Comments on: As Seen on TV – Less Expensive than the Regal http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/uncategorized/as-seen-on-tv-less-expensive-than-the-regal/ Biased and Balanced! We can have them both, right? Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mike http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/uncategorized/as-seen-on-tv-less-expensive-than-the-regal/comment-page-1/#comment-63 mike Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:45 +0000 http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/?p=150#comment-63 You bring up some very good counterpoints... makes me wonder the financial strain As Seen on TV has put on American families You bring up some very good counterpoints… makes me wonder the financial strain As Seen on TV has put on American families

]]> By: jozef http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/uncategorized/as-seen-on-tv-less-expensive-than-the-regal/comment-page-1/#comment-56 jozef Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:57:03 +0000 http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/?p=150#comment-56 As a guy whose father buys anything he sees on TV (and I mean ANYTHING) allow me to present a counter argument. This argument is based on two facts: these products are almost never bought individually, and never bought only once. When my dad walks into a wal-mart or Target, he will invariably buy whatever is new in the seen-on-TV section (if only they were confined to one section)... not just the one product he wanted initially. This instantly doubles the cost of watching infomercials. Believe me when I say that the cheap shit on the tele will brake, as a matter of course and not chance. Therefore when your FlowBEE chokes on your greasy hair for the last time, it must be replaced until stores stop carrying it. Acknowledging that you bought a terrible product is out of the question; it would invalidate 90% of your purchases in the last decade. So one night of watching infomercials can produce this equation: ($20*num of products)*(how many times they will be replaced). Assume a 2-product purchase replaced twice... ($20*2)(2)=$80 This is considerably more pricey than taking your family of five to the movies. As a guy whose father buys anything he sees on TV (and I mean ANYTHING) allow me to present a counter argument. This argument is based on two facts: these products are almost never bought individually, and never bought only once.

When my dad walks into a wal-mart or Target, he will invariably buy whatever is new in the seen-on-TV section (if only they were confined to one section)… not just the one product he wanted initially. This instantly doubles the cost of watching infomercials.

Believe me when I say that the cheap shit on the tele will brake, as a matter of course and not chance. Therefore when your FlowBEE chokes on your greasy hair for the last time, it must be replaced until stores stop carrying it. Acknowledging that you bought a terrible product is out of the question; it would invalidate 90% of your purchases in the last decade.

So one night of watching infomercials can produce this equation:
($20*num of products)*(how many times they will be replaced).
Assume a 2-product purchase replaced twice… ($20*2)(2)=$80
This is considerably more pricey than taking your family of five to the movies.

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