There are a variety of similar questions that people ask, such as: Do you have someone near where I live that owns a ROM that I can see? Can you give me some phone numbers of ROM owners that I can talk to? Are there any Gyms in my area where I can go to check out your ROM? Etc. Etc.

The answers are: "not a good idea" and "no".

IT USED TO BE "YES" BEFORE 1993 AND WE STOPPED FOR GOOD REASONS. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ALL THOSE REASONS YOU HAVE TO READ ALL THE FOLLOWING:

Back in 1990 until 1992 we tried to match up prospective ROM customers with ROM machine owners so that they could talk to ROM owners and/or use the ROM. 4 minute workout. It was not a very satisfactory method of aiding the sale of ROM machines for many reasons:

1. It felt like asking Mercedes owners whether we could send people over to have a spin around the block in their car. Then when prospective customers did arrange to visit ROM owners they often did not show up at the pre-arranged times and sometimes they did not show at all because their interest "du jour" had shifted. All at the inconvenience of ROM owners that were kind enough to help other people over their mental block and disbelief. Then there were many people who just out of curiosity wanted to try a ROM to see what it was like. It was difficult to pre-qualify people to determine whether they were serious customers or just "tire kickers". There were a lot of "tire kickers" that had no intention to ever buy a ROM (but some of those actually wound up buying a ROM eventually after they were completely amazed at the result of only their one time 4 minute ROM workout. It is EXACTLY 4 minutes, never more).

2. the nice friendly ROM owners that allowed people to use their ROM to try it, would be asked many questions that they are not well equipped to answer, and instructing people in using the ROM for their first time was often not a great success either, even though the ROM owners themselves know exactly how to use their ROM and there is only a 2 minute learning curve. If the first time 4 minutes on the ROM is not an excellent experience then prospective customers lose interest very fast because while going to try it out they were sceptical anyway already and if their first 4 minute experience was not an excellent experience, then they got their suspcions confirmed and it would also be their last 4 minutes on the ROM.

3. Then there was the problem that some of these prospective lookers had not the best of manners and here these nice ROM owners were inviting complete strangers into their homes. One ROM owner reported to us that he did feel no longer comfortable receiving strangers because the latest visitors in their early 30s seemed to be casing the house and asked strange questions about the alarm system. Bottom line, he did not want to continue.

4. Then there was the problem that just using the ROM one time still did not give many of these highly skeptical customers the confidence that the ROM will indeed work all these wonders over time. There just are a lot of people who will keep sitting on the fence no matter how you try to help them over their disbelief. In fact often, the harder we try the more skeptical these people become. In fact, the more anybody tells them about the ROM the less they believe it. And some of these nice ROM owners were so overly enthusiastic about the ROM and the health benefits they got from using it, that it almost seemed like set-up.

5. There were quite a number of people who were gutsy enough to take a leap of faith to rent or buy the ROM and then there were these very careful potential ROM customers that could not persuade themselves no matter how many hoops they made us jump through. It turned out that the most demanding and labor intensive potential ROM customers were the least likely to buy a ROM. Among them were many that hardly read the literature we mailed them and who kept asking all these clever questions that were fully answered in our literature and on our website www.fastexercise.com . Among these clever questions were the standard annoying ones such as: "How do you explain the fact that every expert I have asked about this machine, tells me that a 4 minute workout is impossible? I have asked my doctor and he told me that if a 4 minute workout really worked, that he would buy one for himself. Are there any doctors that have purchased a ROM? (well, actually over 320 MDs have purchased a ROM for their own family use. The way many of these doctors got interested in buying a ROM is a funny story, which I will explain at the bottom of this website).

IN 1993 WE REPLACED THE REFERRAL SYSTEM WITH A 30 DAY RENTAL OPTION

We made an assessment that we would lose very few sales by stopping to accommodate the very skeptical people who most often did not buy a ROM after making us jump through all their hoops. Since all our advertising was in the Los Angeles area at the time we also could expect that people would come to our factory in the San Fernando Valley where their brief visit was enough to instruct them in the proper 4 minute use. Now that we sell the ROM nationwide and worldwide, we need 2 or 3 teaching sessions over the phone to instruct people after they have just received their ROM. 

Bottom line, we decided to do a very gutsy thing by offering a 30 day trial rental in the Los Angeles area where we were doing all our advertising at the time. We charged only $350 for that month rental beginning 1993 and we did it only in a 100 mile radius around our factory . We had designated ROM rental machines and that required exchanging the rental ROM for a brand new ROM at the end of 30 days. When we noticed that the vast majority of rentals (then 92% at the $350 rental rate, currently over 97%at the $2500 rental deposit) turned into sales at the end of 30 days, we started delivering brand new ROM machines so we did not have to exchange the rental machines for new machines at the end of 30 days. But that created "slightly used" ROM machines from the small percentage of ROMs that were not purchased at the end of the 30 day trial rental. That created a cost as well in that we discounted those returned machines by about $850 and we had to detail those machines and additionally it cost us a $185 shipping crate (total about an $1100 loss for us for every returned ROM machine).

When we started advertising nationwide we extended the 30 day trial rental program nationwide as well, but we required a $2500 rental deposit. We first only did this for the 3 Southwestern States (California, Arizona, Nevada). That was so successful with fewer than 3% ROM machines that were returned after the rental ( a very high 8% returns from local rentals that required only a $350 deposit), that we were encouraged to extend the 30 day trial rental to all lower 48 States and a year later to Canada, Alaska and Hawaii. Then in 2002 we even extended the 30 day rental to the UK and several other European Countries with a $3500 rental deposit.

We also made the rental deposit $1000 for local Los Angeles area rentals because we experienced about an 8% rental return rate with the $350 local rental fee. That was more than 16 times as high as the return rate from the rest of the country where the rental deposit was $2500. So we reasoned that the $350 local commitment was not high enough for people to be serious enough and some of them could not even discipline themselves for a 4 minute exercise per day and there were others who just rented the ROM for a month just to see what it was like, without any up front intention of buying a ROM (for example we delivered 3 ROM machines to different UCLA fraternities who apparently rented a ROM just for a party toy and those machines needed a lot of cleaning up and detailing and a larger than usual discount to sell them). The local return rate with the $1000 rental deposit dropped to around 5% but that was still higher than the 3% rate in the reat of the country. so we decided to set theb rental deposit everywhere in the lower 48 States at the same $2500 rental deposit rate. Alaska and Hawaii are at $3500 rental deposit. 

WE HAVE COMPLETELY STOPPED THE REFERRALS BECAUSE THERE IS NO NET MERIT IN IT FOR OUR POTENTIAL ROM CUSTOMERS NOR FOR US NOR FOR ROM OWNERS OR PLACES WHERE THERE ARE ROM MACHINES IN PUBLIC FACILITIES.

Potential ROM customers waste a lot of their own time and ours and the time of ROM owners and they will not get satisfactory answers without renting the ROM. Don't worry, we make absolutely nothing on the rental alone. In fact we lose about $1100 on each ROM machine that is returned from a rental (in 2002 we had 2 returned ROM machines from 144 rentals. In  2003, we had 4 ROMs returned from over 210 rentals). The 3% of people that for some odd reason fail to purchase the ROM at the end of the 30 days receive a $1000 refund. The $1500 we keep do not cover the average shipping, installation, picking it up again and the shipping back to us. So the net cost of the 30 day trial rental for these 3% of people  is $1500 because those people receive a $1000 refund from the $2500 deposit. The loss to us is about $1100 because the $1500 we keep will barely cover the shipping, installation, picking up and shipping back to us. Then we lose another $1100 because we discount the returned ROMs $850 that is no longer brand spanking new and we lose a shipping crate plus we have to detail the returned ROM. So we are not looking forward to the 3% returned ROM machines, but it is just part of the cost of doing business.

What the potential ROM customers want to find out about the ROM they can much easier derive at through a 30 day trial rental. By relying on the opinion of others they will get various conflicting answer. Exercise "experts" will mostly ridicule the 4 minute ROM exercise without even investigating it. ROM owners will praise it and "experts" who have just once used the ROM for 4 minutes will praise it as well as long as that praise does not interfere with their livelihood. We, the manufacturer of the ROM, of course praise it, but then our opinion is suspected to be biased. Then there are 10% to 15% of ROM owners that do not use their ROM machines to full advantage and they obviously do not get the results they should if they were using their ROM machines (of course 92% of conventional exercise equipment owners do not use their equipment). So what do you get? A very confusing picture.

All of this confusion could be spared you if you would only do some thinking on your own. This thinking should include: How can these ROM people still be in business since 1990 if the ROM did not work exactly as advertised? (Your skeptical answer could be that we keep finding ever more gullible people who just take our word for it. Sorry, no such thing, we would have been buried in lawsuits by now. Many lawyers own our ROM).

Next question: If this ROM would be really as good as is claimed by us, why then is it not in all the health clubs on Earth by now? Health clubs are run by "experts" that know that there could not possibly be a thing like a 4 minute machine. They do not even have to waste their time trying a ROM, they just know that it cannot possibly work with all they know about exercise. Healthclubs require a commute of average 15 minutes each way and that makes a ROM 4 minute workout at least 34 minutes and that takes the charm out of the 4 minute advantage of the ROM. The ROM belongs in the home or in the place of employment for employees to use because in both places the 4 minute exercise takes only 4 minutes. In a health club the 4 minute exercise takes at least 34 minutes (average 15 minute commute in both directions) and added to that waiting in line and changing clothes. We have never done an effort to get the ROMs into health clubs (we might still do that in the future against better wisdom). Despite our reluctance to promote the ROM to health clubs, several gyms have bought our ROM and some ROMs have been in commercial use for over 17 years and they have endured over 180,000 uses without the need of repair or overhaul.

Next question: If it has been on the market since 1990 why is it that I just became aware of the ROM very recently? Because we are a small family owned company that started promotion only locally in the Los Angeles area and then slowly expanded advertising into national publications. The ridicule by experts slows progress as well. Today every 4 ROM machines out in the field with ROM owners sell one ROM per year in referral sales.

Next question: Why are there not more University Studies? Because these places have their hand out and they will make findings according to what you pay for. USC gave us a glowing research report (included in the literature) but we were solicited to pay the researcher and the institution. How much of an "independent" study is that? This was the same USC that did research on cigarette smoking decades ago and found nothing wrong with it (research funded by the tobacco industry). The people who own ROMs did the most convincing research, they rented the ROM for 30 days and based upon their results during those 30 days they bought a $14,615 exercise machine. They did not get paid for doing their own 30 day research, they paid for it. The small percentage who returns the ROM at the end of 30 days most likely did no research at all (could not find discipline even for doing a 4 minute ROM exercise per day and consequently did not get any results of course.   

It is the same with trying to find out yourself whether the World is indeed round and not flat as believed up untill the end of the middle ages. What is needed is LOGICAL tyhinking and UNDERSTANDING. You cannot just rely on other people's beliefs and opinions, specially not on the opinuions of "experts". Read why "experts" are the worst people to ask about brand new ideas and things that sound too good to be true because experts will always want to defend the STATUS QUO. Read www.GuardiansOfTheStatusQuo.com  . People in the Middle Ages relied upon the wisdom of cartographers (mapmakers) and many of them firmly believed that the Earth was flat. It had been proven round without a question of doubt by Ptolemy of Alexandria who lived around 90-168 AD. http://www.seds.org/billa/psc/theman.html

Ptolemy in turn had found impressive writings on mathematical methods that helped him with the subject of Round Earth  from a Greek scientist Hipparchus of Rhodes who lived about 150 BC. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hipparchus.html

The first thing that potential ROM customers need to do is read ALL the literature available on the ROM and read it thoroughly , not just skimming it over. The best place to start is "Q&A" on our website: http://www.quickgym.com/QandA.cfm  Most of their questions will have been answered after reading "Q&A" (questions and answers). The few unanswered questions that are left include the ones at the top of this page and www.WhyIsItSoExpensive.com 

The second thing that needs to be done is watching the free DVD (or video). It is not a slick Hollywood production. It is cobbled together from video footage that we have collected over the years (simple and down to Earth).

How over 320 doctors wound up buying a 4 minute ROM machine for their own family use.
Obviously most of these doctors (MDs) consider themselves very knowledgeable about matters of exercise because they did get about two days of instruction about exercise and diet during their madical studies (as was explained to me by some of the MDs that are now ROM machine owners). Having all this impressive knowledge of exercise and learning more about exercise from the popular media, they know absolutely certain that a 4 minute workout is impossible and total nonsense and that it is not worthy of their valuable time for further investigation. THey just KNOW that it must be a hoax. But then something funny happened. A patient of theirs showed up for his yearly check-up and came out with these vastly improved health tests. Cholesterol down, blood pressure down. HDL cholesterol up, LDL cholesterol down, bloodsugar in better balance and less diabetes or diabetes totally gone, immune system stronger etc., much more improved treadmill test with more endurance, lower back problems and shoulder problems gone. So they asked their patient what is going on and "what have you been doing to get these impressively improved results?" The answer was: "I have purchased this 4 minute per day machine and I have been using it since I purchased it a few month ago". So the doctors said:  "No, no, for get about that machine, because 4 minutes of exercise will not give you these results, but keep doing what else you have been doing.  By the way what else did you do?". Reply: "Nothing else, only the exactly 4 minutes per day". Some of these doctors then went to our website and ordered the free DVD and then ordered a 30 day trial rental. Of all the people that rent the ROM for a 30 day trial, over 97% buy the ROM at the end of the 30 days. The rental applies to the purchase price. That is how over 320 MD wound up buying a ROM. Of course the ROM drastically lowers their own need for healthcare for their own family. The ROM is actually a bit of a financial disaster for the illness industry (commonly called healthcare industry), because the need for hospital visits and prescription medicines drops drastically for people that exercise. Of people that own a ROM machine 87% are using it to full advantage. Conventional home exercise equipment is almost totally useless because only 8% is used, the other 92% is useless equipment because it is not being used. Thay makes it useless. As soon as an exercise requires 15 minutes or more, 92% of people are unable to discipline themselves to do 15 minutes or more exercise. The main value of the ROM is that people are able to discipline themselves for an exactly 4 minute long workout per day. What is also remarkable is that you get the same or more results out of those 4 minutes as from 90 minutes in a gym. Lately Special Forces Military have purchased a number of ROM machines because they finally agreed that the ROM works exactly as advertised and indeed delivers these amzing results. They shipped two of the ROM machines to Afghanistan to Bagrm Airfield where these Special Forces soldiers are now doing exactly 4 minutes of ROM per day instead of their usual 90 minutes and they get superior results as is evident from the higher scores they get at the end of the 4 minutes on the ROM computer.  

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