WASHINGTON (AP) - Reebok will pay $25 million to customers to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it made deceptive claims in ads that its toning shoes would strengthen and tone the legs and buttocks of those who wear them. The athletic shoe and apparel company is also barred from making any claims of the strengthening effects of the shoes unless it is backed by scientific evidence.
I’m just going to come out and say, if you’re a girl, and you saw comercials starring some model's hot ass in short shorts, and were told that it was because she walked around in these uncomfortable looking shoes with balls on the bottom of them, and you believed it…you’re an idiot, and shouldn’t get a dime back.
Sorry, but I think at this point in existence, mankind has a pretty good idea that exercise and a healthy diet are the keys to staying in shape, not walking from the parking lot to the office in a pair of reeboks. And if I were reebok’s lawyers that would be my argument. It can’t lose.
