If you’ve looked into colon cleansers at all in the past couple months, chances are that you’ve heard of Bowtrol. It’s currently one of the newest and most heavily marketed colon cleansers around. Is it everything that the advertisements say it is? Unfortunately, no. Bowtrol turns out to be much like the other scams that are floating around the internet. This review will give you a glimpse of the product itself as well as the company behind the product.
Bowtrol, as a product, actually looks about average. They provide a full list of their ingredients (thank you Bowtrol), which more than I can say for some other companies in this industry. Even more, Bowtrol actually gives a little bit of information about each ingredient that is included. This was a pleasant surprise. As mentioned, the ingredients to be your average colon cleansing ingredients so it should be relatively effective (but certainly not more effective that the other products on the market).
Unfortunately, Bowtrol uses the same free trial offer sales tactic that many others do. If you accept the free trial, you are automatically enrolled in the autoship program. If you don’t cancel the program within 21 days, you’ll start seeing charges of $89.90 on your credit card. Not only that, I found some complaints that reported difficulty in getting Bowtrol to cancel the autoship once they were in it. Other’s were having problems getting any money refunded once it had been taken out. It looks like Bowtrol is doing the same scam that many others are doing as well.
Another big red flag was Bowtrol’s privacy policy (or lack thereof). They specifically state in the very fine print that they may sell your personal information to third parties in order for them to “bring you selected retail opportunities.” Said a different way, your amount of spam email and unsolicited salesman and offers will come in by the boatload. This practice shouldn’t be tolerated in today’s society. Bowtrol is especially sneaky in that in order for you to even find out the details of the free trial, you have to input your personal information. Don’t give these guys one bit of your info.
The Bowtrol guarantee is better than some, but has it’s downsides as well. It’s full 90 days which is really good. Where it goes downhill, however, is when they charge you a $10 restocking fee and only allow you return unopened bottles. You also need a return authorization which you can only get if you request it online (there’s a higher likelihood of them not granting your authorization).
As I always do, I checked with the BBB to see what rating they were giving the company. To my great surprise, they were given an A- and no complaints had been filed with them. Puzzled, I began to dig more and found that company has only been in existence (filed with the state of California) since 1/8/2009 (on a few month). Obviously, this isn’t enough time for many people to file with the BBB. I suspect that this rating will drop drastically in the coming months.
To wrap up this review, Bowtrol is little more than a scam. The product itself seems decent with a good amount of ingredients. But the business practices of the company are more than enough to convince me to stay away from the company. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of people that still get scammed by Bowtrol. At least you can now make sure that you’re not one of them.