I bought the Avinichi Youth Restoring Solution Serum on Main Street in historic Annapolis. They are “launching” a new facility. The “facility” is sparse in furniture, any retail stock, employees. Two employees were present: one was “hawking” possible “clients” from the street and the other was the sweet-speaking and high-pressure salesperson (very charming, attractive, skilled in sales).
I was offered a $1300 product for $299. And a promise of a free red-light or blue-light session at a later date. The serum did diminish the eye-puffiness within minute. An hour later, however, my eyes started burning and itching. I rinsed the product off. My eyes continued to burn and water even to the next day. My eye doctor recommended I not use the product (of course).
I returned to the store. No lights on. No one inside. No operating hours were posted. The salespeople never told me they were a “pop-up” shop and they have what appears to be a permanent sign above the door and swivel like seats one would find in a salon.
I contacted customer service — so far they told me that their policy is that they don’t accept returns; that they are not legally required to do so. I will update but I imagine the customer/client satisfaction concerns will compel them to do the right thing and stand behind their product and their actions.
I’m happy to update this evaluation pending their response.
I bought the Avinichi Youth Restoring Solution Serum. A few after thoughts: I bought this in W Palm Beach at a pop up store even though they are “based” out of NY. While the woman was pitching me the product she said that expensive products like La Mer costs hundreds of dollars and then she said “This product originally cost $1200 but it’s on sale for 400” just like La Mer haha. After she applied the serum my under eye puffiness disappeared within a few minutes! I was impressed! When I decided to buy the product she gave me an unopened serum which didn’t work half as well as the product she applied to my under eyes. When I asked about contact information, she gave me a post with her name on it and no contact info. All of these are supporting the fact that Avinichi is a scam!!! DO NOT buy from them.
I am a 76 year old woman. I was traveling alone to the Grand Tetons and was in Jackson, Wyoming, very tired after a long drive and an on-the-ground search in a crowded town in hot temperatures for a workable charging station to charge up my EV. I finally found an available charger and as my car charged, I went for a walk in Jackson.
From one of the shops a young man, maybe 30ish, approached me from the stairs and said, “I have a gift for you” and handed me a small packet of Avinichi Noni Morning Glow Day Cream. He said that he had something else for me inside and I foolishly followed him up the stairs and into the shop. I sat down on a stool at his station and must of agreed to try the product he was selling because the next thing I knew, he applied eye cream to my left eye and started asking me questions, where I was from, said he had recently visited in my state, etc. He learned that I was interested in cosmetic surgery and indicated the product he was selling was just as effective and much safer than surgery — the cost of this treatment, $20,000! I was astounded. My immediate thought regarding the price was that it was ludicrous. I have used many skin care products.
These Avinichi products were likely no more effective than those, maybe even less so. The sales person then used tactics to build rapport as well as undermine my confidence. For example he saw that I had bought some jerky made of mushrooms and asked if I used mushrooms, referring to the psychedelic type, and when I said I did not, he looked at me skeptically and noted that “everyone” in the state I lived, used mushrooms. When I appeared interested in trying out the necklift products, he left me to talk with another colleague who then led me to his station, told me this would take only 5 minutes, and started to apply lotion to my neck. Again, I asked about prices, and got the figure of $20,000. He, too, attempted to build rapport.
As this second young man wearing a little white cap droned on about what he was planning to do next to my skin which seemed to need than 5 minutes, I remembered that I was charging my car several blocks away. I was tired from the long day, still needed to find the campground site I had reserved in Grand Teton National Park and set-up camp, and, basically, I had no time for this treatment and was certainly not interested in paying $20,000 for the products.
I gave him my excuses, told him I had to leave and asked for his card. I likely sounded tense and stressed. He was cooperative about removing the cream he had applied from my neck but acted as if I was being unreasonable and aggressive by my assertiveness and insistence on leaving. He approached the check-out area to give me a brochure about the products, again, acting exasperated by his body language and gestures as if I had done something wrong. I bought nothing.
This experience felt traumatic to me and played on and off in my mind for several days before I finally recovered and let it go. I felt as if I had been lured into a tank of predatory sharks.
After I arrived home I did some on-line research about the Avinichi sales experience — similar to mine — and wanted to add my experience to the mix. Luring tired and vulnerable senior citizens into shops and fleecing them for over-priced facial products may be against state laws protecting senior citizens from financial exploitation and emotional abuse. Someone really should look into the sales tactics used by this company.
I so agree and had a very similar experience to what is described (lured with free sample, compliments, act of being personally interested, etc.), leaving me feeling somewhat violated. I also bought nothing and had to use a somewhat dramatic excuse to finally get the saleswoman off my back. I think we all should report them to Better Business Bureau.
Was at Brea Mall (CA) on my way to my car when I passed a shop with signage reading “Rachel’s Best Soaps.” A young woman at the door caught my attention and said she had a free sample for me, handing me a little sachet of some Avinichi moisturizer. She then claimed she had a product she wanted to try on me that would help with eye bags. Admittedly, I hadn’t slept, so not at my best. The product immediately tightened the area, but felt too tight. She made some claims that the product had a Botox protein and would long term tighten the area and reduce wrinkles. As I sold big name cosmetics while in college, and knew product molecules aren’t small enough to make a material difference, I was skeptical but let her keep talking. Eventually she informed me that the price for this product was $1300. Nope. She had a young man put the same product under my other eye. I presume he was the closer, because he put more pressure on me to spend, offering credit for two additional products if I’d only buy their overpriced products. Didn’t tell them I already had a Peter Thomas Roth gel that I got for $45 on Amazon that results in the same temporary tightening effect. At least they don’t claim that it will be permanent with long term use. And that’s what a number of these companies claim. I had the last laugh because they thought I was 45-50ish, flattered me a lot, but I informed them I’m 65, scrupulous about skincare, use red light, RF, and also do facial muscle exercises. And avoid the sun. If I only depended on scam cosmetics, I’d look worse. So don’t believe anyone from Avinichi, don’t fall for their flattery or pressure and save your money. Neutrogena gives results as good as any big name department store brand.
I too was scammed in Annapolis. I can’t believe I fell for this. Only because my under-eye bags looked so good I thought I can do this every day. It only took a few minutes. But the price is way over the price of the product. I give them 0 stars because this really is an old snake oil pop up. I couldn’t do 0 stars to send a review, so I did one, but it really is 0. And no address, email. I got a business card from Ynvi from another company with misspelled street names She was supposed to be this skin expert and looked like someone they pulled off the streets. Cheap jewelry, clothing but well cared for hair. I am usually so observant and hard to scam, they got me on the eye cream, but I knew it was a scam on the red-light therapy because I had priced these. The starting price was 12,000.00 and they kept going down until it was 2,000.00 and this item sells on-line for $139.99.
Maybe if we let the Association or Big Box stores they are setting up near, they’ll help.
The Youth Restoring Solution is a temporary fix. There are no long lasting effects; the sales pitch is very hard core and the quantity you receive for a high price is disappointing. The results may last 8 hours or so, but the sales pitch never mentions that the results do not last. Please be aware–before you know it, you could be pressured into spending thousands of dollars. Very discouraging to see this type of high pressure selling at resort localities where unknowing seniors shop. No matter what they say to you, you are not trading in Botox when you substitute with this product.
Glad to see these posts. I was visiting a resort area and got caught on a downpour. A salesperson at a shop selling this product offered a “free” demonstration then said the results were so remarkable she wanted me to meet a technician who was in town for a special free treatment. It turns out she was using red and blue hand held lasers. Bottom line, they tried to sell me 20 thousand dollars worth of laser equipment and 500 dollars worth of product to go with it and when I said no thanks.
Oh my. I thought something wasn’t right. But to be honest my husband couldn’t believe the difference. I bought the Camu Camu. 250$. At first it was 350. Then gave me large one for small one price. Same exact presentation. Gal from Ukraine.
Poline or something like that. Same sticky note. Same everything others say. Mine was in Whitefish Montana. Such absolute losers. They should change their routine so we don’t all compare. She was blond, thin, and tried very hard to give me a facial. We were in a time hurry so didn’t ( thank god). I do however like the product.
but when I went on line it was 1900. That made me know something was wrong.
here is what she wrote on a sticky
Poli
813-834-79?? (Purposefully illegible)
well how whitefish allowed this scam is beyond me but they target high dollar tourist areas
One of those Facebook ads got me again—this time with Avinichi. The packaging looked so nice, I had to try the serum. It feels fancy and hydrates well, but honestly, I didn’t notice major changes. I’d say it’s nice for a gift or if you want to treat yourself, but not a must-have for me.
