First of all, anyone who has not gone through 9 months of this scam will think it is working. After all, one doesn’t see any hair for 3 weeks at a time. Once the 9 months are over, they start to realize that all hairs have goine through their cycle, and they are still having the same number of treatments, at the same duration every week. Ask her to find a person who has done 9 months of treatment, and has gone 2 years without a treatment who is STILL happy, and believes that they got permanent hair removal.
How do you figure that FDA letter is bad news?
She says the FDA has cleared the machine for permanent hair removal. She has said that she can use the machine for “microdermabrasion” as well.
The FDA just told you that they have NOT approved any such device for any such claim! They also said that one would need PREMARKET APPROVAL to sell a machine that was purported to be a mocrodermabrasion machine that also delivered permanent hair removal, and no such thing exists.
As for your expert witnesses, I am sure that any TRUE electrologist in your area will testify on your behalf. They are all familiar with this scam. May I suggest that you talk to
Patricia McDonald, Registered Electrologist
2669 E Commercial Blvd
Fort Lauderdale FL 33308
954-599-5158
Now, as for how you show this on your own, you can go read and make copies of these pages and click all the links on these pages (they are the words in blue) and print those too. Any BBB person and any judge can use these to get an eye full on what a scam this thing is, and get the idea that the so called practitioner is a scam artist as well. Florida has one of the most strict electrolysis licensing requirements in the nation. If this woman were in fact an electrologist, she would have to be licensed in the state of Florida, and she is not. The judge will not take kindly a person pawning herself off at being an alternative to a licensed profession, while scamming people out of thousands of dollars.
And now, as promised, the links.
http://www.hairfacts.com/medpubs/hairgen/feughelman.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/makers/etweezer/ihrs/fdaviolations.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/makers/etweezer/ihrs/fda1001.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/makers/etweezer/ihrs/ftcactions.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/medpubs/etweez/verdich.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/medpubs/etweez/vanorden.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/makers/transcutmfr.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/scams.html
[ January 09, 2003, 06:48 PM: Message edited by: James W. Walker VII, CPE ]