“Doomed, I tell you–doomed! Unless you buy the DeLuxe Acme Survivor Kit…”
He doesn’t tell you what the product is, that he’s selling and you should buy. All he tells you is that you’re doomed, you’re cooked, you’re finished without it.
Gee… If you really knew the secret of surviving the end o’ the freakin’ world, wouldn’t you have a duty to share it, without charge, with as many people as possible? Wouldn’t that be, like, a moral imperative?
Soul-less huckster: “Don’t make me laugh!”
There are so many of these wild, gory stories being touted these days. If we allowed ourselves to be hooked, we would lose our freakin’ minds.