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……and the “flat belly rule” ads and the “lose wrinkles in a week” ads. Enough already! The following ads were all shown together on one of my favorite websites.
DON’T Pay for White Teeth
Learn the trick discovered by a mom to turn yellow teeth white w/under $10.
MomsTeethStory.comSECRET: White Teeth Trick
Learn the trick discovered by a mom to turn yellow teeth white w/under $10.
JanicesTeeth.comDON’T Pay For White Teeth
Learn the trick, discovered by a mom, to turn yellow teeth white w/ $10
www.SharonsTeethStory.com
Anybody else see what’s wrong with this? These paid advertisements are polluting the internet. The testimonials are fake. Made up to get you to buy not one but 2 teeth whitening products. There is no teeth whitening trick discovered by a mom in NH. The products they are selling will do the same as any whitening product you find in your local pharmacy store. The only difference is that you have signed up for 2 recurring payments taken from your credit card each month.
Almost every website I visit is infested with these ads. I’m thinking that with the gazillion of them floating around, millions of suckers around the country must be buying. So by now, shouldn’t everyone have a flat stomach, glaring white teeth and look thirty-something? This is not happening.
or how about this….also on the exact same page of a weather site:
OffersBoston Mom Lost 47 lbs Following 1 rule!I Cut Down 47 lbs of Stomach Fat In A Month By Obeying This 1 Old Rule
www.RachelRayBlogs.com1 Rule of a Flat Stomach……Boston Mom cut out 53lbs of stomach fat by obeying this 1 old rule!
TheRachelRayDiet.comBoston Mom Of 3 Lost 50 lbs From Home!See How A Mom Of 3 Cut 50 lbs Of Pure Fat With 2 Free Products!
jodies-weight-loss.com
and if you’re from Austin or New York or Cleveland well, you know how it works. And Rachel Ray has absolutely nothing to do with this stuff! Nor does Oprah! Am I the only one getting pissed off by this?
The number one problem with every single one of these “try it for free” ads is that they will charge your credit card for the products whether you cancel within the trial period or not. There are thousands of people being charged even after they cancelled. So do the products work? Maybe, but who cares? if they are charging your credit card after you cancelled your free trial or not sending product that you paid for and they do the same as any other whitening product on the market…..then what does it matter?
Now here’s a Natural Teeth Whitening Product discovered by little ole me, a mom from NH…hee-hee, couldn’t resist. If you want an effective teeth whitening product that truly works without a monthly charge to your credit card this is it. And it’s natural!!!!
Update December 13th: On December 1st the FTC placed new laws in effect for false testimonials and deceiving ads on infomercials, internet, radio, etc. They are still at it. Here is a great video of the latest scam. They are now following the FTC guidelines however by placing huge, and I mean huge disclaimers at the bottom of the page and if you take the time to read them, they are pretty comical:
We are not affiliated in any way with CNN, WebTV, News Channel 7, ABC, NBC, CBS, U.S. News or FOX. CNN, WebTV, News Channel 7, ABC, NBC, CBS, U.S. News, FOX, and Consumer Reports are all registered trademarks of their respective owners. (So how can they use their logos?)
It is important to note that this site and the stories depicted above is to be used as an illustrative example of what some individuals have achieved with this/these products. This website, and any page on the website, is based loosely off a true story, but has been modified in multiple ways including, but not limited to: the story, (HAHAHA), the photos, and the comments. Thus, this blog, and any page on this website, are not to be taken literally or as a non-fiction story. (In other words it’s all bullshit!)
THE STORY DEPICTED ON THIS SITE AND THE PERSON DEPICTED IN THE STORY ARE NOT REAL. RATHER, THIS STORY IS BASED ON THE RESULTS THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE USED THESE PRODUCTS HAVE ACHIEVED. THE RESULTS PORTRAYED IN THE STORY AND IN THE COMMENTS ARE ILLUSTRATIVE, AND MAY NOT BE THE RESULTS THAT YOU ACHIEVE WITH THESE PRODUCTS. (so when they say,”this mom from NH discovered a way to whiten teeth with free products”, it’s not real).
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12 Responses to “These Teeth Whitening Ads Are Killing Me!”
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I despise these ads. I think it’s the pandering and the knowledge that there are people that will buy this because “IT WAS DISCOVERED BY A MOM!!!”. It sounds strange but I wish google would use their knowledge about me to get ads i might not hate. invasions of privacy could be better than seeing the exact same ads over and over again. nonetheless, i’ve installed ad block plus, an app in firefox, to keep them from loading.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am
I myself have been fascinated by these for a while. I can’t figure out how the scams are supposed to make money, but they must because the ads are absolutely epidemic.
I actually went to some of the URLs you listed to try to figure it out, but I couldn’t see how the scam was supposed to work without providing information. Is it just ad data mining? Figuring out who to telemarket weight loss and whitening products to?
If you use FireFox, just use the AdBlock add-on. It works wonders, and yes, when they make new domains the ads get through again temporarily, but because so many are from so few sources, you can do a pretty good job of cutting down the annoyances most of the time.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:28 pm
They make money by billing your credit card up to 80 bucks or more a month. You have to give your credit card to cover the shipping for the “free” trial. Deep in the fine print it mentions you have to call to cancel your membership in the program. Most people dont realize this until they’ve been billed a couple of times. It’s a total scam. The product is crap and only used as bait.
October 4th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
These ads are actually back dooring your providers servers and they are replacing the ads that should be there with these “scam” ads.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 am
What gets me are the pictures are so blatantly photoshopped. When these ads first started coming up, the pictures looked just barely plausible, but as the ads proliferated, the quality plowed downhill and they all look ridiculous now.
Does anyone look at the pictures and actually think they’re for real?
October 6th, 2010 at 9:02 am
These ads are the stupidest things on the ‘net!
Where/how do you find/get the AdBlock thing?
October 31st, 2010 at 9:37 am
I’m with you. Now “Mom” has a new $5.00 wrinkle cream. They other ads that irritate me are the ones that you can sign up to receive free samples, but the picture they show (like the colored contacts) aren’t what they are giving away. But you can get a hell of a lot of info on new medications for conditions like psoriasis if you like. So apparently the free sample you get is a brochure. Another pet peeve of mine are the advertisements like the one for Proactive. They will sell you they product for a a supposed discount price, but yet they have never sold the product for any other price…so how can that be at a discount?
If it’s a $45.00 value, but your always going to sell it for $19.99 then guess what….the value of it is $19.99. Just saying
December 29th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I like to take an “almost out of money” visa gift card and get the free trial offer…they can’t tell and they can’t REBILL….Mwahhahahahaha
December 29th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
I was scammed a year ago by, oh I forget the name smile, a teeth whitening company.
I did find this while searching on the internet last month and wanted to see if it was for real and it is. So I decided to post it on every board that is about people being scammed by teeth whitening companies.
Apparently, the owner of this company was scammed years ago and decided to start a company doing things the right way. When I called their customer service number I was speaking to American people, “Wow what a change”. They described their program the following way.
They not only sell product on Amazon, in salons and though their website, they are also allowing anyone who was scammed by a teeth whitening company the opportunity to order refill kits from them as if they were originally customers of theirs. He said that they make a dollar or so for each refill kit sold and the owner wanted to give back to any one that was scammed. They are selling refill kits for $10 each. The link to their offer page is here.
http://www.nicewhites.com/offers/iws/
I order last month, the gel pack arrived 5 days later, and there was no surprises. They did not bill me for additional product, etc… I think this is a great thing they are doing to help everyone else…
December 31st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Remember, the scam is not necessarily the product itself. It is the free trials that charge your credit card for months even after you have canceled. The other scam is the way many of these affiliates are advertising the product with false reviews and lies in the ad headlines.
April 16th, 2011 at 11:41 am
One of the grossest was the radio ad for Evercleanse that claimed to provide rapid weight loss through a “clinically proven method to remove the 30 lbs of waste that some experts say is stuck to the colon walls like paste or spackle.” I’m over 50 and have had a colonoscopy, and can tell you that I lost nothing close to 30 lbs during the prep, and the inside of my colon was clean and pink. I called them up and asked them which “clinic” proved their product and to name their “experts.” When they flat out refused, I called the radio station to report a scam. The station, largest and oldest all news station in Boston, wrote back to say that it wasn’t a scam and continued to run this sickening ad for a long time. Yuck-O!
August 13th, 2011 at 11:58 am
I just wanted to post a compliment to the bloggers on this site. I find it refreshing to read the comments from people who are not mindless sheep. I suspect that the root cause underlying the success of duping the public with any advertisement is that our schools don’t adequately educate people on how to tell the truth from fantasy, exaggeration or lies. I’d like to create a group that produces viral videos, which use humor to teach people how to think for themselves. As always… easier said than done. (bobantispam@gmail.com)
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