The "try anything to help" argument drives me batty. How do you know acupuncture doesn't hurt your odds? For every quack treatment somebody is trying to sell you, we could come up with a million other quack treatments (rub cat fur in your eyes twice daily to improve ovulation) that you're not trying. Random unproven nonsense is as likely to hurt as it is to help. Actually, given that it's so much easier to disrupt systems than it is to improve them, random unproven nonsense is far more likely to hurt than it is to help.
Yeah, they are preying on people who a vulnerable and going through a difficult phase...
And always this sentence: I know someone who this worked with! You can always find someone where something "worked". Started smoking? Bet you find someone where it worked.. started drinking alcohol? Bet you find someone where it worked... Etc.