My first experience here would be a 10 star rating if it were possible, but because my second visit was so horrible, giving them a 2 star rating is saying a lot, but it is annoying that I pick up my stuff in Woodland Hills or Pasadena when I live right by this store. With the new year here I really want to see results, but I had such a terrible experience here that I'd rather drive way out of my way to get my supplements. Recommended by several girlfriends to go see Dan the Asian guy, like everyone else calls him LOL. I have never met a person so knowledgeable at a store like this. I have tried products from various stores, Vitmain Shoppe being the worst by far; mainly because what the person recommended made me feel sick. I was very skeptical either way, but my friend Michelle told me to go see Dan, the Asian one, I will explain why later on
My first experience at this store left me feeling like I actually learned something, Dan talked to me like he cared, and he made sense of everything that we talked about, I am not an expert at all, but I am a nurse and my bf is a dietician; so it is not like I am blind to health and nutrition sciences. With that being said, you could tell that everything Dan spoke about was backed up by educated information. I asked him tons of questions, and with no hesitation he had an answer; I practically convinced myself that I would be shopping for a good reason after Dan explained why some things were absolutely necessary and why others were up to how far I would like to take my results. I was seriously there for at least an hour and he helped 10 other customers while still keeping me in the conversation. It was funny, but while he was helping the other customers, not 1, but 3 different customers told me to listen to him, that he knew everything he was talking about. When it was all said and done, I purchased the watermelon Thermovex, Protein 7, Natures fuel, Natures EFA and the glutacor. I also purchased a few things for my boyfriend, the 1-xd, arabol, and betabol. That same night my boyfriend called him on the phone and talked to him for 15-20 minutes, Dan encouraged him to also use some of my protein and glutacor mix. After about 3 weeks we both wanted to come in and tell him he was right about everything that he said, and that we were loving everything! BIG MISTAKE
We went in there excited to talk to Asian Dan, and there was an older guy in there that was wearing a hat. After reading the reviews its apparent this guy is the owner, my question is, why is Asian Dan more of an expert than the owner? You would think the owner would know more than the employees, go check it out for yourself, you will know exactly what i am talking about if you talk to Asian dan, and than the owner. Back to our experience, which was the worst sales experience i have ever been in. We started grabbing some of the things that we previously had gotten to bring up to the counter and this man asked us how we used it, and than once we told him it was like he was mad at us, like why are you using it like that? Its suppose to be used 3-4 times per day, I was thinking calm down dude, your talking me out of buying your products. I told him that Asian Dan had told us to use it this way, and it looked like he was going to explode in anger, he started grabbing all of these flyers that we already had, and talked to us like we were complete idiots, when in reality we know more about diet and exercise than he does. He also kept insisting that my boyfriend drink 8 servings of the protein 7 per day, which is at least half whey protein, 4 times per day, two servings per use and he's only 165 pounds! If that's not sales, than i don't know what is. I hate to be honest about this experience, but my boyfriend is a doctor of nutrition and he has never seen somebody try so hard to push falsified claims about products and ingredients that you could easily go look up online and see that he is clearly wrong. Nutrishop has amazing products, but I would avoid this store unless you know Asian Dan will be working. read more