How much do you trust product recommendations given on the forum?

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Well if you've got a cough then can I recommend FabboCoffBuster serum - it did a fantastic job of shifting my cough in minutes and I just happened to have the number of a chap who can supply you. Don't forget to mention my name when you order ...

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Okay so I have just sent Orange squash over my desk!!! I think what this forum is valuable for is the common sense/tried and tested non commercial approaches - you just don't find them advertised in magazines - I would think all the commercial sellers of fly spray complained to H&H when they started printing home made versions! (pst sell you mine
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TGM pass the superdoooper stuff My Ed Urts
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[/ QUOTE ] Here you go - it's brilliant for Eds as well, in fact it can cure almost anything, from piles to palpitations
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. You know you can trust me because of my post count!

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It is nice to have recommendations and I do check up before making a decision. Tia's recommendation of sunflower seeds was really good.

People probably think I have shares in pig oil and sulphur, mane bags and equss products - I don't, but I do recommend them based on my personal experience of hairy horses.

I did help develop the manebags and always say that this is why I know they work, plus anyone knowing my little cobs sees him on the tailgator website showing how the bags go on
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I think a pinch of salt and some research along with recommendations is the best way to go.
 
I do take note of what is said but usually go away and do my own research.
I have to say I think the majority of 'wonder buys' are just hearsay and hype.

Have now been feeding sunflower seeds for almost 5 months, to be honest haven't seen any change in hoof or coat quality, but then they were good beforehand, at least it's not an expensive mistake!

Also looked at PE rugs from the hype on here, spec looked good so ordered a LW turnout and I am extremely unimpressed. Lesson learned, stick with what you know and pay extra, horseware all the way.

However it was from here that I tried happy hoof and have to say that was a good product recommendation
 
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I think what this forum is valuable for is the common sense/tried and tested non commercial approaches - you just don't find them advertised in magazines

[/ QUOTE ] Very, very true! It is often the things that cost the least that are most effective - but you don't get to hear about them because there is no money to be made out of them!

BTW, have I told you about the Keyboard Restoration Tool which can remove spilled drinks from the keyboard swiftly, silently and successfully? Doing a BOGOF offer at the moment
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The worst product plugging is the (unscientifically tested) 'snake oil' for colic that the manufacturer gets into every second post....what's it called, coligone or something?
I looked it up on Google, and the ingredients are very very secret - alarm bells straight away!




I resent that comment as I heard about Coligone through here. Never in a million years would I off thought of using it on my mare but before I tried it I was going to sell her. She wasn't colicky just arsey and it has made 100% difference to her. I'm sure if the makers posted there ingrediants every tom, dick and harry would start up a simular product. I'm sure it's hard enough competing againist the likes of NAF etc who throw millions into marketing.
If somewhere like here gets the message across then why not. The people on here who stick up for it aren't friends of the maker but people who think this product is helpful to their horses.
There I'm off my soap box now
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Going off at a slight tangent from this, there was an item on the tv news this morning about hospitals using Manuka honey to treat MRSA. I had never heard of this until I read about it on HHO, seems some HHO posters are ahead of the NHS!
 
We have a colicky mare and have found Coligone invaluable - even our vet recommends it now! However, I am not sure you couldn't get the same results from Gaviscon... The ingredients are listed on the container, so not really secret at all.
 
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I accuse you - you are a viral marketer.
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[/ QUOTE ] LOL - I've had to Google what one of those is, and I still don't think I understand it
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[/ QUOTE ] It can cure incontinence as well ...

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TGM!
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Girl you is on fine form
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See having met me you can tailor your potions to my requirements!
Dont forget the anti-flea ingredient
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I used to teach marketing...can you tell?!
Viral marketing is when you try to 'infect' sources with product information. So at a school, you find out who the 'cool kids' are and give them free computer games/trainers or whatever which they then have to plug.
In nightclubs, people can be paid to promote drinks (but never admitting they are being paid).
And on a forum....it is possible people could be paid to market products...I believe it happens on social networking sites too.
People just don't realise it is marketing but it infects like a virus.
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Hmmm ... I'm going to stick my neck out here and probably make myself unpopular.!

H's Mum is obviously a well liked forum member and has a bit of a following, I personally don't know her, she comes across as lovely but at the same time there is a fair bit of promotion of her product going on, by not only her but her close forum buddies. Nothing wrong with that but I would agree with shilsidar in some respects ...
1. why no ingrediant list on the website?
2. for me to want to buy it some sort of explanation of it method of action would be good, even better an independent controlled study

I have never had a colicky horse and therefore have never had any reason to buy it. If I did have a colicky horse then maybe I would try it, who knows? But what I have seen is a fair number of examples of people buying it to feed prophylactically just to keep in with the crowd ... what a waste of money IMO
 
I will read posts where certain goodies are plugged but I always go off and do my own research on anything....except where soaked oats were concerned as I believed the person suggesting them and thought "what the heck it's worth a try".....am glad I did as it has worked out well for my horses.

I think you have to be sensible - obviously what works for some horses may not work for others, so sometimes it's worth trying and if it doesn't work then it's simple - just stop using it, LOL!

I don't plug anything that I haven't myself had good results with. I take a lot of things with a pinch of salt, but I don't necessarily discard them, I just prefer to check them out for myself before I go out and spend my money on them.

Anyone who is new (yep sorry but I am cynical when they start to plug products
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) I will read their comments but the moment I start to doubt them, yes I will run searches on their previous posts.

There are some established members on here and some of their information and advice doesn't sit right with me at times and I occasionally wonder just how much experience of certain things they really do have....and then there are other established members whose info and advice is pretty darned good in my opinion, so I listen to them.
 
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I can bung in a Foo Pah Eradicator for free as well
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Oi do you want a slap?
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As long as you dont get it mixed up and put in the Poo Fart Eradicator.

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And on a forum....it is possible people could be paid to market products...I believe it happens on social networking sites too.

[/ QUOTE ] I'm pretty sure it is happening on here (even if I didn't know what it was called
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Someone recommended a camera on Soapbox (Nikon D50). I did a bit of research and bought one. Never used a "proper" camera before - the first photo I took, HHO asked if they could use it in their Royal Show report to show how wet the ground had been. That was one hell of a recommendation!

I've recommended the Dress Circle rugs to people, Megatek hair restorer and tescos yellow dusters.
 
This forum converted me to soaked oats and home made fly spray.

I tried Coligone (the one in the syringe), horse hated it, spat it out and have never used it since, but it wasn't an expensive experiment so I didn't mind
 
Re Coligone.
Don't get me wrong - I have nothing against the lady who recommends it. I am not saying it doesn't work.
I am saying I am unaware of the ingredients, and have yet to see any proof (clinical trial type) that it reduces the incidence of colic. I appreciate that such a study would be expensive to run...and perhaps studies have been done on the individual ingredients...but we'll never know due to the secrecy!
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Is that the same as faux pas?
Help, everyone is speaking a different language!
Who am I? Where am I?
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LOL TGM has a rather good memory
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Yes Foo Par is my special way of saying Faux Pas
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feel free to borrow it anytime.

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With me it depends on the posters, some posters think like I do and if they said something was good more likely try it out.. some posters I think what planet did they come form
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and wouldn't try there ideas looool !
Got carried away friday and bought a Premier Equine Bug buster rug, arrived monday, don't like it at all, it supposed to be breathable but i won't try it on horse cos it is plasticy and I immediatley think hot Horse, so if any one wants one that likes them its a 6'3''
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But what I have seen is a fair number of examples of people buying it to feed prophylactically just to keep in with the crowd ... what a waste of money IMO

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What a load of rubbish as far as I'm aware H's Mum hasn't been on here for ages
 
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