Another weight loss scam

[Crundy]

http://www.thepinkpatch.co.uk

Notable quotes:
the Pink Patch contains only 100% natural herbal ingredients
Alarm bells.

And, in the disclaimer:
Results May Vary. For best results use as part of a low-calorie, low fat meal plan & exercise program.
Of course! Use our product along with diet, excercise, and other things that will cause you lose weight, and you might lose weight, but if you don't then it's not because our product sucks.

Ingredients:
Proprietary Formula: Fucus Vesiculosus, Extrac, 5-HTP, Guarana, Zinc Pyruvate, Yerba Mate, Flaxseed Oil, Lecithin, L-Carnitine
Note the first. I agree, they are trying to Fucus. Lecithin? Sylvia would be proud.

Seems to be in the UK. Who do we report this to for false advertising?

[wahrheit]

The pink patch? Made me think of something completely different (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:German_concentration_camp_chart_of_prisoner_ markings.jpg) at first. :boggled:

Their entire web page just screams scam into ones face. Their address is a postbox, what a surprise...

[Bob Blaylock]

Yes, you will lose weight.
But the weight that you will lose…
Is from your wallet.

[Crundy]

I sent them an email two days ago:

"Hello,
Are you able to provide a link to an independent study proving the effectiveness of your product against a placebo under double-blind conditions?"

No response yet, which leads me to believe that they know the product is useless. If they did actually believe that it worked then they would email me back with details about how all the ingredients have been clinically proven (kind of), and how they have loads of customers who swear by it. Non-response states that they don't want to get involved in an argument about efficacy so they can carry on taking cash.

I found loads of references to this outfit on the net which states that people signed up for the 'free' trial, which involved giving them extortionate P&P costs upfront, and giving them your credit card details to sign up for a subscription to the product, which you can cancel before they start taking money out. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case and people were getting charged even after cancelling.

The remarkable thing is, the ingredients have never been conclusively shown to be effective for weight loss at ingested doses which are thousands of times higher than a patch would release into the bloodstream. I guess as long as there people who do not think critically there will people on standby ready to take their cash.

[AgeGap]

A type of seaweed, it has been used as a holistic medicine for more than one hundred years.

What makes you think scam?

Best of all, because it's a skin patch, the Pink Patch delivers weight loss components directly to your system.

Say goodbye to those drugs that you put into a frame and hang on the wall. This one delivers it's pharmaceuticals components directly to your system.

[Crundy]

Looks like the BBC agree:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7452000/7452145.stm

The company claims it works by using natural appetite suppressants which are absorbed through the skin and make you less hungry.

But Newsbeat has received a number of texts saying the patches do not actually work.