>> Now what about that magnetic woolen underlay also advertised
>> on TV...?

> aaaaargh !!!!!

That item particularly and that sort of thing in general annoy me 
greatly.

They play on the suffering of people to sell an utterly shonky profit 
at exorbitant * prices.

The placebo effect, random distribution and happenstance, and an N day 
money back  man that they can claim thousands of satisfied customers 
and thereby continue to sell their ripoff extortionate ripoff products 
to thousands more.

In the case of the "biomag" "magnetic fleece underlay" - a fleece 
mattress cover with magnets imbedded, the fleece part probably does 
some good for some people and makes the magnet effect or lack thereof 
hard to ascertain or demonstrate. It would not be at all hard to do 
double blind controlled trials if they were really interested in doing 
so - but that would most certainly kill the goose that is laying their 
golden eggs for them.

Maybe there's a market niche for an oxygen free copper magnetic wool 
precious metal cones turbulizer? A real fleece product!

That is, fwiw, by no means the biggest con going in NZ at present. By 
far the biggest ripoff that I am aware of is "retirement villages". So 
well done that the vast majority of people are not aware that these 
are legalised licences to ripoff people on a scale that is almost 
impossible to match anywhere else. Compared to this the occasional 
petty conman who charges an old person $5000, or even $15000 to paint 
their fence is in a completely different (and minor) league. I suspect 
that even Jinx will not initially make sense of this assertion.




            Russell


* Not that there is a price that isn't exorbitant for such products.

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