"Toning shoes" don't work: Proof. and Lawsuit. (Page 2)

so it's fair for a company to make HUNDREDS of millions off of a false claim?

Reebok needs a new legal team. lol How on earth did they prove without a doubt, that the shoes don't work? Granted, Reebok was caught lying...but, I don't get how they proved that.

zed707 - 2011-09-29 1:31 PM

crusevegas - 2011-09-28 6:09 PM

bzgl40 - 2011-09-28 3:50 PM

crusevegas - 2011-09-28 3:48 PM And people wonder why business is leaving the USA for other countries.

So false advertising is ok?  We should just accept that and customer beware?  I am all for customer beware and stuff but I see no problem with laws that prevent false advertising. 

Perhaps you could explain to me who was injured and what the injury was? Other than the money they spent on some shoes that didn't live up to the claim?

Was someone killed because of this?

Was someone physically injured?

Did someone buy the shoes, sit around and not get in better shape?

Where they dangerous to anyone?

How about the FTC hold our elected officials to the same standard they do the people who actually create jobs!

Have you seen these things? They're hideous. Any woman who wore those things has a claim

I swear I am not making this up.

My neighbor wore them to run in, not marathons or anything. Just a couple miles a few times a week. She ended up at the docs office for some hip pain. Hip pain turned out to be arthritis (she is only 30). Her doc says it's because of the shoes. He told her to go get some decent shoes before she runs again.

Not getting into the whole political thing. But since you all were asking if they hurt anyone .

We have a lady here at work that has always walked with a cane due to leg and back issues (10 years that she has been here).  She switched to those shoes and within a couple of months she no longer walked with a cane.

She is on another floor and I don't always see her, but we were in the elevator and I noticed she didn't have her cane and commented on that fact.  She swears by these shoes and completely attributed her improvement to the shoes.

I swear I am not making this up.

My neighbor wore them to run in, not marathons or anything. Just a couple miles a few times a week. She ended up at the docs office for some hip pain. Hip pain turned out to be arthritis (she is only 30). Her doc says it's because of the shoes. He told her to go get some decent shoes before she runs again.

Not getting into the whole political thing. But since you all were asking if they hurt anyone .

This thread brings  to mind something I was involved in, a class action suit, and I was awarded free flowers.

I purchase often from a flower company, I won’t name it here. It’s not 1-800-flowers though. But, a true competitor of theirs. I got a class action letter in the mail a few years ago, advising me that there was a settlement, and it showed the defendant (the flower company) and the plaintiff (a customer, named specifcally) He alleged that this company was false advertising and saying that their flowers came ‘fresh’ from wherever. Anyone I have ever sent these flowers to, have always raved over them, so I didn’t think there was anything wrong with this company. Well, apparently, this guy somehow tracked where his order came from, and it was traced back to not a local farmer, but a flower boutique in the area. He sued, and won! The award was free flowers for all the people who had bought flowers in a certain timeframe. That was cool, I guess. But, I just thought it was interesting that he won.