Hello, this is my second question on the board… I had to make a new login because it was so long ago.
But anyway, my friend is on the Asea bandwagon (its some health water) and wants me to buy this product.
I have politely said no a few times and told her I was not interested. She is not getting it.
I was hoping you guys could help me with some facts or points so she would stop asking! The science I feel that is behind it is total BS. But I feel so pressured when she asks me.
She is drinking the koolaid hard.
Here is the info she keeps sending me on it.
Also any personal store about this product would be great.
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She is pressuring you to buy this junk is that she’s being told to give the hard sell to everyone she knows. Aside from your spot-on gut feeling that this product is a bunch of BS in a bottle, the most important reason not to buy it is that it appears to be sold via multi-level marketing.
In other words, it’s a scam that will make money for a few guys at the top by screwing over gullible or financially unsophisticated people like your friend. Look up “MLM” and “pyramid scheme” for the gory details.
Good luck getting your friend to absorb an explanation of the wrongness of this product’s claims. She’s invested (literally) in it and is unlikely to admit she’s been made a sucker. If you want a good one liner, try: “If it’s so good, why don’t they just sell it in stores?” Better still, say you’re not going to talk about it again, then wait for her to lose interest or go broke.
Its only salt water.
"ASEA starts as ultrapure water and salt that then undergoes a multi-step electrochemical process ".
What possible molecule can you get from H2O and NaCL ?
NaOH is drain cleaner,
H2O and Cl is bleach.
If the electrical treatment did anything, it would become either drain cleaner or bleach.
The idea the water became “better” from the electricity is bogus, the electricity is present in all water, just in equal amounts in randm directions, the small additional electricity from an external circuit doesn’t do anything much.
When you look at any statistics, you must ask "Is the product better than a placebo ? ".
Firstly, I feel your pain. 2 members of my family are distributors for the It Works! Global cult.
Secondly, its no use even trying to educate them or argue with them on their “miracle” product.
Thirdly, all you can do is say " No thank you " and walk away while rolling your eyes.
tell her you can’t afford it because you are buying these supplement pills where one pill is equal to a bushel of apples and these pills are really expensive. but then you’ll have to come up with some reason that you are going to let her buy in on that marketing scheme too.
Do you really need friends who try to take money from you for worthless junk? Just say No in no uncertain terms. Don’t be polite about it.
thanks for all your help and suggestions. She keeps bring it up, and it hard because she is nice and we are friend.
I do like the suggestion of saying… if it is so good, why dont they sell it in stores.
its just hard because she believes in this stuff so much.
I usually go with: “I don’t buy things from friends, because it mixes friendship and business, and nothing good comes from that - sorry.”
+1
Only in my case it was a cousin trying to sell my mother Zango juice.
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In the meantime, I’m closing this thread and removing the links to the MLM scam. No sense giving them extra press.
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