why would they keep putting scam advertisement to go ona major magazine like SLAM if it is a scam?...
2006-09-28 07:14:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
They put the ad on any magazine because that is what magazines are living on. They could not live on the money you are paying at the store for them, or if they would depend on your mony, the price would be 10 or 12 or more $ for an issue. To keep the prices lower, they are getting gazillions from companies paying for their ads, and they usually can NOT choose what is put on. Scam or not, the magazine publishers can not control that.
Now to your question: yes, they are all scams, there is no such thing as swallowing a magick pill and the losing 100 pounds while keep stuffing your face with junkfood. When you read the fine print of these products, you will ALWAYS find sentences like "in addition to exercise and diet you will have great success with our pills" or so.
That means: the exercise and the diet will make you lose weight, not the pills. When they claim "in addition to excercise and diet" you should hear an alarm ringing. What do you need the pills for when dieting and exercising??
No, this is still the easiest way to get people's money. You want to eat chocolate and pizza and hamburgers and chips and icecream and who-knows-what-else, but you don't want to really go to a gym and work out hard to lose the pounds. You would love to lay on your sofa, munching on your pizza watching Oprah, and the pounds would just melt off by themselves.
Now, this sounds great, but it is only a dream and cannot come true. But the pill-sellers know your dream, and they get your money by promising your dream will come true, if you only send them 39,95 $ (or so).
Of course it will not work, and you are probably too embarrassed to charge them with fraud. It is usually an amount too small to be charged with, I mean, the victims usually don't go through all the hassle to get their few bucks back. And that is exactly what these companies count on!
And for the case that somebody might not be embarrassed enough: they will show their fineprint, where you can read "in addition to excercise and diet our pills will make you thin" or so!
Get it?
2006-09-28 07:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by albgardis T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All are scams. Money makes a good way to create a blind eye. If you read the mags rules on advertisement you'll see they do not check any product's claims nor is the mag responsible for results. Human growth hormone is the only thing that works, besides breaking the bone stretching the gap and letting the bone fill in. Yes some people will do anything. Anyway you need a doctor for either.
2006-09-28 07:42:04 · answer #2 · answered by Greg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only height supplement that works is to put lifts in your shoes.
2006-09-28 07:29:28 · answer #3 · answered by smgray99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TO MAKE MONEY!!!!!!!!!! there are sooooo many suckers...and yes...height supplements are a scam...and no..being 2 inches taller isn't going to make you better at basketball....
2006-09-28 07:17:02 · answer #4 · answered by nicole 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-09-28 07:19:45 · answer #5 · answered by shine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, all r..they feed on naiveness of millions :(
2006-09-29 00:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by world news 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋