Amish miracle heaters
This is a remarkable scam even by the feeble journalistic standards of Parade magazine: Amish-made portable fireplaces without any of the "flames, fumes, smells, ashes, or mess" of a real fireplace. And they're absolutely free if you call within 48 hours!Needless to say, they are ordinary Chinese-made electric space heaters encased in a wooden box with flame artwork, and they're closer to $400 with shipping. Since thousands of customers will be fleeced by this offer in the weeks ahead, look for increased traffic on the blog as they begin to look for answers.
Labels: amish, parade magazine, scams
posted by frank b. at
5:34 PM
12 Comments:
this seems like the worst of both worlds. i'd rather have a fireplace or a normal heater lacking in pretense. and encased in a wooden box doesn't sound good.
it's happening! today someone from wisconsin rapids, wisconsin landed here based on the search "amish fireplace parade magazine." and choose your titles carefully, people. we've already gotten a visitor from a "knocked up versus superbad" search
Are the Amish offended by this piece of crap masquerading as craft?
How would an Amish person even need a portable fireplace?
Frank, you were dead right. Scores of searches for the glorified space heater. (Do you think the fire scene is an illustration?)
I love the really poor directing done on this photo shoot. Could these people be anymore staged and stilted looking as they hold their tool in mid sand/saw/glue/plane and all other manner of carpentry? Then again how comfortable can a bunch of Amish people look as they pretend to build crappy Chinese space heaters?
The photo shoot is what inspired me to post this. A mere black and white text ad would have caused me to flip the page - to a shot of a shirtless Tony Orlando prior to losing 103 pounds through the NutriSystem.
And if they're pretending to build, that begs the question of whether they're also pretending to be Amish. Imagine that casting call!
Salt in Wound is currently #1 for the google search "Amish miracle heaters". That means you're getting people who click the "I'm feeling lucky" button! Without quotation marks, #3.
Frank, the Ralph Nader of space heaters!
I'm especially enamored by the image of Amish craftspeople working on cabinets filled with full-on raging fires.
Also the gentleman in the center looks suspiciously like C. Everett Koop.
Unsafe at Any Wattage.
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