An organizer of PUA events felt compelled to voice his opinion. Since there are some rather interesting points that are worth discussing, it wouldn't be appropriate to just bury them in the comment thread.
So, here we go:
Look actually it all is about the "bad things" in the community. This is a fairly new business. There is no control what so ever.
True. There is no control whatsoever. People are scamming left and right, and apparently those businesses seem to think it's fine to not honor any of their promises, like the infamous "money back guarantee". Heck, recently, someone had to make a thread on PUA Hate and expose Andy "Yosha" from Daygame.com, and after several hundred views he -- surprise, surprise -- received an answer to his email requests and received his refund. But try this with PUA Training or Love Systems, who openly declare in the fine print that their programs are only for "entertainment purposes".
People are bashing a lot all the people who make a lot of money in this scene. Only if they provide you with what you want, it's okay.
That's a typical argument from scammers all over the Internet. In the Internet Marketing scene, it's also typical to hear the shills of Frank Kern et al. say that people only hate him because he is oh so successful. It doesn't matter that he offers products of questionable quality and encourages illegal business practices (as Salty Droid repeatedly pointed out). Well, Frank Kern and others ran into legal problems with the FTC for valid reasons, and, no, it wasn't because they had "the wrong disclaimers on their website", as Frank Kern's buddy Neil Strauss writes in his book "Emergency".
And then the other evaluation problem with this business is, it also depends of the motivation of the customer.
Oh, so if company X makes exaggerated promises if can't possibly deliver ("learn to get any women not matter how you look, how much money you have, or where you live" :P), it's suddenly the customer's fault if he doesn't succeed?
It's like Weight Watchers. If you don't loose the weight. Weight Watchers is to blame? You don't carry some of the "weight?"
Haha, that's a great comparison. The weight loss industry is shady, too. Well, we all know that if we want to lose weight, we have to eat healthy food, skip Coke, fast food, and all those crappy ready-meals, and exercise too. But for some those are unpleasant choices, so they prefer getting ripped off by various companies/authors that claim that they are okay. Instead of a healthy life style, they just have to follow some fad diet or some nonsensical procedures, which of course don't work. But because those people are beyond hope, they don't question the products themselves but buy into the next fad.
Similarly, what's the situation with pick up? In a nutshell, it is something like: "don't look like shit and talk to girls", but instead Vin DiCarlo tells you that working out kills your chances with women, Love Systems puts out a "manual" on texting, and Tyler from Real Social Dynamics believes that Brad Pitt is not good looking, and that his level of physical attractiveness has nothing to do with how attractive he is perceived to be. It's nothing but mindbogglingly stupid stuff.
From what I hear Gunwitch did a lot to help people for free. I think he actually earned the least of everyone who is in The Game.
Isn't this a non-sequitur? Or are you honestly saying that because Gunwitch didn't make as much money as Mystery did, he can blow some girl's face off? Heck, money has nothing to do with this.
He could have been successful if had cooperated with guys like Frank Kern or Eben Pagan. And then he would have a lot of money, and maybe would not have shot Amber.
OK, the trip down logical lane continues: You may want to read this brief survey of the issue of so-called counterfactuals. If-then-reasoning is rather pointless, in my not so humble opinion. Well, should you ever get stabbed in a dark alley, I'm sure you wouldn't think, "If only this guy had been a successful pick up guru that had teamed up with Internet Marketers. Then he would have had enough money and wouldn't have needed to rob me."
Luckily Amber is okay.
Is she? As far as I know, she is still missing half her face. Or do you mean by "okay" that she is not dead?
And the community will not have any problem with guys like Gunwitch.
Wut!?
Some guys and girls in this time have difficulty to get together. Spite all the freedom, there always will be problems with relations between guys and girls. So this industry is here to stay.
Sure, the sexes have issues with each others, but do you honestly believe this industry solely exists to help people? Have you ever head anyone say that he turned down a potential client because he wasn't ready (yet)? When I was coaching, I always made sure the guy would really profit from working with me, and if there was no fit, I told them what the issue was. Surely, Mystery and Gambler gladly take $3,000 from overweight guys instead of telling them to get in shape first.
And at some time people will take on control, built schools, have certifications etc. Look at NLP (Richard Bandler was a suspect in murdering a woman too). It's all there.
NLP didn't hold up to scientific scrutiny, and if one day there will be a "Worldwide Association of PUAs" with certifications and all that sh*t, it still won't turn this scene into a legitimate industry.
Give it time, the industry is like 6 years old or something. There always going to be more shit happening.
I'm counting on that.
Just like any other business who is not controlled by an indepedent council. And even then shit happens.
Where in this world do you have "independent councils"? Industries govern themselves, and the financially most powerful ones happily bribe governments to make sure they can continue ruining the planet (BP, Exxon etc) and ruin the lives of people and entire economies (Goldman Sachs, Bank of America etc.)
So shit happens.
Yes, shit happens, and shit will continue to happen, but tell me what else this fact provides than a good reason to get depressed?
