With all of the controversy surrounding
ExtenZe, you’d think
they’d be out of business by now, but they seem to still be going
strong. In fact, they seem to be doing better than okay, but does that
mean that they have a product that actually does what it says? It’s up
to us to try and figure this out for you, and deliver the most unbiased
review of
ExtenZe that we can.
Overview BIOTAB Nutraceuticals is the company that manufactures and distributes
ExtenZe.
It’s important not to confuse ExtenZe with Enzyte. They are two
different products from two different companies, they just have similar
names and serve the same market.
In the world of
male enhancers,
you basically have two types of products to choose from. You can go
the all-natural route, where a product will use herbs and other
ingredients found in nature, or the pharmaceutical route where a drug
company has figured out how to synthetically alter the body’s chemistry
in a way that produces measurable results.
The Claim
The claims that ExtenZe makes might be somewhat vague, but that’s only
because they’re restricted in how much they can say on their website,
and other advertisements. They do say that it’s a blood flow stimulator
that makes the most of your natural potential. But potential means a
lot of different things to a lot of different people, so you’re left to
determine on your own what this means for you.
Also,
since each man has a different set of circumstances governing their
performance, it is hard to pinpoint exactly what each guy is looking for
when they visit the site. By remaining vague, and allowing visitors to
fill in the blanks on their own, the makers of ExtenZe have a pretty
effective sales strategy.
The unspoken benefits to using ExtenZe
are that it’s going to make you a better performer in the bedroom, have a
larger size, last longer, and basically regain some of your sexuality
that you may have lost due to age or other conditions.
Some
products reach a point where they don’t have to list their claims
anymore. People just automatically know what the product is supposed to
do. This is the Holy Grail for manufacturers. When you no longer have
to say what your product does – people just know – you’re in a whole
different league.
Another term that’s used at the sites is the
word enhance. Again, this is a rather vague term, and is left up to the
individual to create their own meaning when they say that it will
enhance sexual desire, pleasure and performance. Enhanced for one
person is not the same as enhanced for another.
The Name
However, with a name like ExtenZe what do they think people will expect
it to do? It’s obviously meant to sound like extends, which means to
make something longer. So when you’re marketing a male enhancement drug
and you’re calling it ExtenZe people are going to assume that it makes
your member longer, or bigger, or both.
The Hype
They can no longer state that ExtenZe makes your penis bigger. They
used to say that all over their literature, but then got sued, so you
won’t see them say that any more.
The hype comes in the amount of
advertising that has been done for ExtenZe. They have a racing car with
their name all over it. They run hundreds of television promos,
usually late at night. And they’re no stranger to online
advertisements, including banners, videos, and phony review sites.
ExtenZe is obviously making heaps of money, and they don’t mind spending
it to promote their product even further.
The Cost
ExtenZe is $46 per month, and they like it if you set up for the
auto-ship, auto-charge method so you get it automatically shipped to
your door and charged to your card every month until you cancel.
Depending on what type of money you make, this will seem either pretty
expensive, or suspiciously cheap. In the world of male enhancement,
this clocks in at about average.
Obviously, they want you to sign
on for automatic shipments, which means you’ll need to take the product
for as long as you’d like to experience the results, if any. This means
that there won’t be any residual benefits to using ExtenZe. As soon as
you stop using it, you’ll go back to your old ways like Cinderella at
midnight.
The Commitment Since you have to
continually use ExtenZe in order to gain its benefits, you have to be
ready to commit for the long-term. If the thought of taking a pill
every day for the rest of your life doesn’t sound like something you’d
like to do, then ExtenZe might not be the right product for you.
However, there is no saying that you need to take it every single day,
you could just use it when you want to or need to.
So the
commitment level really depends on you. If you want to use it every day
you can, or you can set up your own dosage regimen. If you don’t plan
on using it every day, then you should definitely not sign up for the
automatic shipments.
Evaluation The placebo
effect is something that will always play a part when it comes to male
enhancement. Guys want it to work so much, and spend so much money on
it, that they will believe they are getting results even if nothing has
changed.
One thing to keep in mind, is that this may be a
best-selling product, but that doesn’t mean it works. Moving a lot of
product just means that there’s a lot of clever marketers on the
promotion team. When you deal with a product of a sensitive nature, all
you have to do is make sure that it gets into people’s hands. The
likelihood that they’ll return it is very low and the likelihood that
they’re going to complain about it to their friends is also equally low.
Lawsuits and Complaints
For a product with such a torrid history, you’d think they’d be
struggling just to get by and almost be bankrupt by now. One
class-action lawsuit is almost ready to be completed which will entail
that ExtenZe gives all of their customers refunds that made purchases
while they still had some misleading claims on their website. Even this
won’t put a dent in their operations, most likely. Users will still
have to file a claim in order to get their refund of a measly $22.
Other
controversies entail professional athletes taking ExtenZe and getting
banned from their sport because it contained DHEA, which is a type of
steroid. This begs the question, do you really want to ingest something
from a company they can’t substantiate their claims with scientific
evidence, and that puts steroids in a product, but only charges a little
more than a dollar per day to use it?
Logic and reason would say
that you shouldn’t do business with a company that has so many legal
troubles and shows no intention of backing up any of their claims. The
problem is that in the male enhancement industry logic and reason rarely
factor into purchasing decisions.
Final ExtenZe Review
Instead
of coming up with the scientific proof that ExtenZe works, they
admitted defeat and lost the lawsuit. This should tell you something
about what their product is all about. For the makers of ExtenZe, it’s
just cheaper to pay court fines and issue refunds than it is to conduct
scientific research on their product.
We have a special place for
companies that produce ingestible products without providing any sort of
data as to what’s in it, why it’s in it, and what you can expect in
regards to side effects and other adverse reactions.
