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Have psychics found a nationwide business credibility ploy useful?

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A Los Angeles based business operating as the U.S. Commerce Association (and also under dozens of local names such as Gulf Breeze Award Program, Best of Atlanta, and Best of Minneapolis Award) has actually found a responsive audience.

According to a Better Business Bureau spokesperson the U.S. Commerce Association --- it sounds both somewhat familiar and impressive doesn’t it? ---persuades businesses to spend $80 to $180 for an award plaque or hand-polished crystal trophy.

Trophies awarded apparently for anything to anyone willing to pay.

As an example, Phoenix psychic and healer Judy Kay showcases on her web site three hand-polished crystal trophies in 2009, 2011, and 2013 awarded from the U.S. Commerce Association. What does she claim they were for? Well apparently they highlight her “accuracy and integrity” as a psychic medium.

One can view Judy Kay's web site photos of capturing such $180 award trophies (plus or including shipping?) at http://www.psychicjudykay.com/psychic_judy_kay.html

Incredibly this --- highly credible? --- psychic medium Judy Kay even has posted an "immediate" press release on her web site about these achievement honors. Wow!

Yet oddly less than 20 miles away a minister was named the winner of the “Best of Goodyear Award” in the “psychics & mediums” category also courtesy of the U.S. Commerce Association. And many others also close by.

In fact in just a matter of months there appear to be thousands of such awards across the country from an aromatherapy business in Boca Raton, Fla., to a car wash business in Minneapolis. According to a Michelle Corey, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau in St. Louis, the awards are potentially misleading to both businesses and consumers. She believes ethical businesses should refrain from publicizing these awards.

But that hasn’t seemed to have stopped lots of psychic mediums throughout the U.S. and even a few local donut shops.

Go ahead. Put in a local business near you into your search engine with the words U.S. Commerce Association and Best Of. Even in your backyard there may be a highly accurate psychic with award winning integrity. Or perhaps you want one of your own as the greatest skeptical critic?
 
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When I was in high school, I was on a field trip to our local 'big city.' One of the shops on the main drag was a trophy store, and curiosity was enough to nudge me in and ask some questions.

When I entered the store, I lived in a world where trophies were in cases and on mantles; they were the physical embodiment of hard work and perseverence against forces working against, and they were deserving of their stature: (taller=better) and protection: (locked glass case=important).

When I left the trophy store, I was smaked in the face with the reality that anyone could build a trophy of their choice, to their specifications and engravings, for about $40.

Thinking back, and recollecting this specific memory, the five minutes in that niche shop may very well have been the 'skeptical turning point' of my life...
 
If you couldn't buy a trophy saying anything, then how could the people who award trophies buy them and have them engraved?
 
Because they are motivated by investing organizational funds into motivating their underlings into achieving subjectively significant goals.

For $40, you can commemorate an outstanding acievement in anything. I got a trophy for "Best Chili" in a cook-off in 2012. There is a dog as the topmost figurine, because it was at the benefit of the pet-based organization in question. (Not PETA, or their ilk, and forgive me for feeling the need to point that out).

When people see my trophy for best chili, with a dog on top, I happily inform them of my 'secret ingredient'...
 
No way I'd refute the trophy status of that T-shirt. Someone who cared about you spent money to commemorate your accomplishments. That's a trophy, and you earned it.

And for $40, I can have one too, for whatever memorialization I want to trade my $40 for.

I should find more friends that think a Nobel Prize comes in $40 trophy form.
 
Product market is the dishonest and gullible, a segment where professional psychics are found.
 
The "Who's Who in JUST ABOUT ANYTHING" is the same kind of scam.

"You've been nominated for 'Who's Who in Fecal Transplants', just send $75 to complete your nomination."

I've seen resumes where people list such things. Not an automatic disqualifier but it does make me cautious.
 
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