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Have you ever been watching the machine at 3am when some infomercial captivated you enough to open up your cc and by a product? What did you buy? And are you sorry you bought it.

Actually I have had a lot of good luck ordering stuff from infomercials.

Especially music CDs.

Back in the Nineties I got hired by a Deejay company to do party deejaying, and had to quickly beef up by record collection with recent top 40 hits. And the informercials for double CD sets of pop music were a lifesaver: "Totally Eighties", "Super Seventies", "Livin' in the Nineties", packages of Urban music, or "Goin South"(southern redneck rock sampler), "Dance Mix USA" (house music),and so forth saved alot of time and money that it wouldve taken to track down hits by various artists.

Shopping malls sometimes have "As Seen on TV" shops where you can see and handle all that goofy stuff you see on informecials- so you dont always have to buy it blindly.

papa used to order things off QVC.

i hate ads and infomercials. it's rare an ad works on me
the taco bell ad for their breakfast waffle egg sausage taco thing worked on me
but most don't

I like the old-music infomercials only.

I don't buy things that I see on TV. Various people I've known & things I've read online say things labeled "As Seen on TV" are cr@p. I wish regular TV commercials would be like 30 second Infomercials thou because infomercials focus is on the product so I'd then be able to know what product is being advertised on commercials.

In terms of success in the attention, desire, and action model, I think commercials in 90's actually anything before the 2000s had way better advertising. Still today when I watch youtube videos of 90s commercials I almost wish I could get that product due to it's advertising strategies then. I think that's part of what made Nintendo such a success.

Nope,though i loved waching the one that sold hunting knives.it was like 15 years ago and played at 2or3 in the morning

I will usually sit through all of the old music infomercials, but I have never bought any of them. I recently got rid of about 100 old CD's that I never listened to and/or had transferred to iTunes, and I don't want to start recreating that clutter.