Community Chat

[gloriajean]

All over Facebook and other places, I get these ads, and more brands of coffees that have super herbs in them and they help you lose weight and have energy.

Have you seen them?  And all of a sudden, I see different kinds in just about a week!!  

And they are expensive.  

Has anyone here ever tried them?

[Kachina624]

@gloriajean.  If you click on an ad to read about any product, you'll subsequently be inundated by other similar products within minutes.  I never get coffee ads but do get ads for other things.

Such ads should be read with caution and skepticism as many are exaggerated scams.

[Trailrun23]

Yep; most of these ads are scam or may be just downright dangerous.Some have huge amounts of caffiene and one I saw had epinephrine and cannabis; I don't drink coffee so I just scroll on by

[gloriajean]

I never thought of them as scams, but just not buying into them.   The herbs are good, tumeric, cinnamon, ginger, and cocoa mixed with honey, 1 tsp. of each, I make my own concoction.  Thanks for responding.  I just thought a lot of you have seen these ads.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I didn't order via Facebook, but a mushroom coffee ad prompted me to look for something similar on Amazon.  I ordered some in the late fall and actually liked it, but gave it up when I received my cancer diagnosis and nephrectomy because the mushroom blend is high in oxalates and can cause kidney stones. I didn't want to put my remaining kidney at risk.  

[Carolina925]

@gloriajean , so nice to see you here! I think of you often.

I, too, get these FB coffee ads and pass them by. I like plain coffee and prefer not to have additives. I tried something similar years ago and it gave me such bad stomach issues that I never tried another. A friend who is nearing her 70s fell for their promises of more energy and got some kind of mushroom coffee. She said the taste was terrible but if it gave her energy she'd keep drinking it. Life is too short for me; I'll try being more active to get my energy.

Take care, my friend.

[Laura14]

As others have said, please be careful with FB ads or any internet ads. Anyone can place one and a lot of those "products" are skirting the FDA meaning they haven't been inspected or confirmed to have in them what they say they have in them. You could be drinking dirt.  

I almost lost my mind when my mother said she had ordered pills of some kind off of FB and had a heck of a time getting it off her credit card which is another big scam with those ads. The product doesn't really exist or isn't what you think it is. They just want your card number or banking information.