Smile! You're on the SCAM camera.

I went to the Southern Bridal Show in Birmingham with my mom and my mimi. We had a lot of fun. Basically, I walked around and signed up for free giveaways. lol. …and as of a result of all that, we won a free weekend vacation!!! Sound too good to be true? …it was. In order to get the free weekend, we had to go to Birmingham the next weekend to a show that sold cookware. We didn’t have to purchase anything to get the trip, but everything they were showing us just seemed so cool! This man presented this awesome cookware that was all around healthier for you. It was not made of any of the materials that cause cancer or Alzheimer's like other cookware. The cookware cooked out all of the oil and fats. They even poured the fat out into a cup of ice! ....That was going into my body! Gross! You could just put your food in the pot or pan, and it would whistle when it was done …I mean, the cookware whistled when the food was done--WOW! Ok, so I know it sounds dumb now, but I promise you it sounded good at the time. So, if you became a customer of the Carico cookware that night, you got a 5 day 4 night cruise in addition to the other weekend trip. AWESOME! …not! Anyways, we became a customer of this cookware, and we were really excited about it the whole ride home. We even got free wedding bands, too because we paid the tax in cash. So, once I drop Kyle off at his car (we left from his work) I really started thinking about this whole deal. I started to get nervous and realize that it was a really impulsive decision that we made. (This cookware was WAY WAY WAY too expensive, and we should not have bought it, with or without all the free stuff.) I tell Kyle how I feel once we get back to Jacksonville. He tries to reassure me for a while, but then he starts looking up articles about Carico. I can’t take it so I go to bed. He calls me back into his room a little while later. I think it is to reassure me about the situation, but instead, he found an article that someone had written that recounted our WHOLE experience—from the time I got the call, to the cruise, to the whistle, to the type of pots and pans, EVERYTHING!!! It made Kyle sick. We realized that we were scammed. Not that the company wasn’t legit, but just that they get you to come to their seminar, not telling you what they sell, so you will only see one side of the story when you buy it. Luckily, in that article that we read, the lady mentioned that there was a 3-day cancelation period. We have filled out the cancelation paper and overnighted it to the place in Florida, but we are still worried that everything is not going to work out. When Kyle call talked to a representative about it, he said we could keep the weekend vacation for coming to the seminar. We shipped it ALL back, though; we don’t want any part of their company. I wrote them a $260 check for the taxes, and we are hoping that I get all of it back! So, lesson learned: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!