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** ''Uncle John's Bathroom Reader'' makes a very cogent point about those '1,000 Mile' filter claims: why would a car company sit quietly, for years, on a technology that adds ''hundreds of miles'' to an automobile's performance? It would make them a ''fortune'' on the open market, and since they could have a patent in a matter of months, it would give ''any'' of them a ''massive'' advantage over their competition.
** Likewise, if your friend brags about the amazing gas mileage his car will soon get and shows you the copper-coil-in-a-Mason jar rigging he just installed under the hood, hold onto your monocle for this one: your friend is an idiot.
* There was one commercial for [[Cable-Satellite Mudslinging|a TV service competing against cable]] (probably DirecTV){{verify}} where the woman narrating it says "she only has a few seconds to tell you what the cable company doesn't want you to know" because they're about to stop her. (And not, you know, because they designed and bought a 30- or 15-second spot.)
* Credit Counseling/Debt Consolidation services "the credit card companies don't want you to know about". Ironic because a number of these services are operated by the credit card companies themselves: If you declare bankruptcy, credit card debt is most likely to get discharged, so they'd rather help you cut a deal and at least get something.
** A variant in the UK is ads for debt write-off services. These claim to be able to write off all debts taken out before 2007, either "thanks to a recent law change" or due to a "government scheme". All of this is lies; the worst that could be done is the debts are found unenforceable on a technicality, which is substantially different from a write off (the debt not being enforceable just means they can't take you to court over it, however you still owe the money and the bank can still mark you as having defaulted). Worse still, judges in cases that have gone to court have seen right through the intentions of people trying these technicalities and turned them down. Oh yeah, and ''this service costs money''.
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