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YouTube Advert Pushing Magic Fluid

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facade Posts: 7,588 Forumite
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I watch a lot of car related content on YouTube, so the adverts I get pushed are usually car related.

It seems every other video I watch has the same advert, for a Magic Fluid using nano technology that shines up the car and hides massive gouges in the paint for no effort.

Now I'm a bit of a sucker for Magic Fluids, I have a shelf in the garage full of dusty part used Magic Fluids and Unguents, every one of which claimed that by simply wafting them near the car (or smearing on & wiping off as appropriate), it would be coated in a diamond hard brilliant shine that is resistant to dirt and scratching for 12 months. B)

Watching the advert (as you have to until skip activates) the brand name of the advertiser and that on the bottles is different.

Idly typing in the URL for the "half price offer" they want £30 for two tiny bottles!
Typing the brand on the bottle, or the current company into eBay they are £6.88 including post for one posted, (and show the same unfortunate blue BMW with the bumper showing black through the scratches that just a wipe from the Magic Fluid restores to new!)

Searching TrustPilot, it seems there are quite a few customers less than happy and shouting the S-word.

I would suggest that any one watching think hard before purchasing.


I'm trying to resist getting a bottle from eBay to add to my collection- this one might just work.........







I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

(except air quality and Medical Science ;))

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  • I'd you do decide not to go ahead with your purchase, give me a shout.  I have some magic beans that would be right up your street. 
  • I swear by this stuff. Make sure it's the correct polarity though.
    There are lots of dodgy adverts on Youtube which have a QR code on the screen.

  • LightFlare
    LightFlare Posts: 1,461 Forumite
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    The ones I typically know for sure that are a scam are the ones that start with:

    Such and such product is taking the world by storm and usually goes on to tell you how the industry tried to keep this product a massive secret - untill now 
  • born_again
    born_again Posts: 20,367 Forumite
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    If there is ever a add that makes me NOT WANT TO BUY it is either on U-Tube or social media. 

    Plenty of video's on u-tube from detailers who will point you in the way to do the job.
    Life in the slow lane
  • facade
    facade Posts: 7,588 Forumite
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    The thing is, although we aren't fooled, there are thousands of people who are, or YouTube wouldn't run the adverts.

    I'm still looking for that Magic Sharpening Fluid from a few years back, where they had a hacksaw blade with no teeth in the middle, stood it in MSF overnight and in the morning it had a full set of sharp teeth, complete with set!


    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • Nasqueron
    Nasqueron Posts: 10,657 Forumite
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    I've seen straight up lies from the CMCs over car finance saying just put your reg into a site and they'll confirm it all, if you were miss-sold, absolute nonsense as the data is not in the public domain, same trick as PPI

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

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