noice

i've seen Brushwood before, he's the shizz

Nice mix of high & low culture there...

Well... Nike DID have the "it's gotta be the shoes" campaign...

doesn't even matter...dvr making commercials pointless

But you'll still have a cool sticker!

Ok, that's a joke, not defending them or even playing devil's advocate.

The Gatorade example approaches this territory but still remains a separate "scam". Mainly because the electrolyte claim ISN'T b.s.
HOWEVER, what Gatorade doesn't tell you is that the main electrolyte within, the main one you lose when playing sports (or tilling a garden in the sun, or moving a couch up 5 flights of stairs, etc etc) is sodium... Just plain ol' salt. All you need to do is eat or drink something with salt in it and this "crucial electrolyte will be replenished".
Basically it's diluted kool aid with salt added. (and not to digress too much, but the potassium content, the other crucial electrolyte needed in "replenishment", is NOT negligible though it isn't exactly loaded with it. orange juice does the trick much better)
So all these nutrition "scams" are a bit different, in that while still prey on people's lack of basic scientific and nutritional knowledge, they don't actually present false scientific claims. Their big sin is implying that their product is the ONE and ONLY way to do what they do when in reality they're just a much more expensive and convoluted way to achieve the result.

p.s. OH GOD don't get me started on the poor diabetics and how they're used and abused to within an inch of their lives and pocketbooks. Two words: GLUCOSE TABLETS. Whoever came up with that idea should be jailed.

I was shocked when I bought gatorade in the states at how rubbish it was nutrients wise- its just coloured, salted, sugar water! Cant believe they get away with all this electrolyte bs.

Spooky!

The Endura strip is like Viagra on steroids.

haha from Doyle's twitter


TexDolly You 2 plus 2 posters need to go to thegolfchip.com and see Fred Funk, Bernard Langer, Fuzzy Zoeller, Steve Spurrier and the Endura strips.
3 minutes ago via web

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TexDolly I understand the placebo effect, even so if it helps...good. I own no part of the Endura company and haven't been paid a dime.
1 minute ago via web

From twitter:

Felt bad about the Negreanu/stickers shop after I found out his endorsement was a lie. So here's a little restitution...

Solid Dollyshop!

Says the guy who financed expeditions to find Bigfoot and Noah's ark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZtjyg8wYac#t=2m46s

On a more serious note, personal testimony is not proof that these strips work in the way the manufacturers claim. That would require actual scientific testing.

He says they found The Titanic but ran out of money. Pretty crazy story if true.

these scam artists should be put up against a wall and executed.

lol at the placebo controlled studies haven't been done yet.

all it would take is a machine that exerts a force on the arm and then you need a couple of test subjects who randomly wear the sticker or not and measure the result which would be completely random.

so disturbing

Yes. Why use something like a scale or a gauge to measure force, when you can use a salesman pressing down on your arm to do it (as was shown in the now deleted video).

These work great on my junk.

Now I've got a Magic Johnson. The ladies just won't leave me alone.
I have to fight them off with a stick, a Magic Stick.
Wink...

"If you like money like I do, then I suggest you use these Strips. Everybody knows I play long secessions - Doyle Brunson

Wait what? Is the south rising again to leave the union?

I find Doyle's love for placebos more surprising than his love for secessions.

Does Dewey Tomko purposely make it look like he has no eyes?

LOL, So the Endura guys are basically buying stickers from thegolfchip.com for $29.99 and selling them for $44.95...

Awesome.

Edit: DN vid shows them using GOLF stickers.

Apperently this scam has been around for 5yrs or so.

Ok so apparently this guy named Ken Rasner is the original instigator of this little marketing ploy. He had a company called Lifewave that sold a sticker making these same claims (all kinds of youtube videos for it). Made a fortune but couldnt get a patent (wonder why), and then created a new off shoot called CieAura. Now there are a bunch of copy cats.

Found this post on a forum. Lot of money in this little scam.

Good article
http://quazen.com/shopping/consumer-...s-scam-or-not/

museum of hoaxes forum
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/f...wthread/10252/

^^^ Wow, disgusting.

So there IS money in stickers.

Edit: Photographic Proof

Ok so Lifewave was the original (founded by David Schmidt) 2004 and many new emulators are spin offs by former members of Lifewave. They just take the original idea and expand on it.

They are mostly MLM's (multi level marketing) companies.
Pyramid style schemes


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing

*hurp* I just threw up in my mouth a little.