My mom spends $40/mo on that shady "Protandim" vitamin stuff

[Spikesoldier]

Just to give you an idea, taken from a blog post about the "new" guidelines (2009):


Straight from the FTC:

Now, it's not likely you're going to go to jail over this kind of deceptive advertising, but the FTC has fined non-compliant advertisers lots and lots of money ($50,000 per offense is usually the starting point) AND they are more than happy to hold parent companies responsible for the actions of their affiliates / distributors / whatever they want to call themselves.

In case anyone really wants to ruin his day:

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

Yep nVidia got called out on this a while ago, now all of their shills have to report their relationship as they troll forums.

Same thing with Intel and Newegg we see here: They are CLEARLY repping either company in their username/handles or signature.

 

[Kirby]

lol, he ran for city council in pleasant view, utah in 2009.

i wonder if that's his personal phone number... :hmm:

 

[Cogman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren

Yikes, wonder if this is a relative?

 

[FrankR]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren

Yikes, wonder if this is a relative?

No its not.

 

[eits]

I said PRODUCT. And you didn't show me a product you showed me a vitamin.

https://www.juiceplus.com/nsa/content/ResearchShows.soa

 

[Dankk]

Turns out this guy has another website at http://www.jefflundgren.com. In one of his recent blog posts, he answers someone's question about Protandim by saying "I have no affiliation with this product". Then in his blog's sidebar he links to his Facebook page (same guy who posted here), as well as his studynrf2.com, the other website he owns.

 

[eits]

Turns out this guy has another website at (link). In one of his recent blog posts, he answers someone's question about Protandim by saying "I have no affiliation with this product". Then in his blog's sidebar he links to his Facebook page (same guy who posted here), as well as his (another link), the other website he owns.

by posting his link, you're actually helping him. i suggest editing your post to remove his link. don't improve his google rank.

 

[Cogman]

Turns out this guy has another website at. In one of his recent blog posts, he answers someone's question about Protandim by saying "I have no affiliation with this product". Then in his blog's sidebar he links to his Facebook page (same guy who posted here), as well as his studynrf2.com, the other website he owns.

Tricky internet! So hard to hide connections!

 

[Dankk]

Also, his profile on MLMsocial.com got deleted sometime in the past hour or so, but you can view a cached version of it here. lol

 

[Born2bwire]

Please tell me one of you guys at least reported all of this (with links to cached pages) to the FTC.

 

[Cogman]

Also, his profile on MLMsocial.com got deleted sometime in the past hour or so, but you can view a cached version of it here. lol

lol, looks like he is doing the "oh shit" shuffle. QUICK, sever all connections! Deny Everyting!

 

[BeauJangles]

by posting his link, you're actually helping him. i suggest editing your post to remove his link. don't improve his google rank.

All the links here are no-follow, it won't help him much. Thanks to Xrumer, Google doesn't put much value in forum links.

 

[Kirby]

Also, his profile on MLMsocial.com got deleted sometime in the past hour or so, but you can view a cached version of it here. lol

call him and ask why he deleted it

 

[Dankk]

call him and ask why he deleted it
801-737-5863
303-810-2222

Turns out he doesn't live that far from me. Maybe I'll stop by his house and say hi.

 

[Kirby]

pose as a door-to-door salesman. give a him a taste of his own medicine. :biggrin:

 

[OlafSicky]

You are lucky it's only $40 people spend thousands on this crap see my post neighbour spent thousands http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2179191&highlight=

 

[eits]

All the links here are no-follow, it won't help him much. Thanks to Xrumer, Google doesn't put much value in forum links.

i was under the impression that because there's so much traffic here and because he's got a link posted on here, google will value his link a little more.