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286 of 301 people found the following review helpful
"Pandora's Box - Good, but Expensive"
Overall rating
5.2
Effectiveness
7.0
Ease of Implementation
7.0
Innovativeness
5.0
Packaging/ Customer Service
2.0
Value for Money
2.0
Reviewed by Penz
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
The Good
The Pandora's Box System is a sound way to approach pickup, and if mastered, you could be extremely effective.
The Bad
Price is misleading and not much content is delivered for the up-front price (an expensive 30+ week membership is required to unlock all content).
Pandora's Box introduces some novel ideas by classifying women into 8 typical personality types, which you can then learn to identify and handle. Although the system is valuable, the delivery fails to execute on a few levels.
Firstly, the price is misleading. Vin promises to deliver the "entire" Pandora's Box system for the up-front offering price, but after purchase I only discovered an explanation of the system and it's 8 types of female personalities. The rest of the "entire" system must be purchased on a weekly basis (billed monthly) for a duration of 32 weeks. Granted, a lot of extra bonus content is delivered during these weeks, but some of it should be made available with the up-front purchase to fulfill the sales promise. He does interviews with each of the personality types, which I believe are valuable extras, but the basic methods for executing the core ideals should be made available from the initial purchase, as offered.
Second, the content delivered with the up-front purchase is piecemeal, and consistently references things you are "going to learn" and tactics they are "going to reveal." The trouble is, you need to pay for many weeks to get these tactics.
Lastly, there is no point of contact for customer service from within the membership area. Someone later pointed out to me that I could just reply to Vin's newsletter, and that would probably work. For example, I wanted to contact their web developer regarding a technical issue. The website forces the topmost video (many videos per page) to automatically begin buffering. If you are in a place where internet is slower, and you have already seen the first video, it kills your load time on any other video while the first one buffers. This is extremely irritating, and nowhere in the membership area does it elicit feedback from the users.
As for the content, the ideas behind Pandora's Box are good and sound. However, you can go buy Keirsey-Bates's book, Please Understand Me, for a fraction of the cost and receive a lot of content on personality types (although they are not discussed in a sexual context). I personally feel the up-front cost should be somewhere around ~$40, as it stands. If they delivered all of the promised content, the $97 would be a good deal, then they could upsell me on the additional interviews and "bonus" material separately!
In conclusion, Pandora's Box System is a pretty valuable tool, and if you mastered it you would be dangerous. However, the marketing strategy it employs really does damage to the customer and to the brand. If you have lots of money, then you might give it a shot. If you don't, then I would steer clear of this one.
Firstly, the price is misleading. Vin promises to deliver the "entire" Pandora's Box system for the up-front offering price, but after purchase I only discovered an explanation of the system and it's 8 types of female personalities. The rest of the "entire" system must be purchased on a weekly basis (billed monthly) for a duration of 32 weeks. Granted, a lot of extra bonus content is delivered during these weeks, but some of it should be made available with the up-front purchase to fulfill the sales promise. He does interviews with each of the personality types, which I believe are valuable extras, but the basic methods for executing the core ideals should be made available from the initial purchase, as offered.
Second, the content delivered with the up-front purchase is piecemeal, and consistently references things you are "going to learn" and tactics they are "going to reveal." The trouble is, you need to pay for many weeks to get these tactics.
Lastly, there is no point of contact for customer service from within the membership area. Someone later pointed out to me that I could just reply to Vin's newsletter, and that would probably work. For example, I wanted to contact their web developer regarding a technical issue. The website forces the topmost video (many videos per page) to automatically begin buffering. If you are in a place where internet is slower, and you have already seen the first video, it kills your load time on any other video while the first one buffers. This is extremely irritating, and nowhere in the membership area does it elicit feedback from the users.
As for the content, the ideas behind Pandora's Box are good and sound. However, you can go buy Keirsey-Bates's book, Please Understand Me, for a fraction of the cost and receive a lot of content on personality types (although they are not discussed in a sexual context). I personally feel the up-front cost should be somewhere around ~$40, as it stands. If they delivered all of the promised content, the $97 would be a good deal, then they could upsell me on the additional interviews and "bonus" material separately!
In conclusion, Pandora's Box System is a pretty valuable tool, and if you mastered it you would be dangerous. However, the marketing strategy it employs really does damage to the customer and to the brand. If you have lots of money, then you might give it a shot. If you don't, then I would steer clear of this one.
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67 of 75 people found the following review helpful
"Not quite worth it..."
Overall rating
5.6
Effectiveness
8.0
Ease of Implementation
6.0
Innovativeness
9.0
Packaging/ Customer Service
2.0
Value for Money
1.0
Reviewed by Kyle G.
January 04, 2011
January 04, 2011
I have to say I had serious doubts about this product and while those doubts are gone it still doesn't justify the price of this product. Does it work? Yes, Will it always work? No, while this does nail several variables that come with trying to figure out women it by no means covers every base out there. I have to say if the core package was released as say a soft cover on amazon for $20-$40 then it'll pay for itself just for the moments you start classifying old girl friends or close gal pals as Modern women or Social Butterflies.
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54 of 74 people found the following review helpful
"Innovative and Powerful..."
Overall rating
5.8
Effectiveness
8.0
Ease of Implementation
4.0
Innovativeness
9.0
Packaging/ Customer Service
6.0
Value for Money
3.0
Reviewed by Jordi Wan
June 17, 2011
June 17, 2011
The FACT is DiCarlo has taken a leap in female psychology here. This is based on well researched science and it is VERY effective IF applied properly, which as we all know is a MUST when dealing with women on a sexual level.
I didn't sign up for the online interviews which were way out of my price range, but the book itself is jam packed with pretty powerful information that relates to a woman's fears about sex and relationship.
I asked a women the "three strange questions" and she was immediately turned on. I got a flurry of IOI's after each question and by the time she has answered the last (i.e. third) question she was looking at me like she was ready to jump me right then and there.
The three questions are:
1) Do you TEST with several guys at once, or do you INVEST with only one guy at a time?
2) Do you JUSTIFY sex as something done only for fun, or do you DENY the past so that each time is special?
3) Do you IDEALIZE being taken care of, or are you a REALIST who is ready to take care of herself?
You will have to read Di Carlo's Pandora's Box system in order to find out why these questions are so powerful.
I didn't sign up for the online interviews which were way out of my price range, but the book itself is jam packed with pretty powerful information that relates to a woman's fears about sex and relationship.
I asked a women the "three strange questions" and she was immediately turned on. I got a flurry of IOI's after each question and by the time she has answered the last (i.e. third) question she was looking at me like she was ready to jump me right then and there.
The three questions are:
1) Do you TEST with several guys at once, or do you INVEST with only one guy at a time?
2) Do you JUSTIFY sex as something done only for fun, or do you DENY the past so that each time is special?
3) Do you IDEALIZE being taken care of, or are you a REALIST who is ready to take care of herself?
You will have to read Di Carlo's Pandora's Box system in order to find out why these questions are so powerful.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
"Okay Product"
Effectiveness
5.0
Reviewed by Alex Latham
June 30, 2016
June 30, 2016
I paid $69.95, but then I had to pay $97 one day, and $99.80 another day. The videos are excellent, and the things are very valuable. But why did they charge me $97 one day and $99.80 another day??? Both are recurring. I didn't know that!!!
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