"Telstar Electronics" wrote...

Do you really think that people would pay $40 for something
on ebay that didn't work right... and then leave positive
feedback?

Every day people are buying products or services that
do not work, then giving positive reports.

Magnetic supports, bands, etc claiming health
benefits. Then there are the cups and devices to
clamp around water pipes, claiming to make water
better for you. Another that, if clamped to your fuel
pipe claims to give your car more miles to the gallon.
Some claims include curing illness and diseases.

How about the "mediums" and ghost hunters who claim
to talk to your dead relatives? Their methods have
been publicly exposed, and they have been proved on
TV to be faking.

Many more products have been suggested as hoaxes,
fakes and scams, in spite of the fact that people claim
that they worked for them.

The craziest one of all has to be the water scam...
Some years back, in an episode of the hit Brit comedy, Only
Fools And Horses, they bottled tap water and sold it as
mineral water.
The British people found this extremely funny... until a large
American drinks company pulled that same scam on the British
public.
They bottled English tap water, gave it labels claiming health
benefits, and sold it at a pound a small bottle... probably the
highest priced "mineral water" in the country.


In spite of public exposure of deception, people continue to
believe in and even recommend such products with reports of
how they worked for them.
Some people are so desperate to believe, they only see what
they want to see - even if it is not really there.



I hardly think that's likely.

Can you say placebo?


Regards,
Peter.