It is real but the dollar amount varies.

Also the techs are not always the best and they can blow a vein and you are asked to leave with no payments. Too many times and they ban you.

Also….look up what it can do to you. There are some horror stories.

I did it for a little while pretty regularly to make ends meet, but I hated how I felt after and had a string of visits that the tech messed up and gave me bad bruising or had to switch arms because they messed up in the stick.