Quietus Is A Scam
Posted by Phil Ferguson on March 16th, 2010 – 12 Comments – Posted in HomeopathyI don’t know if you have heard of this new product. It is called Quietus! It is made to help the symptoms of tinnitus. From Wikipedia….
Tinnitus is not a disease; but a symptom resulting from a range of underlying causes that can include: ear infections, foreign objects or wax in the ear, nose allergies that prevent (or induce) fluid drain and cause wax build-up. Tinnitus can also be caused by natural hearing impairment (as in aging), as a side-effect of some medications, and as a side-effect of genetic (congenital) hearing loss. However, the most common cause for tinnitus is noise-induced hearing loss.
You can read some product reviews here….
Their site only has the home page. All other pages appear to have been disabled. The radio ads make very strong claims about its effectiveness and stress that it is ”discovered by a drummer” huh? Was he popping sugar pills and the ringing went away? This is a homeopathic product and by definition cannot and does not work. There is NO medicine in this stuff. All it will do is make your wallet $100 lighter. DO NOT buy Quietus or any Homeopathic products!
But I also think he has all the...
$100? Those are some expensive sugar pills!
But if they work
That is just for 2 months. and they will put it on your credit card automatically.
Weeeeeel……just because something doesn’t have what the mainstream medical world calls “medicine” doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. I mean, food works but is not medicine, right? GOOD food heals and promotes good health. So, if this product has a combination of things God designed to work good things in our bodies, what’s to say it “doesn’t work?” Admittedly, there are a lot of scams and this may be one but, just because it doesn’t have “medicine” is a meaningless judgement.
My husband purchased these pills and felt like they were sugar pills. He cancelled the automatic renewal, but they still sent a two shipments. The only method of cancelling is a calling a poorly manned phone line with very long hold times. Only returns within 30 days are accepted. Stay away from Quietus
@ Keith, it’s not because it does not have “medicine” (however, that would be bad enough). Quietus has NOTHING in it. It is a homeopathic product. By definition it cannot work! Please watch this
http://www.skepticmoney.com/homeopathy-is-evil/
to get a full explanation.
Also, gOd has nothing in it!
I saw this, assumed it was a scam, but checked it out. I have it in my left ear, and have learned to ignore it, not like the guy on their add who looks like he is about to blow his brains out. I figure they will make a lot of money here, just taking advantage of those who fall for it, or who delude themselves into thinking it is doing them some good. They don’t have to make a lot of sales with the profit margin I assume they have on these. Just use common sense, you will have scum bags like this preying on those who feel desperate, these vultures are everywhere, when health issues are concerned today. I just about assure you, when something comes up to help this, it will come from the medical industry, not quacks. Ginkgo can help a few (it helps me some, but it won’t help most…I have heard it only helps where it is a vascular issue, not when it was caused by ear damage to prolonged exposure to loud noises). There are going to be more and more with this problem, as well as hearing loss, so many kids today with the head phones. You don’t have to be even listening to anything all that loud, if the exposure is long enough without a break, to do damage..
Quietus is FAKE, my friend….
You have got to be kidding. I have tinnitus, and have done a boatload of research on it – read many books, have seen several ENTs and other doctors. Nope, this will not work. You are kidding yourself.
People that thinks this or almost any other simple pill is going to releive tinnitus I have two words for you:
placebo effect
Interesting to look at the BBB site for Preval, the company that brought you Quietus. A person by the name of Jeff Kral is apparently the CEO. The BBB rank is a D, largely due to billing issues and false claims about their product.
If you google “Jeffrey Kral scam” – you will come up a bunch of lawsuits and FDA investigations and warning letters over dubious weight loss and skin zinc creams. Apparently they don’t work either, are marketed with bogus claims, and nobody gets money back for money back guaranteed products. Sound familiar because it should.
PLEASE google “JEFFREY KRAL SCAM” before you consider buying Quietus. Read it, and think twice about having $200 or $300 charged to your credit card for a bottle of placebo pills. Perhaps a class action suit would get Jeff’s attention.
Think about the radio ad and what it promises. Then think about what it actually delivers.
there are so many scams running on the internete so watch out,*:
they grarantee your money back and when you call and tell them that there product does not work they offer you another free bottle and that voids your money back deal i am going to send a sample to be analized to the state of florida sure seems like a real scam to me
I called and asked for a list of ingredients and if they ever performed any successful double-blind test. I got spin. Still dont know what’s in it.
I get most upset that reputable radio and tv shows advertise this scam. It is the worst kind cause it preys on people that are really suffering.
Has anyone here tried TRT (Tinnitus Retraining Therapy)? The results of my research shows me that this is about the only “cure” out there now. I am trying to get my HMO to chip in for this treatment.
Hopefully the ATA and the USDOD will find the magic pill soon.
Yes, I looked into TRT myself and went to an expert here in Portland. I personally decided against doing it, because, at the end of the day it does not “fix” tinnitus. It is expensive, and you have to wear some noise making thingies in your ear. The process is more about acclimation than it is about correcting anything.
You might read a book by Kevin Hogan called “Tinnitus: Turning the Volume Down” that had the most pragmatic information that I have read of the many books on tinnitus.