Audiotel: A bitter observation

When we type on the internet the word clairvoyance by telephone and also “free clairvoyance” we find: “Approximately 212,000 results (0.25 seconds)” This proliferation of people likely to help others without payment can give us the image of a world where money is not the main thing and helping your neighbor is an international maxim. As Americans often mention “there is no free lunch”, in the sense that nothing is free and although we can consider audiotel customers as consenting and informed adults, it turns out that this legal system chains them to an addiction. There are a plethora of audiotel clairvoyance sites, priced at 0.34 cents per minute, or with an additive of 1.35 euros depending on the case, and are not philanthropic. To illustrate this comment, we will base ourselves on feedback, numerous in this area, from which INAD inherits thorny and often dramatic issues.

   1. Context First of all it is necessary to set the context, to cite just one of the best-known brands, cosmospace brings together (if we read its file in the company register) sub-brands which may appear independent to the newbie but the payment platform is the same. The centralization of information on your previous consultation is effective….although it is strictly prohibited by the CNIL and these firms contest the existence of this grouping of information. The psychics are “available” at a call center, a commercial synergy effect, very few only work on a single site Apart from that, everything else is legal and the customer’s consent during billing is systematically required, as well as information on the pricing of the additional minute…Where things go wrong is that clairvoyance is not free, your operator bill will attest to this, and despite a limitation of 29 euros, the consumer or applicant does not care. In fact, customers are ‘caught up’ by a system that is extremely well-functioning on a commercial level. The primary impact is therefore money, because once in audiotel your medium suddenly has an appointment or informs you that they cannot go into “pure” mediumship without pricing, the reactions in the event of refusal are variable, or even more incentive…for some. The second impact is that the profession, because many claim to be mediums, but there are few elected officials, does not include clairvoyance professionals. The gift, or the perception is there or not. Now we see under the terminology of medium, other terminology that is even less framed; coach, psychologist. Why are they on these sites…???       2. Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s stigmatization is not appropriate and appropriate because these are people who must also earn their living, but during an agreement to continue the consultation, the providence of coming across a “valid” medium and not a “pipoteur” is of the order of the lottery. Personally, some psychics have been successful, but the majority, and given the growing number, are only salespeople. It would be desirable for brands to advocate “less is more” at the risk of losing their credibility and sinking into an unrewarding image…   Not all psychics are crooks, there are honest people like everywhere else. I’ve had some, which very briefly tell you I see or I don’t see, which in . By minutes go straight to the point, they are: Julie (concise, do not overdo it), Thomas (precise, and meticulous in his answers), Lucas (verygood astrologer), Ysis, Anne sophie (without support and giving information not communicated beforehand)…   Furthermore, when you feel that you have had an “abuse” or a procedure to extend the consultation time, and the minutes pass very very quickly at this time, there is the possibility of making a complaint to the sales department. Certainly this does not result in a refund and is generally the result of long discussions, which must be duly justified, in the case of Cosmospace, Voyantissimes, Mirina, Claude Alexis, Wengo, Sabbat clairvoyance etc…. This is not the case for companies which act more wildly, not to mention the use of your bank details…   You simply have to be patient and be irreproachable about your previous actions. The advantage of these firms being established on the street is that things are a little more structured.   More limited practices are common, in particular more confidential firms push the vice to call you asking for “unpaid” for a consultation that did not take place, and encourage you to consult the great medium (unknown to the battalion) who is waiting for you, such is the case of Dussolier. A person calls you on a hidden number and tells you that you are in recovery proceedings… This is to position yourself in a situation of accountability, and the advice in these cases is to cut short immediately, take note of the references and, if you have the courage, file a complaint for attempted fraud. Here again things must be materialized, by recording or otherwise. We do not accuse without proof and gratuitously at the risk of falling within the framework of defamation, which can prove dangerous. Generally, the after-sales service is aware of the deviations, but the “cleaning is not done at the level of quality of service”.   3. Overtaking and drifting The transition is simple, the centralization of your information is effective, I was able to note quite surprisingly that as soon as you give your first name and your date of birth a “similar” discourse takes place, but there are exceptions. At the very beginning some, devoid of all perceptions, start by giving you an absurd and quite grotesque numerology and suddenly (the time to read their screen) give you quite precise details…strange…I have had several who cut themselves.   Then there are the “timers”, those who make it last, while you tell them from the start that time is running out…again some respect it but it’s not the majority, on the contrary. The various processes are as follows: - the lady in black, that one I don’t know why but she has a crazy activity, and what’s more, she’s a damn mean girl…then the negative waves, wow, wow, wow…which inevitably stresses you out, if you consult it’s because you’re not well, if you add that you’re also arriving in a disgusting stratosphere in terms of vibration that doesn’t relax you. And then obviously in your entourage there is a lady in black, only you don’t know if she is brunette, dressed in black etc…the possibilities are wide. - “I concentrate”, a deck of cards can be analyzed in a very short time, for good clairvoyants, A consultation theoretically lasts like crazy, 15 minutes, but you have pros of synapses and dialectical convolutions, while talking to you because there is rarely a moment of silence, we feel that the analysis of a drawing takes more time than expected and can drag on for 30 minutes. And often afterthis excess the draw is not finished….but the bill is steep, and your question unanswered… - quite strange advice of all kinds, which sometimes borders on the ridiculous… commercial coffee advice. - the assertions when you have the opposite real facts, The worst is that some of the same firm tell you the opposite…and when you “dare” to tell them that they are “messing up” a little and there we have “30 years of practice” and “God is my witness”…Style is the person in your life when nothing in the facts inclines you to see it, or how to keep a person in a harmful illusion, - coaching advice, here again we are not in a request for coaching but for mediumship. - etc…etc…   Here again everything depends on the honesty of your interlocutor, and unfortunately those who are trying to keep the clock ticking greatly harm those who do their job without abuse. As for seriousness, because we mention the term ethics, again so many surprises, there are some who do the dishes, eat, watch TV, sleep!! It’s no longer clairvoyance, it’s rather, “SOS friendship” at a prohibitive price…Everyone remembers the first scene of Santa Claus being trash…   If it wasn’t dangerous it would be extremely funny, but the danger is having a person convincing you of a jaw-dropping, question-inducing story. You arrive with a question, you leave with others, of course with no other outcome than to take out a subscription, because what happens is a bit like Zoro’s song happened “so what???”…“so what” And presto, private consultation or 140 euros to 280 euros per package or even more for the independents, you are conscious, but as several experiences on human behavior indicate, it is enough for your attention to be focused on one thing for your unconscious to elude the rest…the objective is I want to know…so we accept without really realizing it…    So out of more than 60 mediums consulted and around twenty numbers used, France and Belgium combined, you are entitled to 95% of speeches having nothing to do with the subject of your initial question, and which can go so far as to further disturb an already fragile person.   This has a serious impact on professionals who are parasitized by charlatans and on clients who can easily fall into strong dependence, the need for drastic selection is indisputable… I don’t know how much latitude real professionals have to put the growing pool of psychics in order and report the malfunction, as a customer I have expressed my dissatisfaction on numerous occasions…    4. The cure Money has no smell, as Emperor Vespalian said, and we are responsible for our actions but forewarned is forearmed.   So the advice for not falling into delusional consumption is - to write things down in black and white. If during a 30-minute consultation, no information is provided, it means that you have not identified the person corresponding to you.  -  to have visible indicators of your consumption allowing you to take stock.  - do not take the wrong remedy, a person in psychological fragility is often in denial and “consumes” as an antidote to their unhappiness in a compulsive manner, hence it is not a psychic who should be consulted but a psychologist.  - be lucid, which is not easy when you are disturbed, anxious, or worse. Lucidity allows you to avoid falling into a trap, and once again some (rare) clairvoyants are sufficiently honest and benevolent to stop you. Unfortunately, as the profession is not regulated, we are witnessing abuses putting people in dramatic situations.   Louis