So how much were they fined?
Groupon banned from selling SNAKE OIL
Groupon has been rapped for selling snake oil after the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that the online deals giant couldn't substantiate their claims about the reptile juice. An advert for a deal on 'Wrinkle Killer Snake Serum' sent out in October last year by Groupon claimed that customers rubbing the reptile- …
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Wednesday 25th January 2012 15:21 GMT Uncle Slacky
The original snake oil did work...
...it was the ripoffs that didn't:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=snake-oil-salesmen-knew-something
"Of course, most 19th-century snake oil salesmen did not, in fact, sell this particular product. Even those hucksters who did sell actual snake oil would likely have sold the rattlesnake variety, nearly useless for any ache-relieving medicinal purpose. But the original Chinese purveyors of snake oil offered something that probably did exactly what they claimed it would do: help fellow workers relieve the pain of their labors."