It’s 2 am and all these infomercials are on. I still can’t fathom buying anything.
Who out there has bought something from an infomercial? What was it? Was it any good or as good as they claimed it to be?
The scary thing is how damned good those re-useable microwave cooking bags, and that one pot cooker look at 4am. Thank god I don’t have a credit card.
footnote : the infomercials here are followed by Benny Hind - somehow, that seems appropriate.
I bought Quick 'n Bright. It’s okay. It takes stains out of clothes really well.
I bought my wife from an infomercial. On the honeymoon, I took off her panties and found out… there’s more!!
'Parently, they don’t screen their so-called “women” very well…
(This post fulfills my quota of obscure hermaphrodite references for the month…)
I also bough quick-n-brite. It wasn’t that expensive and works really well on carpets (we have 3 pets so it gets stained alot) so I would say that it is worth it.
[slightly funny hijack]
my dad once bought some tapes with 50’s music and the set was called “Secret Love.” When the order arrived my brother went out to get the mail (he was about 11-12 at the time) and picked up the package addressed to my dad from “Secret Love” - he came in and sat my mom down all serious and informed her of my dad’s affair with his “secret love” and showed her the package. Thank goodness she knew about the tapes beforehand!
[/hijack]
Seriously, how obscure of a reference was this?
I have no life and bought tap-lights from an infomercial once. They work well, I guess, and they have this strong sticky tape that hold them up almost anywhere. But then, when the batteries die, it’s almost impossible to get it down to replace them.
I had a house mate many years ago who was one of the biggest morons on Earth. He bought a thing called Mega Memory from an infomercial. All of us told him to return the damn thing as soon as possible. It was actually kind of funny. As each of us came home he told us about his purchase. Everyone had the same reaction. They rolled their eyes and said, “Oh, Eric. You didn’t.”
Mega Memory was a series of like twleve cassette tapes that you were supposed to play while you slept. Doing so would improve your memory. The instructions said that for it to work you had to do the following over the course of three months: get at least eight hours of sleep, do not take any drugs including alcohol or caffeine and, of course, play the tapes. Duh.
Haj
>> I have no life and bought tap-lights from an infomercial once
Well, I have no life either and i still can’t see why you would want to buy that. You mean tap dancing needs special lighting? 
I bought a set of 7 Time-Life Rock and Roll CDs for $110 I believe. Come over, bring your lights, and we’ll dance (I don’t think I’ve heard them even once).
I haven’t bought anything from an infomercial yet, but I have to admit, I’ve come awfully close. Everything seems mesmorizing and revolutionary at 4 am. I suppose that’s why they run them at that time.
I did buy the “new” Ginsu from the home shopping channel, and I still use it and like it.
One day back in college, I saw an infomercial for Flowbee. That was the device that hooked up to a vacuum cleaner so you could cut your hair at home. I bought one. It worked as advertised and I loved it (I hated getting my hair cut).
My mom bought one of those Ronco rotisserie cookers, and it works pretty well, also.
My god – somebody actually bought a Flowbee? Will wonders never cease…
[Wayne’s World] “It’s the Suck-Cut! It sucks…as it cuts!” [/Wayne’s World] 
Yes, I admit it. A few months ago the wife and I were up till 6 AM watching DVD’s, when in between changing movies we caught a glimpse of these wonderful knives on an infomercial.
They sliced, they diced, they did everything a knife could, AND MORE. They even came with, a pair of matching scissors!! Oh, they were magical and beautiful.
So naturally, being sleep deprived and needing a new set of kitchen knives we thought it would be a good idea to order them. Well they finally cam three weeks later and let me tell you they were just regular knives. Nothing cool about them, nothing mystical and I still couldn’t make a rose out of a cherry tomato.
Mrs. Amp tried to return them , which the company happily would have done, minus the $40 shipping and handling. Well we said screw this and did the only thing we could do, we kept the knives. Oh yeah, we also called up the credit card company after our monthly statement came and told them we never ordered anything from that certain company and we never received anything. They refunded us the money.
How on Earth can you justify stealing from the knife company? Nice display of ethics. Remind me to never trust you with anything.
Haj
I can’t. I just did it. I’m pretty sure some negative karma is coming my way to even things out but what the hell. Everybody does it at least once in their life. You can’t tell me you don’t have a few black marks on your karma score sheet.
Hell, no. I’m perfect. 
I guess I can let you off the hook for the knife thing but the triple posting is totally inexcusable. You’ll burn in hell for sure.
Haj
Ya know Nad’s? The oddly named, Australian, green hair-remover product? Painless, messless and totally effective? I bought some. It both sucked and blew. And hurt like a bitch. :eek: After a few months it crystallized and I had to microwave it to make it soft enough to use. Not a good use of $30. :rolleyes:
I read a review of this in some chick magazine - I think it was Jane. While they were all trying it out, they were giggling about the name: “Can I put my Nad’s on your thigh?” Hee hee.
I didn’t actually purchase it from an infomercial, but it’s in a lot of infomercials - Epil Stop. I’m always hoping for a good depilatory product, and this ain’t it. It’s not even as good as Nair. Don’t buy it!
I bought a sweater dryer. It hangs on a door and has these tubes that go down the arms of a sweater so that it holds the sweater evenly and it dries with no wrinkles. This thing works GREAT! Not only do the sweaters dry without wrinkles, they dry much faster, and you can dry about six at a time using this thing (saves lots space from having sweaters spread out everywhere). One warning though, fully assembled it is fairly wide - my wife hates it because it takes up space in our kitchen (has to hang on a door), she calls it ‘the contraption’.
I take the cake.
Saturday night (actually, Sunday morning) I got drunk.
And watched an infomercial.
And bought the product
For nearly $1100!!
And lest you think I’m affluent - it’s not really within my means.
I feel like Opus the Penguin.
I would be tempted by:
The Aerobed
The velcro attachment thingie you put on the phone so you can put it over your head and keep your hands free
And finally, while it would be kinda neat to play around with-Secret Hair or Perfect Hair. It was good for a woman with EXTREMELY thinning hair and major bald spots. But wouldn’t it be a pain in the ass? (It was hair that hooks into your hair with combs…and it did look real).
What was that Mike guy, with the glasses and the goofy sweaters who always acted all excited?