Dear Proactiv…
…Christine the Curmudgeon would like you to leave her alone, once and for all!
Srsly. Yes, Proactiv is a good product that works very well for clearing up acne. But it’s too expensive, and there was no way to slow down the shipments, so I wasn’t stuck with stacks and stacks of unused product at home. Okay, so according to the “we want you back” emails and snail-mails I’ve gotten, that’s supposed to change, and people will be able to have full control over the frequency of shipments. But please forgive me if I don’t quite believe that!
Also, after all the crap I went through to cancel the shipments, do they REALLY think I’m dumb enough to sign on for this AGAIN? Sorry, I think not. I’ve recently started using a product called AcneFree, which is very, very similar to Proactiv. Only it’s less than half the price ($20 as opposed to $50 for the same sized containers of product), and it available at local stores like CVS, so I save even more by not paying outrageous shipping fees.
And I’m not stuck with an auto-ship plan at all. When I’m about to run out of the stuff, I can just go to CVS and buy more. Around here, you can’t swing a dead New York Y*****s fan without hitting a CVS store. Mr. Curmudgeon practically lives in CVS, he’s a geezer who takes all sorts of meds, so he’s there at least once a week picking one med or another up. No problem at all to ask him to swing by the skin care aisle of the store and grab me a new AcneFree kit.
And if we fall upon hard financial times, I an just opt not to buy the stuff. When I was trying to cancel Proactiv, I actually did cry poverty…a lie, but they deserve to be lied to, for making it difficult to cancel. The lie didn’t work, but a veiled threat to take legal action did. And they want me back WHY? Dumbasses.
I’m one of those people who speaks with their wallet when a company or brand pisses me off. For example, we’ll never buy a Dell computer again, because their customer service sucks, we’ve had nothing but problems with them over a laptop that Mr. C bought years ago. If he ever does buy himself another laptop for his own personal use, he’ll look to Samsung, or any other company BUT Dell! He’s already stuck with a work-issued Dell laptop…but if something goes wrong, it’s up to the work IT guy to deal with Dell’s crappy customer service, and NOT Mr. C.
Anyhoo, I sent an email to Proactiv demanding that they remove every trace of my curmudgeonly existence from their computer system. I told them that I am NOT interested in their product, I hate their marketing practices, and would sooner allow myself to have ginormous, oozing, festering zits all over my face before I’d sign up to get their product again. Any further contact will be considered harassment, and appropriate action will be taken.
We shall see how it goes. In any case, if you are thinking of trying Proactiv…DON’T, not unless you want to deal with having them charge your credit card every month, until you have to threaten them with death to make it stop. Go to CVS or whatever chain drugstore is near you and pick up an AcneFree kit for just $20. I swear, it is almost the EXACT same product as Proactiv, only without the hassle.
