Does anyone buy any of these things? Were any actually good? I’ve seen a few which look halfway useful, but I kind of assume that since they’re on TV like that it’s probably junk…
I have the Magic Bullet Blender (or is it Silver Bullet Blender.)
I use it to mix protein drinks and for that I am pleased with it. I have not tried any of the other stuff it is suppsed to do.
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Does anyone buy any of these things? Were any actually good? I’ve seen a few which look halfway useful, but I kind of assume that since they’re on TV like that it’s probably junk…
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Why? Seems like it’s probably the best avenue for independent inventors to get their products produced and marketed. They don’t have the slick campaigns behind them and a presence on retail shelves because they’re not attached to large corporations. Why should the lack of a glossy, clever ad give you doubts that the Topsy Tail does exactly what it’s says it does?
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Why? Seems like it’s probably the best avenue for independent inventors to get their products produced and marketed. They don’t have the slick campaigns behind them and a presence on retail shelves because they’re not attached to large corporations. Why should the lack of a glossy, clever ad give you doubts that the Topsy Tail does exactly what it’s says it does?
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Because if it was any good, it could get financed by a bank or otherwise invested in, so that it could run a glossy ad in prime time. If it’s being advertised at midnight by a guy in a shiny suit, I am going to have my doubts.
That’s available in stores; I’ve had one (bought at Macy’s for $29.95) for about a year now.
The problem with “not available in store” stuff is the shipping charges. I remember a couple years ago starting to order one of those amazing brooms that has little rubber fingers instead of straw bristles. It was “only” $9.95. And you could get a second one for FREE - all you pay is the additional shipping costs.
Half way through the ordering process I found out that the shipping cost was $19.95 per broom. They can’t send you two brooms in one box, the second one ships separately for its own $19.95 shipping cost.
So if I had actually gone through with it, that would have been $50 for two flimsy* rubber-bristle brooms that don’t work nearly as well** as they did in the infomercial.
*Flimsy because the broom handle comes in sections that you have to screw together and even when assembled it still feels like several not-very-well-connected sections of broom handle.
**Some months later I saw the broom in BB&B and tried it - imagine trying to squeegee your carpet. Required a lot of elbow grease to get the thing to really pull up lint.