Exposing the site Sonic-Brush.net product Sonic Brush V5 with their shady & misleading tactics, a warning to buyers to research more
The information I am providing is after purchasing a Sonic Brush® V5 from Sonic-Brush.net. I encountered so many red flags and I felt it was important to express them to the public.
After receiving my purchase and unboxing the product, I immediately noticed how cheap it felt, which was misleading compared to how it was advertised.
The power adapter was incredibly light, almost as light as a feather — that was the first red flag! You will have to take me on my word on that since you are not holding the actual product. It was also using an outdated micro USB connector. Red flag!
Instead of using the product, I decided to contact their support to initiate a return because it was complete junk. That’s when the rabbit hole began.
Oh, so they want me to return it back to China and pay for shipping which would be $45. Red flag! What is especially interesting to notice is they conveniently leave this information off their Refund Policy link https://sonic-brush.net/policies/refund-policy, Red flag!
Let’s investigate further! Take a look at this on their front page of their site:
Oh wow, look at these names — I recognize those! This Sonic Brush or sonicbrush company must be trustworthy because they’ve been ‘seen on’ these sites, right? Wrong!
This is misleading. Anyone can buy an advertisement and then claim, ‘As seen on X site.’ Red flag! Take this link, for example: https://www.wpgxfox28.com/story/49661134/introducing-the-worlds-first-fully-automatic-toothbrush-sonic-brush/. It doesn’t even work and leads to a 404 — Not Found error. Red flag!
Even their other links are misleading. For instance, their ‘Daily News’ link redirects me to this random site, a business news page from Starkville, MS. Too funny!
They even somehow tricked Forbes into writing an article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/01/10/the-11-best-and-most-innovative-new-gadgets-and-devices-in-2023/?sh=52d6f7e84d17, where they claim SonicBrush will have a booth at CES. But there’s no proof, no photos, nothing to back this up. Red flag!
Fun fact: Did you know it’s pretty easy to pay a writer on Forbes to write about your product? It doesn’t fool everyone, though. Just take a look at this comment:
After seeing all this funkiness, I decided to inform other viewers on their YouTube video about their shady tactics. Guess what they did after I posted my comment? They turned off their comments, lol! Red flag!
There is no company that owns the trademark for Sonicbrush. I wonder why? That’s right, it’s likely because any legitimate company would probably face a lawsuit from Philips over their Sonicare product. Red flag! The moment I encountered Sonic Brush / sonicbrush, I immediately assumed it was connected to Philips Sonicare. But I was wrong — they are two completely separate companies. Sonic Brush is deliberately trying to capitalize on the success of Philips Sonicare to deceive customers. Allegedly, of course — got to cover my bases for 2025 to protect my First Amendment rights. But don’t worry, folks! I’ll be sending this blog post to the Philips Sonicare team for further investigation.
If you ever question if a company is legit or not, try Trustpilot. NEVER trust reviews from the own site. Do you really think SonicBrush would allow a legit 1 star review? Let me help you answer that question, no they wouldn’t.
Don’t take my word, trust the fine folks that contributed to 16% of legit 1 star reviews here https://www.trustpilot.com/review/sonic-brush.net?stars=1
Imagine that, I’m not the only one that noticed the scam they are allegedly pulling.
Cracking the scam
This is how these scams, and others like them, allegedly operate. Hypothetically, if I wanted to sell a low-cost product and ran my operations from China, I would:
- Use a well-known eCommerce platform like Shopify (which they did).
- Incorporate a popular keyword like Sonic, which tricks users into thinking I’m part of another widely known and popular brand (which they did).
- Brand my marketing with images of white women to mask my identity and be very deceptive (which they did).
- Pay random, low-level influencers to promote my product on social media (which they did).
- Advertise on reputable websites to create the illusion of endorsements (which they did).
- Make returns difficult by requiring customers to ship products back to China, while conveniently omitting this info from my website until customers contact me (which they did).
- Include a misleading legal notice stating that the server is hosted in Canada to obscure my true location (which they did). It’s blatantly obvious they are hiding their identity — what legitimate business would share the location of their server? Ridiculous.
- Hide YouTube comments once others expose me, so potential customers can’t see the truth (which they did).
- Furthermore, to counter the massive amounts of bad press and comments people write about my product, I would hire others to give it a 5 star review (allegedly they did)
It’s all an illusion
These are common tactics used by Chinese shell companies to defraud American consumers and others worldwide. I hope my analysis has been helpful. I’m not affiliated with any entities in this article and this is my own writing.