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Old December 30th, 2004, 09:03 PM
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They never do tell us what the balance bracelet does in that commercial...

I've been tryin to figure this out ever since i saw the commercial on the golf channel. WHAT DOES IT DO!!!??
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Old December 30th, 2004, 09:09 PM
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It does about the same thing as tying an onion to your belt loop with some twine.

I think if they were to make any medicinal claims the FDA would fine them.
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Old December 30th, 2004, 09:45 PM
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If the onion does not work, try burying a dead chicken in the back yard at midnight on a moonless night and chanting a voodoo spell while shaking a rattle. In my opnion, anyone, and I mean ANYONE who thinks that silly 80 dollar bracelet is going to do anymore then empty his wallet deserves the silly thing. Copper bracelets...magnets...it's all snake oil..they used to sell hair restorer until the drug companies actually found something that DOES grow hair. Of couse the people pushing that silly bracelet will NEVER say what it does...that would be false advertising. They are just clever and shrewd enough to just SUGGEST it MIGHT be beneficial without actally making any real claims. But the most amazing thing to me is the number of other wise intellegent people who wear the thing. Unreal. I guess that old saying mistakenly attributed to P.T. Barnum about a sucker being born every minute is true.
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Old December 30th, 2004, 10:30 PM
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I'm not a wearer of copper or magnetic bracelets but I have read that magnetic therapy can be beneficial to some pain sufferers. I can't vouch for the copper thing or if a magnetic bracelet can help you but magnetic therapy isn't "snake oil." I do agree with you and good ol' P.T. though!
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Old December 30th, 2004, 10:50 PM
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I wear one of the Balance Bracelets does it work I have to say that each to his own, but even if it does not work it is still a very nice pice of jewelry, does it work for me yes I think so and I believe that is what counts so throw me in with all the rest of the suckers. But I still will go back to my original statement, even if it does not work it is a nice piece of jewelry at a very good price so lump ever one into the sucker pile for wearing jewelry.
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Old December 30th, 2004, 10:58 PM
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If it works for you Halk then how could you be considered a "sucker?" If it works and you wear it because you think it looks good on you, that's a bonus!
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Old December 31st, 2004, 01:40 PM
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No problem with wearing jewlery...what I don't like are the subltle innuendoes the infomercial makes that it "does something else"...that is the part that I think is the "sucker factor".
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