Every time you view an infomercial for anything, no matter how tempting the offer or straightforward the pitch, the FIRST thing you should do is go on the internet, type in the name of their product or website, then put the words “don’t buy” in front of that, or the word “scam” or “rip off” behind that.
That will usually get you past the first two or three pages of phony websites, constructed to blindside you with glowing comments and testimonials. You will then get to pages like this one, and get a real eyeful of what that $50K production is all about, and eventually learn what virtually all half-hour infomercials are all about.
Their objective is remarkably simple. They want nothing more nor less than to pry your credit card number away of you, in return for as shoddy little as they can get away with. This gives them license to get into your pocket and steal as much as they can, as fast as they can – before you are put through some very frustrating and time-consuming steps to cut them off.
And you should also know that, as things stand now, you have almost no hope of recovering what they’ve already taken.

This is Rob, Although I am not a scam victim, I think I have a few things to share with everybody that is looking to buy a TV infomercial product.

I work at a place where we receive customer order calls for TV infomerical products. A call center. Now during this ordering process the agent is forced to follow whats called “Scripting” that shows up for a product.

These scriptings are designed to offer you more and more and more products when you call in. Often leaving the customer with to total confusion. These calls are recorded and monitored for quality assurace purposes. And any scripting that appears on the screen and is not read to customers will result in a disciplinary action.

So keeping ths in mind we do our jobs no matter how confused or frustrated the caller may become.
Believe me, I come across plenty of callers who just hangup just because we refuse to stop offereing them more stuff when they say all they want is what they called for.

Is there any way you can get what you call for without having to go thourgh SERIES and SERIES of additional product offerings????

YES there is!!

When you call in to place an order, tell this to the agent before he even begins to place your order-

“I JUST WANT WHAT I AM CALLING FOR- AND IF YOU CAN’T DO IT – JUST CANCEL MY ORDER”

There you have it! This is magic statement that we wait for from a caller to by pass ALL additional offers that he/she has to go through to complete the order.

The reason why people feel they get scamed through the infomercial products is because they don’t understand the scripting the agents read. These scripts are very wordy and twisted in most cases it takes a moment to properly understand what it means.

For those of you who like don’t mind going through these additional offers, my honest suggestion is to “LISTEN” carefully what you are saying “yes” to. Feel free to ask the agent to repeat how many ever times it takes to understand what’s being read to you!

This is can keep you from getting “Gosh I was scammed” feeling.

Now as far as the shipping and handling is concerned I do agree that for most infomercial products its overly priced. So I would suggest that go with your GUT feeling. Think about how much a product might weigh( you can call toll free number for infomercial to check this out)

Check out how this product is coming through.. ups , usps, fed ex etc. Knowing the carrier, go on the carrier website and check out their prices per pound for shipping. And see if the S&H price is justified.

Well, that was my 2 cents of advice. Hope this helps.

Cheers
Rob

Alot of the time you are paying for crappy false products that lie to you aswell. Right now theres an add on TV for a gym product thats shows you beforand afters only you can clearly see half of the pictures are tow diffrent people or have been photoshoped.