a list of common tricks used by shady diet pills that you should keep an eye out for:

Ingredients

• They use a proprietary blend in which they don’t disclose the amounts of each ingredient in the diet pill. They can then list the ingredient (often a quality ingredient) on the label and then put minuscule amounts in the actual pill. This is very common. It is very rare that we will recommend a pill that uses a proprietary blend unless the amount of the proprietary blend is very, very large or all other factors point to them being reputable.

• They use worthless ingredients and hype them up so people think they are good (hoodia comes to mind). Or they may provide a list of ingredients a mile long to try to add credibility, when in fact the amounts of each ingredient are so small that it wouldn’t do any good.

Marketing

• Fake before and after photos are common and easy to spot if you pay attention.
• Testimonials are easily fabricated so we don’t put much stock in them.
• Beware of hyped up sales pitches. If it’s too good to be true…it usually is.
• Companies will often quote studies to support their product but they don’t cite the references of such sources. Or they cite research on an ingredient, and claim that it is research on their actual product.
• Some companies have run into legal trouble with the FTC, etc. We are sure to point that out when we see it.
• Some companies have an autoship program in which you sign up and they automatically send you new pills every month and charge your card. In almost all cases this is done in an extremely shady way (hiding the details in their “terms and conditions”). It’s often difficult to cancel. Take caution as they’ll sometimes lead you into it by offering a free trial period and then automatically enroll you.

Finding the Good Amongst the Bad

Are all diet pills on the market rip offs? Of course not. While quality diet pills are few in number, they definitely do exist. While reviewing we’ll sometimes come accross one who does have proven ingredients at the right amounts, engages in honest and striaghtforward marketing, is priced reasonably, and is backed by a good guarantee. Since this doesn’t happen often, we try to point these supplements out for you. We do the sifting so you don’t have to.