Infomercials AKA liar liar pants on fire.

I'm kind of high strung and have trouble getting to sleep most of the time. Sometimes I find myself laying in front of the TV watching infomercials at 3:00am. I can only stand them for a few minutes before I have to change the channel. These people must make quite a bit of money with their lies and bullshit because I don't see the infomercials going away. Just suffice it to say, I checked this stuff out myself. Luckily, I didn't lose much money but instead gained valuable wisdom regarding shysters, swindlers, chiselers and snake oil salesmen.

Professional marketing people make the product on the infomercial look really good. The job of advertisers is to embellish, coax, cajole and weasel their way into your pocketbook.

I'm in a generous mood today so I'll say that 99% of the products and services advertised on late night TV are complete scams, hoaxes and piles of crap.

Car oil additives and gizmos that increase air intake.
None of these are scientifically proven. I've done research myself on my own cars. No added compression, no additional gas mileage and no added horsepower. Just empty wallet, empty promises and a pile of horse shit.

Work from home, piece jobs, and envelope stuffing.
These shysters want a couple hundred bucks to send you information you can get for free on the Internet or through the mail. These work at home programs are often really shitty due to the fact that you cannot trust them to pay you for work completed, they pad their rejection rate and charge you for "wasted materials"

Buy homes for 100 dollars and sell them for $40,000.
Let me just let you in on a secret folks; The auctions can be ok for an experienced professional home broker. The $100 homes are just weird flukes. There is no get rich quick here. When the infomercial shows an interview with the "people" that claim to be instant millionaires, just whip out your electron microscope and you can see that the small print on the bottom of the screen reads "paid actor" "results not typical"

Pots, pans, knives, choppers, slicers dicers and steamers.
I have seen some of these products in garage sales, dollar stores, flea markets and received them as gifts. Do you know why? Because they are pieces of shit, big bleeding piles of crap. That pan that has three separate cooking chambers is made of spray painted beer can metal. It warps in about three seconds and the "Teflon" paint layer peels off into whatever you are cooking.

The Knives are the cheapest, thinnest and dullest junk you can imagine. I had one of the steak knives disintegrate in my hand while cutting a baked potato.

Classic rock CD's from the 50's 60's and 70's.
They play great music during the commercial. Kinda makes you want to get a couple of sets for the car. They say these CDs and classic songs are sung by the original artists. Well technically or legally they can claim that. The producers of these albums might dig up a drummer that used to be a session artist for one of the famous supergroups, add the people that create muzac, find a bus station bathroom to use as a recording studio, and hocus pocus! it's Creedence Clearwater Revival. If they find an original singer, they pay him with a bottle of old smuggler and have him belt off a couple of tunes then digitally "remaster" the drunken bastard.

My wife bought a pile of this shit music in preparation for a driving trip. I popped in of these disks when we were about 200 miles out. I couldn't help it. All I could ask was: How much did you pay for this fucking shit?

The newest one is "Sell Chinese plastic garbage on Ebay"
This MMC company is trying to convince you that With their $475 mentoring program you can make 50K per month selling plastic dolphin lampshades.

Don't fall for it. These people are getting rich passing off shit as Shinola.