• sunriseherbfarm said on Jul 17, 2008....

  Valerie is a wonderful person! She has a great business mind and has achieved many goals. Also Valerie loves animals! She is an avid supporter of Pet Rescue.

• anonymous said on Sep 18, 2008....

  A class action lawsuit has been filed by the State Attorney General of Conn. against Sunrise Herbal, Sage Advice and Valerie Hawk-Hoffman for unethical business practices. A link to the lawsuit at the state site is following. Personally we ordered herbs from her by phone via an article in Redbook. She took our order by phone, but never mentioned her company had an auto ship policy... so it was a surprise to us that our credit card was charged again 3 months later. Per our credit card's fraud department recommendation, we cancelled our credit card and reissued it with a new number. After review, our card company found the charges fraudulent and refunded our money and we filed a complaint with the better business bureau, as have many of her ex-customers. Do a search on her name and read some of the blogs left by customers and you'll see how she has treated them! We received insulting, irrational and unbusiness-like emails from her when we questioned her charges, which I copied and forwarded to the Attorney General's office and Better Business Bureau. We couldn't believe a business owner would conduct thier business this way. We also don't understand why auto-shipping is required unless the customer requests it and is satisfied with the products. We've never seen this practice with any other health products. She ALSO requires customers to send a letter CERTIFIED MAIL in order to cancell the auto shipment. We did this, but what a hassle! Other victims we've read, were billed even after they sent certified letters...or were billed 3 times in one month on their orders...It is a clear case of complete disregard for customers and taking complete advantage of them. She must be doing well, however, because news articles keep popping up covering her business and new mansions in Maine and Florida. I pray she has rethought her business practices and has decided to be more ethical and customer friendly, but we have not heard anything hopeful as of yet.

  Lawsuit link:       http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?A=2788&Q=378410

  
  

• anonymous said on Mar 18, 2009....

  I was at the hearing and Ms Hoffman was RIGHT all along...the State only had this one witness who would show up and she crumbled on the stand ADMITTING she did indeed sign up for the Auto Ship program Ms Hoffman has gotten slack over-she also admitted she was told the policies on the paperwork and the invoice AND that even Ms Hoffman told her...I felt so bad for saying the cruel things I did about Ms Hoffman as I saw she was just following her policies and that the clients are just liars trying to get out of paying for goods they signed up for. I WAS a bit confused all along I must say as when I reported on this I did notice you cannot even check out of the website without agreeing to Auto Ship and it IS noted in like 5 places.. I think based on all the comments people make about her home the reality is these people are just jealous and I am humiliated I was a part of it. I wrote and apologized to the family and am happy to hear the judge sided with them, made fools of the state and that they are now suing for over 6 million! Good for them! What they have been put through is horrible...I read the AG in that state Blumenthal was voted as the TOP Worst AG in the country and that he has 23,000 similar pending suits...he cares about nothing but money it seems and will destroy people to get it...scary. ps I was just told that over 9000 business's may sue the AG for doing the same thing to them in some class action suit-oh boy! Bet Ct wished they had just settled with the Hoffman's...

• anonymous said on Mar 18, 2009....

  HOFFMAN RULED RIGHT BY JUDGE-NOW AG IS GETTING SUED BY THOUSANDS OF CT COMPANIES AS THE ILLEGAL ATTACHMENTS THEY DO ARE EXPOSED-VAL YOU ARE A HERO! A LAWFIRM IS STARTING A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST THE AG FOR THEIR ILLEGAL ATTACHMENTS AND DESTRUCTION OF THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES! IT WILL BE IN A HUGE AD-TELLING BUSINESS OWNERS TO COME TO THEM IF THEY EVER SUFFERED THE TYPE OF HELL THE HOFFMANS WERE PUT THROUGH!

  
  

  I was at the hearing and Ms Hoffman was RIGHT all along...the State only had this one witness who would show up and she crumbled on the stand ADMITTING she did indeed sign up for the Auto Ship program Ms Hoffman has gotten slack over-she also admitted she was told the policies on the paperwork and the invoice AND that even Ms Hoffman told her...I felt so bad for saying the cruel things I did about Ms Hoffman as I saw she was just following her policies and that the clients are just liars trying to get out of paying for goods they signed up for. I WAS a bit confused all along I must say as when I reported on this I did notice you cannot even check out of the website without agreeing to Auto Ship and it IS noted in like 5 places.. I think based on all the comments people make about her home the reality is these people are just jealous and I am humiliated I was a part of it. I wrote and apologized to the family and am happy to hear the judge sided with them, made fools of the state and that they are now suing for over 6 million! Good for them! What they have been put through is horrible...I read the AG in that state Blumenthal was voted as the TOP Worst AG in the country and that he has 23,000 similar pending suits...he cares about nothing but money it seems and will destroy people to get it...scary. ps I was just told that over 9000 business's may sue the AG for doing the same thing to them in some class action suit-oh boy! Bet Ct wished they had just settled with the Hoffman's...

• herbsflorida said on Mar 18, 2009....

  
  
  I was at the hearing and Ms Hoffman was RIGHT all along...the State only had this one witness who would show up and she crumbled on the stand ADMITTING she did indeed sign up for the Auto Ship program Ms Hoffman has gotten slack over-she also admitted she was told the policies on the paperwork and the invoice AND that even Ms Hoffman told her...I felt so bad for saying the cruel things I did about Ms Hoffman as I saw she was just following her policies and that the clients are just liars trying to get out of paying for goods they signed up for. I WAS a bit confused all along I must say as when I reported on this I did notice you cannot even check out of the website without agreeing to Auto Ship and it IS noted in like 5 places.. I think based on all the comments people make about her home the reality is these people are just jealous and I am humiliated I was a part of it. I wrote and apologized to the family and am happy to hear the judge sided with them, made fools of the state and that they are now suing for over 6 million! Good for them! What they have been put through is horrible...I read the AG in that state Blumenthal was voted as the TOP Worst AG in the country and that he has 23,000 similar pending suits...he cares about nothing but money it seems and will destroy people to get it...scary. ps I was just told that over 9000 business's may sue the AG for doing the same thing to them in some class action suit-oh boy! Bet Ct wished they had just settled with the Hoffman's...

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