Some of that stuff is pretty funny, I remember a co-worker telling me how his son bought Some oxygen free wire.
On a side note however, I remember when I bought my projection TV, and the sold me a $100 Surge protector/ filter. They Said that it would make the Tu Last longer. Iwent home thinking that I'm an electronics graduate, and just got sold a bill of goods. But I plugged it into my old. TV, until the new one was delivered. It was having power supply issues, (running frames, tint issues, and in the end it wouldn't run more than 2 hours without shutting off.) Wouldn't you know it, the old Tu never had a problem for the two weeks I waited for the projection (running on the filter)