Ever buy anything from an infomercial?

mansize

You know the cr@p over enthusiastic poor actors and failed celebs plug on late night tv

I haven't - but wondering if anyone else has and was it cr@p?

Firefox11

WANT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

kneemos

Always vastly overpriced.
The jewellery looks like something you'd win as a fairground prize.

Shenshen

I've been tempted once or twice - but then I went online and read the reviews, that usually got me down to earth instantly.

Buona Fortuna

Firefox11 wrote: »

WANT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJhAR5tQg0

How to get a sweaty crotch without the effort

Canis Lupus

kneemos

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Aw yeah.

That's the morning horn sorted.

Fallschirmjager

any time i am sick and cant sleep i wind up watching that crap in the wee hours. fantastic stuff, you APPARENTLY can get a 25 carat diamond gold ring for 4 installments of 99.99..sterling mind...not that crap euro stuff tho.

i mean short of going to the ivory coast and digging it yourself, wont get cheaper than that...

so to summarise...no, i have not...except in one case

there was a car polish that i saw. then saw it in B&Q and said WTF...why not...to be fair its actually pretty good. i use it on our cars and windows at home ...for the life of me i cant recall the name....oh and those high speed kitchen things, the magic bullet, they first made an appearance on those channels as i recall.

Speedwell

I am a fierce online shopper, but I buy from infomercials only every few years and/or when I'm loopy from pain medication in the hospital They're good products about a third of the time, lol. I started 30 years ago with the "Hand Hammered Wok of China", which was a decent piece of kit. Since the rise of Internet reviews and Amazon reviews specifically, I am warned off a lot of things.

MacTiarnain

My mother bought a Nutribullet once. Works well.

mansize

I always thought nutribullet was a kind of vibrator- fruitinvag so to speak...

I wanted a H2O mop. I was totally convinced I need one. That thing was going to change my goddamn life.

Bought a Vax version in Harvey Norman instead. Effort of it.

mansize

It cleans! With just steam!

kneemos

mansize wrote: »

It cleans! With just steam!

Heard they were good for taps,and grout and nooks and grannies.

mariaalice

JML products they just sound so compelling in fairness anything I have purchased form them has been good.

OU812

Was fascinated with the magic bullet when they first appeared about ten years ago (that long?).

Wife bought me one for my birthday that year. Wasn't cheap, but still going & used regular ally to this day. There's a good after market for blades etc on eBay. Most recent discovery was an ice crushing blade so margaritas all round !!

jack presley

Back in the 80's when Cablelink first added the Sky and Super channels there used to be an infomercial for a thing called a Gut-Buster which was a yolk for making sit-ups easier. We wouldn't have seen many infomercials before that and I think we were sucked in by the ad and ended up buying one.

OU812

Know someone who got one of these & swears by it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtxjMKSRjU

Speedwell

OU812 wrote: »

Know someone who got one of these & swears by it

(chokes) Thirty dollars?

OU812

Speedwell wrote: »

(chokes) Thirty dollars?

Nah, he said he got it for $20 in some store

Wossack

Speedwell wrote: »

(chokes) Thirty dollars?

But wait!

Order now, and we'll include not one, but four additional Rollie brand products that nobody bought either

JustShon

Someone bought me one of those JML pens with the supposedly titanium tip years ago. I was a teenager and had an obsession with fancy pens.

Of course I'd seen the ads and immediately decided to test the integrity of this apparently weapons-grade fountain pen. Nope.

maudgonner

Wossack wrote: »

But wait!

Order now, and we'll include not one, but four additional Rollie brand products that nobody bought either

Ah here - the secret is Vertical Cooking Technology. Sure that's better than nuclear fusion, easily worth $39.95.

And it's perfect for the office - did you not see yer wan with it sat on her desk, happy as Larry with her Rollie egg popsicle thingy? I'm sure her colleagues love it just as much, what with the cooking smells and all.

SEPT 23 1989

"I'm impressed" were the two most used words in every selling sketch

also i believe the audience were given ecstasy before filming began because nobody should get that excited about a mop

Wossack

maudgonner wrote: »

Ah here - the secret is Vertical Cooking Technology. Sure that's better than nuclear fusion, easily worth $39.95.

And it's perfect for the office - did you not see yer wan with it sat on her desk, happy as Larry with her Rollie egg popsicle thingy? I'm sure her colleagues love it just as much, what with the cooking smells and all.

particularly like how easy it was to clean up

on one hand you've got some troglodyte who made eggs the old fashioned way = sink full of dishes and pans (though pretty accurate to how my mrs seems to cook; USE ALL THE DISHES!!)..
and on the other, the magic Rollie, who only needs an ole rub off a dry cloth :rolleyes:

Tazio

Bought a "TV license" once from one of those adverts .. seemed like a good deal.. never again..

whiskeyman

The original nutri-bullet:
The Juice Tiger!
On Amazing Discoveries!


Then I really wanted the Europainter... even though I was only 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGG1Esk1bTM

Sky King

I found that my 20c disposable Bic biro wouldn't stab drinks cans or lodge in a dart board so I bought Penalli the wonder pen.

Would recommend

Speedwell

Wait, does Kickstarter count? I think Kickstarter should count.

...And Justice

I bought the "ab blaster" when I was young thinking I could have a six pack in 3 days, it just shocked the life out of you. Only 120 punts.

Also bought the titanium 2 knife set. It was made out of some sort of titanium covered crackerbread.

Never bought anything after that. I see young lads in work paying hundreds for these nutribullshìt blenders, madness.....

AnonoBoy

Tazio wrote: »

Bought a "TV license" once from one of those adverts .. seemed like a good deal.. never again..

But you can now legally drive a TV so at least there's that.

Ruu

Those knives that can cut through metal cans. Handy to have when chopping up for stir fry.

LizT

Never bought anything but always wanted to. The H2O steam mop looked great.

Used to be obsessed with pricedrop tv as well, it was kind of like an infomercial and an auction combined into one.

...And Justice

Ruu wrote: »

Those knives that can cut through metal cans. Handy to have when chopping up for stir fry.

You can saw through marble with the bread knife, comes in handy when you're sawing through marble every day.

smash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlSF0dtDRD8

AndyBoBandy

They usually go the whole way through the ad constantly stating you get the amazing product for the amazing price of 19.99.

BUT WAIT!!!!!!!!!
We'll give you not 1, but 2 of the amazing product FOR THE SAME PRICE!!!!!!

and also A TRAVEL VERSION OF THE SAME PRODUCT all for the amazing price of 19.99 +p&p

gandalf

Nope never been tempted. I think the ads are designed for people coming back from the pub fluthered so in a moment of drunken weakness they order some crap and then are scratching their heads when it gets delivered the next week.

Then again the Bargain Alerts forum on boards would probably be my version of those feckin infomercials, spent a fortune over the years on stuff I didn't really need cause of it !!!

MilesMorales1

I bought a 'juice' loosener from an infomercial with Dr Nick and Troy McClure, but it made me sick! Lucky it got me this much juice from an orange!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viejY6UZ5Bk

LDN_Irish

Got a Penalli pen set for Christmas one year. Remember the ad? Virtually (read: not quite) indestructible they said. In the ad you could stab a tin can. Use it as a dart on a steel board. Fire it out of a crossbow at red indians on horseback. Could it survive a fall on an Irish fireplace on the morning it was opened to test it's resilience though? No, it ****ing couldn't!

razorblunt

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I bought a 'juice' loosener from an infomercial with Dr Nick and Troy McClure, but it made me sick! Lucky it got me this much juice from an orange!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viejY6UZ5Bk

You mean, pressing this orange against my forehead isn't the only way?

gaz wac

in fairness, that hose that extends when the water is turned on and recoils when you turn the water off !!! come on....THATS the future right there! im sad my granny never got to see that in her lifetime.

Whitewinged

No i have never bought anything from those ads but I remember when I was a kid, I always wanted "The Bedazzler". It was a thing you could use to attach rhinestones and things like that to clothes.

kneemos

smash wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlSF0dtDRD8

Did he say jerk it off?

osarusan

I like when they have to completely mangle and f**k up a very basic and easily completed process in order to make their product seem like a solution to a problem.

AnonoBoy

Everyone who works for JML is a genius.

mansize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtmsG8myLzY

Buona Fortuna

kneemos wrote: »

Did he say jerk it off?

Yessum, but he say I got some pussy hair on me before that so no cigar

mansize

The blanket with sleeves!!!

CruelCoin

BOWLEX!

Kamili

I always wanted that hand held embroidery/tapestry machine thing when I was a kid that was on those infomercials. can't remember what it was called but I just wanted it! I had so many things I wanted to do with it!

Never bought anything though. I do enjoy laughing at some of those shows, they are hilarious!

mansize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27VV9kwCW9A

I love my bricky...