Maybe I should not be allowed to watch TV on my own. Maybe I am too stupid to have a credit card.
I was watching TV today and came across an informercial peddling Chef Tony’s SmartwareTM and explaining how much better than regular bakeware it is. “Great”, I said, “I need some new baking pans anyway”. I then proceeded to ebay and spent US$61.00 in a set. Only then it occurred to me to check reviews about this product. It turned out that apparently nothing they say about it is true.
I think I’ll just tell myself that I bought a US$61.00 lesson on gullibility today. I never thought I’d fall for an infomercial. I am not worthy of being in this message board.
Mighty_Girl, don’t think of it as gullibility, think of it as innocence.
Just because you’re innocent, doesn’t mean you arent smart, just that you aren’t yet wise.
I’ve been tempted a time or two, myself. I just don’t watch 'em. They can’t catch you if you aren’t there.
And as far as being pulled out of the pit… well, you should say thank you the then nice man. He rescued you, after all, from thee things in the pit!
you do understand that I’m kidding, right?
I have a friend who, uh, likes to drink a bit and one night after a bar tour he went home and was watching the Home Shopping Nework on his brand new, large screen television and he bought that HUGE diamond, men’s ring for four easy payments.
A week later, the ring arrived at his apartment.
We have laughed, and laughed, and laughed at that ring ever since.
Well, to be fair, I actually work for one of the companies that sells through infomercials. While there are some notable exceptions, most of our products are actually, um, good. I mean, I use 'em. A little expensive, but good.
Since you bought 'em on eBay – could you resell them on eBay too? You’re out the shipping, I s’pose, but it could be worse.
I don’t know how they make sound those products entincingly relevant, which they are not, and although I have never had the temptation to buy any of the stupidest products (the eggs-tractor anyone?) I fell for this one. Shame on me!
Now I am on a homicidal mission. Be afraid Ron Popeil and Chef Tony, be very afraid!
I stick to I must see it in a store first. I’d consider buying it via internet or such when I’ve seen the physical product only. Everybody gets ripped off at some point, experience lets you minimize it. All the women where I worked bought about a hundred dollars of x’s brand insulated baking pans each. That company got about a thousand dollars from them total. I told them to pay two dollars for aluminum baking pans. My stuff never burns. Their baking pans were all retired in a couple months because the stuff always burned. They learned to not believe all the ads they see.
I currently own the time/life 70s collection based on coming home too late after too many beers and seeing an infomercial. Cool! I need me that collection - and out came the credit card.
I want a Magic Bullet…and I don’t even have a kitchen (live in a dorm).
It just looks so easy to make pasta sauce, nachos, muffin mix, omelets, chicken salad, chocolate mousse, milkshakes, and FROZEN DRINKS right in the mug!
It’s probably a piece of crap that doesn’t work, but it seems like it would be hard to fake it since they demonstate everything in its entirety…maybe I’m just gullible thinking a cooking apparatus from an infomercial would actually work like they say.
I like to watch infomercials to catch the gimmicks in the demonstrations. There’s one for a set of knives where he (I’ve seen two versions of this, with two different guys) is showing how good his knife is for cutting bread, and how bad other knives are. For the knife he’s trying to sell, it has a serated edge and he uses very gentle pressure. With the bad, evil knife, he uses one with a straight edge, and he squashes the whole loaf flat with his guide hand before he even starts trying to cut. And it comes out all flat? Really?
Maybe they’re even decent knives, I don’t care. I won’t buy from somebody when I catch how they’re trying to lie to me.
I like my magic bullet. I only use it for milkshakes and stuff, but it is worth the money for me. My doc wants me to take in extra protien and it is very convenient for mixing protien drinks. I will probably buy another if this one breaks.
I saw an ad for a thing called a “Hair Made” that’s a stand to put your hair dryer in so you can use both hands to style your hair. I dismissed it as probably junk, till I saw not one but two TV consumer reporter stories on it, and both concluded that it’s a great product. 20 bucks later (plus shipping and handling), I have this terrific stand that does everything it said it would. WWorks great.
But I’m still kicking myself for never succumbing and getting a Veg-o-Matic™ back in the day.
Call back and cancel the order. Or call the credit card and cancel the payment, then refuse the shipment when it arrives. If they lied to get you to buy, it’s fraud.
And most infomercials come with a money-back guarantee, too - take advantage of it if it’s too late to do the above.
I love my Hairmade. My hair was really long when I bought it and my arms would literally be numb by the time I finished drying my hair. Now I just pop that thing up on the counter and let it do the work.
I cut all my long hair off this summer so I haven’t needed it recently, but when my hair grows back I’m so using it again.
I think it looks so easy because the ingredients are already chopped up into small pieces, measured and sitting in a bowl. All you have to do is dump them in and turn it on. They just skip over the prep work you would have to do in real life to get to that stage, so of course it looks ‘easy’.
I don’t think this applies - she bought hers on eBay.
Sorry, Mighty_Girl. Maybe you can come up with some creative ideas to use them as things other than bakeware? Or… evil grin wrap 'em up and give them to someone for Christmas… you know, maybe someone who’s always rude to you, or maybe a relative who gives you informercial stuff?
