As you rightly mentioned on the RYR thread, no matter how many experienced people try to convince some of our future colleagues of the facts, there will always be some who believe that they know better and that the salesman has their best interests at heart, unlike people like you or me who lose nothing and gain nothing out of someone's choice of ATO. I'm not very optimistic about the army of believers in an alternative reality becoming much smaller thanks to a forum thread (another one), but, nonetheless, stories like that should be voiced. Even if they prevent just one single guy or girl from screwing up royally and ending up with no money, no licence and no good prospects in sight - that will still be a worthwhile cause.