There are close to 100,000 fitness applications available for download, and that number grows nearly every day.<\/p>\n
WRAL’s 5 On Your Side investigated a fitness app that has received so many consumer complaints, the Better Business Bureau issued a formal warning.<\/p>\n
“According to the BBB files, this business has a pattern of unanswered complaints concerning receiving recurring charges after signing up for a free trial. Consumers indicate that they want contact from the business and a refund. BBB sent a written notice to Lasta Healthy Weight Loss identifying the potential pattern of complaint with a request for a business response. The business did not respond to the BBB’s request.”<\/p>\n
Lasta: Healthy Weight Loss markets itself as a wellness assistant, offering tools to help users build healthy habits through fasting, diet tracking and exercise.<\/p>\n
However, customers say that after signing up for the app, they are being charged for things they didn’t agree to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joyce Fuller of Hope Mills is one of hundreds of people who have filed complaints with the BBB.<\/p>\n
“I thought I was getting a free trial to learn how to eat right, and exercise. The next thing I knew, I got charged 10 bucks, and I tried to cancel it, but I got charged 10 bucks again. I’m beginning to think that there’s nothing to sign up for,” said Fuller.<\/p>\n
5 On Your Side’s Ashley Rowe asked Lasta for a comment to these complaints, and they declined to answer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are close to 100,000 fitness applications available for download, and that number grows nearly every day. WRAL’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-190510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}