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Article: Weight-loss company goes belly up
- Article from:
- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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A national weight-loss chain went out of business this month
owing dozens in Mid-Missouri services worth as much as $1,500.
Customers said they were encouraged to spend hundreds of dollars
upfront to pay for nutrition bars and diet shakes they never
received.
"They nailed us good," said Molly Dodge, 65, who signed up for
the Pure Weight Loss program weeks before it closed its doors at
2001 W. Worley St.
Dodge recently moved to Columbia from Michigan and hoped to drop
a few pounds before undergoing knee surgery. But about a month into
her membership, she got a phone call telling her the center was
shutting down.
"I was floored," said Dodge, who paid $558 for a year's worth of
the diet ...
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Article: AG wants L.A. Weight Loss assets frozen
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......Friday to freeze the assets of a national weight-loss chain and its owner, who abruptly closed...a consumer protection lawsuit against Pure Weight Loss Inc., formerly known as L.A. Weight Loss Centers Inc., and company owner Vahan...
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