Fraud requires intention of missleading.
Also, what most customers want, is emotional comfort. And whatever we think of it, it seems to work for them. Even though personally, I'll go with south parks take on it:
You still got your book. These people got their psychic readings. Just from a different source.
Can you prove that the different source was of lower quality, for something that you can't prove quality for in the first place?
It reminds me of famous artists where a lot of their work was done by assistants.
Should I be able to sue a celebrity when their autobiography was ghostwritten but that wasn't publicly disclosed? Or when their tweet is written by a publicist? We seem to have decided the answer to that is no.
I ordered a cat scratcher. Cat scratchers are perfectly commodity things.. but mine wasn't. I ordered a handmade one. What I got shipped was a repurchase from Wayfair.
I sent a single picture of the box and got a full refund.
Yes, I got a cat scratcher but the handmade part was a material term of the deal.
Paying someone to do a psychic reading is not buying a paragraph of text. You are buying an action.
If you hire someone to tweet original tweets on your behalf and they just use a bot to retweet random clever sayings... they have in fact engaged in fraud!
I'm glad you brought up the paragraph of text because are literally buying a fictional paragraph. It can say anything and will still be a psychic reading.
I'm struggling to understand how you can equate something that isn't real and something that's tangible.
You think on this for a while and decide that instead of drawing a Blorgen, you are going to grab a random Google image and send it to me. That's fraud.
But let's say you draw the Blorgen instead. What's a Blorgen? No idea. Maybe you draw a lizard person. Maybe it's an abstract piece.
Even if you and I disagree on what a Blorgen is, the situation is no longer fraud.
If I hire you to do a psychic reading for me and you decide to get naked, walk around a bonfire 3 times and then stream of consciousness pronounce whatever is in your head.. great. You did the commission.
Even if your psychic fortune is "electric badgers like rock n roll radio", man, I have some issues but fraud ain't one.
Psychic predictions are never psychic predictions because psychic predictions don't exist.
Nobody in the universe can give you a psychic prediction.
Of course they also told me how upset they were to hire a white man, something I wish they had mentioned Before hiring. so that kind of set the tone.
I also wanted a cat scratcher with a perch on top so my oldest can sit at the same height as the dining room table - he likes sitting near me at meals but I also don't want him on the table.
So yeah I needed a cat scratcher with a certain base size and a specific height and have no interest in a woodworking project. Instead I just wanted to pay $50 to have someone else make it.
(The other cat scratchers I buy are $70 a pop so really not a cost issue. At that point you get a cat scratcher that lasts 5+ years, looks nice and is big enough my cats will actually use it)
And they got one.
>and from someone who they thought was a psychic
And that person provided one. How he procured it should be of no consequence.
The procurement was part of the agreed-upon conditions of the sale, so it is.
It doesn't matter that Barack is a certified reader, or that psychic readings are real or fake, or anything else - you didn't give me what I purchased.
Sidenote, something doesn't have to be a formally-drafted lawyer contract to be a contract, either. It's just an agreement. Like one where I buy something you offer and I expect that to be the thing that you offered me
It is legal for scientology to solicit donations from their followers. It's even legal for the Catholic Church to solicit tithes. If the party benefitting believes their own story then quite a lot seems to be legal.