nobrain
February 15, 2010, 5:49pm
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Thanks for the detailed and considered response. I think it’s good you are challenging and sceptical.
A quick reply - I also started a sceptic and I think most people do. Conversion wasn’t instant, and when I started to perceive effects I didn’t actually like them at first, until I learned to buffer etc. But now I think they are great. I’m not saying they all work for me 100% of the time but there is enough consistency and enough frequency in the way they work for me to trust that they have an effect. It’s that consistency and frequency that has convinced me. It’s a small effect some of the time (hence the endless comments on congruency) and I am inevitably the major contributory factor in responses but they do make a difference for me. And every now and then I get a big effect that is a “wow” factor and that is a novelty that hasn’t worn off yet!
I think of it as the final shine of my shoes before I leave the house. It’s not going to make a difference if the rest of me is below par but when I’m on par it’s going to sing. I don’t think I’m gullible and taken in, but if I am then I’m *happily *gullible with what I get out of them. Yes, there is some placebo (if you wear instant shine you are going to be wanting to project shine) but I strongly believe, like many others, there is more. It would be cheaper for me to believe they didn’t work and I would even go so far as to say I wanted them not to work just as much as I wanted them to work
I have no vested interest in saying this and nothing to gain from saying it (and you’ll note my language emphasises the subjective nature of my experience) so you’ll have to take my word as one honest human being to another that in my personal experience this stuff is good. I could also order cheaper and from companies which as you say make bolder claims but I don’t because I don’t need to.
I sincerely hope you and everyone else experiences the same
Best of luck with your tests and I’ll stop by your journal when time allows. This forum is a friendly place full of great people and I hope we can all continue to share our experiences, good and not so good, for the benefit of each other.
Great response. You seem like a class act all the way!! I appreciate your words and I too sincerely hope to become a huge fan of pheromones. Take care and have a great week!