Whenever you try to sell shit, nothing beat the experience of doing a test. The phrase "to see is to believe" was something that stuck around because people were fucking evil in general. Scammers, fraudsters and liars were common in the olden days.
Unfortunately, testimonies especially written ones were easily to falsify. With the advent of voice recording and photography those became the go to source for proof. Then it became videos. But these days AI was so advance it could even fake videos.
This was why even if you saw something on the internet, half the time it was fake. I didn't know about Reapers, but nothing was better when trying to prove a point that doing it impromptu and live.
The normal assumption was that without time to prepare, what was to be presented should be in fact genuine. At least that was the assumption. And as I was careful with my money before due to being poor, I could understand this mentality completely.
