Poll: What product is the biggest scam?

[Dags90]

I don't know, but I'd be tempted to say most of my friend's medical beliefs. She is very much into alternative medicine. For example, she needs an operation on her knee, and as opposed to trusting the orthopedic surgeon, who has made his entire career around studying the various intricities of joints such as the knee, she wants to have it done by a chiropracter.

She's going to have a chiropractor do surgery on her? Can they do that legally?

My mom seriously considered buying this:

Why is it always from Europe?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The shake-weight. Google it.

Not so much a scam as it is the worlds best orchestrated practical joke though...

You do not know how much me and my friends laughed when we first saw that.

Little did we know, we laughed more when seeing "Shake-Weight for Men".

 

[Megacherv]

Apple products (especially Macs and MacBooks)

C'mon, seriously, what more are you getting for the price? Sure, they're made of metal, and have a loner battery, but you can get a system as powerful for less than half the price.

Or for a bit more than half the price, you could get a system that runs Win7 AND Mac OS X at the same time.

 

[theSovietConnection]

She's going to have a chiropractor do surgery on her? Can they do that legally?

I don't think so, but she's not the type who would let something like that bother her. When in reality, assuming it's the case, that should be the red flag.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Farmville, bottled water, and Shamwow.

Yep.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

The shake-weight. Google it.

Not so much a scam as it is the worlds best orchestrated practical joke though...

You do not know how much me and my friends laughed when we first saw that.

Little did we know, we laughed more when seeing "Shake-Weight for Men".

I just looked that up.

..I couldn't get 10 seconds into the advertisement without bursting out in laughter. Much of it was had. Thank you.

 

[linkzeldi]

Anything an infomercial would try and sell you..is a sham.

Agreed.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Do I win?

Actually, they're quite comfortable. I have a blue one.

Anyway, finallyfast.com and freecreditreport.com.

 

[KingGolem]

Wow, there's some tough competition in this thread. My favorite worthless shmuck bait, however, has to be the Kindle, a remarkably ill-concieved product if ever there was one. It's basically like an iPod for books, but the problem is that people generally take a long time to finish one book, so there is no need to carry around several at once. Carrying around the one book you are currently reading is no more inconvenient than carrying a Kindle, and what's more, if you lose or destroy the book, you're out $8-$25, as opposed to the $132 price tag of the Kindle, which I presume is more fragile than a book due to it being an electronic device.

 

[PwnSt0nes]

A guy I knows says that instead of buying shaving cream or shaving lotions or anything like that, you should just buy dawn dish soap. According to him it works a lot better, plus, when you compare the price and size of the dawn to the actual shaving cream/lotions, you're getting a much better deal with the dish soap.

I don't know if it works or not, since I use an electric razor and don't have to bother with shaving lotions, but, if you use a traditional razor you could probably save some cash by switching to dawn for all your shaving needs.

YES i thought i was the only person that used dawn for shaving cream.

and yes it does work better.

 

[Code Monkey]

 

[Eneljie]

Politicians? It seems to be common enough for them to be bought... if your a corporation.
Sorry about the political statement, but it is my honest opinion that those things are the most expensive shams to go to market.

 

[icame]

A dvd rewinder...I'm serious those do exist

 

[icame]

I got ninja'd...

 

[salad10203]

Paying for a website (Premium memberships etc.)

 

[thylasos]

Shaving cream. Water has precisely the same moisturising properties on facial hair.

Warm water opens the pores, cold water closes them to prevent infection.

 

[Whoatemysupper]

Freemasonry? Just guessing.

 

[Whoatemysupper]

Tecnically anything thats not a cave, fire, container, medicine or weapon.

 

[Tanis]

Natural remedies are high on my list of rip off scams, with Homoeopathy the king of them all. They charge you for sugar pills.

Yep...homeopathic stuff is pretty much all BS.