Hydrocare HC38 Thoughts???

[Tom Sawyer]

Good for you. Not surprised though. They aren't going to screw around with the guarantee and invite more bad press

 

[JBJ]

HC38 Thoughts

Can I get an AMEN to this: The Voodoo HydroCare (doing something to your home) water system is scientifically unproven and many on this site's community feel radio waves, frequencies, signals . . . or what-you-call-its . . . are not magic elixirs to solving hard, similar or any water problems? For $14.99 or $19.99 -- or even a tad more -- it may be worth trying out. BUT for $600 to $1200 dollars for just one little tiny unit, it may make more sense to visit one of the many growing casinos in you area to see if you can win enough money for some better units to purchase and solve your water issues.

I think you made a real good decision Billinjax and by reporting it here are immensely helpful to working people thinking of forking over substantial sums of money in pursuit of something that is unlikely to materialize.

Tom Sawyer, I spend some time in SW MI and have seen a lot of trucks with logos and advertisements for a similar type of product under a different name in your neighborhood. While the product and the wrapping around the pipe and the claim of the "radio wave" is somewhat similar, yet slightly different, the product ends up being identical in effect to the HydroCare. And the cost for their fancy looking system was over $1,000. Where is P.T. Barnum now?

I still think if we hold hands in a seance or just touch our key boards at the same prearranged time, we can accomplish the same thing as these "radio wave" products. (I don't sound too negative on them, do I?)

JBL

P.S. I see no one has addressed the issue of why the price of these kind of units are so very high compared to the units in other countries. As pointed out, in the UK it was only 25% or less of the U.S. price. Ah, but only in America can one hope to make more money. Wonder why the Chinese haven't jumped on this yet. I'm sure they could sell it for $29.99.

 

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[Tom Sawyer]

They come like vampyre's in the night....................................................

 

[Akpsdvan]

If it needs to be explained, then it is lost.

 

[Akpsdvan]

While this might work on the very large scale, it often does not work on the home or homes in question as there is just not the flow of water needed for it to work.
Water in the home is running no more than about 70minutes out of the 1440 minutes with in any 24 hour time frame.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ak, it doesn't work on any scale (pun intended) LOL

 

[Tom Sawyer]

So be it, if you don't feel people need to understand what you post.

You got your bump, be happy with that

 

[JoeBeamish]

I had one of these installed when replacing our ancient electric water heater. With the one year guarantee, I figure what the heck. Well, after almost 12 months, no good. Did not reduce build up on toilets, sinks, coffee pot etc... Now, I'm not sure what the scale situation is like in the water heater, but I'm guessing since the minerals are not taken out of solution they will eventually end up on evaporative surfaces. Just hoping they'll give me my $500 back.

 

[JKERN]

People can beat this thing to death but the fact is and it is a FACT that on the majority of situations these things do absolutly nothing. Most of the people that sell these things are predatory dealers at best not to mention for the cost of them you can up your dollar amount a bit and get a softener that actually works. The reason why people in the water industry have pretty standard ways of doing things is because they are tried and true methods developed over years of discovery. And for the sake of wanting to be scientific if any of you think that these magnets work or any other electrical contraption have one of there dealers actually give you papers from an accredited university backing the theories up. I bet they can't because they don't have any, no one with any kind of degree would touch this hocus pocus scam crap with a ten foot pole. The bigest problem why these things stick around is because people want to believe that there is another way to treat water without a softener. Take five minutes to think about this don't most of you believe that i as a equipment dealer would rather go to someones house and wrap some coils around a pipe and plug it in and be done than have to spend more than an hour building equipment then installing it and coming back later on to make sure everything is operating properly. Five minutes versus an hour and almost the same price after installation it should'nt take a rocket scientist to figure out that if these things worked and worked well that every person in our industry would be selling them. But they dont, because they are utter crap.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Thank you JKern

 

[Akpsdvan]

Which flavor of Kool Aid are we doing?

Why have the items not gone through the WQA?

Is there a WQA on any of the units?

Why are they only on the internet and not a real store?

 

[JKERN]

I do not need to inform myself on the hydrocare or any other type of these units. What this item is a gimmick and nothing more. When Cornell, M.I.T., or N.A.S.A. release studies showing these things work then I'll buy into it. But until then I'll keep dealing with pissed off customers that got flat screwed out of their money because shadey sales people fed them a line of B.S. And by the way I've dissasembled many of these contraptions only to find that the power cord provides electricity to the little light and nothing else. So if someone is wanting a very dimly lit night light mounted on there plumbing pipes I will recommend this product but if they want treated water I'll stick with proven technology.

 

[Akpsdvan]

Going to the Hydroflow is that like going to the Ford or Chevy web site so that we can see just how good the cars are by their words?

That is just flipping rich........


This thread is going no where because it is the same old information coming out about the product that really does not work.

Now if you got lucky and it works for you great... but stop telling others about it as I know that I have seen way to many at the dump because they did not work and no one would give any money back.

Would one of the mods please close this, this horse is way past dead.

 

[JKERN]

Your right it's beaten till it's glue.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I wish to thank you gentlemen for taking over the reigns of this argument. For anybody that really is interested in this subject this site and the real life scientist that owns it will explain to you all the impossiblity of changing water chemistry with magnets, radio waves, electrical current and voodoo. I have met and spoken with this gentleman on several occasions. I assure you that he is a for real chemist and scientist

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/

 

[Akpsdvan]

Some of us just call it the way we have seen it.. and if that hurts or does not go along with your thoughts or ideas then so be it.

Truth of what happens in the real world and not the lab are two different items.

This is kind of like the idea that cars are getting 45mpg, what is not said is that
A) controlled lab
B)Best fuel or even a cleaner fuel than what you and I get down the street
C)Car or truck has no weight other than maybe a driver.
Is it any wounder that the car is getting such great mpg?

And if this is Using Radio waves,,,,,, joy............ ever live close to a 50K radio station?

 

[Redwoodvotesoften1]

First of all I don't like Kool Aid, so I can't answer that question.

Hay Dere Miguel Good ta see ya don't like that Kool-Aid.

Ya Reckon dis gadget wood make my whisky taste better.

Seam it duz everything else....

 

[Gary Slusser]

For those that want the thread to die, a simple suggestion, y'all could use a bit of self discipline and simply stop posting in it and then whining about the thread continuing. Or.... I can moderate your whining.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Why, has anybody violated the rules here?

 

[rat4spd]

Some things never change.