Perusing my elderly mother's copy of the Daily Express, I always secretly enjoy the adverts towards the back. Most of the stuff is simply ridiculous, but some of them are clearly intended to take advantage of older people who may not really understand things very well. Today I saw an advert for Fischer Storage Heaters. They're not referred to as storage heaters in the advert, which is full of vague allusions to how cheap they will be to run. But a little bit of research revealn that this is what they are, and that they cost around £1,000 per heater!

Google throws up a thread on MSE about them which has been heavily censored, clearly because of material which Fischer did not want to be in the public domain. The thread also contains many suspicious posts from people claiming to be satisfied customers whose only posts are to that thread, and who all repeat the same strange conception of physics, electricity, and thermodynamics which Fischer itself has.

There is also an even more suspicious thread on something called trustpilot..

I thought this group might take advantage of the uncensored nature of Usenet to assess the honesty and value for money offered by Fischer ...