The other day someone at the grocery store commented on my kids, visited a bit about how their son had the mister mom experience, they then said they may have a business venture I may be interested in and wanted to e-mail me some videos. I figured I may as well listen in case it was actually a good thing, but the first red flag went up when they wouldn't tell me more. In my experience that means they don't have the salesman skills to make what they are selling sound as good enough. That usually means the product isn't good, if it can only be sold by expert salesmen.
They sent me a link to a video and first thing I noticed is it's a pyramid scheme. You work with "team members" trying to get them to sell for you so you can reap the rewards of their efforts selling something nobody's heard of. Often these products rely on the fact that you haven't heard of them, otherwise people wouldn't pay for them.
I told them I wanted to research it on my own and they sent another video and said they'd call after I watched it. Instead I spent the time asking Google. I couldn't find much that actually told about the product. That says to me there are a lot of marketers working full time on making it look good (like members of a pyramid scheme).
Most of the information I found was people talking about how great the product was, but there were more red flags. Many of these promotions accused people of being closed minded to the evidence about the product. Many more complained about the bogus products giving their legitimate product a bad name. Both of these are what are called logical fallacies. Comments intended to sound logical but have no real meaning.
I finally found a question on www.answers.com asking about the product. A few more interesting facts came forward here. First, it's not tested by the EPA to prove it actually works, just tested to see if it's safe. Also it isn't sold in actual stores. Stores that have to uphold their reputation and can't afford to sell products that don't work.
When I did find numbers that show it didn't work the pro XFT distributors replied saying "The results will be completely different based on driving habits" or "you have to use it for 3,000 miles to get best results." Then they promise a 30 day money back guarantee. How are you going to test it in only 30 days if you have to drive 3000 miles to get the best results?
They also said I will save about $20 per gas tank. I currently spend about $40 a tank, their product costs $5 a treatment, so I'd drop to $15. That's close to a third of the cost. So that means this product is supposed to triple my gas mileage just by adding 1/4 ounce of their product to my tank. I say it isn't possible.
I looked up how it worked and they said it uses an "organo metallic catalyst" to atomize your fuel, making it burn faster and more completely. Organometallic means they have metal in their additive. I can only see metal additives leaving deposits and shortening my engine's life.
About the faster burning fuel they said "XFT makes even low grade fuel behave like high-quality or premium fuels, eliminating the need for higher octane or other more expensive fuel." This is completely false. Higher octane fuel means it burns slower, so they are lowering the octane rating. This is detrimental for an engine! It can cause premature ignition of the fuel and will shorten your engine's life.
You may wonder why I took the time to write all this for a product that doesn't work. First, I wanted to say I gave it a fair chance to prove itself. Second, I'm hoping somebody who is researching Xtreme Fuel Treatment finds this post and realizes that it is yet another scam.
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