Watch Mark Cuban Call Out A Total Scam On ABC’s Shark Tank

On Friday’s episode of Shark Tank — a reality show for entrepreneurs — one contestant, Ryan Naylor, hoped to succeed with what he called “a fashion accessory with health benefits.” Esso Watches, he said, restore the body’s “energy field” and improve the sense of balance. Scoffing, Mark Cuban (one of the “sharks”) immediately called him out for selling a scam, saying the whole idea has already been disproven.

Naylor earnestly described the “negative ion technology,” only to have another “shark,” Kevin O’Leary, say, “Well, it sounds a lot like a coffee enema. Supposedly good for you, but who knows, right?”

Then, as Naylor handed out his watches, Cuban, who visibly cringed through the presentation, refused to take one, and completely shot down the whole thing: “No, I’m allergic to scams. Seriously, this is not new. It’s been disproven. What you saw is the placebo effect. There’s athletes that wear it. It’s a joke. It’s a scam. It’s not real. I’m out. Okay. Thank you.”

The rest of the investors joined in on the, er, critique (“we beat him up pretty badly”), and Naylor did pretty much nothing to defend himself. But, in an aside, he essentially blamed the fiasco on Cuban: “It frustrates me that Mark Cuban clouded the water for the other sharks. It’s too bad that they weren’t able to focus on me and my product rather than being scared off by Mark Cuban.”

Have a look, via ABC:

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