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- angusm, on 06/19/2008, -2/+51Mangosteens are delicious, although perhaps too sweet for some people's tastes. Queen Victoria is said to have offered a knighthood for anyone who worked out a way to transport them from India to Britain without the fruit spoiling.
There doesn't seem to be much evidence to support the claims made for unique health-giving properties, but that hasn't stopped a company called Xango from making mangosteen juice the basis of a complicated MLM scheme. As usual, this generates large amounts of spam, as the make-money-fast weenies who've signed for the program scramble to try to profit from their overpriced fruit juice. Much as I like mangosteens, I'm getting very very tired of Xango spam. - Railoc, on 06/19/2008, -2/+38Mangosteen juice is nothing but a pyramid scheme device, and this is just an ad shilling it, not a legitimate news article. This shouldn't be on Digg unless it's an expose.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -3/+34Mangosteen juice is the most expensive juice I've ever seen in my life
- svensko, on 06/19/2008, -3/+34Didn't "Lowtax" Kayaka or whatever try to advertise this on the Something Awful forums as something that tasted great and then he was exposed as being funded for saying such things? (and that the juice tasted terrible?)
- Fu510n, on 06/19/2008, -2/+33Oh look.....a pyramid scheme!
- briankoenig03, on 06/19/2008, -2/+32Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam. Multi-Level Marketing scams are near the top of my "Annoying" list.
Google "mangosteen pyramid scheme" - YogiWanKenobi, on 06/19/2008, -3/+27MLM spam detected.
The MLM is the most unscrupulous business model yet conceived (other than armed robbery). Take Monavie for example. The acai is called the poor man's fruit in Brazil, where you can get a gallon of the freshly squeezed juice for less than 50 cents US. Monavie retails for over $45 for a 750ml bottle, which works out to $225/gallon. That works out to over a 4,000% markup. It's not even pure acai--they dilute it with other cheap juices, such as white grape. There is some additional processing done by the Monavie folks, such as ethylene gassing to increase the antioxidant count, but still a vast majority of the retail price ends up going to pyramid leaches. Unfortunately MLMs--like lotteries--are a tax on people who don't understand math.
That said, I'm sure the fruit has numerous benefits. It's no magic bullet. Your best bet is probably to include a variety of antioxidant-rich foods in your diet. - jbarna, on 06/19/2008, -1/+25Lowtax is behind this, I have no doubt about that.
- bitweever, on 06/19/2008, -1/+231. Find rare exotic fruit.
2. Give it wild health claims.
3. Profit!!! - moghua, on 06/19/2008, -2/+20If it sounds like scam, is linked to a site called "inventorsite", and is pushed as a cure for cancer, it probably is a scam.
- EskNerd, on 06/19/2008, -2/+19I immediately pictured a mango with neckbolts. Or possibly a mango wearing a yarmulka.
- longlukey, on 06/19/2008, -1/+16i come from a family of filipinos and theyve been drinking this stuff forever.... claiming it cured AIDS. I told my aunt "but you don't have AIDS." "Exactly," was her reply.
- fredmv, on 06/19/2008, -0/+15The problem with a lot of these "miracle" fruits (mangosteen, goji, et al.) is that their value is based on the ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) scale which is unreliable and nearly meaningless. Like many things, what pans out in vitro does not always ring true in vivo. So, whatever kind of `benefits' the fruit confers (from presumably trace amounts of antioxidant compounds--OPCs, Vit C., etc.) is undermined by the ridiculous sugar content. A real miracle beverage is green tea, which is is not only dirt-cheap, but the active polyphenol, EGCG, has a lot of real research proving it to be a viable health adjunct, and furthermore positive for body composition as well [1: Physiol Behav. 2008 Feb 27;93(3):486-91.].
- vegask, on 06/19/2008, -2/+16Mangosteen franchise == Pryamid scheme.
- hornback, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15Funnily enough, the main guy LOWTAX from somethingawful did exactly that and there was a pretty big controversy about it.
- allaboutdatiki, on 06/19/2008, -7/+19Time to head out to Whole Foods for a fruitless search ...
- jhunt, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12my scamdar is going off
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -1/+13DIGG FRAUD
- whyufail, on 06/20/2008, -0/+11My roommate used to sell that *****. $70 fruit juice in a bottle. He ended up getting hosed of course because it was a huge pyramid scheme and still has 4 boxes (each containing 4 bottles of the stuff, roughly $200 a box) sitting in his room that they sent him even after he tried to cancel the program.
- JeremyK684, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11That juice is over $37 per bottle.. screw it..
- gametavern, on 06/19/2008, -3/+14Jesus, is this a Xango ad? Put Xango right next to stem cells for curing everything ever to afflict you.
- humperdeath, on 06/20/2008, -1/+12Spam, spam, spam spam, spam spam, spam spam, lovely spam.....wonderful spam.....SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAAAAAM!
Bloody vikings. - soupeh, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10My mother is developing early signs of arthritis, and has been buying this overpriced crap from a friend for several years. I have been overtly critical of both the supposed health benefits and the MLM system by which it's sold, basically calling her out for joining a type of 'cult'.
She has even tried to get me involved, parroting the lines and information that were presumably said to her in the first place to sell the stuff.
I didnt know the XanGo business was this big, or that there was info out there that agreed with me. I'm going to compile some of this stuff and send it to her. - Triplicate, on 06/20/2008, -1/+12Didn't Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka try to scam a bunch of people into buying mangosteen a few months ago? If I remember correctly his wife ended up miscarrying because she drank some of the juice while she was pregnant.
- Alucard010, on 06/20/2008, -0/+10I have some friends who work in the XanGo call center and they all say XanGo is a scam, enjoy your $25 bottle of fruit juice.
- Tr33fiddy, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8lol, the guy who started Xango wanted to buy a domain name of mine a few years back. He expected me to give it to him for free.
Suffice to say my request for 25,000GBP in return garnered no response. - SirStu, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9"relatively unknown"
They sell them in Tesco. - shutaro, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8I immediately pictured Bruce Mangosteen...
...Ok, you can digg me down for that. - Sleepytime, on 06/20/2008, -0/+7scam, lol
- telepheedian, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7Nope, he just found that magic step 2.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -2/+9DON'T ***** CLICK MY LINKS, DON'T ***** BUY MY JUICE, DON'T SHOVE DRINKS UP MY ASS
- CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7if you drink enough of it you become jesus!
- chaosium, on 06/20/2008, -0/+6"I have tried monavie and while I'm sure it doesn't cure ***** it does give you energy and make you feel naturally well."
Plaaaaceeeeebooooooo. - CiXeL, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7you sir are the snake oil salesman of the 21st century.
i find it hilarious how most of the 'mangosteen juice'' you use in the product is extracted from the hardened rind which is rich in tannins and all the rest is just cheap juice from other fruits.
antioxidents my ass. a useless buzzword. - dinostabOMG, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7If you don't want to die, make sure you drink your body's weight every day in acai, blueberry, mangostein, kabocha, wheat germ, goji berries, tahitian noni, etc.
I don't know how civilization ever survived without them. - Tyrghast, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6Bruce Springsteen has a fruit named after him?
- zephc, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6I pictured something more like Yngwie Mangosteen: http://i32.tinypic.com/2wrpu7a.jpg
- plumpchump, on 06/20/2008, -2/+7mail order bride, half breed child, mangosteen mangosteen mangosteen! 55555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555
- StaticThunder, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5Actually, I've read the scientific studies because I briefly dated someone who fell for this MLM bologna. Its garbage. Overpriced fruit juice. It might have some mild analgesic and antioxidant effects, but so does pomegranite juice for 1/5th the price.
People making medical claims about mangosteens have been sued successfully in several places around the world.
So, tell me that the mice and tissue cultures were lying. - sq2shooter, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5Mangosteen is a scam. Always has been. And yes your friend who is trying to sell it to you, is out a lot of money with his MLM company and is looking to make it back with your gullibility.
- Medicamusic, on 10/28/2008, -0/+5kind of like how birthdays are good for your health... the more you have; the longer you live.
- Syric, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Mighty delicious little bastards, those mangosteens. I eat them whenever I'm in the Philippines, and I'd recommend them--for the taste. The miracle health-fruit nonsense is getting out of hand quite frankly.
- Hangly, on 06/20/2008, -3/+8Here's a poem I composed for the occasion.
MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! DONT CLICK MY LINKS!
SA is way cooler than anyone thinks!
Stealling your dollars with bans and probation.
How else to rule over the great goonland nation?
MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! COME KISS MY ASS!
All the good posters are coming to SASS.
Your ineptitude brings all the boys to our yard
All you will have left are the myspace retards.
MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! PANTS-***** FAGS!
SA only makes unintentional gags.
Your users are virginal fat goony losers
Galactica fanboys and substance abusers.
MANGOSTEEN! MANGOSTEEN! SRSLY, ***** YOU!
You scamtastic 'steen drinking nappy-haired Jew.
I don't understand, but whatev' makes you happy.
Dear sir, your website truly is something crappy. - SaladCactusKing, on 06/19/2008, -2/+6Riffleraffle thread.
- cathpah, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4haha....durian is good, but i think it's hilarious that you can't ride in taxis or public transportation in places like singapore when eating durian.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -1/+6hi lowtax
- Bodhinature, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Snapple pumps so much high fructose corn syrup in their drinks its makes the drink worthless.
- lothar250, on 06/20/2008, -1/+5"visiting Japan and it was nothing to write home about; in fact it was a disappointment." - LIAR, he's never been to Japan
- cdtoad, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4MLM dog sheet. I see the schemers have glommed together and all dugg this CRAP. BURY'd for being shesist
- SuperMan0505, on 06/19/2008, -4/+8So does this drink cure cancer while making me ***** my pants just like Lowtax would want?
DON'T CLICK MY LINKS
DON'T GO INTO MY PYRAMID SCHEMES
DON'T BUY IT! -
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