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George999
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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2009, 12:40:22 AM » |
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These are the Internet version of telemarketers. In the case of telemarketers, their first statement is usually something like "I'm not trying to sell you anything", but that usually is a very reliable indication that they are. The same is true of websites. They all have that feel that they are engaged in some sort of charity operation with the whole focus on helping you out in your time of need. Whenever you start to get that feeling, hang on to your wallets. Around here, when we try to give advice, we don't make a dime off of it. In fact I sometimes send people here to legitimate vendors who have offered me rewards for sending potential customers their way. I purposely don't make use of those kinds of programs because I feel it would color my judgement and would amount to a conflict of interest in terms of the information I want to share. And I know that same sort of thing applies to most everybody else around here. Occasionally, we have a spammer drop by, but we usually figure them out pretty quickly. All of us here are either suffering from this disease, have a loved one who is, or, in a few cases, have useful niche expertise possibly related to the disease and stick to that particular subject matter. And if you have this disease, all of us are here for you. We care about you and we want to see you get the best possible treatment. And we will always tell you the straight scoop as we understand it whether it is what you want to hear or not. And WHATEVER we tell you will be vetted by multiple equally experienced and well meaning bystanders. So, in the end, its a choice only you can make as to where you go for help. If you don't like what you see around here, there are a lot of sites out there that will tell you what you want to hear, but in almost every case it won't be free. In fact it won't likely even be cheap. And it could cost you a lot of money before you finally discover you've been had and the only evidence you are left with is a mail drop address in some foreign country. - George
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