Outrageous Claims To Cure The 'Common Cold' | Shark Tank AUS 

what colds do you have? mine last about 10 days, 5 absolute minimum

He’s talking about the flu. Not the common cold apparently. But even colds take longer than 2 days though

Yeah or even less time!! LOL

Mine always take at least two weeks and are caused by constantly mutating viruses.

You all must have crappy immune systems. My cold only lasts max 2 days too.

Mark Cuban would have ripped them apart. lol

@@benjaminyoungman3767 Kevin O'Leary would have squashed them like the cockroaches that they are.

Honestly I don’t think so the problem here is a moral one they ship it to nam or Bangladesh somewhere the cold is the difference between your family eating or not and it will sell regardless if it works and I can bet they will find investors in private he has no idea how to talk business with sharks but that slimy grin would take you in millions on the backs of Tye poor

SeiZe ReZo these Australians be soft

Sharks don't suffer from the common cold, it's a squidgy brainer

LMAO

ROLF

There are other ways she could earn $$

Lol

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"Knows even the basics of there own product" *Crosses out*

You know this was edited this way right? The line draw could’ve happen at any point during the show.

HAHAHAHA

I love him

@@lgenic so meta

As someone with an immuno condition. Would these pills kill me? XD

It's such a great product, you'll have a civil war going on in your body in no time!

Chris Allen I can see that possible in the gastrointestinal system.

"OK" *breakdown*

Oli Cansdale haha. I have Crohns and had my immune system suppressed and I was thinking the same thing when they said that :p

Came here looking for this comment. He literally just proved he has no idea what he's talking about. If it genuinely boosted the immune response you'd be seeing MORE intense symptoms - because that is literally what the symptoms are. Most cold medicine works by suppressing that immune response; not boosting it. That's why the symptoms go away.

Medical products that can't do what their product claims it can do, use the vague "boosts your immune system" verbiage to avoid legal problems.

This is not true hahaha. Boosting the immune system as in strengthening. The stronger the immune system the quicker good cells kill bad cells, and quicker the body detoxes toxins. Garlic for instant strengthens the immune system and kills bacteria and viruses it is anti bacterial and anti viral

Well maybe it's their intention to make you super power speed run the flu...

Not saying the product is not absolute bs, but your interpretation of his statement is an assumption. He did not imply that it does supress any responses of the immune system and just said boost the immune system. This could very likely also mean that it makes those body reactions of the immune system more frequent or efficient somehow instead of supressing them.

Connor McLean basically he said we care about your money and not your health

Taking God's name in vain is not right!

Costeno 714 god damn

@@VanillaEarth744 what's your address I'll call the wahhbulance. Not everyone is a religious person and they shouldn't have to be, and if your a good religious person you wouldn't tell others how they should act.

@@luked9984 then since you have freedom of speech I do too and of course you got to tell someone how to act because if not there wouldn't be no rules and this world would be worse then it is

The thing is that that's not how this kind of science work. It needs dozen of experiments across multiple teams with an unbiased protocol to get closer to the truth. I'm floored they have the audacity to claim this stuff works from only one source, which is pretty much themselves ! They just asked whether people felt better or not. When I hear that, I think placebo immediately. You have to get a control group to distinguish your product from sugar in a pill.

But how can you control it if you’re the one selling the sugar pill ?!?

they didn't even mention a control group!

Well… maderna got their shot passed with a horsesh1t study done… lol 200x more likely to have an adverse affect than the virus, less than 50% success rate and a substantial death rate… this is with skewed demographics to make the outcome more favourable (3-1 female to male to offset the fact that males are 3x more likely to die and or have serious health affects)…

Why can’t you people replicate the results of 90% of your studies lmao

So True - Well Said

You forgot that he's the "marketing expert" as well 😂😂

honestly if it meant my sore throat is guaranteed to go away in 48 hours, I'd definitely buy this

NESS, Yes, you might want to ask your Medical Profession about that, since they have NEVER CURED ANYONE OF ANYTHING, but only treat the symptoms, since the Medical Profession is a FRAUD,

​@@ricknelsonm I'm sorry, I think I must have missed you mentioning your background. What was it again? Doctor? Biomedical scientist? Biologist? Immunologist? As a medical resident I'm really curious how you got to the idea that medicine is a fraud, because I can assure you that it cured (and still cures) a lot of people. Treating symptoms is a big factor, but it's not all we do.

J Smit he’s being ironic just so y’know. For the memers who see this: r/wooosh

A brace and lots of drugs eliminate the symptoms of a broken bone!

Irritating how he kept cutting her off to bomb even harder

She's really good, keeps it together. Wth isn't she pitching? Cute couple and all, but understand your respective strengths already. I wouldn't give that dude money to go buy a sandwich.

I was cringing so hard. The dude pretty much failed the whole deal, and i think their whole career aswell

The girl can close it only when she finds a greater fool than they are. Greater Fool Theory.

Aw, you want to FUXXOR that bird, how cute

Yeah and he didn't even know what was in it lol, and she did

Not with this product. Everything they said screams scam. I doubt either of them know the difference between a red and white blood cell.

Wife was actually a salesperson lol. Hubby tanked it from every direction.

She is still selling snake oil. There is a roof on how well you can do doing that.

Still funny

lmao, classic Dragons Den-meme

😂😂😂

i’m dead 🤣🤣

Lol

I don't think you can make a cold cure + test it for 100k, I mean, people have put millions into it, there's a reason why there's not a cure!

These "Belgians" just took their money and ran hahaha

to be fair though, if it had been a few years later they might have had a shot, I mean I'm pretty sure there's more evidence for this thing treating coronaviruses & other cold viruses than there is for horse paste doing so, yet look at the horse paste sales levels!

For sure. If it truly worked the people who sold it to them wouldn’t sell it to them for whatever they paid for it. They’d be selling it for billions.

Yes this is just a garlic made into pill

I wonder what would have happened if they said yes.. I still doubt the deal would have actually happened...

@@georgelionon9050 true, he was just testing them to prove that once they said yes it was not a product worth that much

I think that he is a veterinarian.

Pauline he would’ve had some form of professional medical training.

I'm the same ginger tea when I have a cold. But our ginger tea is hot and wet and warming and actually makes you feel a little better for a minute or two. In pill form it's useless. Lol.

@ Error 404 “But our ginger tea is hot and wet and warming” Is there tea that isn’t wet? And, aside from cold/room temperature brewed tea, isn’t tea standard hot or warm, therefore warming? lol

@@Joce-bl7qi Wait. You don't rip open a regular teabag and pour the contents into your mouth?

You are not a doctor. I am, and there is no way you would write this way if you were.

@@jamestaylor7593 how would he have written it if he was a doctor? I'm genuinely curious. Nothing stood out to me as odd in his comment, although I am not a doctor.

@@lukienman its just the waybits written. I'm 95% sure i am right. Ha

@@jamestaylor7593 “it’s just the waybits written….. ha”. I don’t think you’re a doctor either lol. Doctors are normal people too you know, they can write however they want.

@@Chevsilverado I am doctor. Youbhave missed my point, but anyway... People can write however they want, but when describing a medical matter its done in a certain way. Have a great day.

Well I mean after all this time they wouldn't see it coming. This man's strategic long game Is insane. Lol.

I suspect legislation in Vietnam may be more lax and thus easier to get around when marketing this kind of stuff. I could be mistaken but that'd be my guess.

I have a hunch the distributor is based there, unless they said otherwise, i dont know..

@@GodOfPlague amazingly underrated comment my dude

I love dragons den I watched every episode im bored watching this now 😂😅

No its shark tank Australia which is much better

Carrie Bizz the only thing better in Australia is the weather and their parties

Amen!

Well let's be real here. Shark tank USA is the best by far and after that it's the aussie shark and the uk dragon fighting to see whos 2nd

They could ditch the background music while they are at it.

I love the puns in dragons den lol hahaha

@@blanck00xd12 same!!

Well well, I see you are a personage of refinement

Peter Peter wow there are even Jenny jokes on a completely different show that airs on the other side of the planet 😂😂😂

18 people get it . For that reason, Jenny is out

@@Username-ww2cd Hi my name is Barbara, i currently have the flu and im in, so for that reason, im out!!

420 likes when I read this comment

Noice

Exactly and even supplemets dont work on all people. If you got the flu just get a lot of rest and eat healthy easy peasy probably get rid of it in under 48h and be healthier for it.

Its fancy airborne. Or emergenC

Can you tell me a single supplement that claims to cure flu and the common cold in 48 hours or your money back and that has a clinical trial on 10,000 people with 98,9% of success rate? I'll wait.

@@jovanleon7 haha if you believe this dude your a fool. Same reason why nobody invested in it.. haha so when you want to admit your a fool... I'll wait... also. A survey of 10k people isnt anything. They could have chose 10k white males in their 20s. But you go a head and believe that have cured the common cold... here is another tip for you.... if you never eat, you will never gain weight.... that has a 100% success rate. Haha I bet you own like 30 different pills that claim to "cure all"

@@iEyeronik Never said l believe them, I said their product *claims* to be all those. And if it's proven to be true then it would be much more than just a "fancy supplement" like the claim of guy I replied to. And they said the people surveyed were from the age of 3 to 90. You're the fool here.

But there already is vit c, garlic, Echinacea supplements out there. They already make them.

@@TheBeetress and theyre all nonsense

Big pharma tend to produce medication that works with many side effects and massive price tags. They pump medication out based on profit and minimizing costs which ends up harming more than it cures. Xanax, valium, percocet etc. All of these have probably killed as many as they've saved. Plus they sell supplements that do nothing at all but they can get away with it by paying people to create doctored trials, but due to their close ties to the government and private healthcare sector, nobody can touch them no matter what bad practices they put in place. Big pharma isn't exactly reputable, they're just too big to stop and they make too many powerful people money.

Typical pseudoscience bullshit, just like the countless other scam products that make the same claims.

@@deconso11 You should have stopped after the first 8 words.

🤣 spot on

Awful

How did the 2 year old understand how to swallow the pill

They need to get the product to the person to take after enrolling in the study too, so that's additional time too ie more time for natural recovery

You wouldn't though, because you have no 1.5 mill to give

Not AS rich

Not as rich as the Americans

Steve has offered 1.5m before and Andrew offered and 2.5m

You are wrong, they are two experienced con artists. Just look at when she turned to the "we lost our house" statement, just on the right moment.

i know these people. use to work with them. Nicole was his secretary. He left his wife (he was 40) to be with nicole who was 19. This was 10 years ago. surprised they are still going

@@DeCoY255 how did u know them?

@@DeCoY255 i count 12 to 13, but i dont know them personally. also they're married, for those that dont know

Power slam like I said. Use to work with them. I was even in a tv commercial with them

Not sure I can reach that deep inside of me to feel any compassion for health scammers who think they can dazzle everybody with big numbers (pulled from asses) and the "all-natural product" card. All along I was waiting for one of them to ask them why they call their product "FluAway" when it evidently has nothing to do with influenza at all. That's a typical snake-oil move. (I know they mentioned "mild influenza", as if there is a relation to the common cold.) Nope, no compassion here.

@@JacoWium I completely understand your message and appreciate your point. Maybe they should have called it flew away as in the cash flew away instead of flu as an flu.

@@JacoWium For one thing, the name is intended to be a clever pun. I'm not sure it succeeds on that front; it seems like kind of a cheap-sounding brand to me. For another, the symptoms of the common cold and influenza are almost identical (with the flu being far more severe, obviously), and since this is purely a symptomatic treatment, if it's effective at all, it's likely equally effective for both the flu and the cold. Of course, I think it's simply snake oil and doesn't do a thing.

@@Involent, good point about it being a purely symptomatic treatment, agreed. I'm not going to watch the whole video again but I recall the pitch being somewhat misleading and the name being completely misleading. That kind of thing irks me no end! But you're right, I know.

I went with supremely annoying

It is, yes. I apologise. Our gormless TV producers follow the lead of the Americans when it comes to shows like this. DRAMATIC MUSIC TELLING YOU HOW TO FEEL RIGHT NOW

You can't cure it, every year will be hundred of thousands of variations, you will need a cure for each strain and subsidiary.

@@bellagreen6660 he doesn't say that it's curable. He said that if it was curable and there was a proven treatment, those guys wouldn't need a shark to help them sell it.

well especially since they don't differentiate the different viruses that cause cold & flus & apparently believe this product can "cure" them all within 48 hours. That by default means it can do that with all coronaviruses too. I wonder where they are now. I guess it turned out to be false, otherwise people wouldn't have moved onto horsepaste to try to cure them

Mm you’re right. Didn’t think about it that way

yes, but it's funnier when Glen's a vet. Shame he didn't really let them have it, he could have totally shredded them if he wanted to

To not predict that you would be asked how it works in a medical sense is pretty dull minded.

You're smarter than those two morons

you got hurt bad... didn't you?

Yea that's a literal snake oil salespeople with modern phony medication

Torbjørn Karlsen Americans and Canadians are so dramatic

@@frusciantesplectrum7980 NO, the Canadian "Dragon's Den" doesn't have drums and music blaring when people are talking.

@@frusciantesplectrum7980 Except this is Australia.

@@frusciantesplectrum7980 Except this is Australian lol.

Megan Breen haha 😂 yeah, I noticed that after I typed it. It’s a shame that Australians are taking the same route as I always thought they were closest Mather to British in many ways.

@@sukidesu9755 did u attend medschool where these guys had their marketing and sales training?

As a medstudent, frankly, that doesn’t mean much these days. They seem to be charlatans. But you can’t say medshool equips you to understand natural medicine. Stay humble. Stay open to knowledge not found in your courses.

You don’t need to be a med school student to grasp that haha

I TOO NEED YOU TO KNOW IM A MEDICAL STUDENT. ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR

They shouldnt rely on them for everything, like all their cash, they should already have income when they ask for an investment

Needing an investment to catapult your business to the next level is not the same as needing people's money to bail you out of your own poor judgments. If you're a good business proposition, you would already have security in the form of assets, reserves, income and your own money that you're prepared to invest. That makes you a safer bet to invest in. THAT's the point of the show, and they make that point over and over again. So many people come in, already in debt or about to run out of money, and hope to lure the investors in with promises of gigantic returns so they use their money to bail out the loss and prop up the whole business, in return for a tiny share. What's most astonishing is how many people think that's going to work, on people whose entire point is being able to spot bad deals. Treating your investors as cash cows, whether for $100 or $1M, is the wrong attitude. And when your promises are based on products that are practically fraudulent like this one, it really should be criminal.

Would like to know too!

they were probably gonna put that 1.5mil into bribing the harvard researcher lol

Cmon guys these are typical pyramid/mlm scheme ventures. That lady spends her days selling essential oils and crap, then the husband got into debt and they figured they would try a "natural cure for the common cold" scheme, get as much money from the scheme as possible before cutting and running leaving everyone out of pocket.

Someone pointed out in the comments that there's no such thing as the "Harvard Medical Journal"

@@TheAlps36 yah it’s not really a journal but they do have educational magazines they print/ do online subscription for called Harvard Health but it’s more like geared towards healthy living advice not pushing pills on people

in the US homeopathic remedies are sold in drug stores. You can make whatever claims you want lol.

@@noodlesthe1st no you can’t and you clearly are not from the US so shut up

you can market anything and release in US. it will just be over the counter and they have to put disclaimer that this product has not been evaluated by FDA. This product in Australia had got the same OTC approval that you can get in US. Don't know where you got your information from!

same thoughts, you can't even properly hear them talk cuz that music is too prominent.

They are all not business people

Music is supposed to add to the show not take it over. It's really annoying

Why do they give me the same feel of anti-vaxxers that dont do proper research? 😂

and even funnier is that one of the sharks IS medically trained (a vet)

No they aren't. Cuban would've been talking smack about this product before the pitch even started. He would've absolutely hated it

Cuban would probably fit in well with the Aussie ones actually