New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced last week that LA Weight Loss Centers Inc. reached a settlement to pay $275,000 in refunds to thousands of New York state customers who paid for but never received services after LA Weight Loss closed its doors in January 2008.
Read more here: LA Weight Loss to Pay Refunds to New York Members
Also Read:  LA WEIGHT LOSS, PURE WEIGHT LOSS

For months now, FranchisePick.com readers have been warning that LA Weight Loss Centers will begin closing in the same manner that Pure Weight Loss centers closed before them:  with no warning and leaving members owed hundreds and thousands of dollars in prepaid services likely they’ll never and products they may never get.
Well, here come the closings:
LA WEIGHT LOSS: Multiple Centers Close in KY
LA WEIGHT LOSS: 4 Weight Loss Centers Closing in CO
LA WEIGHT LOSS: Terre Haute, IN Center Closed
LA WEIGHT LOSS: Evansville, IN Center Closes
Recent Postings:
LA Weight Loss Tosses Client Files in Dumpster
LA Weight Loss Center …read more

(FranchisePick.Com) Does Cuppy’s Coffee or Elite Manufacturing owe you a refund? Have things improved with the new ownership? Is the Danny Jones runaround a thing of the past? Has the AAFD been helpful?
Please share your experience with Cuppy’s Coffee, Elite Manufacturing and Fransynergy below.
It’s been more than a month since Dale Nabors and Fransynergy took over the assets and liabilities of the troubled Medina Enterprises, Cuppy’s Coffee and Elite Manufacturing and vowed to return deposits owed to Cuppy’s Coffee franchisees and prospects. The April 21, 2008 post on BlueMauMau stated:
Elite, the construction arm that builds …read more

(FranchisePick.com) Pure Weight Loss Adds Insult to Injury Part 1: Pure Weight Loss Members, out thousands of dollars from the company’s abrupt closure, have their refund claim forms returned as undeliverable. Add lost time, postage costs, aggravation.
Pure Weight Loss Adds Insult to Injury Part 2: Pure Weight Loss offers stranded members discounts to an program… a program not available in their area.
Announcing Pure Weight Loss Adds Insult to Injury Part 3: Bounced refund checks… and NSF bank charges.
On HOW MUCH DOES PURE WEIGHT LOSS OWE YOU? FranchisePick.Com contributor and ex-Pure Weight Loss (LA Weight Loss) …read more

(FranchisePick.com) Just when it seemed like complaints of unreturned Cuppy’s Coffee franchise fees were a thing of the past, this allegation surfaces on Rip-off Report allegedly from Rolando in Bueno Park, CA.
Cuppy’s Coffee Franchise Complaint on Rip-Off Report
ELITE MANUFACTURING, CUPPY’S COFFEE AND MORE FRANCHISE BUILDER’S CONTRACT SCAM FORT WALTON BEACH Florida ELITE MANUFACTURING
Phone: 850-243-7021
548 MARY ESTHER CUTOFF #334
FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida, 32548
Submitted: 2/8/2008 8:16:43 AM
Rolando BUENA PARK, California
We verbally enter a franchise agreement with Cuppy’s Coffee and More base in Florida to build a store in California by there builder who reside at the same address, Elite Manufacturing, …read more

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A good story by Newsday writer Richard J. Dalton provides an all-too-familiar example of a Central Islip couple who could lose $2,200 in advance payments now that the Pure Weight Loss has closed all its centers nationwide. The article also provides information on state rules requiring bonds from health clubs and other member-based businesses – and how Pure Weight Loss (formerly LA Weight Loss) got around them.
Source: Newsday
Pure Weight Loss customers await refunds January 9, 2008
BY RICHARD J. DALTON JR. |richard.dalton@newsday.com
Nancy and Glen Urban of Central Islip have lost 113 pounds combined through Pure Weight Loss, formerly called …read more