Fighting Aging: A Review of ERA Skincare Products

Interesting comments. Very persuasive salesman – same story over and over amongst these reviews – also very expensive product. But sometimes you do get what you pay for and the product certainly feels very good during the in store trial. I agree the info on the containers is not the same as the info given by the shop assistant. However my problem is that the shop has disappeared. So, I buy the product including two free facials and now there is no shop in which to get the facial. I would not recommend this product as it feels like a scam waiting to be uncovered.

Read the comments and am really confused. I have been using a complete line of daily products as well as the ones for one time a week for the last two weeks. Results are amazing!!!! Was considering neck lift but no longer. Can’t wait to see results in 6 months.

Thank you for saving me… I decided not to buy after reviewing this plus in the back of my mind scam was screaming the whole time they were trying to sell me.

Can anyone recommend a good company ??

These people are total SCAM artists. Although their product may have some merit the prices are so grossly exaggerated that it’s a wonder anyone buys it.
These con artists rely on their high pressure sales tactics to sucker people in to giving them money.
We were walking by the store at Cross Iron Mills mall just north of Calgary with my 85 year old mother in a wheelchair. They went straight for her with offers of free chunks of soap and a promise that she would look 20 years younger. Of course an 85 year old senior will listen and talk. They lured us into the store with ridiculous promises of guarantees to remove wrinkles thereby making us look younger.
Once in their trap they performed several different applications on all of us with their products. These people are good at what they do with their demonstration tactics, it appeared the products do help and make us look better but once you find out the price, watch out!
But putting that aside, their high pressure conning and persuasive tactics are nothing short of totally appalling.
We got conned for about $750. after they started out at over $2000. and came down when we resisted.
They told us the Hollywood movie stars use this stuff and told us lie after lie after lie. They are very convincing!
When we balked at paying these super over inflated prices they actually got offended. We should have just walked right out and tried to.
These people are horrible! Preying on an 85 year old senior is disgusting! These idiots set her back financially for over a month as she is on a fixed income.
The store in Calgary Alberta that we were at is no longer there. We walked by yesterday and it’s gone. Good riddance to these criminals. They should be kicked out of the country and forever banned from ever setting foot in Canada again. Market Place ( a Canadian television program which exposes scams) should do a program on these people.

I transit through the Calgary Airport once per month. During my last trip I was lured into the airport ERA outlet by a young lady with Spanish origin. Since I never impulse buy a product I’m unfamiliar with (but had the time to be indulged), I let this pretty young lady apply her products on my face. Whether it is a different product than what is sold, I thought it worked well, and quickly. I thought the price was ridiculous, and like others, quickly saw it cut in half when I resisted. However, as others have done, there’s enough questionable practices to make one nervous, and given my pre-disposition not to buy unknown products, I excused myself, thanked the young lady and took my little bar of soap.

I too had a similar experience while in St. Armand Circle in Sarasota. They have not one but 2 stores across the street from each other . These sales people are like a well oiled machine. They lured me into the store with a tastey little drink while a man targeted my husband about real estate outside the store . The friendly sales girl originally from Barcelona ( same girl who worked in Calgary) used the same tactics as described above. I had to be very firm but managed to leave having purchased only one product telling her it was out of my budget. I left there realizing what had happened but feeling good that I hadn’t spent even more . If you can’t afford these exorbitant prices, I strongly suggest you don’t engage when you pass by their store. These people are slick …..

I too was lured into the store by free soap samples and a pushy salesgirl on St George St. In Saint Augustine on Monday I intend to return it on Saturday. Not the same results as in the store. I bought it for puffy eyes. Put it on one eye as they did in the store and asked a friend if she saw a difference as I saw in the store. She did not and neither did I. If I don’t get a refund (which I am very doubtful) I will picket the store and discourage anyone from buying their products.

Just reading these reviews. Sure wish they were in over a year ago.
I also bought $500 worth of products at the Calgary airport that worked wonders in store. But when using them at home I see no difference whatsoever.
Total scam.

Yes their sales associates are slick, know how to close a sale. I like most of you allowed myself to be pressured into the purchase. I coukd see the results. Was it a different product? I don’t know because im travelling and won’t open the packages until Im home.

This experience remibds me to employ these strategies when I’m feeling vulnerable or unhappy with your appearance:
1) no cream is magical and reversing aging to extent I will want
2) when they say the sale only lasts tomorrow, say too bad, I’m not prepared to make purchase
3)dont take the soap and dont answer their question
4) always check the terms and cinditions before a purchase
5)accept that I can learn from poor judgement to not repeat same mistake.

Ineke (67 year old, the Netherlands).
I was being invited in the ERA store in the Amsterdam Kalverstraat in The Netherlands yesterday. I was surprised about the visible effects of the products used at the right side of my face, eye and mouth were treated. Reading your comments I can only be happy that I told the girl that I needed time because of the prices. She gave several options by adding products for the same amount of money and even a customercard because I am retired. It was half an hour before closing time and the offers were only for Eastern Sunday she told me repeatitly …………..I am happy I did not return to the store.

While on vacation in Florida I visited St. Armand’s Circle in Sarasota — a great place to shop and dine. However, I also was foolishly roped into the ERA cosmetic store by a VERY convincing salesman (of course he offered free soap samples and drinks.) He was this super fast talking (like the medicine men in the old movies) who gave me the ‘in store’ half face treatment and yes it felt good. It was such a whirlwind sale– super pressure to say the least. I have not as yet used the products I purchased (to the tune over over $1000.) since I’m waiting to hear about the claim I filed with my bank against these hucksters. More on that later. Anyway from the reviews I’ve read the products you buy are NOT the same products that were used in the store. I dread trying them and finding out this to be true.

These people are so clever– you know the interesting foreign accent— the handsome skinny model type salesman, touting the amazing product — better than a facelift– I don’t think so! Anyway I enjoyed the rest of my stay and when I finished my travels I researched on line and didn’t learn too much other than the products were ultra expensive– and yes there are alway people who are satisfied but are they verified reviews?? Along with the ERA products I bought in Sarasota was a ‘MASK'( assuming it was under the ERA label) but it was not. Adding insult to injury– this non-ERA product sold to me was was also offered on line $200 LESS! That portion of the sale was a total misrepresentation. It was also terrible the way the salesman marked up ALL MY PURCHASED PRODUCT PACKAGES IN BLACK INDELIBLE MARKER so as not to return them. To boot, his instructions marked on the boxes were totally different than what was printed on the boxes by the manufacturer i.e,use once a week vs once a month. Now, you’re pretty vulnerable sitting in a tony St. Armband’s store with goop on half you face and jibber jabber going 100 miles per hour. Ya feel trapped! Don’t be afraid to send back these products even if they’re marked up in doo doo. You have rights as a consumer. If you go to your bank and fill out a dispute form on a product you sent back and have proof of doing so the bank (credit card company) will go to bat for you and get your money back. They will then go for the vendor.

It gets worse. I got the free facial offered in ‘their’ other store across the street from where I bought the products. I was still being the perfect sucker. After the facial it was yet another very hard sell for me to buy an additional FACE MASK PRODUCT. It would have cost over $2600! I could barely escape out of there. Mr. B my beauty ‘consultant’ was not very happy about my fleeing the place. So I walked around Sarasota looking like an idiot without makeup on half my face. Of course I got back to my condo and thought what the hell did I do. Being on the road for several more weeks I finally found out what the hell I did do when I began doing some research on line.

Do not despair. Go for these people. They are clever in that they hawk their wares in vacation places where you’re relaxed and having fun and yes have a few bucks to splurge. The Calgary airport sounds like another good scam spot– you’re in and out of there (unless you live at the airport). I say nothing bad about the ERA products since I have not used them (other than the store half face dumb thing I got) as yet and cannot offer an educated personal opinion. I am waiting to hear about the claim I filed. Yes, even the BBB is a good place to report these people. In fact these high pressure salespersons may be giving the ERA name the worse representation possible. I even wrote to them but did not get an answer. The classy St. Armand’s Circle or the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce has to get rid of this circus store (there’s already a Ringling down the road). Write or e-mail them as suggested by another reviewer or got to your credit card company and file a dispute form. Good Luck.