babayada,
I was interested in checking out some of the Essential Skills cds, but apparently they've now moved on to entirely vhs. Despite your warnings, I'm still interested in finding out what they're like. So, if you'd like to get rid of the ones you bought, please drop me a line. My yahoo email name is the same as my username here (I'm sure you can figure that out).
By the way, I agree with you that Bandler (especially the earlier stuff like Frogs Into Princes and Trance-Formations) is the best out there. Still, I'll have to say that Jeffries does a good job making the transition to covert work very easy, as he's tremendously explicit about what's going on. Someone with a good background in real NLP, however, will have no problem making his stuff _far_ more effective, not just in seduction, but in life.