What's the silliest thing you ever bought just from a TV ad?

I bought one of these:



(The plastic bag had a belt loop)

:D

It was ad for mail-order brides. Hey, the ad came on late at night, I was drunk, and whoever answered the phone was a killer salesperson.

I would mention my own little flaws, such as a couple of "As Seen on TV" items, like, a Foot Scrubber *and* a Magic Meatloaf" scrubber, but that would give away too many of my DUers.

It works too! It obviously caught the OP!

Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh_YwAnv7w

My Mom has it up at her place in northern WI.

It no longer casts, but just dangling a line into the water off a pier or boat, it's good.

Like many pocket fishermen in northern Wisconsin where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, Archae often doesn't start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with his soul and memories and the sounds of the Peshtigo River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are siren songs of paid hucksters peddling crap. I am haunted by infomercials.



:hi:

who came home high and plopped in front of the TV. He had a vague memory of what he did a week later when a $125 box set of the Three Stooges arrived. He claimed he put a sticky note on the TV: No orders when drunk!

from the dude with the never-trimmed eyebrows...



It was a complete PITA to clean so it sits in the basement waiting for the next garage sale.

I didn't buy them on tv though. Got some at the store to try them out. Got 8, haven't even touched 6.

Dumbest ass thing I ever bought. What was I thinking???? (fyi: It doesn't work.)

I got it to work right once. Once. And even then I had to remove some shell bits myself.

home. My dad opened it. It was a dolly for carrying large boxes. It never had a use again. LOL!

It's awful, doesn't work!

I found them at yard sales or flea markets.

Two were in the boxes brand new, only a few dollars each.

The only thing I have bought off the tv was space bags for a friend who was moving.

They worked just fine.

as soon as one of them pops open a can. Wait a minute - that sort of sums up ALL beer ads.

but I bought an Iron Man watch for the sole reason that they used the song Iron Man in the TV commercial. I felt I needed to support my Black Sabbath in a time when that kind of music didn't generally get much mainstream attention except as a reason for the youth of the day being so rotten.

I hope my citizenship doesn't get revoked!

The ones I remember are food and liquor, though. Does that count? lol

But I was a kid.

the Popeil Pasta Maker, the food dehydrator, etc.

I find that I'm much less tempted to buy when I actually see the product.