PowerBalance Admits Bands Are A Scam

By Mark Lorenz on January 3rd, 2011

Breaking – bands that you wear on your hands don’t give you magic powers. No matter how many athletes tell you they do.

Because athletes do crazy things to give themselves a competitive edge. Things like drinking their own urine or rubbing themselves between 200 different sets of silicone before they tee off. Lately, there’s been a craze going around at gyms that maybe wearing wristbands will drastically increase your ability to perform physical tasks – which made about as much sense to me as someone saying that the shake weight will be able to tone your body and make you as chiseled as one of Madonna’s abdominals – it’s crazy talk. Absolute crazy talk.

Fortunately, dumb jocky types are a good audience to sell any type of miracle cure to, and the things have been flying off the shelves to the tune of millions of dollars. Only one problem – they do absolutely nothing. Literally, nothing. They just sit on your wrist and impede your ability to masturbate. They don’t even detrimentally affect you, like give you cancer or incurable diseases, they literally do nothing.

And the Australian company has admitted as much, in an online statement.

In our advertising we stated that Power Balance wristbands improved your strength, balance and flexibility.

We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

If you feel you have been misled by our promotions, we wish to unreservedly apologise and offer a full refund.

To obtain a refund please visit our website www.powerbalance.com.au or contact us toll-free on 1800 733 436

This offer will be available until 30th June 2011. To be eligible for a refund, together with return postage, you will need to return a genuine Power Balance product along with proof of purchase (including credit card records, store barcodes and receipts) from an authorised reseller in Australia.

This Corrective Notice has been paid for by Power Balance Australia Pty Ltd and placed pursuant to an undertaking to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission given under section 87B of the Trade Practices Act, 1974.

Heavy.