Possible Scam on the advertising links on Bloom com?

I just clicked on the link below on "Bloom.com" link. It all seemed too good to be true but too much talk and no real information to know what one would really be getting. I got a bit sceptical and wondered whether it was a scam to get credit card numbers.

http://www.naturalcare-4u.com/palm/

I then did a Google for sunshine-4u.com and came up with the following forum http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bonsai/msg0302274710470.
with the message below:

"Hi all,
I've been away from this forum for a couple of years but now I'm back. I was browsing the internet and found a sight claiming to sell a wonderful 'secret' formula for maturing bonsais quickly. Sounds a bit dodgy but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone here has dealt with this 'John Perez' andhis 'secret' formula?......."

and then just one of the answers going on in a similar vein:
""Secret formula" is usually another term for "S-C-A-M." If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, especially if the maker doesn't want to show you what you're buying. By the way, after looking at the web site, I was hard pressed to tell what I would be buying--fertilizer a "bonsai" program or special technique...
I especially like the section on the site that says "why should you believe John" about his recipe? The first answer is basically "because he's been on TV" (although it doesn't say where or when--could be "Today" or on cable public access Channel 239 at 3 am.)
The entire pitch goes on for pages without telling you what you're buying, another sign it's pretty much, as Vance W. would say, Bovine Scatology (BeeEss)...Save your money ...."

The fact that the same miracle worker seems to be proposing solutions for palms and bonsais made me even more doubtful.

I'm sure if there were miracle solutions worth a try, some of you generous people at Dave's would have shared them by now.

Is this a scam, do any of you know? And how are the advertising links selected by Bloom.com and Dave's?

Forgive me please, if my doubts are unfounded -- I really hope they are!

Carey

The advertising links on Bloom.com are served by Google and we don't control what they put there.

I can't vouch for this company, but for what it's worth, they've been listed in the Garden Watchdog for nearly three years: http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/3702 - there's no feedback (good or bad), so it's hard to gauge...but if there were widespread problems, I would guess that some feedback would have found its way into their entry by now.

Thanks Dave and Terry.
Their claims just seem too good to be true - maybe I'll have to be the guinea pig and try send off for their miracle recipes for palm growth, and let you all know!

I wonder if anyone else has had any experience with them?

Carey

You could always try googling the company name and see if anything comes up (besides their own website of course!)

Hi ecrane, that's what I did, and that's where the above comments came from which is why I felt there was perhaps something in my theory. Only one person had bought the "kit" but hadn't yet received it so there was no useful feedback.

I'm starting to think it's kind of a scam. Someone just posted yesterday or the day before on the hibiscus forum, seems this John Perez guy also has a magical formula for hibiscus. When I saw the post there, I remembered that I had seen his name before (couldn't remember where until this thread popped back up with a new post!). I went to the website for the hibiscus stuff, and it sounded like one of these too good to be true things. I call it the "Jerry Baker School of Gardening" where you find food, cleaning products, and other things around the house and mix them together and dump them on your plants. Often there's something in each ingredient that could do something beneficial for plants (such as being a source of N/P/K, etc) but they often contain other things such as alcohol that can be bad for plants. You're definitely better off using something that was designed for use on plants, it'll give more balanced nutrition and you know the nutrients will all be in a form the plants can absorb, etc.