If it sounds too good to be true. It most likely is.
Buyer beware.
I’m repeating this from the thread I linked, but a lot of them get by on tiny little technicalities. For example, I bet you’d see camparatively dramatic performance, at short range from the models listed while there’s still a good bit of ice in the reservoir. But it’s damn well going to short lived at any temp you’d need it for. And if your “room” is a tiny dorm, closet, or micro-micro space that barely fits your bed, sure. Might indeed cool the whole room, briefly.
But I can use a 7.99 desk fan and a bowl of ice water for nearly the same effect.
So overpriced, over-hyped junk, but with the thin veneer of plausibility that probably keeps them from being sued.
OK, that’s true, too. For that matter, plenty of real, completely-genuine, completely-practical products also have cheap, shoddy knock-offs that do almost nothing. Like, phone chargers exist and work and are worth it… but the chargers you can buy for $5, you really don’t want to. Some of those cheap chargers can destroy your phone, or even you.
As others already said, it’s an evaporative cooler, aka swamp cooler, and they will cool a room in a dry climate. But if the ads are actually calling it an “air conditioner”, then IMO that is false advertising. A swamp cooler is not the same thing as an air conditioner, and doesn’t work the same way. A swamp cooler will cool a room, but not to the extent an AC can – on a 90 degree day in Phoenix it can cool a room to a reasonably comfortable temperature, but on a 110 degree day it might only cool the room down to the mid 90s, which is better, but still hot. And an AC will dehumidify as well as cool. A swamp cooler will lower the temperature, but increase the humidity.
They typically call it “Mini-AC” and have “Air Cooler” in small print elsewhere. Intentionally deceptive with a “cover your ass” footnote.
Nahhh, that can’t be it. It’s gotta be that Big Corporations are hiding it from us so they can put more cancer causing stuff in the chemtrails to prevent us from finding out the reverse vampires are conspiring with the mole-men from their base on the far side of the flat moon.
You forgot Bigfoot.
He gets hot in the cave with all that hair.
If you don’t have to be presentable - or have ready access to a dry shirt - you can just drape a wet towel around your neck. Works great.
I can’t figure out how the outfit that incessantly flogs “slimming gummies” isn’t spending all their time in court. They used to be “Oprah’s Slimming Gummies” but it looks like she put a stop to that. The ads still show the Shark Tank stars supposedly hooting and clapping over these things and I really doubt whether Mark Cuban actually endorses them.
Often they change business names more often than you change your underwear, and a lot of them aren’t based in the U.S. to begin with. Couple that with Facebook’s almost non-existent fraud policy, and it is open season on the general public.
You have a disturbing fascination with this creature, don’t you?
Not too disturbing; I’m pretty sure he’s a relative of hers.
As for the miracle weight-loss formulas, a lot of them are nothing more than bulk-forming laxatives. Fine for short-term relief, but if you take enough of them every night for a long enough time, you’ll eventually poop out weight. You’re also likely to experience bloating, gas, and possibly more severe side effects.
And just how do you know how often I change my underwear?
The most fascinating Cryptid in the world.
“When I decide to be sighted, I do it in South Arkansas.”. Bigfoot
My assumption is that its like that Sensa(?) product from a few years ago–a scented powder. The idea was that you sprinkle this stuff that smells like something you want eat on something healthy that you don’t want to eat. Like eating a plate of broccoli…ain’t fun but its healthy… and if you’re eating it and it smells like nachos…tht makes it easier.
Imagine eating soggy nachos.
The juxtaposition between frequency of changing underwear and pooping yourself to weight loss is just too much.
Possibly because Bigfoot sighting have declined greatly in the last 15 years.
Said to be a result of so many people carrying cellphones with cameras built in: people kept asking “so why didn’t you take a picture when you saw Bigfoot?”
Those people are eaten.
Willow Creek, California, makes a contrary claim. And it has a bigfoot museum.