Sorry you got rooked. Rip off deals make me mad and such scams undermine confidence and goodwill.

In addition to being cranky and cheap, salesmen don't stand a chance, I am seldom impressed with things claiming to be 'new and improved'. Humans have been around a very long time and we seem to have done fairly well. Advances tend to be only marginally more effective and efficient than the existing methods.

For all our advances in insulation technology goose down and caribou fur is still at the top. People make a big thing out of knives made with this or that special alloy but the original Bowie knife was made from an old file. A magnetic compass today is not a whole lot more advanced than the magnetized needle rammed through a cork set floating in a dish.

Yes, we have advanced, and I'm not giving up any of it, but generally the changes are evolutionary not revolutionary. So I feel I can wait, let everyone else jump in early, take their knocks, risk getting ripped off. If the new technology is really an advance in utility it will still be there in a few years. Generally at lower prices. Did I mention I'm cheap?

Lono, I'm sorry it didn't work out. I hope you are successful getting your money back through the CC company. Even if not, in the larger scale of things $160 is a small price to pay for an important life lesson. I've seen people make the same basic mistake buying a house, investing money, and buying quack medicine. The first two cost tens of thousands of dollars, the last one nearly killed them. $160 is cheap as school of hard knocks style education goes.