Con artist tricks in the Tongkat Ali retail trade
Con artists (an abbreviation of confidence artists) cheat their victims by first building up confidence. They don’t have to threaten their victims to make them hand over the cash. Victims do that willingly because they believe the predator.
Nowadays, one can easily avoid being cheated when buying Tongkat Ali just by being better informed. Search for "Tongkat Ali cheats" or "Tongkat Ali scams," and you will find relevant leads.
One trick in the arsenal of con artists is to tell their prospective victims that any financial transaction can be reversed by offering a “money back guarantee”. They may even ride on eBay’s or other platforms' buyer protection schemes.
So, why do con artists in the Tongkat Ali retail trade typically issue a “money back guarantee”?
Because it is low risk. While legitimate businesses also offer guarantees and require unopened items for full refunds, scammers attach prohibitive conditions to discourage anyone with common sense from actually using the guarantee, even if they are unhappy with their purchase.
Let’s say the purchase was for Tongkat Ali in the amount of 100 US dollars from a source in Southeast Asia.
Let’s say the buyer has serious doubts as to whether they received a genuine product.
Let’s say they demand a refund as promised in the ad copy of the seller.
The seller might reply: "Yes, if you are unhappy with the product, please send back any unopened bottles, and upon return, we will issue a refund."
Send back the product first? And only unopened bottles, if there are any? Sending the product, or rather, the unopened portions, requires significant effort.
It means going to a post office or a courier counter. It means transportation time and costs, time spent on packaging and addressing, and then paying the postal or courier charges.
And all of that for a promised partial refund that may or may not arrive?
Even if no handling fee is applied by the seller, they may still force the buyer to pay the international transfer and return shipping charges. In the end, it won’t be worthwhile.
When you add it all up, the costs of getting a refund are often higher than the money you finally get back (if you get any at all).
While legitimate companies require returns for inventory control, scammers use expensive international return shipping requirements specifically to harass customers and force them to forgo the refund.
Furthermore, what would a scammer want with an opened bottle of Tongkat Ali capsules returned anyway? Sell it to somebody else?
Does your local pharmacy buy back opened packages of heart medications or antibiotics?
Come on! People take medicines and herbal supplements to improve their health. These are potentially potent chemical substances. One does not want to mess with returned products which may have degraded or, even worse, been willfully contaminated.
Apart from that, it is likely illegal in most jurisdictions to resell returned medicines. They would have to be destroyed.
So, it is obvious: when a "money back guarantee" is structured with prohibitive international return shipping costs, it is merely a psychological tool to capture the confidence of prospective buyers. Genuine enterprises do not play such games.