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False Advertising

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Those "Lose Weight with No Effort" ads aren't true?

Finally the marketers of some popular diet products received some long, overdue fines from the FTC for false advertising on their claims. However, the companies are still allowed to market their products. You laugh, but obviously they are raking in sh--loads of money to pay these kinds of fines, re-package the product, and keep selling. According to USA Today’s Business section, TrimSpa will pay $1.5 million, Xenadrine EFX will pay $8-13 million, CortiSlim and CortiStress will surrender $12 million in assets and BASF will pay $3.2 million for One A Day WeightSmart. BASF’s claim is that they didn’t market it for weight loss, only as a multi-vitamin, but they will settle rather than fight due to legal costs. Hello? BASF you called your product WeightSmart, of course you were marketing it for weight loss.

There are no magic pills out there; unless, of course, you happen to be Jack from Jack and the Bean Stalk (wait, those were beans... like I said there are no magic pills). I joke, but really this is no laughing matter... It means even though I can't find one person who admits to buying these products, that no one is listening (and I'm in the wrong business). Supplements are one thing, but these companies are stealing your money!h

Now... if I could only stop believing those wrinkle cream ads!
Posted on 01.17.2007 by Registered CommenterTanya Ryno in | Comments1 Comment

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What? You mean I can't eat 20 Krispycremes and a few pills, and still lose the weight? ;-)

And I half don't feel sorry for the poor suckers that buy that sh*t..
January 17, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterchandira

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