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FB podcast featuring Oprah Winfrey endorsing the "Pink Salt Trick" with many other personal testimonials and claims of product purity and clinical research trials. During the podcast I gave my credit card info upon which they immediately tried to sell me more of the product claiming that they couldn't guarantee continuity of availability otherwise. At some point the podcast was completely disconnected and I didn't know if the purchase went through or not until I rcvd a Fraudulent Charge notice from my bank asking if I had authorized three purchases from CartPanda. I called the CartPanda customer service # and tried to cancel the order. They agreed to drop the third charge and give me a partial refund for the second charge which I haven't seen yet. In the meantime a product arrived called LipoMax which was not mentioned anywhere in the sales promotional. Upon close inspection of the label which was difficult to read even with a magnifying glass, it appears that this is a counterfeit of a more well known LipoMax product. The ingredients of the product I rcvd are not identical to the official LipoMax product. I called Cartpanda again and demanded a full refund and after much arguing they agreed if I paid the USPS return shipping cost that I could call them back with the RMA # and the USPS tracking # and then they would give me a complete refund. I will follow through but will believe the refund to my credit card when I see it. Please don't believe the old maxim, "Seeing is believing" because with AI generated sales endorsements anything can be claimed. Another old maxim, "If a claim seems too good to be true like "Take this magic potion to lose weight and you don't have to diet, exercise, or change any life habits, and the fat will just melt off", don't believe it. This particular scam was an expensive lesson to stay off FB where nothing is verified. I should have known better. There were many red flags during the sales promotion. I had just rcvd a warning from my PCP Doctor warning me of high cholesterol, obesity, and increased risk for stroke and heart attack the day before. It is criminal that these scammers are appealing to those of us desperate to lose weight and improve our health. Snake oil salesman have become much more sophisticated...