Whackjob bracelet makers ordered to pay $16M in refunds!

[mr blur]

U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook upheld a 2006 district court ruling ordering the marketers of the bracelet, branded as a pain reliever for chronic pain, to surrender $16 million US in net profits. The Illinois-based Q-Ray Co. and its owner, Que Te Park, must pay up to $87 million in refunds to consumers, Easterbrook said in his decision, issued Jan. 3.

The court said Q-Ray's claims about how the bracelets worked through "enhancing the flow of bio-energy" were nonsense.

"Defendants might as well have said: Beneficent creatures from the 17th dimension use this bracelet as a beacon to locate people who need pain relief and whisk them off to their home world every night to provide help in ways unknown to our science," he wrote in his decision.

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http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/01/07/qray-decision.html

[TZ]

1. Hmm, you know I know people who have these things

And its always, well it can't hurt and I kind of like the look of it...la,la,la,la....:crazy:

[Warpy]

6. I knew a nurse who wore one

OK, she was only 23, but still, she should have known better.

[deepthought42]

2. truly, people are stupid...

*sigh*


:crazy:

[progressoid]

8. Wonder how many people will keep wearing the bracelet because they are sure it's working for them?

[moggie]

3. I like the sound of this judge

But everyone knows those creatures are from the 18th dimension.

[Deep13]

5. It must be a typo. nt

[Deep13]

4. Cool. ...

Part of me thinks that it was the plaintiffs' own faults for believing obvious horseshit. Nevertheless, falling for a lie can never be as bad as producing the lie and representing it as fact.

When can we sue Pat Robertson for false promises of immortality? I heard Christopher Hitchens tell some interviewer shortly after Falwell died that F. looked in the mirror every morning and wondered how he could defraud people.

[varkam]

7. That's a judge with a sense of humor.

:rofl: I love it