Advice on....Snake Oil

djones51

Lawsuits against the type of deceptive practices employed by by some of these marketers isn’t worth the time or effort.

Apparently it isn’t worth the time or effort on the part of those making the claims of fraud, yet they have plenty of time to repeat the fraud charges here ad infinitum. If the fraud were as blatant and dangerous as some suggest, it’s hard to accept that no one has ever even filed a complaint. Why would they be frightened by something as simple as filing a complaint with a consumer protection agency? Every state has one.

... claiming since noone has sued them they must therefore work is fallacy.

I don’t think anyone here has claimed that.

And that's why I consider those who claim fraud and snake oil lazy and insincere. It's easy to make anonymous accusations here on the Internet. It's another to file a complaint and sign your name to it.

Unrelated question: why are the Snake Oil Screechers so loud?

Why would they be frightened by something as simple as filing a complaint with a consumer protection agency? Every state has one.

If you're asking why I haven't it's because my wife is an attorney who explained to me why it would be a waste of time.  I explained it above but you choose to ignore it.

but as long as they stay away from making definitive statements of guaranteed success then they have CTA.

It's very hard to prove if it was easy as I said noone would need to wade through the homeopath meds in the drug store. Some of them have been sued and the homeopath drug makers win. Does that mean they work? It means it's almost impossible to prove intent which is required in civil lawsuits of fraudulent practices. 

You'll find forums and comments on websites, reviews and fanboys claim miraculous  results  but you'll not find any declarative statements that tweak "x " or cable "y" improves the sound in every instance made by a manufacturer of said tweaks or cables. There's a lot of vagueness and personal experience by consumers of these things in the comment section. I mean why would they claim their product is miraculous for everyone, you think they want to be sued? 

djones51

If you're asking why I haven't it's because my wife is an attorney who explained to me why it would be a waste of time ...

So it would be a waste of time to file a fraud complaint with your state consumer protection agency, but it's worth your time to repeat the same claims here over and over and over again? Right.