Was Hypnotist?s web trance ?a con?

4th of january was World hypnotism day and UK based hypnotist Chris Hughes had a World record attempt all lined up.

He connected to people via facebook and twitter and planned to hypnotise around 10.000 people online. But at last minute the event ´'socialtrance' was called of due to legal worries.

Now people are rawing that it was all just a big scam. When they logged on to the site, they found a pre-recorded MP3 with tips on hypnosis instead of the promised webcast.

Twitter was bombarded with angry messages.

One person tweeted: ‘I feel cheated, i lost 30 minutes of my life listening.’ Another wrote: ‘Chris you are either brilliant at marketing or you have goofed I feel cheated.’

Shame it all seems to have left a bitter taste in the mouth of so many. At least prior to cancellation, the event got a few people excited at the prospect of hypnosis and perhaps chose to look at the subject in a tiny bit more depth…

Hughes himself put it this way: “I’m upset we couldn’t do it live but the world we live in is over-litigious.”

But what do you think? Was it allright for hughes to bail out or should he have spent more time researching before marketing the event so heavily

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