@paw52 Yea! … (Um, though now that you mention it, it’s a good thing they didn’t have things like VMP back then. Possibly, I could have been suckered into it. Hindsight & all.)
@paw52 overpriced stuff that ends up signing you up for a super expensive subscription to the product, and leaves you with no customer service to call to cancel…
@edgriebel there was a channel in São Paulo were you were able to call in and bid on cattle. This is a picture of that. Thinking eBay should take notes.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I bought an L.P. off the tv. I remember it had The Night Chicago Died on it, which was popular on the radio at the time. I was a tween and buying something off the tv and getting it in the mail with my name on it was a big deal. Different world back then. That’s the only thing I ever bought from the tv.
@mfladd Yes, exactly! I’ve tried googling for it a couple of times without success, glad you recognized it. My dad’s record collection was western music (Roy Rogers, Burl Ives) and soundtracks (we played the hell out of Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001), and a big stack of 45s he salvaged from a juke box he inherited with classics like 45 Men in a Telephone Booth and Nat King Cole sings Espanol. My record was the only contemporary rock we had so it got played a lot.
@moondrake While K-Tel offerings were often (usually?) available in stores, like you, I also once ordered a K-Tel album via a TV offering like the poll describes. It took “forever” (in my mind) to receive it in the mail. I don’t know if I was in my early teens or even a pre-teen, but I specifically remember that I ordered it late in the school year and it didn’t arrive until the following school year. Based on our summer break’s duration, that would have been at least 10 weeks. When it finally was delivered, it was a total surprise: “oh yeah, I had forgotten about this”.
TL;DR Waiting 10 weeks for some music sounds even more ridiculous to young people today that it seemed to me at the time.
One time, I ordered this miracle cleaning product that wa supposed to revitalize my porcelain tub and tile. It stunk like skoal (my ex dipped so I hate that smell with a passion). It didn’t work and the instructions were insanely complicated. Probably in the top ten worst ways I spent two easy payments of $19.99.
The U.S. Tobacco company used to have the Museum of Tobacco Art and History above their office, adjacent to the factory, in Nashville. It was a cool museum, which cigar box art and wooden indianas and stuff like that.
The place smelled very strongly of wintergreen. They must have been making Skoal and not Copenhagen that day.
It was also the only museum I’ve ever visited that had spittoons throughout.
@craigthom yeah I hate that smell to this day. I buy mints for the office and I’ll get the wintergreen ones but ugh they make me gag. The ex dipped Copenhagen 99% of the time or I wouldn’t have made it to 14 years with him. I hate that smell almost as much as I hate cockroaches. And that hatred borders on some kind of mental disorder.
Back in the early '70s I ordered a boxed set of LPs from K-Tel or someone similar called the #1 Hits of the '60s. I was alive during the '60s, but for most of the decade I was too young to note what was on the radio.
This turned out to be great for my music education (as did my parents’ 8-tracks of '50s music).
The answer you’re looking for is “None whatsoever” but congratulations, your comment-bait poll actually got me to type words, so maybe that was your intent.
Exactly one time have we ever ordered a product from the TV. Back in 1994, when I was a wee lad of 6, my mother ordered the 3-VHS set of ‘The Brain: Our Universe Within’, a 5-part documentary series we’d watched on the Discovery Channel. It was (still is!) a great series to watch, narrated by David Suzuki, with loads of colorful, advanced (for the time) computer animation, and memorable music composed by Joe Hisaishi. I just pulled the tapes out last week and watched them, and they still hold up remarkably well, both as far as documentary information and physical condition. We definitely got our money’s worth.
@mfladd No less than three! Older technology is very welcome and prevalent here. A vacuum tube radio in the kitchen, full 1970s component stereo systems in at least two bedrooms, 1950s stereo console in the living room… Our house is a bit anachronistic and it’s amazing.
@mfladd@PooltoyWolf My wife keeps asking if “we” can get rid of my old Sony 70’s receiver, but I can’t part with its rich MOSFET sound nor the sweet, sweet Bose 301’s (series I, obv)
@mfladd@PooltoyWolf my husband would love that. We bought a house and in one of the bedrooms, flowery wallpaper covered some really (subjectively) nice 70s paneling. That is now the hubbys computer room with all of his 70s atari computers and 70s/80s video games on display. I’ve even threatened to put a bean bag chair in their but we’re both too old for that. If either of us sat in it, we would never get up.
@ivannabc I’ve had some sumo lounge (oversized heavy duty beanbag chairs) that sat almost the same height as a low sofa. Might work as an alternative to a traditional beanbag chair.
technically nothing, but my mom did get me a rolling kitchen cart from qvc’s website a few years ago, and i believe my pots & pans set she may have got via qvc or hsn as well.
and i did use proactiv for awhile, but i ordered online. (it didn’t do anything.)
The only thing I ever ordered off a tv commercial was Oxy-Clean, which almost kinda worked, or at least gave my poor laundry a break from over-saturation in detergent.
Then Amazon came along, and the opportunity to check reviews of As-Seen-On-TV products has saved me from a LOT of bad buying decisions!
And oh yeah, Oxy-Clean was a Billie Mays pitch too. At least I lost it to a classic…
I usually buy the stuff at the drug store near me that has a as seen on TV section. The copper fry pans were great…until they weren’t. Suddenly they aren’t stick proof at all. I did the seasoning thing over twice, but nothing. Oh well. They weren’t expensive.
@smilingjack more like they can’t conceive that if we buy crap from here or morningsave we wouldn’t also be motivated to buy other crap (or their morningsave crap) off of the TV too.
Never ordered anything directly on TV. I would either look for it online (to see the reviews) or get it from a store that carried “As Seen on TV” (depending on price usually). If I hadn’t lost interest in it by then.
“What’s a TV?”
@Rakaim The thing you plug the Xbox into.
@Al_Coholic @Rakaim
That’s my 4K monitor.
Um… none.
@Pony Same here. Doesn’t that seem like a good option to put in the poll?
@luvche21 I guess they figure if we buy Saturday bundles we would buy anything we saw on TV too.
@Pony I triple-checked before I hit other. I am still a bit confused why this wasn’t in the poll. I’m curious what they’re hiding.
@Pony @simplersimon MorningSave is not hidden.
@Pony @simplersimon It’s a (successful) plot to get us to spend more time on the site by coming here to comment.
@luvche21 @sammydog01 I’d figure as much - they assume if we’re buying stuff on meh we buy “as seen on tv” stuff
Surprised there wasn’t at least a “pay-per-view” option or something
@Pony none
None. Have never ordered anything off the television.
Pizza
None-- You left the clear, obvious answer off the poll!
(Free shipping, handling charges apply-- who couldn’t love that?)
I used to occasionally order things advertised on TV, before the internet (shudder)…
As a matter of fact, I think I might have purchased my first set of NiCd batteries from a TV ad, to use with my Walkman.
I’ve never ordered a product off the TV. I was too poor, and then the internet happened.
None. I don’t even have a television.
Not to date myself, but videos. Thrill Kill Kult. It was the 90s.
I’ve bought many things from Tanaka’s Amazing Commodities!
(I’ve never ordered TV products)
I don’t know anyone who’s bought anything from the TV
@Dweezle Not even pay-per-view?
I ordered my cat to get off the TV a few times.
Like nothing! Who would want to order overpriced stuff that doesn’t work?!
@paw52 Yea! … (Um, though now that you mention it, it’s a good thing they didn’t have things like VMP back then. Possibly, I could have been suckered into it. Hindsight & all.)
@paw52 overpriced stuff that ends up signing you up for a super expensive subscription to the product, and leaves you with no customer service to call to cancel…
Bought a cow on TV in Brazil…hands down the most bizarre purchase I’ve ever made
@wmbarr haha…wait, what?
@edgriebel there was a channel in São Paulo were you were able to call in and bid on cattle. This is a picture of that. Thinking eBay should take notes.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I bought an L.P. off the tv. I remember it had The Night Chicago Died on it, which was popular on the radio at the time. I was a tween and buying something off the tv and getting it in the mail with my name on it was a big deal. Different world back then. That’s the only thing I ever bought from the tv.
@moondrake It was a K-tel record. I had it, and love me some Paper Lace - TNCD. It also had Seasons in the Sun
@mfladd @moondrake Seasons in the Sun is in my top ten songs of all time.
@mfladd Yes, exactly! I’ve tried googling for it a couple of times without success, glad you recognized it. My dad’s record collection was western music (Roy Rogers, Burl Ives) and soundtracks (we played the hell out of Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001), and a big stack of 45s he salvaged from a juke box he inherited with classics like 45 Men in a Telephone Booth and Nat King Cole sings Espanol. My record was the only contemporary rock we had so it got played a lot.
@moondrake While K-Tel offerings were often (usually?) available in stores, like you, I also once ordered a K-Tel album via a TV offering like the poll describes. It took “forever” (in my mind) to receive it in the mail. I don’t know if I was in my early teens or even a pre-teen, but I specifically remember that I ordered it late in the school year and it didn’t arrive until the following school year. Based on our summer break’s duration, that would have been at least 10 weeks. When it finally was delivered, it was a total surprise: “oh yeah, I had forgotten about this”.
TL;DR Waiting 10 weeks for some music sounds even more ridiculous to young people today that it seemed to me at the time.
@looseneck @mfladd @moondrake
I only buy from the Old People’s Shopping Network.
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/410872/erics-jewelry-calvacade
So sad for all you schmucks who missed out on Mickey Mouse Disco
Does a streaming service like Netflix count?
/youtube Too Much of Nothing
Someone bought a cow? Someone
needs to explain a little more.
@unmlobo300 I SO wanted this to be true. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/buy-yak-high_us_57165eeae4b0018f9cbb3148
@unmlobo300 better than buying the farm.
@unmlobo300
None!
I ordered the channels I don’t watch off the TV by removing them from the guide.
None
One time, I ordered this miracle cleaning product that wa supposed to revitalize my porcelain tub and tile. It stunk like skoal (my ex dipped so I hate that smell with a passion). It didn’t work and the instructions were insanely complicated. Probably in the top ten worst ways I spent two easy payments of $19.99.
@ivannabc What are the other 9?
@Seeds alcohol tends to make up most of my other top ten ways i did something wrong
@ivannabc That smell is wintergreen.
The U.S. Tobacco company used to have the Museum of Tobacco Art and History above their office, adjacent to the factory, in Nashville. It was a cool museum, which cigar box art and wooden indianas and stuff like that.
The place smelled very strongly of wintergreen. They must have been making Skoal and not Copenhagen that day.
It was also the only museum I’ve ever visited that had spittoons throughout.
@craigthom yeah I hate that smell to this day. I buy mints for the office and I’ll get the wintergreen ones but ugh they make me gag. The ex dipped Copenhagen 99% of the time or I wouldn’t have made it to 14 years with him. I hate that smell almost as much as I hate cockroaches. And that hatred borders on some kind of mental disorder.
Back in the early '70s I ordered a boxed set of LPs from K-Tel or someone similar called the #1 Hits of the '60s. I was alive during the '60s, but for most of the decade I was too young to note what was on the radio.
This turned out to be great for my music education (as did my parents’ 8-tracks of '50s music).
The answer you’re looking for is “None whatsoever” but congratulations, your comment-bait poll actually got me to type words, so maybe that was your intent.
Exactly one time have we ever ordered a product from the TV. Back in 1994, when I was a wee lad of 6, my mother ordered the 3-VHS set of ‘The Brain: Our Universe Within’, a 5-part documentary series we’d watched on the Discovery Channel. It was (still is!) a great series to watch, narrated by David Suzuki, with loads of colorful, advanced (for the time) computer animation, and memorable music composed by Joe Hisaishi. I just pulled the tapes out last week and watched them, and they still hold up remarkably well, both as far as documentary information and physical condition. We definitely got our money’s worth.
@PooltoyWolf Wait…you still have a VCR hooked up?
@mfladd No less than three! Older technology is very welcome and prevalent here. A vacuum tube radio in the kitchen, full 1970s component stereo systems in at least two bedrooms, 1950s stereo console in the living room… Our house is a bit anachronistic and it’s amazing.
@mfladd @PooltoyWolf My wife keeps asking if “we” can get rid of my old Sony 70’s receiver, but I can’t part with its rich MOSFET sound nor the sweet, sweet Bose 301’s (series I, obv)
@mfladd @PooltoyWolf my husband would love that. We bought a house and in one of the bedrooms, flowery wallpaper covered some really (subjectively) nice 70s paneling. That is now the hubbys computer room with all of his 70s atari computers and 70s/80s video games on display. I’ve even threatened to put a bean bag chair in their but we’re both too old for that. If either of us sat in it, we would never get up.
@ivannabc I’ve had some sumo lounge (oversized heavy duty beanbag chairs) that sat almost the same height as a low sofa. Might work as an alternative to a traditional beanbag chair.
@edgriebel @mfladd Which Sony? I love my STR-V5!
@mfladd @PooltoyWolf STR-7015
@edgriebel @mfladd Very nice
@awilkey I’ll have to look into that. Thanks!
I’ve ordered pay per view off of TV. But none of this stuff. That’s what Amazon is for!
technically nothing, but my mom did get me a rolling kitchen cart from qvc’s website a few years ago, and i believe my pots & pans set she may have got via qvc or hsn as well.
and i did use proactiv for awhile, but i ordered online. (it didn’t do anything.)
The only thing I ever ordered off a tv commercial was Oxy-Clean, which almost kinda worked, or at least gave my poor laundry a break from over-saturation in detergent.
Then Amazon came along, and the opportunity to check reviews of As-Seen-On-TV products has saved me from a LOT of bad buying decisions!
And oh yeah, Oxy-Clean was a Billie Mays pitch too. At least I lost it to a classic…
Leaving ‘None’ off the choices to see how many people would post in this thread. Clever, Meh… I’m on to you, but still clever.
I usually buy the stuff at the drug store near me that has a as seen on TV section. The copper fry pans were great…until they weren’t. Suddenly they aren’t stick proof at all. I did the seasoning thing over twice, but nothing. Oh well. They weren’t expensive.
@smilingjack more like they can’t conceive that if we buy crap from here or morningsave we wouldn’t also be motivated to buy other crap (or their morningsave crap) off of the TV too.
Never ordered anything directly on TV. I would either look for it online (to see the reviews) or get it from a store that carried “As Seen on TV” (depending on price usually). If I hadn’t lost interest in it by then.
Nope do not buy from TV. I do not watch infomercials. I do not pay attention when shows start selling crap.
@Kidsandliz Good for you! Well done!
None, I’m still drooling over the pocket fisherman. Which I never bought.
Why buy anything from tv when it’ll eventually make its way to a store where I can return it when it sucks?
Umm, what year is this?
None.