Questions and Answers
The link didn’t work, so if you want to see it go to YouTube and search for: foot detox scam speaks for itself
Good Morning Bruce- Welcome to Groupon and thank you for your feedback! Please know the team at Groupon works extremely hard to research and bring new and exciting offers to the table each day. The great thing about that is… if today’s deal isn’t your thing you can always get your Groupon tomorrow with a new offer and a different business!
If you have specific questions regarding this treatment I encourage you to speak with Dr. Roger Borbon directly as I am sure he’d be willing to explain the benefits of this popular treatment. Thanks again!
Morgan w/ Groupon
Bruce: you’re right, there’s no scientific evidence that this stuff is legitimate and every reason to believe that it is a scam. But yesterday’s Groupon was a pizzeria, and tomorrow’s will probably be something else that has an actual product or a useful service, so I wouldn’t give up on the website yet. But I also wouldn’t recommend paying for this particular “deal”.
THANK YOU Groupon!! What a great deal! I appreciate this highly beneficial treatment deal! My husband and I have done this a few times and have found it to be VERY beneficial!
Thanks Morgan, but the “foot detox scam” video on YouTube is hard to ignore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-Ogaa4jZA This Groupon appealed to me, but before buying it I decided to check it out with a Google search for ionic foot spa detox and got 126,000 results, many of which said it was a scam. I know the treatment is popular and that the benefits are up to Dr. Borbon and his patients to determine, but if it is a scam then Groupon is participating in it with their write-up which starts off the reviews section by saying that there aren’t any reviews for the ionic foot spa detox. This is not true… there are thousands, many of which say it’s a scam and include video as proof. I love your write-ups, but who does your research? If your sales people are doing your write-ups it’s just too tempting for them to boost sales by including false statements like “…there aren’t any reviews for the ionic foot spa detox…”. In Austin this one will sell like crazy, but Groupon needs to be more careful about who they believe… as we all do. :) And thanks for your comments too Sarah. I will stick around because I think Groupon is an excellent idea, well presented and executed, with great value for their subscribers. Wish I could buy stock in Groupon, or maybe even work for them!
Bruce, I appreciate your concern and comments, but really, now you’re starting to sound like a Troll.
You admit you’re new to this list and obviously you are not familiar with the products or people; so don’t start making judgments on the competency of the other list users.
We don’t need you to save us. One comment is all you need to post, and then let the other adults decide for themselves.
Almost anything can be seen as a scam depending on the viewer. Insurance, healthy food/fast food, the almight dollar, relationships, etc. Listening to a story (or viewing youtube) is someone else’s experience, doing a ionic bath yourself will be different for yourself. The scientific results of this, or anything else, are also experienced by the experimentor, including being filtered by their beliefs and desires. As they say staticians can say anything they want through manipulating numbers.
Bottomline, there are thousands and thousand of people who do indeed have unbelievable results. And no two baths produce the same goop, even for one person…..they tend to look similar from person to person to object, but never the same.
If your health is of concern to you, and you realize we are exposed to toxins repeatedly every day through normal living, this is a heck of a deal to “try it” for yourself.
Hey Everyone! It’s Chiffon from Pure Life here’s HOW IT WORKS: Short Version- through the physics of electromagnetics, specific polarities are used to push toxins out of the body. Long Version- Iontophoresis is a technique using a small electric charge to deliver a chemical through the skin. The technical description of this process is a non-invasive method of propelling high concentrations of a charged substance, normally bioactive agents, transdermally by repulsive electromotive force using a small electrical charge applied to an iontophoretic chamber containing a similarly charged active agent and its vehicle. Reverse Iontophoresis is simply repelling chemical agents out of the body rather than propelling them in. Feel free to call us with any questions, and hope all you have a fabulous rest of your Thursday Morning!
To Life without Limits,
Chiffon
Is it appropriate or expected to tip on this type of procedure? Also how long does it take?
There is no tip necessary, it’s all rolled into the price. And I would plan for about 25-30 minutes, the actual Footbath will be 23 minutes but by the time you take your socks & shoes off and all that I would say about 25-30.
I hope that helps, if not just give us a buzz and we’ll be happy to answer all questions!
Happiest Thursday afternoon to you all!!
-Chiffon
“Ion therapy” is a hoax. For those of you are not good at science and easily fooled by science-y sounding words, a good rule-of-thumb is that any product or service that claims it will “detox” your body or “remove toxins” is a hoax. There’s no such thing. If they throw in words like “ions,” “energy balancing”, or “electromagentic therapy”, run the other way.
Soaking your feet in ionized water won’t do anything for your health. Not to mention that it’s silly to pay $50 for such a “service” (let alone $180!). Just Google “ionized feet soak hoax” for more info.
There are good chiropractors out there who use proven techniques to help people with back problems. And then there are con-artists like this one who use the label “chiropractor” but claim they can cure you of every disease from AIDS to cancer. But really they’re just selling illusions that do nothing (or sometimes harm your body) to scam you and take your money.
Hoaxes like this one have been going on for years, and no matter how many times they’re debunked and exposed, somehow they always manage to continue to find more gullible customers to get rich off of year after year.
Oh, also I just saw the video posted by Bruce. For those of you who didn’t get what the video was showing, the point is when you go in for your foot bath they’ll put your feet in the water with the ionizer and lots of icky black/brown stuff will form in the water. They’ll point to it and say “look! all that stuff is toxins that came out of your body!”.
But the video shows that the gunk doesn’t come from your body at all, it’s formed from oxidizing iron and minerals in the water and the ionizer element. It will form even if you’re feet aren’t in the water at all. But it makes for a convincing illusion if you didn’t know how the trick works.
It’s a very similar trick to “ear candling” that people used to do where it looks like the candles are removing scum from your ears, but really the scum comes from the candle itself.
This is defintely a scam and a hoax! I knew someone who went around selling these treatments, and made a bunch of money off of unsuspecting, gullible people. I am sad to see Groupon perpetuating this quackery
Thank you Jim and Jana for your feedback, as I mentioned above hopefully tomorrow’s Groupon feature will be something that sparks your interest!
Morgan w/ Groupon
Hi Jana and James,
Thanks for your thoughts. Sorry, I have not been able to respond sooner but I have been serving patients until an hour ago. I am amused by your comments only because I used to say the exact same things. This looks as hoaxy as it gets if you don’t understand what’s really taking place. Before I offered this treatment I actually confronted the inventor of this machine at a conference which he was lecturing. Having years and years of chemistry and physics under my belt I was not so timid as to grill the man. However, the research he shared was so well done and irrefutable that I had to actually consider it. That’s just what you do when you are scientifically trained. Only after putting this through my own clinical trial did I see the potential this machine could deliver. And I see these benefits over and over again. I will also let you know that the inventor of this machine shakes his head at those who place meanings to the color and/or appearance of the water as THE way to know if you were toxic. His research used chemical analysis from a third party lab and was peer reviewed.
By no means am I out to convince you. I wish you all the success and health you are capable of through whatever path you may find it. When I was early on in my education I was very certain about what I knew to be true. As I continue to learn and mature as a doctor I realize that holding on to my beliefs is not as important as observing the facts.
To Life without Limits,
Dr. Borbon
Ugh. I was on the fence about this Groupon all day, but ultimately didn’t get it. I wish I would have seen Dr. Borbon’s response before I logged off for the day, as I probably would have gotten it.
At risk of being called a Troll again I’m making another post on this topic to point out that while the representatives of PureLife present themselves authoritatively, part of the information presented in their first post (by Chiffon) was lifted directly from Wikipedia, word for word… with the exception that references to medicine, injection, needle, and medication were edited out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iontophoresis
People say they are amazed at how you can see the toxins (and other goop) appear in the water as they are extracted from your body. Other people say it’s a scam, and there’s a video on YouTube that shows the same result in the water with a gold chain in place of your feet. Looks like a scam to me:
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-Ogaa4jZA”
I just joined Groupon yesterday, and I’m disapointed in them for not checking this out better. :(