adondo wrote:

Along the same lines... here's a silly rip-off item that's been somewhat discussed in another semi-related thread in the RV.net forums.

''Electric Supercharger''

Trust me, it would NEVER work. Sooner or later though, some poor sucker will be sucked right into that scam. I have to admit that it's very comical that someone would put an air cleaner on a heater blower fan and sell it as a ''supercharger''

CactusJohn wrote:

We need Oliver Stone or Michael Moore to investigate this.

Sea Dog wrote:

The point is that these "inventions" have been around since the days of Henry Ford.
The only problem is, like Big Foot and the Loc Ness Monster, while second hand accounts abound, no one has ever actually seen one.

Is anyone dumb enough to think that car companies spend millions developing more fuel efficient vehicles when all they have to do is reach in a drawer and pull out the plans for a gizmo that Zeke invented in his corn crib back in thirty and two?

mike4947 wrote:

For the record Google has opt-out provisions for specific and types of ads. If you see ones that are truely false or objectionable click on "notify moderator" in any post or send a PM to your favorite moderator and send your objection. All of us moderators will pass it along to the "Powers that Be" that have the authority over the Google ads.

outdoorsman2007 wrote:


Actually I went to high school with a friend who later invented a product that you placed under the carburetor (I'm showing my age). Depending on how you drove, it increased your mileage about 50%.

His patent was bought and the device was removed from existence. I had a test model on my car back then and it did work.

So this particular "gizmo", as you put it, did actually work, which is why you never saw it on the market.

If you develop something that will hurt a big corporation's profits, you can bet that big corporation will do what they can to stifle you.

I'm not saying that these "snake oil" adds brought up by the OP are legit, they aren't.

hotpepperkid wrote:



Yea right. You know how many times I have heard that story.

hpk

pete42 wrote:

Reminds me of a guy at work who one day said " I have a perpetual motion machine at home", "It runs but keeps stopping"

kmb1966 wrote:

Anybody bought one? Perhaps the RV.net site could make the following arrangement with the advertiser: GIVE a volunteer on the site free of charge one of their gizmos (whatever it is), and let the volunteer try it out for free. If it works, they can stay advertising on the site. When it doesn't work, tell them to go away and take their scam/fraud with them.