Ab Circle Review # 18: Ab Circle Pro Is Not Effective And Can Damage Your Knees (from ComplaintBoards.com)
“The knee pads on the ab circle pro swivels, as it swivels the nut loosens til it comes off and throws you across the room .You my suffer acl damage buyer beware!”
“i bought ab circle only 4 days. I used it every day for 15 minutes and it hurt my knee alot. The last day was more terrible because when i tried to used 2 comforters that they sent me to help get rid of hurting my knee ( as they said), it made me felt on the machine because the comforters was falling a part . If i want to return, i have to pay for shipping 35 bucks and 25% of the orginal price so that totally I lose 120 buck if I want to return. I’m so stupid . I didn’t check it before bought it” – Hongvaant (http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/abcircle-pro-c218593.html)
Ab Circle Review # 171: “Ab Circle is Unsafe” (from ComplaintBoards.com)
“The side to side motion is basically throwing your body weight over your knee joints left and right every time you do the motion. To put it simply, this means your own body weight is moving the insides of your knee joint, cartilage, the lubricating fluid in the knee joint, etc., in a motion it was never designed to do. So your own body weight is going to wear on these areas pretty quickly. Having had multiple knee problems, surgeries, working with doctors, specialists and sports therapists I haven’t found one who would back this product. On the contrary, they are the ones who said, “even if your knees were in perfect condition, this is one way to make sure they won’t be…and in a very short period of time.” One more point that no one has mentioned. I live in an apartment. While they claim that it is quiet it is anything but. Common sense; rollers going back and forth constantly make noise (especially to the people living below you). That was how I first heard about this machine. The neighbor directly above me has one and would use it late at night. I sounds like someone is dragging furniture short distances every time she went back and forth. I spoke to her about it and she was kind enough to do earlier in the evening anyway. Of course if you want to annoy your neighbors…
IMHO, stay away and don’t waste your money with Ab Circle. If you want to stay off the floor and get both full ab and glute exercise along with cardio go with something like the “Cardio Twister”. I have no affiliation with them and do not sell them. They are used in the rehab center at my local hospital (which is where I heard about them – actually not big in to infomercials). I was leery about getting on it but did and it definitely worked. Though NO where as quickly as they claim. I can attest that it is a full body work out but what all these machine makers don’t really stress (but my hospital rehab center did) is that it doesn’t matter what machine you use, if you don’t change your diet you might just as well go back to being a couch potato.” - By MyChoice(http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/unsafe-c218593.html#c395742).
Ab Rocket Review # 19: Shame on You Ab Rocket! (from RipoffReport.com)
“I placed my order for a trial of the Ab Rocket on 2/10/08. I checked the status daily and nothing came up. As of 2/15/08 I became angered that a company could really go this long without processing my order. I decided to call and cancel but the people in the very non-descript “Customer Service” office could not cancel my order as it is “not in their system”. I did an IP search for “www.tryabrocket.com” and placed calls to their technical department and received no response back.
I had to cancel my credit card to avoid the charge. The extreme lack of customer service as well as another report I read about charging sales tax (it is in no way mentioned on their site or the order form I filled out), made me very uncomfortable with dealing with this company. I did not want my credit card information floating out there with no idea of when the order would go through. I decided to check the “status” again today through their “www.customerstatus.com” site and received a message saying, yet again, that it is not in their system.”
- Linda – (San Jose, California) (http://www.ripoffreport.com/Sporting-Goods/As-Seen-On-TV-Networ/as-seen-on-tv-network-ab-roc-8ww83.htm)
Ab Rocket Review # 35:“Bad Product, Bad Experience”
“Bought this ab rocket with the understanding that I could try it out for 30 days for $14.95 and if I wasn’t happy with it I could return it without any questions.Well the 30 days had not passed when they billed my debit card for the 1st. payment,that caused my bank account to be overdrawn,$29.00 fee,then a few days later the thing broke and when I called customer service they told me that I couldn’t send it back ,no refund or replacement and the only thing I could do was to finish paying for it.The customer serviceperson was anything but friendly.I suppose now I will be hearing from some collection company.My advice is if you want an ab rocket buy it locally.”
- Tony (Texas) (http://www.ripoffreport.com/Weightloss-Programs/Ab-Rocket/ab-rocket-i-purchased-an-ab-ro-b2e28.htm)
