Not to mention the biggest scam of all. Allowing all of the private messages from scammers pretending to be youtubers telling them they won a prize for a comment to a video with no way to report them
Because it makes money for youtube. Thats the rub. As long as they pay, they get their money. RUclips will continue show them, even if they showed a factory full of six year olds, putting the the damn thing together, chained to the floor, covered in feces, with dead babies in the muck. RUclips doesn’t care. RUclips doesnt care about anything but the clicks. $
all sites do it, i report scam ads, ads selling drugs, clone cards and the lot of facebook when i see them yet they all ways say there ok yet i call someone a C**t i get banned.
Hopefully, you're not being ripped-off by youtube "premium" which costs over a whopping $300.00 a year! Especially when you can skip most ads after a 5-second "countdown"!
I got scammed by the 2 adds you have shown, but that's not all of what is going on. In both cases the companies use fake US postage, and I had to pay this to get the products. Also, in both cases within a week, I had multiple charges for things I had not purchased put on my credit cards. I ended up calling my cards and getting new numbers to stop these fake charges. I am now very skeptical of all ads found anywhere. I wanted to make you and your audience aware of these issues in hopes that no others fall victim to their scams.
Thank you for this great information. This is the first I have heard of this, but with people like these scammers, nothing surprises me. Just a little advice for the future. Never use your credit card when purchasing from unknown websites. Only use PayPal. Why? Because PayPal is a Push payment system, not a Pull payment system. You have to push money to the vendor, they have no way of pulling money out of your account. A credit card is a Pull payment system. You give the vendor your card number, and they Pull money out of your account. Only use a credit card for places like Amazon, Walmart, and big reputable American companies
i always check on amazon, and walmart, and they have (most of what they show on tv) something else- check on YT, unboxing, reviews-- that tells a lot. i was turned off from the reviews. (buyer beware)
My favorite is when they have several different ads for the same device that have different backstories. A lot of the time there is a guy who quits his job because his company is ripping people off and he decides to make his own quality product that is superior in every way for a low low price.
Believe it or not, I have done scam expose videos for other products and had people argue with me that I did not have the real device. This is why I showed two different ads in this video for the same exact product under different names.
@@richardwallis9374 Yes, that is all that it is. There is another one that you fill with ice, and it cools the air by blowing air over the ice. Both of these work for personal cooling, but the reality is they do not cool the room and actually make the room hotter. It all goes back to the First Law of Thermal Dynamics, "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed." Heat is energy. You cannot destroy it. Because heat cannot be destroyed, the only way to get rid of it is to dump it somewhere else. In a standard refrigerant driven AC system, it works by absorbing the heat energy inside the house, and dumping outside the house. This works using some other laws of physics of gasses and compression. Refrigerant liquid (Freon) has an extremely low boiling point. The liquid refrigerant is piped into the house to an evaporator coil where it is exposed to heat inside the house. This causes the liquid Freon to evaporate into a gas absorbing heat energy. This gas containing the heat energy is then pumped outside to the condensing coil where the gas is circulated through a radiator coil with a fan causing some of the heat to be absorbed out of the gas and released into the outside air. However, the outside air can only drop the temperature of the gas as low as the ambient temperature. In order to return the Freon back to a liquid state, it is then passed through a compressor that exposes the gas to an extreme amount of pressure, thus mechanically forcing the gas to return to a liquid state. Since Freon cannot be in a liquid state and contain the heat energy, this compression causes it to release all the heat energy. It is kind of like squeezing all the water out of a sponge. In this way, the refrigerated air system removes heat energy from inside the house and dumps it outside. It is not really Cooling anything, it is simply removing the heat from inside the house and dumping it outdoors. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Evaporative Coolers work based on a similar concept, but in reverse. In this case, Water, is the liquid instead of Freon. In dry climates, evaporative coolers are very effective at cooling houses, but they do not work in humid climates. A whole house evaporative system will have an outside radiator with a blower into the house. The unit will pass air over the radiator unit that has a media that is constantly being flushed with water from a pumping system. As the air passed through media, it causes some of the water to evaporate, which absorbs heat out of the air, thus dropping the temperature of the air that is then funneled by the blower int to the house. An evaporative system is a Pass Through system. You have to have vents letting air out in all rooms of the house in order for it to work. If you seal a room off, it will not cool. As the evaporative unit blows new, cooler air into the house, it increases the air pressure inside the house causing air the warmer air to be pushed out of the vents around the house, which is replaced by the cooler air from the evaporative system. It also increases the humidity level in the house as well, which in a really dry climate can result in a very comfortable, cool experience. However, in a very humid climate, evaporative system are completely unless and only make things worse. Okay, I said all this to explain why these scam product cannot and do not work to cool a room or a house. They provide no way to REMOVE the heat energy from the house. Any system that does not Remove the heat energy CAN NOT cool the house. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Yes, if you sit right in front of one of these mini evaporative units, the air blowing in your face will be cooler, but the unit is just dumping whatever heat it extracted right back into the room it came from, so it is not dropping the temperature of the room, just the immediate air plowing out of it. Since the electric motor of the mini evaporative unit is producing heat, it is actually adding heat energy to the room. The ice cube unit actually do reduce the room temperature, but unless you have a bunch of ice in unlimited quantities, the effect is only temporary. Like the mini evaporative system, the cooling effect is just personal, not general. If people only understood the laws of thermal dynamics, they would not be fooled by these product that claim to break these laws.
Also, when it's some young whizz~kid inventor from [Your Little Country]... Big A~C/Monocular/Flashlight want to 'shut him down', but 'We' (some mysterious visionary investor type) have teamed with him (sometimes her) so that 'You the Public' can have 'access' to this 'industry breaking' technology... 🙄😮💨
@@furrysourcecode9809, looking at your current level of technology - you wouldn't begin to understand the efficiency Cyberdyne can get out of a 40mW plasma unit.
90+% of crap advertised on yt is outright fraud. From the Chicom slave labor-made gadgets (the paperback-sized solar panel that will power your whole house), to the financial frauds (invest your money with ____ and retire early with millions), to the voodo medical frauds (grow new teeth overnight and never see a dentist again), it's all shit.
You actually can flag them but it is not very obvious how to do it. When you see an ad you want to flag, there is a tiny little information symbol above the play bar at the bottom left of the video window. Clicking on that symbol will allow you to report the ad. Here is a video I made specially for you. ruclips.net/video/O3l--ToIgVE/видео.html
@@nothingbutgadgets- And having done this to a number of scam ads, I can tell you from personal experience, that YT do nothing - They're making too much money from the scammers to pull the ads.
Sadly, the FTC only has authority in the US, and these scammers live in China. The FTC needs to put pressure on Google to do a better job of filtering these scam ads out.
I was sitting there saying to myself: "the skip button is just part of the video - you can't click it, the skip button is just ..." First time I've seen more than 4 seconds of those commercials ;)
A Marine buddy of mine always said: Never buy 'military grade.' The government buys us whatever's cheapest, even if it doesn't work right. Military Grade = Lowest Bidder.
At the end of the video, he says there are many ads after they ban this one. It the very strange that anything that said the news about the pandemic was false ie if you don't get the jab you will kill your Grandmother was cancelled immediately. The real answer Is the money from the advert
I have never, in my 64 years on this rock, bought anything from any ad that I've seen. There is only one reason why someone is buying advertising time, and that is to take my money or time. I've never understood how people could be led to buy something just because they saw an ad on TV.
b' b' b-But its ON TEEEE VEEEE The TeeVee's peoples would NEVER lie to us ! I mean , how could you even THINK that ABC ( Always Been Corrupt ) MSNBC ( Majority of SIMPLETONS Never Been Correct ) NPR ( Narcissist Primadonnas RANTing 🤷♂️ 🤦♀️ ) CBS ( Communists Building Subversives 👤👥 ) NBC ( NPC's Being Compliant ) . . . would put D.C. Cocktail Parties & 🥂Chattering-Class Access ahead of Patriotism , the Constitution , & the GOOD of The PEOPLE at-large ?
@@nothingbutgadgets Baawahahaha, now that's one I haven't heard in a while 'sell flea's to a dog' Excellent video too, thank you, I've seen the adds but it just looked like cheap junk...
Like Don Henley's song because I saw it on TV, written decades ago and so prophetic indeed. About the same time on this rock floating in space hello from Australia. 1958 model here back when the sky was a deep blue and the Sun had a yellow tinge unlike the washed out chem trailed mess it be now, but I digress.
(Ex- British army here), "military grade" means nothing, apart from, the contract went to the lowest bidder. You can buy ex-military/ex-army stuff, if you know what you are buying, a Nato Stock Number comes in handy.
"Military grade" usually means lower finishing standards if anything, because that doesn't matter in terms of utility. Like the uneven finish on "military grade" guns and watches or all the visible welds and paint splotches on "military grade" vehicles.
They are also counting on the buyer having never witnessed a middle school chemistry class or really just seen a running propane stove, because even if you've never seen a butane brazing torch you will notice the artifacts of a gas being burned (the efficient blue flame near the nozzle at high flow and then yellow inefficiently burned gas flame as it sputters into yellow flame or shows the yellow fringe tips).
Good info. Another dead giveaway of a scam ad is using this phrase: "this _____ is taking the world by storm!" It is meaningless, and isn't even lying because it's meaningless.
I have a serious question. When I was young (I'm 53 now) I would always hear about "false advertisement" laws. Do these laws not exist anymore? If they do, where is the lawsuit against this company for such blatant lies? It is absolutely FALSE ADVERTISEMENT!! Someone, or some company, should have to pay up for all of these false claims about the product.
The problem is who are you going to sue? Who is the government going to go after? These companies are LLC type companies in China or Russia etc... As he said even if Google blocks one these companies they close up and have 10 more waiting in the wings to open up and start over. However I do agree that Google should be held accountable. They should not allow companies that are not verified to run on their sites. Period. If a company has not already been established as legitimate then anything they want to do on Amazon, Google, RUclips etc. etc... should be suspect and verified before it is allowed to proceed. yes Google may make a couple of million less out of the multi-millions it currently makes but that should be enforced by local governments. it is enforceable for things like child porn and other highly illegal things so why not for blatantly false advertising and other types of misinformation and lying on the internet.
In most cases they will, but they are not going to make it easy. You have to fight them and threaten them, but they generally will give you up to a 75% refund. My point in talking about this in the video was to inform people that, these scammers are going to win, even when you think they are losing.
Laws against false advertisements do still exist, but it often doesn't seem to be anybody's business to enforce them. Some authorities will take action if somebody brings the false advertisement to their attention.
RUclips could go after whoever they are getting the money from to run the ad, RUclips is the host allowing these ads, without any oversight on the content, and there's liability @@carltaylor1497
About a year ago I fell for one of the scam ads about adjustable eyeglasses. When I received them they were cheap plastic and so warped and twisted they were unwearable. I returned them for a refund, minus restocking fee. I never got a penny back. Had to write the $50 off to experience. Now I question everything advertised. Love your content and subscribed.
I have small plasma generator that you can play music through (which is a total trip!). The downside of such devices is they create notable amounts of ozone which is harmful to your lungs. There's no way a plasma flame device could be marketed to the public as "non-toxic".
Wait, they are issuing these in the military? Where is mine why was I not issued such great tech. 😔 all this time using my MRE matches like a barbarian.
For real survival fire making, you want a good ferro rod & the spine of a knife - really, really simple, reliable, a good one works for thousands of strikes. You do need to know how to make a good fire lay though! -An Eagle Scout who has done this before
@@LightbringerDesigns And if you're to lazy to learn how to do it right, you can get the ones with a block of magnesium as well. Shave off some magnesium onto the tinder, and strike a spark. I know how to do it without the magnesium, but it does make thing easier.
One of the ads during this video was actually for this exact product. It even showed the ad that you showed in your video. I was shocked when I saw it.
Many viewers have reported the same. The good thing is, it is costing these scammers money and nobody watching my video is going to fall for their scam.
@@nothingbutgadgetsThere are dedicated ad blockers for youtube. Plus it's like a DRM vs piracy thing, the more they push back the better the adblockers get, I get contant updates from AdBlock+ and Ublock.
@@nothingbutgadgets WRONG, sorry mate, but you are dead wrong. I will not name extensions or add-ons or anything. But there are still ones that youtube have absolutely no clue about. They are a dog chasing its own tail around a tree without realising it is their own dang tail. Can't make true comedy like this up.
8:00 This is great. I love that you told me what I wanted to know then gave me the option of not watching the rest. I’m staying for the rest of the video! Great stuff. Clearly you know the deal. These tactics have been used forever they’re just appealing to a new generation of suckers.
Thank you. I don't like any kind of spammy tactics and refuse to play the game of keep away that some youtubers use to keep you watching. Time is valuable and I try to get the information you to you as fast as I can.
This should be compulsory viewing for all schools, the huge number of obviously too good to be true ads, are a virus which must be fought. Thank you for this vital information.
The worst thing about RUclips allowing scams like this is they make the legit advertisers look suspicious. I am 80% sure "The Farmer's Dog" is probably a good company, but because their ads are run right along next to these lighter scam ads, I still don't trust them.
The better scams have a lone engineer that used to work for big lighter, fighting the evil lighter companies. And of course big lighter tries to stop him and that i why you have to buy now.
This one was invented by 2 bright high school students who were disappointed by currently available torches and were offered millions to keep it off the market.
Great video! I really appreciated the 5 techniques of scam ads. I don't have RUclips Premium, so, yeah, I had to see 5 scam ads interrupt your video. We get so bombarded with these ads on all platforms that it just gets exhausting. More people need to see this. Was it P.T. Barnum that said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Don't be a sucker!
Great Vid, thanks. Loved the fact that in the middle of watching this, while explaining the triggers in scam ads, a scam ad popped up showing the ultra powerful torch!
If they just advertised it for what it is, without the roundabout scammy ads and hassle to deal with return claims, they could have easily sold the crap for those $10 and people would have been even happier with their purchase. They probably would have sold almost the same amount of them.
Not likely. Because then they would be competing against a 1000s of other lighters available in the same category. Instead of their single unique one lol.
I agree. Even though you can find this same light other places, people would like pay more for it if they saw a great add like this, if it were honest.
I may have to clarify what I meant: If the original producers were to market and sell it (the Chinese company directly, or more likely, their Western subsidiary) and there were no sensationalist and imagination filled ads from third parties such as the ones presented here. _Then_ they would have a chance of selling _almost_ as many as they do with the current setup. Unfortunately, there are now just too many who rake in cash using the current model for anyone, except for maybe the producer who could maybe earn a few cents more per unit, to be willing to move to honest advertising, sales, and delivery.
They played me a military grade flashlight add right before I watched this video. It wasn't the one that cloned Joe Rogans voice though. I get so sick of these fake adds. They make me so angry because I know they're lies. Good video!
I was in the service. The spec ops guys don’t make their own tools. They just use the best tools for the job. Generally the military buys contracts with companies for certain products like weapon optics, plate carriers, boots etc. they don’t manufacture their own stuff. And the flash lights, lasers, torches, sunglasses, NONE OF THE MILITARY USE THIS GARBAGE. It’s all cheap Chinese mass produces junk. The army uses BIC lighters. Literally buys them by the case from the PX. 😂
Yeah, I know. But the general public hear the words, "Military Grade" and all the suddenly they want it. These scammers pushed every psychological button they could.
Tbf this is a decent lighter (Probably too bulky to buy for service, let alone carrying a can of butane for it is just senseless) So yeah, bic lighters would definitely be a top choice, I agree with ya! (I personally would rather take a camping gas boiler with me instead, similiar space used but at least you can warm food up easily)
I have the Harbor Freight mini butane blowtorch. It's been working fine. The best thing about it is the base that allows you to stand it on a bench and have both hands free.
@@nothingbutgadgets yeah all the TACTICOOL civilians who jump at the chance to tell a buddy that his blood transfusion is military grade. I get it, I just don’t smile at it. I like your videos keep it up.
First video of yours I've seen and I just got to the point where you said "Well guys that's the scam and if that's what you're here for you can stop watching now. Next I'm going to deep dive...." Top marks for that! I'm now watching the rest of the video and have subscribed.
Thanks for noticing that. I know my videos are long, and that many people are short on time, so I do my best to get the important information right out up front. I don't try to keep people watching by hiding the ending like some people do. I try to treat others like I want to be treated. Thanks again for noticing.
😂 oh man I have hated those add types for so long.. Your video needs to be shared and passed along to others over and over again. Thank you for the beautifully succinct summary. I couldn't have said it all better myself.
Glad you exposed the scam. I have to admit if I needed to buy a camping lighter, and I found it cheap enough I probably would still get one. Shame that they had to turn a decient torch into a scam. Also sad that the "fact" checkers on youtube/ect let the scam ads run so rampant. Seem like even if you report them as a scam, all you get a bot reply that it does not go against their community guidelines.
Great video! These ads are hilarious. Its an oversized windproof lighter. I have several smaller ones dating back to the late 90s. They work great and didnt cost $40.
Yeah, it is funny. But hey! If they are showing it in the middle of my video, at least we know nobody is getting fooled by it, and it is costing them money.
@nothingbutgadgets nah it's all good I was joking however if it was covered up I would make a comment about how youtube is evil by making unskipable ads or something along those lines
I actually wanted one for my steaks, couldn't find a "lighter" kind so I just got a torch nozzle. Basically it's literally just the long nozzle that connects to the "1 lbs." Propane tanks. I love it. I have smaller torch flame lighters but they are literally small lighters.
The sparking mechanism is called a piezio electric spark mechanism. Think of the piezio electric effect when you hit a piece of quartz with a hammer, it generates an electric current, this is related to the principle that quartz uses to create synchronous timing pulses for watches and for radio transceivers. So no need for a battery, barbeque lighters, gas furnaces and gas water heaters use these commonly. Otherwise spot on.
The only FOMO scam you can't stop is live auctions. With ebay you can at least wait and see red flags, at a live auction, say something vintage or a collectors item, you have to snatch it there or it will be gone. There's plenty of horror stories, even here on YT, of people get burned bad on things like vintage cars or electronics. You have to pick that savvyness up with experience...often the hard way. Be careful out there.
So true. We all have to watch out for ourselves. We can't trust Google and RUclips, or even the government, to protect us in this world of the Global internet.
It's the butane pencil blowtorch that's been out for decades in a new, bigger body. That's all it is! Only the original pencil torch is exactly that: a pencil and lighter, easier to carry on camping trips or use at the desk for soldering as its head isn't covered up by a 1-inch circular shield. All this is really good for would be getting your campfire going through the twigs, etc. Having that bulky, gold-like casing might make it more durable, but it's the same thing just in a case! Have to be honest though when i first got one about 15yr ago it was cool haha!
I've got an actual plasma arc lighter (even has dual beams!), its fine for small things but getting a proper fire lit with it would be hassle. You'd pretty much have to carry some candles to get things going, but you'd be better off with rod and steel.
And a warning!, some of these adds trickily sign you up to a club and nail you for $79.99 a month, with the same deal of cancelation fees because you went past the free trial they never mentioned.
Very true! I just had to cancel a hundred dollars of subscriptions that my elderly father (who clicks on everything) was being charged. My mom called me about one she knew of and I found the others. These scammers take advantage of old people who did not grow up in this digital age.
@@nothingbutgadgets Not just old people either - they caught my wife for some bullsh1+, were hitting her for €40 (roughly 45 bucks) a month... She spotted it pretty quick, but she had to hound them for a year before they finally stopped charging her. Of course there wasn't a damn thing she could do about the 'subscriptions' she'd already been burnt for.
I found out what an engineering marvel this lighter TRULY IS: It's a Dual Arc Plasma Rectifier, with supportive Operational Amplifiers and a Platinum Resonance Plate, with refined & tuned Flux Capacitance bottom end circuitry. This lighter is the closest thing to magic! 😂
I bought a 4-pack of that same exact Chinese NEON 11X butane 3yrs ago. Two of the cans had so much moisture in them the flame would spit and sputter in my all of my cigar lighters. You're not saving any money by buying it. Only buy a reputable brand of butane.
8 min 37 s You get those quick yellow glowy things because once in a while, a cotton dust particle burns and you get some carbon micro particles that glow. Also, the color of the flame looks like something is burning. It looks no different than my propane torch flame. If it was arc based thing, it would be much brighter and have a different color since the nitrogen and oxygen gets ionized. At one point, there was too much butane and the flame was burning dirty. It is too obvious that it is just a flame. I remember being a kid and some magazine advertised some butane torch and claimed that flame temperature reaches 3500 C. That might be correct but I doubt that you would be able to melt a chunk of copper.
It might have a tiny, very hot flame, but its heat affected zone will also be tiny, and pretty much useless for anything other than lighting cigarettes or fireworks fuses, etc. I have a 2000°F electric arc lighter, but I can't weld with it, even though many metals have a melt point below 2000°F...
@@Duke_Romilar_III . Indeed, the amount of heat produced is as important as the temperature. I use a similar small torch to hard solder silver, but it is limited to very small items.
Thanks! I've always wondered how these obvious scams can make enough money to be worth it for the scammers. It costs money to run an ad. The thing that still surprises me is that there are enough gullible people to order these things in the first place.
@@nothingbutgadgets maybe it just seems so obvious to me because I've been around for 56 years and I lived through the golden age of infomercials! The last time I was scammed I was just a kid. Burned once, twice shy.
A few years ago, I kept seeing this device that was supposed to save you money on your electric bill. It was constantly being advertised for a couple of months. So I broke down and bought one for only 49.95 with free shipping. How sweet. Instructions said just plug into any outlet. Pluged it in, a small red LED lit up. It stayed there for almost a year, out of sight, out of mind, I guess. Electric bill never did drop, not even a single penny 😒. Some guy showing scams like this man is doing on RUclips happened to be disassembling one of these things. When he opened it up, there was only a circuit board with a few resistors connected to the LED to light it up. That was the first and the last thing I'll EVER buy from any ad on RUclips. The scammers are making it rough on the honest people. The sad thing is they never get caught. Usually, it's from another country.
Yes, I remember that ad. That was before I started doing these videos. I am going to try to stay more on top of these scam ads from now on. My wife says that she worries that they might come after me, but I think she is just being paranoid.
Retired electrician here. Anything you plug into a receptacle will only use _more_ electricity (maybe not too much more, but some), and will in no way lower your electric bill. It's like installing a faucet on your water pipes, that runs a little trickle of water 24/7, and expecting to see your water usage decrease.
@@Duke_Romilar_III . There is a RUclips advert claiming what is essentially a small electric blower fire will somehow magically replace your central heating and save large amounts of money.
A Babyboomer here, why do You think that I go to store and chek it out before I buy it (any gadget or spareparts to my cars)? Only Online shopping I do is stuff that I already has bought from actual store and check that they have a same OEM number and they have a transparent company info. Only Milk and Cookies gen people will fall for these scams 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree. Such is the world without God. Without God, there is n right or wrong. Human opinion becomes the highest authority for morality, and we all know that you can justify anything using human opinion as the guide.
Yes, these sales tactics are not unique to these scammers. All salesmen use them. I know, I used to be one of them, which is why I know so much about them. I left that life a long time ago, though. Making money was not worth my soul.
Yup, seen this torch, seen it advertised as plasma. Right away i knew it was BS, i run a plasma cutter at work when needed, and you are not packing that down into anything handheld.
Maybe after watching your video the RUclips algorithm will finally realize I'm not going to buy this and stop showing me the add...lol. Thanks for the video.
former heating guy here . The minute I saw the flame out the end I went hmm that's NOT electric... I have seen electric shorts right in front of my eyes .. it's an arc... flame means fuel!
Many years ago, I attended a lecture series in which the lecturer began with an overall premise: "The majority is always wrong". Goes right along with your mistrust of "crowds."
The truth is generally a difficult pill to swallow, and humans would rather believe a lie than the truth. For example. It is impossible to make everyone rich, but it is easy to make everyone poor. Because richness is a measure of how much more one person has over others who have less. Inequality of wealth is an essential essential necessity of human existence, without which society would collapse. If you could magically give everyone a billion dollars, the only effect would be to reduce the value of a billion dollars to zero. Since everyone would have a billion, no one would want to work for anything less. How much would you need to pay a billionaire to clean a toilet? The truth is, it is impossible for everyone to be rich. Some, the majority must be poor. This makes the world turn. This is reality. This is truth. Nobody wants to hear this truth.
This is a cool video. I just found this channel. But I had to laugh; the decor behind him is very nice with the plants…and the bottle of Elmer’s Glue peeking out! 😂 Made me smile. Just subscribed!
Thank you. Yes, the bottle of glue. Some viewers have made a big deal about it. LOL! Getting personal here though, it is there because I have been caring for my grandkids here lately, due to the fact that my daughter was in a serious car accident. Her car was thrown over a cliff and crash into a tree at about 100 mph. By the grace of God and His angels, she somehow survived, but with a full body of bruises.
I bought one of the actual rechargeable plasma arc lighters from Home Depot, I'm an avid primative camper and I can attest they do work, but you have to get really close to the fuel source. Do NOT use gasoline lol.😅
Hey ! That’s my lighter ! I bought one of those about six months ago from AliExpress for $11 AUD. Great lighter. They definitely chew through the butane gas when used like it’s a flamethrower.Flame on !!
I nearly bought one of these until checking other sites and realising it was a scam , but I did buy a rechargeable hair trimmer and they are very good quality , must have been lucky to find an honest company . Thanks for the info
When I saw the flame, it looked like the flame on the butane cigarette lighters and the pen torches I bought around 2004. The store was a dollar-type business, and the lighters cost 99 cents each. Most of them failed quickly. I found one that still works in June 2024! I only use it when I need a small hot flame to do something.
It's funny how YT goes completely over the top with all kinds of content censorship but allows obvious scam adds to go unchallenged!
Not to mention the biggest scam of all. Allowing all of the private messages from scammers pretending to be youtubers telling them they won a prize for a comment to a video with no way to report them
Because it makes money for youtube. Thats the rub. As long as they pay, they get their money. RUclips will continue show them, even if they showed a factory full of six year olds, putting the the damn thing together, chained to the floor, covered in feces, with dead babies in the muck. RUclips doesn’t care. RUclips doesnt care about anything but the clicks. $
all sites do it, i report scam ads, ads selling drugs, clone cards and the lot of facebook when i see them yet they all ways say there ok yet i call someone a C**t i get banned.
@@Margalus when you step back and look at what all RUclips is actively and passively doing, they really are a horrible company.
@@petcatznz 😎The answer is simple; money. They make money on everything one way or another, so they’ll definitely take scammer money for Ads…
The crazy part is that they cut out of your video to show an ad for the exact product that you're mercilessly roasting. Pure comedy!!!🤣
I agree. Hilarious!
I was shown the military grade light sabor flashlight add before it started. They must think we are suckers
I bought both of them after watching the video, seem legit.
Mine went to an ad for a high tech walking stick. Same hyperbolic claims. It's a freaking stick. They literally grow on trees!
I got a good laugh form it to be honest
If I ever happened to actually see an ad on YT, I would assume it was a scam no matter what it was.
The sad truth, unfortunately.
Or that YT is stepping up their anti-AdBlock game...
You’re a wise person. Because I think you’re dead right.
@@nothingbutgadgets Alas, AdBlock doesn't seem to work for me anymore, YT sucks with ads and I despise what it has become.
Hopefully, you're not being ripped-off by youtube "premium" which costs over a whopping $300.00 a year! Especially when you can skip most ads after a 5-second "countdown"!
I got scammed by the 2 adds you have shown, but that's not all of what is going on. In both cases the companies use fake US postage, and I had to pay this to get the products. Also, in both cases within a week, I had multiple charges for things I had not purchased put on my credit cards. I ended up calling my cards and getting new numbers to stop these fake charges. I am now very skeptical of all ads found anywhere.
I wanted to make you and your audience aware of these issues in hopes that no others fall victim to their scams.
Thank you for this great information. This is the first I have heard of this, but with people like these scammers, nothing surprises me. Just a little advice for the future. Never use your credit card when purchasing from unknown websites. Only use PayPal. Why? Because PayPal is a Push payment system, not a Pull payment system. You have to push money to the vendor, they have no way of pulling money out of your account. A credit card is a Pull payment system. You give the vendor your card number, and they Pull money out of your account.
Only use a credit card for places like Amazon, Walmart, and big reputable American companies
So you take an occasional break from Truth Social to watch RUclips?
Thanks my brother
i always check on amazon, and walmart, and they have (most of what they show on tv)
something else- check on YT, unboxing, reviews-- that tells a lot. i was turned off from the reviews.
(buyer beware)
@@nothingbutgadgets Any chance you could do a video, if you haven't already, on these fake government subsidy ads? Please and thank you 😁
From Australia, you are performing an important public educational service in highlighting the ways of these scammers. Thank you and good luck.
My pleasure. I am very glad to hear this.
My favorite is when they have several different ads for the same device that have different backstories. A lot of the time there is a guy who quits his job because his company is ripping people off and he decides to make his own quality product that is superior in every way for a low low price.
Believe it or not, I have done scam expose videos for other products and had people argue with me that I did not have the real device. This is why I showed two different ads in this video for the same exact product under different names.
Yea my favorite is the ac is it that can cool a room for Pennie’s. Think it’s a mini swamp cooler
@@richardwallis9374 Yes, that is all that it is. There is another one that you fill with ice, and it cools the air by blowing air over the ice. Both of these work for personal cooling, but the reality is they do not cool the room and actually make the room hotter. It all goes back to the First Law of Thermal Dynamics, "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed."
Heat is energy. You cannot destroy it. Because heat cannot be destroyed, the only way to get rid of it is to dump it somewhere else. In a standard refrigerant driven AC system, it works by absorbing the heat energy inside the house, and dumping outside the house. This works using some other laws of physics of gasses and compression. Refrigerant liquid (Freon) has an extremely low boiling point. The liquid refrigerant is piped into the house to an evaporator coil where it is exposed to heat inside the house. This causes the liquid Freon to evaporate into a gas absorbing heat energy. This gas containing the heat energy is then pumped outside to the condensing coil where the gas is circulated through a radiator coil with a fan causing some of the heat to be absorbed out of the gas and released into the outside air. However, the outside air can only drop the temperature of the gas as low as the ambient temperature. In order to return the Freon back to a liquid state, it is then passed through a compressor that exposes the gas to an extreme amount of pressure, thus mechanically forcing the gas to return to a liquid state. Since Freon cannot be in a liquid state and contain the heat energy, this compression causes it to release all the heat energy. It is kind of like squeezing all the water out of a sponge. In this way, the refrigerated air system removes heat energy from inside the house and dumps it outside. It is not really Cooling anything, it is simply removing the heat from inside the house and dumping it outdoors. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Evaporative Coolers work based on a similar concept, but in reverse. In this case, Water, is the liquid instead of Freon. In dry climates, evaporative coolers are very effective at cooling houses, but they do not work in humid climates. A whole house evaporative system will have an outside radiator with a blower into the house. The unit will pass air over the radiator unit that has a media that is constantly being flushed with water from a pumping system. As the air passed through media, it causes some of the water to evaporate, which absorbs heat out of the air, thus dropping the temperature of the air that is then funneled by the blower int to the house. An evaporative system is a Pass Through system. You have to have vents letting air out in all rooms of the house in order for it to work. If you seal a room off, it will not cool. As the evaporative unit blows new, cooler air into the house, it increases the air pressure inside the house causing air the warmer air to be pushed out of the vents around the house, which is replaced by the cooler air from the evaporative system. It also increases the humidity level in the house as well, which in a really dry climate can result in a very comfortable, cool experience. However, in a very humid climate, evaporative system are completely unless and only make things worse.
Okay, I said all this to explain why these scam product cannot and do not work to cool a room or a house. They provide no way to REMOVE the heat energy from the house. Any system that does not Remove the heat energy CAN NOT cool the house. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Yes, if you sit right in front of one of these mini evaporative units, the air blowing in your face will be cooler, but the unit is just dumping whatever heat it extracted right back into the room it came from, so it is not dropping the temperature of the room, just the immediate air plowing out of it. Since the electric motor of the mini evaporative unit is producing heat, it is actually adding heat energy to the room. The ice cube unit actually do reduce the room temperature, but unless you have a bunch of ice in unlimited quantities, the effect is only temporary. Like the mini evaporative system, the cooling effect is just personal, not general.
If people only understood the laws of thermal dynamics, they would not be fooled by these product that claim to break these laws.
Anything with 'declassified', or '...they tried to ban this...' etc is just about guaranteed to be an overhyped product or an outright scam.
Correct!
Or “ as used in the space shuttle”.
common line: corporation try to buy the client out, but they decline. A few days later, they get suspended or fired.
They tried to ban this. Watch this before it gets removed. You won’t believe what happens at the end. Blah blah blah. 😂
Also, when it's some young whizz~kid inventor from [Your Little Country]... Big A~C/Monocular/Flashlight want to 'shut him down', but 'We' (some mysterious visionary investor type) have teamed with him (sometimes her) so that 'You the Public' can have 'access' to this 'industry breaking' technology... 🙄😮💨
13 years in service and never heard about an "Army Issue lighter".
When I was in the U.S. Navy I called them Chiefs…😂!
Zippos?😂
Reminds me of the terminators plasma rifle in the miliwatt range where in real world applications wouldn't work all too well for hurting anyone.
@@furrysourcecode9809, looking at your current level of technology - you wouldn't begin to understand the efficiency Cyberdyne can get out of a 40mW plasma unit.
Matches
How to tell if a RUclips advert is dodgy.
If its on RUclips...... well thats it really.
Its dodgy!
😂 Love it! Good one!
Even if it’s a “Dodge “ ?
@@glennso47 Well, of COURSE a Dodge is dodgy, but not as dodgy as a Ford! 😜
90+% of crap advertised on yt is outright fraud. From the Chicom slave labor-made gadgets (the paperback-sized solar panel that will power your whole house), to the financial frauds (invest your money with ____ and retire early with millions), to the voodo medical frauds (grow new teeth overnight and never see a dentist again), it's all shit.
I can flag issues on RUclips, where can I flag deceptive ads on RUclips?!
You actually can flag them but it is not very obvious how to do it. When you see an ad you want to flag, there is a tiny little information symbol above the play bar at the bottom left of the video window. Clicking on that symbol will allow you to report the ad. Here is a video I made specially for you. ruclips.net/video/O3l--ToIgVE/видео.html
@@nothingbutgadgets- And having done this to a number of scam ads, I can tell you from personal experience, that YT do nothing - They're making too much money from the scammers to pull the ads.
@@nothingbutgadgets I've flagged DOZENS!
I tried blocking the ads but they still pop up@@billstill1794
YES!
I thought False advertising was Illegal.... where is the FTC ?
Sadly, the FTC only has authority in the US, and these scammers live in China. The FTC needs to put pressure on Google to do a better job of filtering these scam ads out.
RUclips does not care, I reported many similar ads, but they keep showing them to millions.
The FTC?! hahah... they are over there taking money under the table from the manufacturer of this crap (chinazon)
The channel has no control over what ads are shown.
@@secretbassrigs (Side note) TBF, trying to fuel ballistic missiles with water _does_ sound like the sorta thing only a "developing nation" would do 😂
Let have a class action suit against YT for not removing these adds.
I would join that
Lord, I'm like trying to click the skip button when you played them commercials, ROFL
like pavlovs dog. 🤣
Another viewer said this exact same thing. I should have covered that up. 😂
I almost did it, then when an real ad ran I didnt realize it wasn’t part of the video at first. 😂
I was sitting there saying to myself: "the skip button is just part of the video - you can't click it, the skip button is just ..." First time I've seen more than 4 seconds of those commercials ;)
@@joelmartin2549 Yes I almost did too, but saw the skip button was like partially greyed out.
Seemingly every single item that's advertise as military grade is always a friggin scam like what military is using a lighter like this it's so stupid
I agree.
if its military grade, why is it still NOT top secret?
"Military grade" doesn't mean what it appears to mean.
@@LatitudeSky seems like it.
also, usb-rechargeable, and it shows something else. (yeah...)
A Marine buddy of mine always said: Never buy 'military grade.' The government buys us whatever's cheapest, even if it doesn't work right. Military Grade = Lowest Bidder.
We should hold youtube accountable for this.
The best way to do that is to file a complaint with the FTC.
At the end of the video, he says there are many ads after they ban this one. It the very strange that anything that said the news about the pandemic was false ie if you don't get the jab you will kill your Grandmother was cancelled immediately. The real answer Is the money from the advert
I have never, in my 64 years on this rock, bought anything from any ad that I've seen.
There is only one reason why someone is buying advertising time, and that is to take my money or time.
I've never understood how people could be led to buy something just because they saw an ad on TV.
Good salesmen can sell fleas to a dog. You just have to push all the right buttons.
b' b' b-But its ON TEEEE VEEEE
The TeeVee's peoples would
NEVER lie to us ! I mean , how
could you even THINK that
ABC ( Always Been Corrupt )
MSNBC ( Majority of SIMPLETONS
Never Been Correct )
NPR ( Narcissist Primadonnas
RANTing 🤷♂️ 🤦♀️ )
CBS ( Communists Building
Subversives 👤👥 )
NBC ( NPC's Being Compliant )
. . . would put D.C. Cocktail Parties & 🥂Chattering-Class Access ahead of Patriotism , the Constitution , & the GOOD of The PEOPLE at-large ?
@@nothingbutgadgets Baawahahaha, now that's one I haven't heard in a while 'sell flea's to a dog'
Excellent video too, thank you, I've seen the adds but it just looked like cheap junk...
@@DrTubeman Glad you got a good laugh. I'm here all week. 😂
Like Don Henley's song because I saw it on TV, written decades ago and so prophetic indeed. About the same time on this rock floating in space hello from Australia. 1958 model here back when the sky was a deep blue and the Sun had a yellow tinge unlike the washed out chem trailed mess it be now, but I digress.
Watching that thing struggle to burn through a pringles can made me really want one
I love the smell of burning pringles in the morning. Or the evening.
A Pringle?
@@joelmartin2549a sad excuse for what you probably call crisps.
(Ex- British army here), "military grade" means nothing, apart from, the contract went to the lowest bidder. You can buy ex-military/ex-army stuff, if you know what you are buying, a Nato Stock Number comes in handy.
👍
What is the stock number good for?
Says the guy from the country who lost the revolutionary war and the war of 1812 against America
Military Grade = bare minimum to achieve the goal.
"Military grade" usually means lower finishing standards if anything, because that doesn't matter in terms of utility. Like the uneven finish on "military grade" guns and watches or all the visible welds and paint splotches on "military grade" vehicles.
They're really counting on the buyer having never witnessed a butane torch before, Lol.
Also I love the "secret military" technology bit
Thank you for commenting @Sb129. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
They are also counting on the buyer having never witnessed a middle school chemistry class or really just seen a running propane stove, because even if you've never seen a butane brazing torch you will notice the artifacts of a gas being burned (the efficient blue flame near the nozzle at high flow and then yellow inefficiently burned gas flame as it sputters into yellow flame or shows the yellow fringe tips).
Yes, the small plumbers blowtorch. It is so powerful that it should be banned!
Good info. Another dead giveaway of a scam ad is using this phrase: "this _____ is taking the world by storm!" It is meaningless, and isn't even lying because it's meaningless.
Yes! This ad is so full of this kind of deception.
Also: “it’s about to be banned again” which is appealing to fear of missing out (FOMO).
These micro butane torches have existed for decades as chef's tools and soldering irons to name a few.
If I were to guess, I would say this device was originally designed for chefs to do Crème Brulé for show.
I have a serious question.
When I was young (I'm 53 now) I would always hear about "false advertisement" laws.
Do these laws not exist anymore? If they do, where is the lawsuit against this company for such blatant lies? It is absolutely FALSE ADVERTISEMENT!! Someone, or some company, should have to pay up for all of these false claims about the product.
The problem is who are you going to sue? Who is the government going to go after? These companies are LLC type companies in China or Russia etc... As he said even if Google blocks one these companies they close up and have 10 more waiting in the wings to open up and start over. However I do agree that Google should be held accountable. They should not allow companies that are not verified to run on their sites. Period. If a company has not already been established as legitimate then anything they want to do on Amazon, Google, RUclips etc. etc... should be suspect and verified before it is allowed to proceed. yes Google may make a couple of million less out of the multi-millions it currently makes but that should be enforced by local governments. it is enforceable for things like child porn and other highly illegal things so why not for blatantly false advertising and other types of misinformation and lying on the internet.
@carltaylor1497 Thank you for answering LightHawk's question. I agree with everything you said.
In most cases they will, but they are not going to make it easy. You have to fight them and threaten them, but they generally will give you up to a 75% refund. My point in talking about this in the video was to inform people that, these scammers are going to win, even when you think they are losing.
Laws against false advertisements do still exist, but it often doesn't seem to be anybody's business to enforce them. Some authorities will take action if somebody brings the false advertisement to their attention.
RUclips could go after whoever they are getting the money from to run the ad, RUclips is the host allowing these ads, without any oversight on the content, and there's liability @@carltaylor1497
What's worse is they have all of your important information: Name. address, and of course your CC when you order it.
Very true! It is a dangerous world.
I expect them to use tricks but I don’t expect them to flat out lie. Good to know.
Yeah, this ad takes the cake for outright lying.
Do you not know how marketing works? They all lie.
WOW, if it's being banned for being too powerful I'd better hide my oxy acetaline gear, don't want that confiscating.
😂 Love it!
About a year ago I fell for one of the scam ads about adjustable eyeglasses. When I received them they were cheap plastic and so warped and twisted they were unwearable. I returned them for a refund, minus restocking fee. I never got a penny back. Had to write the $50 off to experience. Now I question everything advertised. Love your content and subscribed.
Thank you for the sub. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
I knew this was a scam the first time I saw it. Companies who allowed this ad and the company should be held liable for false advertising.
I agree.
Looks about as capable as my €4 creme brulee/kitchen torch. Wonder if they just rebranded one of those :')
I think that is exactly what it is.
I have small plasma generator that you can play music through (which is a total trip!). The downside of such devices is they create notable amounts of ozone which is harmful to your lungs. There's no way a plasma flame device could be marketed to the public as "non-toxic".
Those commercials destroyed my brain cells.
It is sad, isn't it.
Wait, they are issuing these in the military? Where is mine why was I not issued such great tech. 😔 all this time using my MRE matches like a barbarian.
Love it! 👍
They definitely owe you!
Only the "Cool Guy" units get them...gotta be tabbed up.
For real survival fire making, you want a good ferro rod & the spine of a knife - really, really simple, reliable, a good one works for thousands of strikes.
You do need to know how to make a good fire lay though!
-An Eagle Scout who has done this before
@@LightbringerDesigns And if you're to lazy to learn how to do it right, you can get the ones with a block of magnesium as well. Shave off some magnesium onto the tinder, and strike a spark. I know how to do it without the magnesium, but it does make thing easier.
RUclips needs to pull its head out.
A crude way of saying it, but YES.
One of the ads during this video was actually for this exact product. It even showed the ad that you showed in your video. I was shocked when I saw it.
Many viewers have reported the same. The good thing is, it is costing these scammers money and nobody watching my video is going to fall for their scam.
Google has a weird sense of humor.
Should sue the ad companies and Google for not vetting them.
They CAN be sued for false advertising....
We can't HANDLE the "Truth".
How to not get scammed on RUclips: Ad Blocker FTW.
RUclips now blocks Ad Blockers and will not let you watch if you have one. I am sure there are ways around it though.
@@nothingbutgadgetsThere are dedicated ad blockers for youtube. Plus it's like a DRM vs piracy thing, the more they push back the better the adblockers get, I get contant updates from AdBlock+ and Ublock.
@@nothingbutgadgetsA decreasing number of ways round it, sadly.
@@nothingbutgadgets WRONG, sorry mate, but you are dead wrong. I will not name extensions or add-ons or anything.
But there are still ones that youtube have absolutely no clue about. They are a dog chasing its own tail around a tree without realising it is their own dang tail.
Can't make true comedy like this up.
@@TheHungrySlug Just curious. Since you agreed with me that there are ways around it, what are you saying that I am dead wrong about?
RUclips ads with all the honesty of a dude who joined the military and served in every branch of the US Special Forces plus the Secret Service
I am not sure special forces are going around starting fire, right?
8:00 This is great. I love that you told me what I wanted to know then gave me the option of not watching the rest. I’m staying for the rest of the video! Great stuff. Clearly you know the deal. These tactics have been used forever they’re just appealing to a new generation of suckers.
Thank you. I don't like any kind of spammy tactics and refuse to play the game of keep away that some youtubers use to keep you watching. Time is valuable and I try to get the information you to you as fast as I can.
1:42 Did anyone else instinctively go for the skip ad button?
Yep. They have been doing that a lot on my video. The good thing is that we know that nobody watching my video is going to get fooled by their ad.
This should be compulsory viewing for all schools, the huge number of obviously too good to be true ads, are a virus which must be fought. Thank you for this vital information.
Thank you for commenting @Lilym661! I am so glad the video was helpful.
The worst thing about RUclips allowing scams like this is they make the legit advertisers look suspicious. I am 80% sure "The Farmer's Dog" is probably a good company, but because their ads are run right along next to these lighter scam ads, I still don't trust them.
Yes, you are correct. Good companies are being hurt by these scam ads.
They didn't say they had a team of engineers to invent it. They said to create a customer friendly version. But yes, a total scam.
Thank you for watching the video and commenting. Let's help people not get taken by this scam.
The better scams have a lone engineer that used to work for big lighter, fighting the evil lighter companies. And of course big lighter tries to stop him and that i why you have to buy now.
This one was invented by 2 bright high school students who were disappointed by currently available torches and were offered millions to keep it off the market.
I just got an ad for a military grade toothbrush that the patent just expired so now we too can have teeth like the super spy’s of the military
Really, or are you just joking? I got to see this ad if it is real.
Great video! I really appreciated the 5 techniques of scam ads. I don't have RUclips Premium, so, yeah, I had to see 5 scam ads interrupt your video. We get so bombarded with these ads on all platforms that it just gets exhausting. More people need to see this. Was it P.T. Barnum that said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Don't be a sucker!
My pleasure. Thank your for commenting.
Great Vid, thanks. Loved the fact that in the middle of watching this, while explaining the triggers in scam ads, a scam ad popped up showing the ultra powerful torch!
Yep. They have been doing that a lot on my video. The good thing is that we know that nobody watching my video is going to get fooled by their ad.
If they just advertised it for what it is, without the roundabout scammy ads and hassle to deal with return claims, they could have easily sold the crap for those $10 and people would have been even happier with their purchase. They probably would have sold almost the same amount of them.
Not likely. Because then they would be competing against a 1000s of other lighters available in the same category. Instead of their single unique one lol.
I agree. Even though you can find this same light other places, people would like pay more for it if they saw a great add like this, if it were honest.
I may have to clarify what I meant:
If the original producers were to market and sell it (the Chinese company directly, or more likely, their Western subsidiary) and there were no sensationalist and imagination filled ads from third parties such as the ones presented here. _Then_ they would have a chance of selling _almost_ as many as they do with the current setup.
Unfortunately, there are now just too many who rake in cash using the current model for anyone, except for maybe the producer who could maybe earn a few cents more per unit, to be willing to move to honest advertising, sales, and delivery.
@@DrBovdin .
The ads are designed to make the product seem desirable to those who otherwise have no real use for them.
@@grahvis I do not dispute that. I was only, perhaps naïvely, envisioning a reality where slightly more honest advertising still works.
They played me a military grade flashlight add right before I watched this video. It wasn't the one that cloned Joe Rogans voice though.
I get so sick of these fake adds. They make me so angry because I know they're lies.
Good video!
Thank you for commenting @justins3810. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
Brave browser is free for download and works well have used it for years here on the surface web.
I was in the service. The spec ops guys don’t make their own tools. They just use the best tools for the job. Generally the military buys contracts with companies for certain products like weapon optics, plate carriers, boots etc. they don’t manufacture their own stuff. And the flash lights, lasers, torches, sunglasses, NONE OF THE MILITARY USE THIS GARBAGE. It’s all cheap Chinese mass produces junk. The army uses BIC lighters. Literally buys them by the case from the PX. 😂
Yeah, I know. But the general public hear the words, "Military Grade" and all the suddenly they want it. These scammers pushed every psychological button they could.
Tbf this is a decent lighter (Probably too bulky to buy for service, let alone carrying a can of butane for it is just senseless)
So yeah, bic lighters would definitely be a top choice, I agree with ya!
(I personally would rather take a camping gas boiler with me instead, similiar space used but at least you can warm food up easily)
@@KamiHeavendao I agreed. I carry a Swiss Fire Steel and a Bic lighter in my backpack. Never needed anything else.
I have the Harbor Freight mini butane blowtorch. It's been working fine. The best thing about it is the base that allows you to stand it on a bench and have both hands free.
@@nothingbutgadgets yeah all the TACTICOOL civilians who jump at the chance to tell a buddy that his blood transfusion is military grade. I get it, I just don’t smile at it. I like your videos keep it up.
First video of yours I've seen and I just got to the point where you said "Well guys that's the scam and if that's what you're here for you can stop watching now. Next I'm going to deep dive...." Top marks for that! I'm now watching the rest of the video and have subscribed.
Thanks for noticing that. I know my videos are long, and that many people are short on time, so I do my best to get the important information right out up front. I don't try to keep people watching by hiding the ending like some people do. I try to treat others like I want to be treated. Thanks again for noticing.
😂 oh man I have hated those add types for so long.. Your video needs to be shared and passed along to others over and over again. Thank you for the beautifully succinct summary. I couldn't have said it all better myself.
My pleasure. I am really happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
Ironically Fire is a form of Plasma. But not in the way the ad seems to claim.
Thank you for this great information @SchardtCinematic. I appreciate it very much when viewers contribute useful information as you have here.
Glad you exposed the scam. I have to admit if I needed to buy a camping lighter, and I found it cheap enough I probably would still get one. Shame that they had to turn a decient torch into a scam. Also sad that the "fact" checkers on youtube/ect let the scam ads run so rampant. Seem like even if you report them as a scam, all you get a bot reply that it does not go against their community guidelines.
I agree
Great video! These ads are hilarious. Its an oversized windproof lighter. I have several smaller ones dating back to the late 90s. They work great and didnt cost $40.
Thank you for commenting @davidcenteau-depina6192. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
i really appreciate you exposing these charlatans brother, you’re the ONLY one i’ve seen on my feed to do this
My pleasure.
Got to love that the ad shows the Flame As a gas flame then a butane flame 😂
Sure enough 😆
What's funny is, right in the middle of the video, YT goes straight to the torch scam commercial....😂
Yeah, it is funny. But hey! If they are showing it in the middle of my video, at least we know nobody is getting fooled by it, and it is costing them money.
@@nothingbutgadgets true that!!
Ngl i tried to skip the ad because I thought youtube was pushing an ad in my face 😂
I should have covered that up in the video. You are not the only one that has commented about this. 😂
@nothingbutgadgets nah it's all good I was joking however if it was covered up I would make a comment about how youtube is evil by making unskipable ads or something along those lines
Got one years ago from AliExpress, and it works great as a cremebrule flamer or for soldering copper pipe. and guess what it costed less than 15 usd
That is the sad thing about this scam. They don't need to lie. The device is kinda of cool and people would buy without the lying.
I actually wanted one for my steaks, couldn't find a "lighter" kind so I just got a torch nozzle. Basically it's literally just the long nozzle that connects to the "1 lbs." Propane tanks.
I love it.
I have smaller torch flame lighters but they are literally small lighters.
I call bs. If you have flux and solder but you don’t have propane or map gas something is not right
You're right they're over exaggerated items so great content.
Thank you for commenting @massterrbarber. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
The sparking mechanism is called a piezio electric spark mechanism. Think of the piezio electric effect when you hit a piece of quartz with a hammer, it generates an electric current, this is related to the principle that quartz uses to create synchronous timing pulses for watches and for radio transceivers. So no need for a battery, barbeque lighters, gas furnaces and gas water heaters use these commonly. Otherwise spot on.
The only FOMO scam you can't stop is live auctions. With ebay you can at least wait and see red flags, at a live auction, say something vintage or a collectors item, you have to snatch it there or it will be gone. There's plenty of horror stories, even here on YT, of people get burned bad on things like vintage cars or electronics. You have to pick that savvyness up with experience...often the hard way. Be careful out there.
So true. We all have to watch out for ourselves. We can't trust Google and RUclips, or even the government, to protect us in this world of the Global internet.
My brother-in-law has had this fireplace/barbecue lighter for years. He paid a lot for it, but it definitely uses butane!
Those things go through butane like a sick baby goes through diapers.
@@Duke_Romilar_III 😎👍Now there's a mental picture!
When you were showing the adverts for this torch, I was going to hit the skip button on the ad. lol
Oh okay, I get it now. 😂 That is funny. I should have covered that up.
It's the butane pencil blowtorch that's been out for decades in a new, bigger body. That's all it is! Only the original pencil torch is exactly that: a pencil and lighter, easier to carry on camping trips or use at the desk for soldering as its head isn't covered up by a 1-inch circular shield. All this is really good for would be getting your campfire going through the twigs, etc. Having that bulky, gold-like casing might make it more durable, but it's the same thing just in a case! Have to be honest though when i first got one about 15yr ago it was cool haha!
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Very interesting, thank you! I have not been taken in by one of these ads thus far and wondered how these scams were making there money.
My pleasure. Glad to help.
I've got an actual plasma arc lighter (even has dual beams!), its fine for small things but getting a proper fire lit with it would be hassle. You'd pretty much have to carry some candles to get things going, but you'd be better off with rod and steel.
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And a warning!, some of these adds trickily sign you up to a club and nail you for $79.99 a month, with the same deal of cancelation fees because you went past the free trial they never mentioned.
Very true! I just had to cancel a hundred dollars of subscriptions that my elderly father (who clicks on everything) was being charged. My mom called me about one she knew of and I found the others. These scammers take advantage of old people who did not grow up in this digital age.
@@nothingbutgadgets Not just old people either - they caught my wife for some bullsh1+, were hitting her for €40 (roughly 45 bucks) a month... She spotted it pretty quick, but she had to hound them for a year before they finally stopped charging her. Of course there wasn't a damn thing she could do about the 'subscriptions' she'd already been burnt for.
I found out what an engineering marvel this lighter TRULY IS: It's a Dual Arc Plasma Rectifier, with supportive Operational Amplifiers and a Platinum Resonance Plate, with refined & tuned Flux Capacitance bottom end circuitry. This lighter is the closest thing to magic! 😂
Love it! What would we do without a Flux Capacitor? 😂
You didn't get the really good one with the dual arches?
I heard there's going to be an upgrade soon. Platinum will be replaced with gold pressed latinum plated zinc.
@@nothingbutgadgets That had to be replaced with a rearaxial crossthreading orifice insert!
@@2fathomsdeeperhahaha! That one got me 🤣 I thought only special ops had access to the crossthreading technology! 😆
When I was in the Army we just got a pack of matches in our mre.
Thank you. I knew that these ads were scams. I just didn't know what the scam was. I appreciate you explaining it.
I bought a 4-pack of that same exact Chinese NEON 11X butane 3yrs ago. Two of the cans had so much moisture in them the flame would spit and sputter in my all of my cigar lighters. You're not saving any money by buying it. Only buy a reputable brand of butane.
Good information.
To Funny... The Scam ad for that Brightfire device played before I could watch your video....
Are you kidding me! That is crazy!
@nothingbutgadgets I got the ad for it a few minutes into the video.
8 min 37 s You get those quick yellow glowy things because once in a while, a cotton dust particle burns and you get some carbon micro particles that glow.
Also, the color of the flame looks like something is burning. It looks no different than my propane torch flame.
If it was arc based thing, it would be much brighter and have a different color since the nitrogen and oxygen gets ionized.
At one point, there was too much butane and the flame was burning dirty.
It is too obvious that it is just a flame.
I remember being a kid and some magazine advertised some butane torch and claimed that flame temperature reaches 3500 C.
That might be correct but I doubt that you would be able to melt a chunk of copper.
It might have a tiny, very hot flame, but its heat affected zone will also be tiny, and pretty much useless for anything other than lighting cigarettes or fireworks fuses, etc. I have a 2000°F electric arc lighter, but I can't weld with it, even though many metals have a melt point below 2000°F...
@@Duke_Romilar_III .
Indeed, the amount of heat produced is as important as the temperature. I use a similar small torch to hard solder silver, but it is limited to very small items.
Thanks! I've always wondered how these obvious scams can make enough money to be worth it for the scammers. It costs money to run an ad. The thing that still surprises me is that there are enough gullible people to order these things in the first place.
This ad uses a lot of subconscious psychological trigger to fool people.
@@nothingbutgadgets maybe it just seems so obvious to me because I've been around for 56 years and I lived through the golden age of infomercials! The last time I was scammed I was just a kid. Burned once, twice shy.
Thank you. Glad to see more people covering this stuff. People need to know. It's not always obvious to everyone.
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We wouldn't use this in the military and especially special forces not only that it's just a lie on the tech side.
Correct!
to start your video they ran that add . thats funny
Yeah, I know. Crazy!
My rule of thumb is to disbelieve everything advertised online.
That is a good rule.
Also beware products "As seen on TV" or "Made in China".
The sheer amount of nonstop bullshit in that torch ad is incredible.
I got scam car insurance ads while watching this. Great video. Thanks for the PSA!
A few years ago, I kept seeing this device that was supposed to save you money on your electric bill. It was constantly being advertised for a couple of months. So I broke down and bought one for only 49.95 with free shipping. How sweet. Instructions said just plug into any outlet. Pluged it in, a small red LED lit up. It stayed there for almost a year, out of sight, out of mind, I guess. Electric bill never did drop, not even a single penny 😒.
Some guy showing scams like this man is doing on RUclips happened to be disassembling one of these things. When he opened it up, there was only a circuit board with a few resistors connected to the LED to light it up. That was the first and the last thing I'll EVER buy from any ad on RUclips. The scammers are making it rough on the honest people. The sad thing is they never get caught. Usually, it's from another country.
Yes, I remember that ad. That was before I started doing these videos. I am going to try to stay more on top of these scam ads from now on. My wife says that she worries that they might come after me, but I think she is just being paranoid.
Retired electrician here. Anything you plug into a receptacle will only use _more_ electricity (maybe not too much more, but some), and will in no way lower your electric bill. It's like installing a faucet on your water pipes, that runs a little trickle of water 24/7, and expecting to see your water usage decrease.
@@Duke_Romilar_III .
There is a RUclips advert claiming what is essentially a small electric blower fire will somehow magically replace your central heating and save large amounts of money.
A Babyboomer here, why do You think that I go to store and chek it out before I buy it (any gadget or spareparts to my cars)? Only Online shopping I do is stuff that I already has bought from actual store and check that they have a same OEM number and they have a transparent company info. Only Milk and Cookies gen people will fall for these scams 🤣🤣🤣🤣
and I also have YT Premium, so I don't see ads, small price to pay for mental health
You can buy stuff online, but you have to be wise about it. And only buy from reputable stores like Amazon that have a solid 30-day return policy.
Catalog orders were around before either of us were born (Gen X here). And mail order scams existed long before that.
@@johnniequinn3215 Very true! Scammers are not a new thing. 200 years ago they were called, Carpet Baggers, or Snake Oil Salesmen.
This is why it's very important to pay attention to high school physical science and understand the laws of thermal dynamics.
First law of thermal dynamics teaches us so many things.
Great video! I was wondering about this thing. I figured it had to be BS. Now subbed!
Glad I could help
These people have no soul. Horrible people behind these ads. Seriously. God bless you brother.
I agree. Such is the world without God. Without God, there is n right or wrong. Human opinion becomes the highest authority for morality, and we all know that you can justify anything using human opinion as the guide.
Thank you for educating the public.
I bought a solar system some years ago and a dozen solar salesman used the same BS.
Yes, these sales tactics are not unique to these scammers. All salesmen use them. I know, I used to be one of them, which is why I know so much about them. I left that life a long time ago, though. Making money was not worth my soul.
Yup, seen this torch, seen it advertised as plasma. Right away i knew it was BS, i run a plasma cutter at work when needed, and you are not packing that down into anything handheld.
You got that right!
Maybe after watching your video the RUclips algorithm will finally realize I'm not going to buy this and stop showing me the add...lol. Thanks for the video.
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former heating guy here . The minute I saw the flame out the end I went hmm that's NOT electric... I have seen electric shorts right in front of my eyes .. it's an arc... flame means fuel!
Correct!
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then we can assume that it is in fact a duck
Yep.
Many years ago, I attended a lecture series in which the lecturer began with an overall premise: "The majority is always wrong". Goes right along with your mistrust of "crowds."
The truth is generally a difficult pill to swallow, and humans would rather believe a lie than the truth. For example.
It is impossible to make everyone rich, but it is easy to make everyone poor. Because richness is a measure of how much more one person has over others who have less. Inequality of wealth is an essential essential necessity of human existence, without which society would collapse. If you could magically give everyone a billion dollars, the only effect would be to reduce the value of a billion dollars to zero. Since everyone would have a billion, no one would want to work for anything less. How much would you need to pay a billionaire to clean a toilet?
The truth is, it is impossible for everyone to be rich. Some, the majority must be poor. This makes the world turn.
This is reality. This is truth. Nobody wants to hear this truth.
Thanks for exposing this. I cannot believe how this is allowed to be advertised. Blatantly misleading.
I agree
The Edward Bernays Playbook is in full force in scam world.
Thank you for commenting @muchtested! I am so glad the video was helpful.
This is a cool video. I just found this channel. But I had to laugh; the decor behind him is very nice with the plants…and the bottle of Elmer’s Glue peeking out! 😂 Made me smile. Just subscribed!
Thank you. Yes, the bottle of glue. Some viewers have made a big deal about it. LOL!
Getting personal here though, it is there because I have been caring for my grandkids here lately, due to the fact that my daughter was in a serious car accident. Her car was thrown over a cliff and crash into a tree at about 100 mph. By the grace of God and His angels, she somehow survived, but with a full body of bruises.
I bought one of the actual rechargeable plasma arc lighters from Home Depot, I'm an avid primative camper and I can attest they do work, but you have to get really close to the fuel source. Do NOT use gasoline lol.😅
I have one as well, and I find it difficult to light anything with it.
Urgency, call to action, military, never trust these things. Great deep dive !
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Hey ! That’s my lighter ! I bought one of those about six months ago from AliExpress for $11 AUD. Great lighter. They definitely chew through the butane gas when used like it’s a flamethrower.Flame on !!
Yeah, it seems like a decent device.
I nearly bought one of these until checking other sites and realising it was a scam , but I did buy a rechargeable hair trimmer and they are very good quality , must have been lucky to find an honest company . Thanks for the info
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When I saw the flame, it looked like the flame on the butane cigarette lighters and the pen torches I bought around 2004. The store was a dollar-type business, and the lighters cost 99 cents each. Most of them failed quickly. I found one that still works in June 2024! I only use it when I need a small hot flame to do something.
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Like meth . The Germans totally would have made it military grade and issue in 1942