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Be Careful When Promoting Products Which Uses Dr.Oz's Image/Endorsements

by Robby54
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Dr. Oz Takes Down the Scammers Using His Name to Dupe You - Dr. Oz Takes Down the Scammers Using His Name to Dupe You | The Dr. Oz Show

I just turned on the TV and happen to catch it live, he also seems to be pushing an FTC petition: Dr. Oz's Consumer Safety Petition to the FTC | The Dr. Oz Show to stop CPA company's from using his image.

I know this is not news to some of you but this might help you re-think the products you choose to promote...
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Oz has been having trouble with people using his name to endorse products he doesn't endorse for a long time now. I'm not sure who it is that thinks that this is okay to do, but it isn't. He's got a right to go after them. If someone used my name to endorse something I didn't, I'd be livid, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Yeah, how dare the charlatans pretend that he endorses their products when he is busy promoting his own worthless products? Talk about pot calling the kettle black. I do hope the FTC takes a good hard look at him when he gives them his Consumer Safety Petition.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Yeah, how dare the charlatans pretend that he endorses their products when he is busy promoting his own worthless products? Talk about pot calling the kettle black. I do hope the FTC takes a good hard look at him when he gives them his Consumer Safety Petition.
      Whether his products are any good or not is beside the point on this issue. Nobody has a right to promote someone as endorsing something they didn't endorse. His products may or may not be good, but at least he doesn't toot someone else as promoting them when they don't. That's this issue.

      As far as your issue. He talks about products on his show that for all I can tell he gets money to promote. It might be in people's best interest not to use a TV show as their basis for deciding on health products, but then, people will do and believe anything thing the sacred TV tells them. I find it hard to empathize with a population that lethargic and apathetic about their own good.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

        As far as your issue. He talks about products on his show that for all I can tell he gets money to promote. It might be in people's best interest not to use a TV show as their basis for deciding on health products, but then, people will do and believe anything thing the sacred TV tells them. I find it hard to empathize with a population that lethargic and apathetic about their own good.
        ... as opposed to finding it on the Internet, or a book or direct mail? It's all the same. He has promoted dozens of diet products professed to be magic for those who want to lose weight. He promotes products that have never been tested for what they're professed to do. Sure ... people can't use him as an endorsement for products they're promoting, but if I were him, I'd be flying as low as possible under the radar of the FTC and not be bringing shills promoting dodgy products with false claims to their attention.
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        • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
          True, he should be protecting his own dodgy products like the kickback from depression drug advertisements, when he has someone on his show that is scarred for life because she isn't allowed to watch Scooby-Do on tv!

          Best to just take the p*** out of him, and use his image in a funny way, avoids all the copyright nonsense!


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        • Profile picture of the author HeySal
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          ... as opposed to finding it on the Internet, or a book or direct mail? It's all the same. He has promoted dozens of diet products professed to be magic for those who want to lose weight. He promotes products that have never been tested for what they're professed to do. Sure ... people can't use him as an endorsement for products they're promoting, but if I were him, I'd be flying as low as possible under the radar of the FTC and not be bringing shills promoting dodgy products with false claims to their attention.
          I've noticed him on a lot of weight loss ads lately. One thing he has in his court is that he's an actual physician, so it's kind of hard for anyone who doesn't have his credentials to out-authority him on what he wants to promote. Doctors give their patients crap products all the time...they just aren't in the public eye. I think it's the AMA that has to go after him if he promotes a product that they find unsuitable for some reason. They are the medical authority. Not the FTC. Of course, there are things the FTC can pull him for if he's not careful. For instance - if he makes claims about the product that can be proven untrue, he's toast. He has to show average results just as much as anyone, other than he might have enough cash to be able to buy out of scrutiny. This is the US, after all.

          And yeah - you have a point. TV, Internet, etc - people have to do their due diligence no matter what they are buying[into].
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Dr OZ said he has never endorsed, and won't endorse, any product. So he only states his feelings on findings about ingredients.

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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      Dr OZ said he has never endorsed, and won't endorse, any product. So he only states his feelings on findings about ingredients.

      Steve
      Ok, so he only had a crappy segment on his show, and the advertisers picked up on it? :rolleyes:

      I guess Frank Kern got that wrong, but the entire show circling around a 15 year old not being able to watch that cartoon on tv, is still a poor thing to run!

      If she lived in Australia, she could claim a mental depression, and live of workers comp, in Greece, probably for the rest of her life!


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