The disaster-world of infomercials!

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Phil

So Wrong, Yet So Right: How Infomercial Impulse Buys Will Make You The Life Of The Holiday Party...

More infomercial disasters...! ...

[Great] Topic and Discussion selection Dien...

Could Make for a Very interesting Discussion, Lessons and Then some...

With some [Quick] ''twists' on the Topic & Discussion of course...

Just in case A few old Fans weren't aware...

“King of Infomercials” Don Lapre Commits Suicide Before Fraud Trial...
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%...ient=firefox-a

infomercial scams...
https://www.google.com/search?q=info...ient=firefox-a

So Wrong, Yet So Right: How Infomercial Impulse Buys Will Make You The Life Of The Holiday Party...
http://www.mamapop.com/2011/11/so-wr...day-party.html

Hawaii Chair... Blocked in the Above link! Had Google Unlock it, immediately! ...

3,532,460 and Growing views! ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hawa...ient=firefox-a

Hi Phil,

Thanks for sharing that... Some very interesting links!

I remember Don Lapre's original ad... About how you could make money with "tiny classified ads"... Certainly sounded intriguing!

I think where he went wrong was he was basically upselling - through a very "hard sell" - to his infomercial customers expensive commercial "900 phone lines" (i.e. where people would call and get a message, and you'd charge them a fee for it), which his customers didn't want or need...

Of course, there are good infomercials and infomercial products.

Here's "Good Housekeeping's" list of some good infomercial products...

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/prod...oducts-reviews

"Back in the day" I was a fan of those old "BluBlocker" infomercials - by Joe Sugarman (also famous for the "JS&A" catalog)...

Here's one of those old BluBlocker infomercials... Quite different from the "gee whizzy" infomercials of today!

1980s Paid Advertisement -- Consumer Challenge (Blublocker Sunglasses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqryy_MA-U

Best wishes,

Dien