What Are Your Favorite "As Seen On TV" Products?

Scot,
I honestly cant think of one product that I have purchased that has lived up to the hype, but I did read that consumers report, or some magazine like that, tested some "As seen on TV" products and found the only one that lived up to their hype was the Sham-Wow.

You would need a week for me to tell you all the stuff that didn't work right, didn't work as promised, etc.

The only one's I ever liked were JackLaLanne's Power Juicer and Chef Tony's Ultimate Chopper. Both very good, powerful appliances as advertised.

Biggest bummer in recent memory: The Magic Bullet that I just had to have, is a gutless wonder that won't even liquefy a bannana completely. It is just a little mini blender. The juicer attachment just finely grates - not one drop of juice.

Of course I am the perfect victim as I always wait so long to try things out after I get them, that I don't know it is defective until the warranty expires. Good bye $129... Hello companions for Pet Rocks...

I always thought Tae-Bo was pretty cool.

In case you did not already know this, Walgreen's has a pretty good selection of "As Seen On TV" products in a special section, at least the ones around here do.

This allows you not only to see first hand what you are buying, but more often than not they are cheaper and...

there is no shipping charge.

Plus, you can return it if it sucks

Scot

Another one I found that works really good are those green plastic bags you put your fruits into so they don't spoil as fast.

I've found that I can get an extra 4-5 days from bananas this way.

I found these at the local hardware store for like $4.99 for a box full

Scot

I was wrong, it wasn't consumers report.I can't find where I saw it before.
Here is what CR said:
ShamWow fails to wow in Consumer Reports tests

If you've been blanketed by ads touting the ShamWow cloth and its ability to soak up copious spills, you're probably wondering how well this chamois-sponge-towel hybrid performs.
So we laid out $27.90 including handling and shipping for a set of four 19.5x23.5-inch and four 15x15-inch ShamWows. One of the key tests was to see how many times its weight in water the ShamWow can hold; pitchman Vince on the ShamWow Web site says the cloth can hold 12 times its weight in liquid, though we've also seen this product advertised with claims of 10 and 20 times its weight.
Bob Karpel, a program leader in our Technical department, put the figure at 10 times its weight. (Watch the video, right.) That's not bad, but it's comparable to the performance of the average kitchen sponge, which costs less than the ShamWow.
If you have fumble-fingered kids or are a gearhead, you'll be happy to know that the ShamWow did hold slightly more spilled milk and used motor oil than sponges and cloths. But a pass from a damp ShamWow left a trail of droplets on the surface being cleaned, which required a cleanup pass from another cloth or a sponge.
The ShamWow does shine in some situations, such as when you're drying your just bathed pet--a sponge just won't cut it then and you might not want to use a good towel.

Yeh, and the Ultimate Chopper is 1/3 of the size of the juicer, but the same 400 Watts - you have to be careful not to press the button too long or instead of chopped walnuts you will have walnut juice in 3 seconds!

This subject reminds me of a horrific Twilight Zone where this woman does all this stuff to do like chemical face lifts - she is a pretty but vain young woman and when the bandages come off she is a horrible looking malformed monster.

Case in point, two hair remover products - one an electric 'plucker' from my favorite sham-product-cheap-crap-producing country - you have to do it 20 times longer than what they show, and then guess what?
... more hair grows back than you had to begin with.

two - a hair remover where you rub with this sand paper like stuff and it is supposed to not only remove hair, it exfoliates at the same time. It does exfoliate, but does not remove even one stubble of hair - and if you do it 3 times longer you will have cuts on your skin - and again, twice as much hair comes in afterward.

These have to be a fricking cosmic joke.

Another good one (as you can tell when people call me 'Gadget Girl' they are right on)

The Derma Wand. At $150 - it is an electric wand with an infra-red lamp on the end. You put moisturizer on your face and then lightly go over it with the Derma Wand for about 3 minutes.

The heat makes the moisturizer penetrate down deep in the layers; then you follow that by spraying your face with water, leaving your face feeling as soft as a baby's butt. (every woman's dream).

It really does remove creases and wrinkles - even when you stop using it for a while.

Part of the routine is also to press hard, lift and leave it for count of 10, on areas like under the eyebrows, and you wouldn't believe that it really lifts the appearance of your eyes, giving you that 'wide-eyed wonderment' expression that young people have...

It is worth the cost to hang on to every last minute of wonderment...

If people new what it costs for some of these products they would't but them. I was offered to sell the sham wow one time and wow, shamwow. I could buy a 6' sheet for a $1.50 and cut into what ever sizes I wanted. One foot squares= 36 squares at 2 for $19.95 AHH how much could I make on my $1.50. Too many people listen to these professional bull**** all the time and fall for all their crap.

I used some of that epil-stop that is supposed to take the hair off your legs and keep it off for 6 weeks............Holy crap. It took the whole first layer of skin off -- I had hives so bad I had to sit in a bathtub of baking soda and oatmeal for a half hour then douse them in hydrocortisone cream. They were raw for days and looked frightening and contagious for over a week..............and the kicker? It didn't remove any of the hair. I've never been so thankful that it wasn't bikini season in my life.

I guess mine would be the following series:

(watch with caution!!!)


the original commercial: