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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. They’re 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. 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.
Update December 13th: On December 1st the FTC placed new laws in effect for false testimonials and decieving 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, 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 bull!)
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.
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6 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?
December 10th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I very much dislike these adds
For one thing, they are a total scam. Anyone who is not stupid could notics that.
Another reason why they are so annoying is because they say stuff like “disocvered by a mom!!” ugh
Maybe google just wants money. But whatever they are trying to do, its invading the privacy of people
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