I should probably just list every single Hoodia-based supplement out there ((This would be virtually impossible. A new hoodia gordonii supplement comes out every day.)) and then link to my one single review of Hoodia Gordonii to settle this once and for all. Despite the hype, press coverage, and excitement that Hoodia has received as of late, there is no scientific evidence that supports the claims that hawkers of Hoodia are making.

Today we’re going to focus on HoodiaTherm.

Who Sells HoodiaTherm?

From what I can gather, HoodiaTherm is sold purely online through a few different websites:

• HoodiaThermOnline.com
• HoodiaTherm13.com and
• HoodiaTherm11.com

On the About Us pages of HoodiaThermOnline we find out that HoodiaTherm is made by United Healthcare Labs. No contact information is available. A whois search on hoodiathermonline.com shows Pat Sikkila at a PO Box in Spokane, WA as the registrant.
HoodiTherm13.com’s About Us page says that HoodiaTherm is produced by PrideTech Labs. They list a phone number at (954) 241-0077. I called it multiple times and only ever got this machine. For the life of me I couldn’t make out what the _ex.com is at the end of the email address listed on the machine. It’s probably fex.com, because that’s a customer service/fulfillment company. Pridetechlabs.com’s site is a two-piece piece of uninformative hud. Ah! There’s that email address. It is fex.com, so if you want to contact them it’s ptlabsinfo@fex.com. Strange that their main email address goes to a fulfillment company. It looks like Pridetech’s other products include some type Ephedra wannabe, an amazon diet pill, GrowLean15, Total Body Defense, MetabolanGH and Defender 15. We’ll have to review each of those individually later.

Well this is strange. A whois search for HoodiaTherm13.com shows United Healthcare in Cooper City, FL as the registrant. The registrants number is listed with a 954 area code, which belongs to Florida. Pridetech’s contact number from above is also a 954 area code. It’s strange then that PrideTech lists their address in Pico Rivera, CA

For HoodiaTherm11.com there is no About page, but the footer links to pridetechlabs.com, so they’re obviously behind this site as well. The copy and many of the images are the same as hoodiatherm13.com and they use the same marketing pushes, which we’ll get to in a moment. And, not surprisingly, a whois search on hoodiatherm13.com shows United Healthcare as the registrant there as well.

It’s painfully obvious that each of these sites are operated by the same entity or affiliated entities.

HoodiaTherm’s Poor Marketing Tactics

HoodiaThermOnline and HoodiaTherm13 are virtually the exact same website except that 13 boasts the “Compare to New FDA Approved Diet Pill!” fancy logo. If you click to get info, you get this:

The new diet pill Alli, that has just been FDA approved to be sold over the counter, is limited to only affecting one of the five primary causes of weight gain. Unfortunately it also has a very unpleasant side effect…soiled pants!
Alli is only capeable of trapping 25% of ingested fat each time you take it. Unfortunately it does not adress:

• Appetite
• Calorie intake
• Sugar intake
• Carbohydrate intake

HoodiaTherm adresses all 5 weight gain problems simultaneously!
HoodiaTherm reduces your intake of calories, fat, sugar and carbohydrates by drastically reducing your appetite. Then, HoodiaTherm simutaneously burns the fat you have already stored from previous meals via aggressive fat burning thermogenics!

(Those are their spelling errors, not mine.)

While Alli (Alli is reviewed here) is certainly no miracle pill (and yes, it very well will make you soil your pants), HoodiaTherm’s tactic is misleading because it plants in the consumer’s mind that somehow the FDA has blessed Hoodia. When you say “Compare to New FDA Approved Diet Pill” that is what you’re intending. We’ll get to their claims about addressing “all 5 weight gain problems” in just a moment.

Misuse of Hoodia Gordonii Coverage as Endorsements

They also use the very popular approach of pasting images of Oprah’s O Magazine, a 60 minutes image, and maybe some images of the BBC or the Today Show. This is all in the hope that the website visitor will feel that these respected companies have somehow endorsed Hoodia Gordonii (or HoodiaTherm specifically) when in fact, they have not. The use of these images is misleading at best, and dishonest at worst.

HoodiaTherm’s Autoship Program (RipOff)

Let’s just say you better actually read their Terms & Conditions before you check that box or you’re going to be reamed. You can read the fine print yourself but I’ll highlight a few choice items.

Okay, first of all, to get these two bottles out to you domestically it costs less than $3. Envelope costs/labeling included. The actual bottles probably cost about $2 a pop. We’re looking at $7 and they’re charging you $10 for your FREE trial. This isn’t even a loss leader. With the worst-case scenario, they probably break even.

But they do much better than that actually.

When you check that box of death you enroll yourself in their VIP club so that your “supply will not be jeopardized.” I kid you not, they actually said that. If you don’t cancel within 14 days of ordering your free 14-day supply of HoodiaTherm (you actually have to do it before they send it out) then you’ll be charged $99.90 + another $9.95 in shipping for your 90 day supply. They’ll do this every 10 weeks, which means they’re actually selling you a 90-day supply every 70 days (10 weeks x 7 days in a week). Nice. For them.

I love it when autoshipping companies tell you that “there is no additional charge or initiation fee.” There better not be! This is just classic reaming. It’s a numbers game for them. They know that X amount of people won’t cancel in time and they’ll be able to sell you three $3 bottles for $100. That’s not a bad margin for United Healthcare or Pridetech, or whoever they are.

They say that if you’d like to cancel, you can do so by emailing ptlabsinfo@fex.com (there’s that email address again) or calling 1-800-682-3147. I tried calling, but unfortunately, while being on hold (but “first in line”) for a long, long time, I could never actually talk to someone.

What are HoodiaTherm’s Ingredients?

Honestly it’s anyone’s guess. They say that it’s 100% certified, but as you can read in my Hoodia Gordonii review, that’s quite easy to claim and a bit harder to actually verify. They also mention in their slam (rightly so) on Alli that Hoodia has thermogenic effects. That is completely unfounded. I’m guessing that HoodiaTherm contains some type of caffeine stimulant so they can attach “therm” to the end of “hoodia” and have themselves a product.

Overall Conclusion on HoodiaTherm

I don’t like how they use three different websites to sell the same product. I don’t like how they use underhanded marketing tactics to make it look like their product has received some type of endorsement from an established brand. I don’t like how you have no idea what is actually in their product and I don’t like how they push their rip-off autoship program. All in all, HoodiaTherm is something you should stay away from. Hoodia products in general area complete rip off.

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