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Hi just wondering if anyone on here has been taken in by the sales people on the stall in Eastgate shopping centre selling sea salt scrubs?
I was persuaded to buy a pot at the weekend, at a cost of £20.(started off at £29.99 but when I said I'd think about it the price was rapidly taken down)
Is it any good? Seemed nice when i tried it on my hands but they were very persuasive and now i feel i was probably foolish to give in to them.
I can't find anything on the internet about their product and the web address on the bag doesn't come up with anything.
Have i been conned??/
what is the name of the product/company?
It says kedem onthe jar and web address is www.kedemcosmetics.com (http://www.kedemcosmetics.com)
ok, sorry don't recognise it. I thought it might have been the same as a similar stall here, but it is a different name. I should imagine it would be ok, if you are allergic it would have shown up on your hand.
Kedem! isn't that Greek for kidem (plural) or is it kidyou (singular). ;-)
Does the product work, if yes then why complain? I'm sorry, but if you are willing to part with twenty quid for a jar of salt then you deserve to be conned. A simple search on the net turned up a 650g jar of sea salt scrub by a reputable company for only £8.99!
http://www.thesanctuary.co.uk/salt-scrub-details.htm
Next time, just avoid the stalls.
If you ever feel you've been conned, then you probably have been. :roll:
Kedem! isn't that Greek for kidem (plural) or is it kidyou (singular). ;-)
I thought it sounded Jewish/Arabic.
Hi just wondering if anyone on here has been taken in by the sales people on the stall in Eastgate shopping centre selling sea salt scrubs?
I was persuaded to buy a pot at the weekend, at a cost of £20.(started off at £29.99 but when I said I'd think about it the price was rapidly taken down)
Is it any good? Seemed nice when i tried it on my hands but they were very persuasive and now i feel i was probably foolish to give in to them.
I can't find anything on the internet about their product and the web address on the bag doesn't come up with anything.
Have i been conned??/
I bought some myself and it's brilliant stuff! I have problems with the skin on my hands and feet and it works wonders on shifting the dead, hard skin and really helps my ecesma. The scam is the body butter, completley unnesscary. ;)
Lord knows where the product is actually from but if its good why knock it?
I don't know if it works as I haven't tried it yet, just wondered if anyone else had tried it and wanted to know what they thought.
Also just curious to see what others may have paid for the same item. it certainly felt lovely on my hands but a friend told me he'd read about these stalls in shopping malls just ripping people off.
Good to know there is at least one satisfied customer, thanks vistravi!
Is this the stall upstairs with 3 ladies who always try and stop you?
I don't know if it works as I haven't tried it yet, just wondered if anyone else had tried it and wanted to know what they thought.
Also just curious to see what others may have paid for the same item. it certainly felt lovely on my hands but a friend told me he'd read about these stalls in shopping malls just ripping people off.
Good to know there is at least one satisfied customer, thanks vistravi!
You should definitly try it out. i've found its not only good on the hands but also the feet. my feet have very hard dry skin on it as i'm on my feet all day and walk everywhere in ness to get around but i found this product really gets the hard skin off. You can instantly feel the difference.
Is this the stall upstairs with 3 ladies who always try and stop you?
Yes that sounds like the one, except it was a very charming, foreign young man who got me!
Yes that sounds like the one, except it was a very charming, foreign young man who got me!
Sounds like the bloke pursues the ladies, and the ladies chase the blokes. The girls who attempted to stop me were foreign too.
have bought this scrub from a lady at the Eastgate before , it is actually really good..worth the money i think :)
How can you have been conned?
You agreed to buy a product at £20.00 instead of £29.99. Unless the product is faulty or is not as described when you bought it - then you have not been 'conned'.
You may, however, have paid far too much for something.......
Since buying this I have been told by a friend that sometimes the product you are given to try at these kind of stalls isn't what you actually get in the bottle/tub whatever. As i hadn't had time to try it out I thought i'd enquire on here to see if others had tried it and what they thought of it .
It sounds as though it is a good product from what people have said, thanks for all the comments,
I'm no longer worried about having been"conned" and am looking forward to trying it out.
Also good to know which products to avoid if I ever find myself tempted again.
You were not conned, you simply paid £20 for a some Sea Salt (probably with some spurious ingredients added) that costs about £2 per kilo to buy for the authentic product. The "website" is simply a page, it is not a proper website. A google search with Kedem Cosmetics (in brackets) returns only three hits, none of which are any indicator of a true website/company. The people who sold this to you cash in on buyers not knowing what they are buying. Usual indicators of product reliability/authenticity are the ability to take the item back for a refund and being able to contact/check the company out further. The world's finest products are not normally solely available on market stalls!!
Metalattakk
08-Oct-09, 01:30
A quick WHOIS of the domain name brings up a domain registrar in Israel.
http://whois.domaintools.com/kedemcosmetics.com
At least there's a route for further exploration. :D
edayhouse
08-Oct-09, 09:23
ok so i can never walk past those folk in shopping centres and say no thanks so YES the last time i was in Inverness i bought the salt and the cream for my hands and i have got to say that it is really good - it is brilliant for your feet too...... and wait for it i paid.........................................£35! but i would buy again so i am happy
A product is worth what people are prepared to pay for it. Same goes for houses, cars, services etc.
Big brands make you believe their products are superior to those of their competitors, so you pay more.
A woman used to sell a certain item at a market stall for a lot less than any other competitor. She never sold much and was about to give up when somebody gave her some good advice. She raised the price to double that of any other competitor, gave it a fancy name and her stall was empty before she knew it. She never had any complaints and people went home happily knowing they bought "the best available" week after week.
I also bought this product from a Jewish girl on this stand in the Eastgate centre. My main reason for buying it was because I suffer with eczema and thought it would be worthwhile to give this a go. I have found that this product has really helped. I was told the price was £29.99 but I got it for £20.00. No doubt this sea salt can be bought cheaper elsewhere but I did not feel I was "conned".
A product is worth what people are prepared to pay for it. Same goes for houses, cars, services etc.
Big brands make you believe their products are superior to those of their competitors, so you pay more.
A woman used to sell a certain item at a market stall for a lot less than any other competitor. She never sold much and was about to give up when somebody gave her some good advice. She raised the price to double that of any other competitor, gave it a fancy name and her stall was empty before she knew it. She never had any complaints and people went home happily knowing they bought "the best available" week after week.
It is very true that many shoppers simply assume that more expensive means better. I saw a TV programme about manufacturers who specialised in providing items for the mega rich. One fellow, who made wristwatches, explained that the minimum price he could charge for any of his watches was one million pounds, because his clients would not entertain anything with a price tag that did not break into seven figures.
It is Israeli Dead Sea products - usually very good quality products.
It is Israeli Dead Sea products - usually very good quality products.
Let's see, if you were a company with a good name and a reputation for quality, would you trade under a different name and have a sappy, phoney, web address on the jar? I don't think so!!
Kedem is a Hebrew word meaning old, or ancient. It is not rocket science to pluck a name and convert it slightly to imitate the real McCoy.
Let's see, if you were a company with a good name and a reputation for quality, would you trade under a different name and have a sappy, phoney, web address on the jar? I don't think so!!
Kedem is a Hebrew word meaning old, or ancient. It is not rocket science to pluck a name and convert it slightly to imitate the real McCoy.
From my experience Dead Sea products sold at stalls throughout the UK, and also ones I have bought in the Middle East are good quality. By QUALITY I mean they do the job they were purchased for. Whatever the marketing strategy may be, it makes little difference (or should I say no difference) to the quality of the product.
From my experience Dead Sea products sold at stalls throughout the UK, and also ones I have bought in the Middle East are good quality. By QUALITY I mean they do the job they were purchased for. Whatever the marketing strategy may be, it makes little difference (or should I say no difference) to the quality of the product.
What if you are not happy with the product? A dodgy web address offers little reassurance. Dead Sea salt is Dead Sea salt whatever way you market it. Whether you are happy to pay £20 for a jar of it, or prefer to pay £2 per kilo for the same product, from a more transparent source, is what equates to clever shopping.
What if you are not happy with the product? A dodgy web address offers little reassurance. Dead Sea salt is Dead Sea salt whatever way you market it. Whether you are happy to pay £20 for a jar of it, or prefer to pay £2 per kilo for the same product, from a more transparent source, is what equates to clever shopping.
True.......but the stall in the Eastgate has ben there for a good few years now, just take it back.
KEEP_ON_TRUCKIN
12-Dec-09, 10:55
has anyone used this product for acne?
I'm about to give it a go!!
There is a sea salt scrubs stall in the trinity centre in aberdeen as well.I think when u buy crap like that of stalls its just a hit or miss when u try it at home me personally i just use asda soap does the job and it cost under a pound for 4 bars.
KEEP_ON_TRUCKIN
12-Dec-09, 12:35
There is a sea salt scrubs stall in the trinity centre in aberdeen as well.I think when u buy crap like that of stalls its just a hit or miss when u try it at home me personally i just use asda soap does the job and it cost under a pound for 4 bars.
unfortunately - the nearest asda probably is aberdeen
ShelleyCowie
12-Dec-09, 13:03
unfortunately - the nearest asda probably is aberdeen
Does Tain not have one? Im not sure tho.
Does Tain not have one? Im not sure tho.
Asda gave up on Tain. The nearest one to Caithness is in Elgin.
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