On my other entries here I inserted a Funny Pic Of The Day at the end. I’ve also thought about inserting a link to a funny news story as well, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I never thought that the first funny news story I put up would be my own. It goes like this:

“Ephedra is back.” I thought my friend J.C. was joking when he said that to me on the phone one day a couple months ago. I asked him what he was talking about and he proceeded to read to me the contents of an e-mail he had just got in.

If you don’t know what ephdra is you obviously don’t have a weight problem. It’s a substance put in diet pills to increase you metabolism and curb you appetite. It was banned 2 years ago because some stupid baseball player who probably didn’t need to lose weight anyway was mixing it with caffeine and gave himself a heart attack. The FDA said that it leads to heart attack and stroke and it was banned. If only it had been linked to heart attacks, strokes and lung cancer like cigarettes it would have never been outlawed.

I lost so much weight on the original Xenadrine RFA-1 a few years ago. As a matter of fact, after the ban was announced I stocked up on the stuff, but my supply ran out months ago. I tried looking on the net to see if it was available in other countries, but not such luck.

After J.C. read the e-mail to me and asked him to forward it. I did a little research and it turns out that last fall a federal judge lifted the ban. Certain restrictions now applied like smaller doses, but I didn’t care because ephedra was back. And the best part was, the e-mail stated that the FIRST BOTTLE WAS FREE!

I waited a couple weeks before ordering. I don’t really trust offers that are too good to be true. Yes the bottle was free, but that did require a small fee of $4.96 for shipping and handling. That’s a small price to pay considering I was paying $40.00 for Xenadrine back in the day. Since I don’t like putting my credit card number into websites I’ve never used before the first thing I did was go to MBNA’s Net Access website. You see, MBNA has a feature on there credit cards called Shop Safe, which lets you generate a FREE temporary account number for every online purchase. That’s right, I can make a temporary account number and put any amount I want on that account. I generated an account number that not only expired in sixty days, but had a maximum credit limit of $5.00. After that I went to the Metabofuel 1000 website and entered my temporary account number for my free bottle.

It took about 3 weeks to get. I got it, tried it and after doubling the recommended dosage I could tell it was working. I ran out a couple weeks ago and have been eating non-stop ever since. So today I decided I would go online and order more. The bottle says “To re-order visit www.metabofuel.com so I went to that website and it was closed. So I decided to google the product and found some interesting results. Check this out from RipOffReport.com:

“It says nowhere on the offer that you are committed to buying 4 more bottles at outrageous prices. You can not get on the website to read the fine print. They will not let you get out of it. You will have to cancel your credit card to avoid charges. You will be charged 99.98 for further bottles. With a commitment of four bottles.

Nothing is free.”

I will like, “What?” So I read some more. Here’s what another consumer said:

“I order the so called free sample for $4.97 on March 16, the on April 6, my bank was charged 99.98. called the bank to see what it was. you quess it matabofuel000. called the company only to be put on hold for over a hour. then the rep refused to refund my money and also told me that more mony of 99.98 was due . called the bank bank back. the bank then told me to close my debit card and I will be issue a new card in 10-14 days.”

Whoa. After researching it some more I realized that my gut was right all along. It was a scam. A scam that I beat with my MBNA Shop Safe credit card. Thank God for MBNA. You were my first credit card and I hardly use you anymore, but I will forever keep you in my wallet because this is the best feature I have ever seen. If you do not have a credit card that offers something like a Shop Safe feature I suggest you get one today!

I was able to find a good overview of the entire situation at this link.



There are some good comment there too.

Until next time, don’t get ripped off and check out the Funny Pic Below.



Funny Pic Of The Day - A Fat Kids Wish

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