Is the iRenew bracelet a scam?
After seeing the informericials for a miracle healing power bracelet that supposedly improves balance, increases energy, and other healing properties…you can imagine one would be skeptical. The first question that comes to mind is: Is the iRenew bracelet a scam or ripoff?
First, if you haven’t already, check out the iRenew infomercial:
Some direct text from their website:
“How Does IRenew bracelet Work?
As you wear the bracelet, it will harness natural frequencies that occur in your immediate environment to help tune and rebalance your biofield to a more natural state.Wondering what your biofield is? Your biofield is an integral part of your whole being, not just your body. It is in close balance with every aspect of your self and can become easily unbalanced due to electromagnetic radiation surrounding you at any given moment. When you pop on theIRenew bracelet, you are restoring your biofield’s natural balance with biofield technology that works to balance the frequencies of energy surrounding you.”
Although, I can’t technically prove it’s a scam, it sure looks that way. Here are some comments I found that explain why the iRenew bracelet could be a scam:
1) Just the fact that you saw them first in an infomercial should set off alarm bells. If they worked as claimed they would not have bypassed the proper clinical studies, scientific journals and peer review process; by going straight to the media. A major red flag. Especially when they are proposing new physics.
The claims for all these fad power bracelets severely lack plausibility and any evidence of efficacy beyond placebo. They market them using pseudoscientifc baloney to bamboozle an unsuspecting public. Notice they don’t say how it does all this. How does it harness these so-called ‘natural frequencies’? What is the mechanism? Instead of a proper explanation they waffle on about ‘biofields’. And instead of supporting data, you get ‘testimonials’. More red flags.
2) The ‘balance test’ that they use in the commercial is nothing more than “applied kinesiology’ which is a long ago discredited technique still used by dishonest chiropractors. The first time you are pulled on, you are not prepared and the practitioner may touch your arm or elbow in a way that distracts you momentarily. After you don the magical miracle device, the practitioner will subtly prepare you for the second pull, which you of course will also anticipate. He will also often pull at a different angle or with less actual force than before. The technique is subtle, but convincing to anyone who does not know about this. Besides, an invention of this magnitude would garner the inventor a Nobel Prize, No?
Based on these two logical explanations alone, I think it’s safe to say that iRenew is a scam! If you’re one of the many that have already tried it, feel free to share your experience below!
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They are being sold on Ebay, if you REALLY want to buy one, by an authorized eBay distributor of authentic iRenew products. They even offer a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the bracelet. Under $20 with $2.95 shipping. I’m just mentioning this so all of you that actually believe this Hype don’t get ripped off for all that money from the company running the TV commercial sales. If you buy it and discover it’s Bull you can get a refund or file a claim with Paypal for a refund, if that’s how you paid.
Ibought this bracelet hopeing to help with a balance and energy problem. I am 63 years old and have to deal with a run with breast cancer and alot of stress related issues and was hopeing this could balance things ou a little for me. I tell you right now none of what I seen onTV happened. I told my husband that it was like wearing a flee collar like my cat without the smell. Out of the sliver part on the bracelet it is made of the same kind of material like a flee collar. If it is to big like it was for me you cut it to size you need and put back together is just lke you would for a cat collar. Where you put it on is almost impossiable toget off you have to find somthing sharp to open it back up.
I have not seen or felt one bit different.
The say if it does’t work put it back in the box and send it back.
For one thing it came in one of those padded envolopes. the bracelet that was supose to be free had a shippin g and handeling fee of $7:99 for the free one,plus $ 7.99 for shipping and handeling for the first one.
It would have been $ 2.98 to ship it back at my cost. The only reason i didn’t sen it back is ,I didn’t want them to recycle it someone else.
It’s to bad we can’t get all of our money back including shipping and handeling beause is totaly a joke.
Thanks Dianne Cavaness
Riverton,Wyoming
I can of find this a scam when I saw the informacial. I think i will stay with my own balance and some pain relief. and it only takes magnets. I use magnets to help with my own balance and pain relief. Now it does not work for everyone sometimes this can cause more pain it depends on ones own body. put magnets or wear magnets. at walmart there are magnets bracelets for $5:95. try it it might work. the other way to wear magnets is at night I usually get magnets from kitchen refrig and tape them on and in the morning i take them off. I have fibromyalgia and L knee problems. it helps with knee not the fibro. Some how what the magnets do is move the minerals in the body that can improve the joints pains. Like I said try it if you like. God Bless. MA.