Those "Lose Weight" Internet-Ads

[Barziboy]

You know which ones I mean:

"Local Mom from [insert receiver's local town here] Loses 10 pound in 2 days from one age-old secret! Find out how she did it!!"
"The 57-year old Mom that looks like a 27-yer old, find out her secret!"

First of all, I've always laughed whenever I saw those ads because if it was a local town that it was discovered in, we wouldn't be calling our mothers 'mom', and we rarely measure anything in Pounds anymore (this is England, by the way.)

But I've seen these ads everywhere on the most unexpectd websites. I've been seeing them for almost a year now, and it's made me wonder a few things:
a) What website do you actually get when you click on them?
b) If there is a product involved that you buy, what is it?
c) How did they even last this long? (I mean, surely these ad must cost something to appear on the likes of the Escapist, and even Facebook and YouTube)


I don't know, maybe they just look a little too cheap-lookin' for my taste and 've always feared that my Inbox would by pummled with 'Male Enhancement' within the hour of clicking on one of those ads.

So anyway, Your Opinions please, Escapists? Has anyone ever clicked on one of these?

 

[BonsaiK]

A. A website that tries to sell you a weight loss product.
B. There are several.
C. People are gullible/insecure/hung up about societal pressues re: looking slimmer etc. Like anything on the internet 99.9% of people are smart enough to not click on it, but that 0.1% is still enough clientele to make it worth doing.