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Pharmanex and NuSkin?

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Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have heard so much about this product, the bunk of it and the benefit of it. Since TVCHers seem to be in the "know", please give me your thougsh and comments on this.

Azriel
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had never heard of it before, so I looked it up and read a little about it. It seems to have an Amway multi-level marketing vibe about it - personally use the products, sell the products and get other people to sell the products under you.

It makes me a little skeptical. In multi-level marketing companies, the people tend to act like any new product from their company is the greatest thing invented since sliced bread. The products are usually good quality, but nothing more outstanding than comparable products already on the market.

If you try the product and like it, the next step will be the person you bought it from telling you that if you become a distributor then you can get your personal products at a discount. If you become a distributor, then the push is on to get you to get your friends and family to try it and get them to be distributors under you.

I'm actually having trouble finding anything about the product. I'm having to wade through tons of distributor websites that are hawking the opportunity to build your own business selling it.

Sorry, I'm not really being helpful, but I just wanted to warn you to proceed with caution. Use the products if they are good, but don't let them sell you a rosey dream of making tons of money selling it. :-)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What Az said about multi-levels. They are just a hair short of outright scams.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whew.....I am glad that you all think that way.

What they are are pyramid schemes, they aren't so much to sell and promote the product as they are to get people to distribute under you, at 1500 bucks a person to sign up to distribute. What else I found out, is that the AMA doesn't even approve these supplements. They are tested in China and "approved" under Chinese standards of medicine. When I posed that question to a distributor, she told me that their Vitamins were better than anything the AMA had approved.

What?

Don't you think the American Medical Association would know what vitamins were good and bad?

Also, they use a biophotonic scanner to see how healthy you are. Ok, so if it says you are healthy then you don't need the product. What do you think the odds are that this "promotional" machine is going to test you and the results are going to be that you are healthy enough not to take the supplements? Then they wouldn't make any money off of you then, would they?

Not only that, they have a stimulant in it that can cause, but hasn't been proven to be and addictive agent.

Supposedly these "supplements" are supposed to make you feel invincible. You will never get sick. Well, one of the people I know who is gung ho and a distributor of Pharmanex, is sick. Suprise suprise.

A friend was taking the supplements and was having trouble sleeping, having apnea, muscle spasms, leg cramps, etc. She ran out of the supplement, and the symptoms stopped. She had never linked them before.

Pyramid Schemes are illegal.

Am I bashing?