BEWARE : A psychic reader warns people of psychic phone lines & psychic chat networks!

I know I am going to receive a lot of flak for posting my true thoughts about the psychic phone and chat networks that have been cropping up on the Internet like mushrooms. But I'll take my chances anyway.

Here's the story of my nightmarish experience at a popular online psychic chat network. The more I got to know about the workings of the network, the more skeletons unearthed... till it was time I knew I had seen enough...

Upon reading the reviews of other psychic readers on the chat network web site, I noticed many client names repeating across psychic reader reviews, indicating that these clients had been buying readings on a regular, almost daily basis. This is clearly indicative of psychic addiction. I hope to write an article on psychic addiction soon. This is not all, it does not require a psychic to tell that these clients may be asking the same questions to different psychics again and again till someone tells them what they want to hear.

I believe that if a psychic reader senses any signs of psychic addiction in a client, he / she should gently point that out and encourage the client to take actual steps to overcome their problems instead of depending on a psychic. If you're wondering why your boyfriend is aloof these days, I would strongly suggest you to call him, not a psychic. It won't charge you money and you'll get the explanation right out of the horse's mouth. A lot of questions asked by clients relate to whether their lovers will call them back and when. Many psychic readers promise in their profiles to help such people get their lovers back or pin point the dates when their lovers would call.

Besides, since the clients are being charged as much as $9.99 per minute(!) answers have to be quick and 'pleasing' to the client. The client is sitting on the edge of his chair and frantically serving a volley of questions to the psychic who is in turn trying to receive psychic impressions (if at all) and doling out interpretations. What a mad rush! Anything otherwise and it may result in a bad review (e.g. star rating) left by a pissed off client. I have heard of tricks used by psychic readers on such hotlines to increase their star rating by giving away free / sugar coated readings. The psychic phone / psychic chat network keeps more than half of what the client pays. So if you paid $10 for an hour of psychic reading, the psychic reader would probably get $4 or so after the network's commission is cut out.

There was this one incident that just did it for me. A lady in her 50's rang me for a psychic chat. We started chatting and since my rates were 33 cents per minute (yeah, cheapest of all the 100's of readers!) the session went on and on. At the end of an hour I was ready to write her biography.

It was at that time that she told me how she had cleaned her daughter's fridge that day and had received $20 for it from her. This was because she desperately needed the money. Oh my God! What a sin I had done! Charged money from somebody who was in such a severe financial crunch?? How would I ever forgive myself?

The lady was quite pleased with her hour long reading, wrote a good review and left. But I regret not having stopped the reading right in the middle and gently reminding her to not blow up her hard earned and much needed money on psychic readers for answers to day-to-day problems. Why?? Because I was afraid she would give me a bad rating if I did.

But my conscience would not allow me to rest from then onwards. At once I decided to opt out of this psychic chat network. Yes, I like doing readings for people, I like listening to people's problems, I like to help out people in some way or another, but not after I have fleeced them of hundreds of dollars! I am happy with my $5's, $10's that people pay me for my time and energy spent during the readings...

If this rings a bell, please please do think twice, thrice before you call a psychic network for readings. Do not be fooled. Sometimes, a psychic cannot connect well with certain clients and a refund should be in order in such cases. But on these networks, such incidences end up not in refunds, but in bad reviews for the psychic!

Save the money, spare the per minute rate psychic! :-)

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