Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm such a sucker. A neighbor down the street who has feet issues like my wife and I swore that these were great and well worth it. My wife asked for this, so I thought "OK, I'll go ahead and buy these." Pull them up on amazon and "Holy crapolie!" it's $50 for some rubber balls!! But I looked at the pic and saw that this came with instructional DVDs and I thought "Well, OK, it costs money to produce DVDs so I'll take the plunge here and go ahead and get these." We got them really fast! That's the only good news. Opened the package, and confirmed it's a set of rubber balls and... round instructional cardboard discs. Not DVDs. OK my fault. I should have been more careful. But reading the reviews of this, I'm not the only one that was confused. So now I'm wondering, "I spent $50 on some rubber balls, cardboard instructions, and a mesh bag?!?" Well I thought "OK, my bad!" Totally on me. So trying to remain open minded. My wife and I start looking at these. We start with the round instructional things they gave us. How confusing can these be? First off, they are printed front and back, and while there is a page number, it was very difficult to read the page number and I'm turning the cards back and forth trying to find where I'm at. The font on these is very small considering that these might be targeted to a lot of folks who are older and may not be able to see well. Also the instructional cards were difficult to use. Kept trying to turn them, but then they would all turn, etc. A pain. Then I'm trying to read and understand these things. You would think for $50 there would be some top class instructions! So my wife and I thought "There must be some instructional videos on youtube." So we go to youtube, and have a lot of difficulty finding anything except a few short videos. There are both hard balls and soft balls in the kit, but we didn't know what to do with the hard balls. So we kept googling to try and find instructions on how to use the hard balls for a our hands and feet. Very difficult to find anything. So frustrating! So then we thought "well they must provide instructional videos on their website." So we go to their website. They do have instructional videos. But it's by membership! You get one week free and then god knows how much it costs after that. I'm now starting to think "I spent $50 on this?!?!?!" Let me tell you what the $50 buys you. I'll break it down for you. $5 pays for cost of producing some rubber balls, very poor instructional cards, and a mesh storage bag. $10 goes to pay for an army of lawyers to protect their intellectual property rights, $10 goes to army of marketers who's sole task is not to help you with you hand and feet issues, but are tasked with trying to figure out how to siphon as much money out of your pocket as possible. And then $20 goes into the pocket of the founder so she can pay for her super yacht and McMansion. The remaining $5 goes to pay all her employee's salaries. I'm giving a 50-50 shot that one of the founder's lawyers responds to my review with a cease and desist order. But I'm betting only because the above is not too far from the actual truth. I watched the founder's videos. Sort of half baked new age pseudo-science (I couldn't help but roll my eyes when she tried to suggest a connection between some point on the foot and the digestive tract). You know they cannot claim any kind of medical benefit. Their lawyer's won't let that happen. So instead of just keeping this straight forward and leveraging these as "exercise for your hands and feet" they go over the line on the new age pseudo-babble about balance and your digestive tract. She wants to sound intellectual and knowledgeable without saying anything that's verifiable through research and science. Frankly, I think she should fire her entire marketing team. I think they missed the boat. Of course they got me to pay $50. So clearly they are way smarter than I am.