Hi guys
It sounds like you all DONT know the half of it. This has little to do with Souths and A LOT to do with the companies of the world, a bit of dark history, and scams.
All Souths did was sign a sponsorship with a company. They basically sat down and had some talks, looked at then signed some documents. Thats it. They had no idea about other stuff going on.
Let me start by saying i have done a bit of research into the whole thing. I didnt need much more than google.com.
[SIZE=-1]www.fuelsaving.info/
If you goto the above site, you will come across a well respected mechanical engineer who has worked on engines all his life basically. Not only does he give fuel saving tips concerning how you drive your car to save fuel, he also dispels myths and rumours about products that people "think" save them fuel.
He covers such things as car modifications, different technologies, and fuel saving devices. Note, being a long time mechanical engineers (read car scientist), this guys knows how fuel systems and cars work. He knows that fuel saving devices DONT WORK and the people selling them are running SCAMS.
Its interesting then, that when you go into fuel saving devices, this guy is actually really serious about it all, because he has received legal threats by people determined to make a buck from these scams. The souths sponsor is a scammer. Fuel tablets do not work. Read the sections below.
Now, in regards to the company set up to market this fuel tablet.....
if you check on [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]www.fuelsaving.info/ you will come across a link the man gives you to go into another site and check out MLM (multi level marketing). MLM is the new-age name for pyramid schemes.
Fuel tablets have been sold by many people and the most recent case of fraud was in the states where a company marketed these things to a LOT of unsuspecting people using a pyramid scheme. People bought the product and for a time it was really successful to the buisnessmen. They recruited thousands of people to help sell the product and made a lot of money, setting up a hierarchy structure in the process...from company founder all the way down the chain to bottom-level salesman working for a local manger. They signed up 50,000 people to help sell it in the pyramid scheme (to the unsuspecting people it all looked legal). The sale price per tablet was $1.50. It was about only 2 months later complaints started to flood in to the lower level people on the chain.....fuel economy was actually getting worse people claimed!
And it was. For a while the economy was better. Though it could have been people fooling themselves, which in psycology is very common. But very soon the tablets began to have a detrimental effect on the car. Admist all the complaints, a govenment authority was brought in, and the company in question was asked to provide scientific evidence that their product worked. They used delaying tactics and smoke-screens to hide from all the trouble. But by then they had sold a lot of products. The company had to be disbanded and they are being taken to court.
Turns out, the tablets are exactly the same composition as mothballs! Turns out, the key chemical in mothballs may, depending on how you drive, have a benificial effect on fuel to begin with, because the chemical is known to clean deposits off of engine parts innitially. So to a driver it may make them think the car is running better if only to those whose cars were in poor condition for a long time....however, the mothballs create more problems than they fix because pretty soon the other componants in the mothball tablet RE-CREATE deposits on all the engine parts that were just cleaned!!
Its a classic pyramid scam. Other products like whynns spitfire plus and all of those you buy from the servo - they usually dont work. Read them carefully and you will see the only way people can sell them is because they never state they work. Its a law of advertising. They "may" work. But they dont.
If you want to clean your engine, run it on shell v power for a month. Then put it back to normal premium or regular unleaded.
So back to Souths.....yeah who knows if the company will be around long enough to give them the money....hopefully souths get the money early. Thats all you can hope for. Because they are selling a fraudulent product, and I dont know how they sell it exactly or if they sell it at all, but let me tell you, they wont be saying to you if the product works. Perhaps, like that american company [who sold the product to home-salesmen who then sold it to the public in the pyramid scheme] they will be actually telling you "that dont come to us seeking help if it doesnt work as we are not telling you it works, we are just saying its a great product and our own viewings has suggested it may work, but we dont know, so we are not telling you at all if it works or not".
They were very clever and knew how to work their way in between the cracks in the law system, and actually planned the scam for years beforehand.
Souths better get the money early. A company set up like the group of companies that are involved with the souths sponsor could go belly up at any time.....they dont actually sell anything.
Like the guy who said when you deal with front office its all you see, and you dont see the mine where the gold is meant to be......souths and business in general just dont know.
You can run a business based on reputation....and if you happen to put that reputation out there yourself though synthetic means.....well, it doesnt matter. Only the law can touch you, and even then, it has to catch up.
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