John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Late Night Informercials

10 hard facts about late night infomercials (Brace yourself):

1) No book, program or technology will “transform your life” in 14 days. Or even 30 days.

2) Operators are always “standing by” –even if they act like it’s only for a few more minutes.

3) Remember, you don’t really want to be like Anthony

Robbins. Just look like him. But he’s not telling you how to do that.

4) Ronco knives work well but you never use them as much as you think you will.

5) If you are over 40 what it takes to get “Six pack abs” isn’t worth all the effort required.

6) The 1-900 Psychic lines where a stranger predicts your future, is a pretty good deal. They are right about 50% of the time with predictions that you will have something good or bad happen in the near future.

7) It’s hard to “re-gift” products purchased through Infomercials because people know that’s where they came from.

8) There’s nothing you need at 2:30am that you couldn’t get by without at 1am. You are just tireder and more vulnerable to persuasion.

9) I have never heard any male brag that they grew a new head of hair after purchasing a late night infomercial spray.

10) Nothing changes until you are ready and willing to change.