Elderly woman falls victim to Dead Sea pressure tactics at Ask Trapper

Over two weekends, an 82-year-old woman was bullied into buying $5000 worth of cosmetics – mostly wrinkle cream for a range of different skin types.

On the first occasion, Dead Sea Spa staff kept the woman at the booth after the mall had closed, making three separate sales totalling more than $3000, taking partial EFTPOS payments, and then accompanying her to ATMs around the mall to pay the balance in cash.

On the second occasion the elderly woman was sold more cosmetics in two separate $999 sales, emptying her bank account.

We have those same kiosks here in Hawaii and they are very pushy, standing in your way and not allowing you to pass until you buy something. We can't, of course. Boycott aside the Dead Sea products contain chemicals my wife reacts badly to. But even after I mention that they still try to get us to buy something as if it is a ransom to let us go our way. We avoid that section of the mall just to steer clear of those people at the kiosks and if other customers are doing the same it cannot be good for the other retailers around those kiosks.