Despite the device not being commercially ready, the company nonetheless decided to pursue retail clinical laboratory space, and used misleading product demonstrations to convince buyers of its efficacy. For example, the company conducted some demonstrations on modified third-party devices while not telling potential buyers that these were not, in fact, the actual products that it was developing. Theranos also instructed employees to place labs that could only be used for research-and-development testing in the same room as the clinical labs and then led pharmacy executives on a tour of that room without telling them of the difference between the machines. It also explicitly denied that there were any technological problems.