Dr Frank's Joint & Muscle Pain Relief Oral Spray As Seen on Tv
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Dr Frank's Joint & Muscle Pain Relief Oral Spray As Seen on Tv
Customer Review: do you believe in voo-doo?
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm a physician (Medical Doctor) who treats a lot of patients with migraines and pain.
After seeing this ad on TV, I was so disgusted by the fact that someone who carries "M.D." after his name sells this snake oil called "Dr. Frank's Joint and muscle pain relief" and has another M.D.endorse it, I had to search how many people actually realized how this unethical swindler has conned them.
Although Dr. Ken Frank (apparently an emergency medicine physician in CA) is using his M.D. title, I think his license should be revoked.
It is suspicious that there are either 1-star or 5-star reviews out of 15 available, and none in-between. This is unusual to say the least.
There are many effective chronic pain therapies. Chronic pain specialists can discuss your options with you and offer many effective treatments, which are best used with other proven alternative approaches such as acupuncture and biofeedback. Allow yourself to see more than one physician if you are not satisfied with what you are offered. You have to be comfortable and trust your doctor if order for chronic pain therapy to be successful.
Indeed, I am not surprised that a fibromyalgia (FM) patient responded to it (see her review). In my experience, FM patients often respond to "alternative" treatments probably because of their placebo effects.
The review by Timothy W. Kyle from MI proves that he's better treated with mind-over-matter techniques than with Vicodin.
Now, "Dr. Frank" has reached his new low. He is pandering his snake oil to pet owners!
It is one thing to sell it people who after one bottle will figure out they were deceived. But to prey on people's love of their pet companions?
A WORD OF ADVICE: if you decided to buy this product because you are frustrated by your chronic pain and feel that you just have to try it, use a "virtual credit card" number.
If you don't know what it is, it's a number majority of credit card companies (Citibank, BOA, etc.) let you create online which is linked to your real number. You can specify the exact dollar amount limit and expiration date.
This way, you will avoid automatic monthly charge they impose on their customers, which is what everyone here is complaining about.
Customer Review: Tricky marketing practices- product did not work for me
Summary: 1 Stars
Like the other reviewer, I was not pleased to get a 1/2 sized bottle for 1/2 price with my first order. I also didn't like having my credit card automatically charged and product automatically sent.
My major complaint is their heavily touted 30 day return policy. The fine print on their invoice says that the 30 day period runs from the date on their invoice, not when you receive the product. I received my shipment more than 2 weeks after my invoice date (to give them the benefit of the doubt, the delay could have been caused by the holiday mailing season and transit from East Coast to Hawaii). According to their enclosed information you should, "give this product a good chance to work (2 weeks at least and sometimes more) before you consider calling to cancel". Thus, they encourage you to delay canceling, and then they say you are not eligible for their 30 day money back guarantee because you are canceling too late.
I called to cancel and request a refund within 30 days of my receipt of the product. A rude customer service representative kept interrupting me and repeating herself. When I asked for a supervisor she informed me that she was the supervisor.
Not only did the product not work, but dealing with the company was distasteful.
I'm complaining via my credit card company. They have reversed the charges.
Customer Review: Found this review on another site
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm doing a cut and paste from a fibromyalgia web site. It's very interesting and explains the 5 star reviews. Hope this saves someone a lot of money and aggravation:
I read the reviews on Amazon and here is what I found. The positive reviews caught my attention.
The reason is that the job I just left was an SEO manager. Doing things for search engine optimization. It is a technique to get you higher in the search engines.
Anyway, that is what those positive reviews were! That makes me really mad! People will read those and believe that an FM patient got relief or someone who has been injured. A dead give away of this is where "Lauren" posted Inflammation, Pain & Stiffness in the middle of the sentence. It is old school SEO. Capitalize key phrases.
I am not saying this stuff doesn't work (although the reviews are overwhelmingly against it) but I would guess that the positive reviews are all either accounts that were set up for the purpose of writing that or they got people that work for them or are friends to write those reviews.
And no, not all SEO is like that. We used to post articles about our products. Not sales pitches, real information.
So not only is it snake oil, but they are using "black hat" SEO techniques to dupe people in real need
Customer Review: BEWARE!
Summary: 1 Stars
I did not even click to finish the order on the internet and they sent me an email it was ordred. Then I tried to cancel by phone and by email, six days later they charged my account and sent it to my mom, she has not received it yet as they just sent it, but they are no help whatsovever on the phone or email. I called my credit card company to dispute, my mom will have to spend her money sending it back, they better not send any future. I feel bad to make my mom go through the trouble to send it back, she also ordered some for her dog off of the tv, which she will send back also since they are so deceptive, I have not had to deal with such a deceptive company in all the years of shopping. Hopefully the owner will have lots of pain one day to make up for all the pain he has caused people with his deceptive practices. This is the longest and first negative complaint I have ever given. I plan to report them to the better business bureau. I like amazon.com a lot and hope they decide to not use this company anymore on their site. I only wish I would have been smart enough to check all these reviews on this site out before, I would never have gone to their site otherwise. The thing that makes me so angry is that I did not click submit to finish the order.Customer Review: quackery
Summary: 1 Stars
It is well known among scientists that homeopathic "remedies" have no beneficial effect other than a placebo effect. They can't. They are essentially pure water with a "memory" of a substance that has long disappeared through extensive dilution. The "law of similars", etc., is centuries-old superstition. It is amazing to me that the stuff is still sold. I suppose that if people want to spend their cash on a placebo it is their business. It may be a psychological benefit even if it has no curative value. It makes me angry, though, when this quack starts advertising his snake oil as a remedy for arthritis in dogs (as seen on TV). Just spray a little bit in their water every day. Sure. The problem I have with this is that the subject dogs have no knowledge of this. They have no hope for a cure, so they cannot benefit from a placebo effect.