feel like a fool posting this but. ..

jackieblack

A former colleague of mine once asked me to go with her to visit a psychic.
When we arrived, we were advised that she was going to be delayed 'due to unforeseen circumstances' :doh:
Needless to say, we left.


I know this sounds like a bad joke, but it is true

Pollycat

dingdongavoncalling wrote: »

My friend and I went to see a psychic a couple of weeks ago. We'd heard really good things about her from a couple of friends and decided to give it a shot. Cut a very long story short, she didn't know anything about me and almost everything she said was wrong. I felt I made this clear at the time and kept saying no. She asked me a lot of open questions to lead her too. I paid £25 for this 10-15 minute "reading". Should I ask for a refund or put it down to experience?!

Yours, feeling embarrassed! X

I too visited a psychic after a few of my workmates said how good she was.

I was very sceptical and made that clear to my friends.

I went in first and the woman was clearly no more psychic than my downstairs loo.

She worked on odds - most people my age would have children etc etc.

I was very atypical and everything she said was a load of tosh.
She obviously realised she was wrong and with a rueful grin, ended the sitting.
I chucked the going rate (can't remember how much it was) onto the table and walked out.
She must have heard me telling my friends just how wrong she had been and they cancelled their appointments there and then.

£25 for a 10-15 minute reading sounds a rip-off but you chose to go to see her.
She did actually provide a service.
The fact that you didn't agree with what she told you doesn't change that.
If you were so unhappy, why didn't you refuse to pay at the time?

I would put it down to experience - unless you are prepared to take it further if she refused

good_advice

Hello Ding, you are no fool. You have just learnt a valuable lesson.
people will belive what they want. You wanted to hear the spill and you paid 25 pounds for 15 minutes.

Would you pay again? for another lesson?
I would not ask for a refund.
If people could realy see things, there would be no lottery as every one would know the winning numbers.

No one will know anything about your life unless it shows or some one fills them in - asks questions.

duchy

I'm in two minds. Some years ago a friend talked me into going with her for a reading. I went first and it was the generic rubbish I expected and she got most stuff about me wrong. My friend then went in . First thing the woman asked her why she was wearing a wedding ring when she wasn't married anymore ...which was true. She then went on to say how the ex husband had a very specific mental disorder....also true and something my friend never spoke about.

We were 200 miles from home and no one knew us there.

I still don't know what to think.

pearl123

This going to sound blunt but a fool and their money are easily parted!

Anatidaephobia

Agree with the others - it's a bit late now to ask for a refund. Think of it as experience and something you won't repeat.

good_advice

pearl123 wrote: »

This going to sound blunt but a fool and their money are easily parted!

We have all given away our money with good/bad choice at some point.

dingdongavoncalling

I agree with everyone that said I shouldn't have paid in the first place or shouldn't have left it this long. Truth is I was too typically British and embarrassed to say I wouldn't pay at the time. What sparked off my anger again was she said someone was going to get better as we have had enough trauma in our lives....They died the following week! Will put this one down to experience! Thanks for all the comments x

alias*alibi

theoretica wrote: »

This I would disagree with - not from the point of view of psychics, but the modern world. People with other gifts and callings - great musicians or priests - need to be paid, so why should psychics be different? If people are asking for readings why should they be able to take advantage of a true psychic (if such exist) or the psychic have to work in another job to support their readings if there is sufficient demand?

Musicians get this all the time - you are so lucky to have this gift, come and play for exposure/love/wine. If you want to take advantage of someone's skills don't expect to take advantage of them too.

I was always told those who really had a gift didn't charge because it was bad luck to cash in on a gift.

Anyway; my mums family friend was a psychic who read for friends and family for free. Things she told me and my mum came true; I had to wait some years for fruition but it was like a bolt out of the blue when they happened. I don't trust 'the gypsy rose-lee' in tacky seaside resort types!

Person_one

Blue264 wrote: »

Then, one day, I was shopping in Manchester city centre and was browsing close to a psychics booth, when he approached me and asked if he could talk to me. He gave me a reading (free) which was so pin point accurate that it left me shaken. Everything he said would happen, came true within the next 3 weeks.

2 years later, I tracked him down (he'd moved to another town) and had another reading. Again, everything he said happened within the next 3-6 weeks.

Wow, he should be fighting crime.

In fact, why isn't he?