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Power Balance bracelet had to admit they are a scam

January 5th, 2011

For those who read this blog you may have noticed we have written about the Power Balance bracelet as well as the EFX and many other bracelets that supposedly balance your body or do some other health benefit.

What is the Power Balance Scam?

Many celebrities and athletes use these bracelets and wear them out in public. People like P. Diddy, Robert De Niro, David Beckham and others have been caught on camera wearing these superstitious things.

Well the Australian government has asked for Power Balance to officially apologize for making false claims to the citizens of Australia and offer a refund.

Yesterday a class action lawsuit was issued in California against Power Balance bracelets as well. This is a typical Kevin Trudeau type of thing where a company starts selling something and saying all kinds of claims knowing they will get hit with class action lawsuits, attorney general investigations and so forth only to do it all over again.

I am sure Power Balance knew they would have to pay for scamming eventually but several people probably raked in money handsomely in the process.

Power Balance bracelets is now on record in the country of Australia for admitting that their bracelet really is the scam I have been saying it is for several months now.

Unfortunately even when a company comes out and declares that they are a scam it will not detract hard core believers. The reason people will continue to believe in these things is the same reason people will always believe in horoscopes, crystals, and Indian dream catchers.

You can see the official notice that they had to write and publish in the image below.
Click here to enlarge Power Balance bracelet corrective ad picture

power balance bracelet

Power Balance Corrective Advertisement

Voodoo Bracelets in Africa the equivalent to balance bracelets in America

January 3rd, 2011

EFX BraceletIn places like Kenya African tribes where rubber bracelets to ward off evil spirits. The tribe medicine men will sell these bracelets to the members of the tribe and they are everywhere there.

Now take a look at these balance bracelets in America. The bracelets use carefully crafted language to explain that you may see a promotion of enhanced balance, relaxation, and well being.

Black rubber braceletsThey will not outright claim anything as scientific fact as they can simply wait on the thousands of people who buy these bracelets to offer positive testimonials.

An interesting aspect to these testimonials is that many of them follow a very similar sales pitch type structure.

The comment starts off by saying they are skeptics themselves and are by nature a skeptical person. They go on to offer an impressive credential or two like that they are a doctor or engineer.

The testimonial is setup with offering the idea that the person is a skeptic to let those reading it put their guard down that maybe this comment is for real.

The person offers a good credential like that they are a doctor, scientist, engineer and then they begin on how they tried the balance bracelet and it fixed their back, or their balance or any number of ailments.

These fake testimonial comments are peppered throughout the Internet on many blogs and sites to give a higher percentage of positive comments than negative.

If it weren’t for these fake comments you would likely see a much higher percentage of negative comments as opposed to positive ones.

On the other end of this you do in fact have several real comments from people who are believers in balance bracelets.

I have a cousin who uses the EFX balance bracelet and he is a smart guy. Both him and his wife swear that it has releaved both back pain and headaches for them.

All I can say is that the bracelets work very well as placebos but do the bracelets actually do something scientific to cause my cousin to stop having a headache beyond placebo? No!

So are balance bracelets scams? The placebo effect works but that being said the bracelets are indeed scams there is simply no other way around it.

Power Balance Bracelets and there supposed amazing balancing power

December 3rd, 2010
Power Balance Bracelet Review

Power Balance vs Diagnosis Mentally Insane

The Power Balance bracelet is being sold in a few stores in Tyler Texas and throughout the whole country. This hologram bracelet fad has taken off beyond my wildest imagination.

When I first heard about the healing powers of hologram bracelets and an MLM opportunity to sell them I just about fell out of my seat laughing. The idea that a bracelet with a little hologram sticker can some how balance your body, cure headaches, allow you to achieve straight A’s in school and so on didn’t seem like something the mass public would fall for.

Power Balance Scam

I was way off in my confidence in the American public as even some of my own family are believers in the Power Balance bracelet.

My cousin wears the EFX brand of balance bracelets but there seems to be a never ending list of balance bracelet companies out there. The price is always in the range of $20 – $40 and some companies claim more radio frequencies in their to further balance your body above and beyond their competitors.

Stereo Compressor level 11

Ours Goes to 11 Dudes

The added frequencies claim reminds me of that Spinal tap movie when Joemeek’s SC2 stereo compressor, known affectionately as “the green box” has an input gain knob that goes up to 11 compared to other stereo compressors which only go up to 10.

The insanity surrounding these bracelets continues to amaze me as actors, professional sports players and successful people in my own family buy and wear these on a daily basis.
My cousin commented about the EFX bracelet:

“Susie and I have the EFX brand and I have noticed a significant change in my lower back pain.”

Videos about the Power Balance bracelet show vague promotional lingo that steer clear of actually factually saying they really do something. You will hear things like “promote balance” or “may do this or that”

What you won’t hear from company spokesmen are verifiable factual scientific statements that they are proven to cure a headache, back pain, and other such nonsense.

Q Ray vs EFX Bracelet

EFX Bracelet

In my mind the Power Balance bracelet is nothing more then a scam just like the EFX, Q(chi) ionic/biomagnetic bracelet, Q Ray bracelet, and the plenitude of other sucker bracelets out there.

It will take you about 2 minutes to go out on youtube and research how these balance demonstrations really work. They are easy to do carnival tricks but turn thousands of people into balance bracelet wearers everyday.

Videos for and against the Power Balance Bracelet

The Skeptic Zone on Applied Kinesiology

Fushigi Ball Contact Juggling and the Power Balance

Weight Loss via Power Balance Bracelet

Balance your Budget with the Power Balance Bracelet

Balance Bracelet Helping you get through TSA airport scanners