spaco wrote:
Last night I posted a caution about using overpriced electric heaters to
heat the shop. It never appeared. Where did it go? Can someone
take negative posts off the NG? If so, why do they allow posts that
"dis" Harbor Freight or those that tell horror stories about tools, etc.?

I thought I had done a good job of using facts provided to me by the
media that ran one of the ads.

Pete Stanaitis

You mean this one? I show it as 1/28/09 posted at 19:49


I just saw the TV ad for the "Heat Surge" (free if you buy the Amish
enclosure for $289 Plus S&H) for the umteenth time. They said at the
end of the ad that ---not to worry, it is safe since it uses no more
power than the average coffee maker--.
Okay, so why not just use your coffee maker for the heat and save ALL
the purchase price?

Is anybody else as ticked off as I am about these people scamming the
public?

The "Edin Pure" heater advertised in the AARP mag says it'll save "up
to 50%" on your heating bill, while the "heat surge" only offers a 20%
savings. Of course, the difference must be due to the fact that the
Edin Pure costs $389 and, NO wooden cabinet.

BYW, here's what Edin Pure apparently told AARP's advertising dept.
about their "savings" research":
With regard to the savings claim:

7.8% responded they saved 50% or greater.
29.4% responded they saved 25-50%
41.2% responded they saved 10-25%

Yah- for those with calculators, I wonder what the missing 21.6% had
to say! ?????

I wrote to AARP to complain that they are ripping off the very people
(us retired people) that they claim to protect. They simply
(apparently) asked Edin Pure if everything they claimed was true and
guess what, Edin Pure said it was. So, end of story, Pete. We will
keep on taking the money from the full page ad while continuing to bilk
the readership without doing any serious investigation.

"Boo" AARP!!!

Pete Stanaitis
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Steve W.