A look at the claims, predictions and behavior of a media "psychic".
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| Email: "My Reading With Sylvia's Son Chris"One woman's account of her phone reading with Christopher Dufresne. Published: Mar 19, 2008
BackgroundI have recently received several emails from people highly dissatisfied with phone readings they have had with Christopher Dufresne, Sylvia Browne's son. Although this site focuses on Browne herself, I feel that readings with her son are also relevant to the discussion of whether or not Browne is a "real psychic", for at least two reasons:
The author of this email also received some readings from Browne herself which make her experience even more relevant. The EmailHere, with the author's permission, is that email, with my occasional comments inserted. All emphasis mine. And, as usual, this email is simply one person's account of their experience.
I have been told a number of times that when a credit card is used to pay for a phone reading, Browne's people charge the card far in advance of the actual reading. One possible reason for this: some credit cards have a dispute/refund policy which states that a charge must be disputed within a certain number of days (typically thirty days) from the date the amount is charged to the card, not the date the goods or service is received. So, if the actual reading does not occur until after that "grace period" is over (as appears to be the case here), the customer obviously cannot dispute the charge with the credit card company, putting them at the mercy of the merchant should there be a dispute or a request for a refund. And, as has been shown in the article Email: A Request For a Refund, the refund procedure at Sylvia Browne Corporation is lengthy and involved, apparently in an effort to discourage dissatisfied customers from pursuing refunds. Back to the email:
Most if not all of the emails I receive about phone readings with Christopher Dufresne, as well as many of those I receive regarding readings with Sylvia Browne, mention the reading being rescheduled multiple times before it finally occurs. In the case of readings paid for by credit card, this makes even more certain that any dispute "grace period" has long since expired. The email continues:
All three of these warnings - thyroid, tooth problems and lactose intolerance - are evidently favorites of both Dufresne and Browne, and are frequently mentioned during phone readings. Is this because these conditions are common? Or is it because Browne and Dufresne have a limited repertoire of predictions from which they piece together their medical "readings?" The fact that all three of these were evidently incorrect in this woman's case (and in many others who have written to me about their readings) leads me to believe that it is the latter.
I have been told that, for some time now, Browne's policy is to only allow one "official" ($750) phone reading per customer, per lifetime. Calls to her radio show apparently fall outside of this limitation. While the official reason for this policy is to allow more people to "have a turn," I have been told by ex-ministers that the policy was put into place after many people complained that Browne's readings for them would change with each reading: they would be told different names for their "spirit guides," given different numbers of past lives they had supposedly had, different names for their future spouse, etc. Back to the email:
AnalysisI have listened to enough audio tapes of Dufresne's phone readings to know this one is fairly typical: generic health advice (frequently the same), followed by non-verifiable predictions for the future. At a cost of $450 (recently raised to $500). I will leave it to the reader to decide what, if anything, this says about Dufresne's claimed "psychic ability," and, in turn, what it says about Browne, who recommends her son. In fact, on Browne's web site, it says:
Actually, from Sylvia Browne's track record, I would say that she is no more accurate than her son seems to be here. ConclusionMy thanks to this woman for sharing her story with me, and for allowing me to place it here on the site. Related LinksClicking on any of these links will load a separate browser window for viewing the linked page. StopSylviaBrowne.com is not responsible for the content of any of these linked pages.
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