“If you have issue with their “marketing techniques” then learn to deal with them on your own personal time. Don’t indirectly plant negative thoughts in the readers had that are absolutely untrue.”
It’s amazing how defensive brainwashed people get when their gurus’ methods are questioned.
Are you telling me a clinic that charges $25,000.00 per day can’t send each patient home with a 50 cent white-balance card so their after photos will match the clinic’s before photos?
IMHO, this clinic is in the game for one reason, and that is too make money. Ramming 5K grafts into the first 1/2 of a 22-year-old’s hairline, who is completely psychologically devasted by the fear of turning into a cue-ball and being embarrassed everytime he goes out in public, is not good surgery in my opinion. In fact, this industry was around well before Armani was born, and hairline packing has always represented a highly questionable practice and been deemed by most practitioners to be unethical. There is nothing about being 22-years-old in 2009 and freaked out about becoming a future horseshoe-head that’s changed this long-standing fact.
The majority of these young patients are paying for these procedures via credit (read money they don’t have to spend), and yes, I do have a problem with the excessive fees, the lack of legitimate before/after pictures, and the emphasis on treating young patients whose extent and pattern of future baldness is still up in the air. Do you think I just came around and made this stuff up? The ethics involved in this kind of practice has been questioned since the beginning of HT. There is nothing new under the sun, despite what the marketing has convinced you to believe. So you don’t care if these young people are so psychologically devasted they will mortgage their soles for the rest of their lives to get a 1/2 inch strip of their hairline restored? I’d call that a personal problem you really need to work on.
As far as not attacking on other websites, I don’t read those other websites and rarely read this one (this one is by far and away the best hair-related site on the planet). If you can’t handle the truth, then don’t read my posts. Stick to only reading posts from “yes-men” and “me-too guys.”
The game of HT clinics preying on the vulnerability of young patients is long and ongoing. If you don’t want to admit it, that’s your problem. However, don’t expect me to keep hush about it just so you never have to be inconvenienced with having to question your beliefs.
Don’t you think I realize my opinions are very unpopular and subject to attack and ridicule? I don’t say the things I say for fun. I say them because I believe someone has to represent the other side of a very one-sided coin.
And finally, you have to admit, those wet before photos with the dry after photos were a stroke of genius. I really have to give credit where credit is due on that one. These guys are not stupid operators. It’s a good thing myself and a few other realists are here to keep them in line. If Armani and other such clinics don’t like what I have to say, then they should address my concerns.
