An As Seen On TV Product That Works

It never ceases to amaze me that we as the American public insist on throwing our money away on needless junk.  But it's not always junk, is it? We have all had our wonders about As Seen On TV products that we see advertised on late night television.  They look fun but do they work?  The answer is pretty much yes, and no.  Some products are certainly better than others and some are actually terrific. But, it can be very tough to tell which products are on the up and up just by watching the ad.  Most people are apprehensive about buying things on tv, but they don't have to be because there are some diamonds in the rough. Here are just a few.

In my opinion, the grill glove is one of them.  As seen on TV kitchen products are always a great seller but who really needs a chopper, a cooker or a steamer? I've bought plenty of these things and they all just collect dust. But the grill glove is the first thing I tried that actually gets used. I'm not sure if it is just my cooking style, or lack of one, which makes it perfect for me, or if I'm just out of my mind. You see, with the grill glove you can actually reach your had into boiling water or even a fire without getting burned. It's purpose is to allow you to control, flip or place food safely without the need for clumsy utensils.  It is something you can use with the grill or oven and use every day.  Everyone uses oven mitts so this product is product addresses a need, it is not something that promises to make you a gourmet chef with a fryer, chopper or pan like so many others.

The grill glove is not available in stores but that should be corrected soon. It is too good of an idea to stay a secret for long. I would not be surprised to see it in all the major chains some time soon.  But, in the meantime anyone who wants to try it will have to bite the bullet and buy grill glove online. This is where it gets tricky for a lot of people. Can you trust these marketing companies selling their wares in the wee hours when our defenses are down?  In this case, yes, and here's why.

I've read so many horror stories online about people buying things and never receiving them or getting into some type of bait and switch situation so this experience was quite a pleasure. After I ordered my grill glove I received a conformation email from the company which contained my customer number and their contact info.  It was not hard to get in touch with a customer service rep and they were helpful when I emailed them to change my shipping address. I was pretty impressed because this goes against everything I've read about the industry.

So when you are watching your favorite show on TV and some enticing infomercial comes on you may just be looking at something worth while. While some infomercials can be more entertaining than the shows they interrupt they're not all bad. Just be careful when ordering and anything that looks too good to be true probably is.

Pitchmen Makes A Comeback

The return of Pitchmen is something I've been waiting since it was abruptly early into season 2 and it is returning to the Discovery Channel on January 18th at 7:00pm est. If you remember, this was the first season after the untimely death of Billy Mays and in my opinion the show was terrific.

I'm really not much of a reality show guy but Pitchmen was different.  Here you had a bunch of inventors trying to get the corporate "know it alls" to take a gamble on bringing their product to market through infomercials.  We all love to hate those late night ads but you really find yourself rooting for the little guy in this show and you have a chance to watch their real life success and failures.

The first episode of the season featured the coolest product ever called Cold Fire which was super duper fire retardant in a can. The demo was spectacular with fireman, flames and plenty of wow!  This made great television and I was sure it would be good enough to command more airtime for the show, but I guess I was wrong. I was actually shocked that it disappeared with no notice because the Discovery Channel site was loaded with spoilers and featurettes on all the upcoming products.

Even though I though it would be hard to top the season premiere, I wanted to see episode 3 featuring the Fridge Locker because the trailers showed Anthony Sullivan on set with an 800lb bear and Sully looked scared.  The product was hilarious in it's own right and I really thought if I was going to buy a Pitchmen Product, the Fridge Locker would be it.  Not only is it kooky, but it is functional in the office.

People bring food to work and leave it in the fridge all the time, only to find it missing when they want to eat it.  We probably know who the culprits are in our office but it is hard to prove.  So the Fridge Locker is a locked food safe which hopefully we will see that not even a bear can infiltrate.  Another benefit is that at home parents can lock away foods that the kids shouldn't eat.  It's hard to monitor the intake of junk in our kids these days and at least if you lock it up you are sending a message that it is off limits.

Now the Fridge Locker episode was supposed to air months ago and in the meantime Ellen Degeneres got a hold of one and lampooned it on her show.  She actually said she would buy one after showed a clip of an alarm she had to install in the break room fridge to scare off food raiders.  She also made a funny skit featuring the Fridge Locker and sales starting increasing following Ellen's fun. 

So now that the actually story of how the Fridge Locker came to be is still featured on this upcoming episode, but I'm not going to feel the pressure for inventor Kevin Alan because I already know his product got picked.

Over the last months I have seen a few other cool products come out on the As Seen On TV Market that really interested me and low and behold a few were invented by, you guessed it, Kevin Alan.   That's like winning the lottery and then winning it again.  Kevin turned out to have so much ability creating products that solve every day problems in an easy way that Sully actually does his commercials now.  You may have seen the Grill Glove and the Couch Coozy already.

Now even before we see the "before they were famous" version of Kevin Alan on the 18th rumor has it that he as teamed up with MMA Trainer and Fox Sports personality Jay Glazer to help bring Jay's awesome new MMA Training System to market. It is called the perfect punch and I actually got to see the commercial on MTV's Bully Beatdown just yesterday.

I'm still interested to find out how Kevin got his start and hear his whole story.  Remember this is a pitch show so he had to figure out how to get the show's attention and get chosen to appear.  He had to go through all the emotion, frustration, glitches and grizzly bears we would all have to go for and his dream of being a successful inventor may be realized but only after the cliche' commercial break.  I hate that.

Another cool product called Shavemate is featured on this same episode.  It is a disposable razor that comes with shaving cream in the handle and pretty fancy blades which allows people to get a high quality shave without having to lug a long a can on a trip or the office.  There has been no foreshadowing on shavemate because Ellen didn't order one for a gag so we won't find out about the inventor until the 18th.

Regardless of who is on the show, what stupid inventions or maybe even a few good ones, the show is a brilliant what I call higher reality show.  Nobody is stuck on an island catching fish and running from bears for survival, well I know of at least one bear and some explosions so I may be wrong.  The point is that unlike most reality shows this isn't a survival game in the jungle, Kevin Allen is not going to have to dance at the judges and the razor guys are not going to have to figure out how to vote a bear out of the studio.  This show is about dreams and the chance to achieve them. Sure there is reward but it isn't a million dollars for standing on a pole longer than the other who is standing on the pole next to you, it is about the virtues of dreaming big, working hard, then working harder, making your own breaks and how not to let any possible failure take away anything from your journey.  This show turns people into successes and crushes the guts out of the ones that are not so lucky.

Now That's Television.  So watch The Fridge Locker episode that we have all had to wait 4 months to see and lets watch Sully work with a bear.  It'll be like having Billy Back.

Fridge Locker As Seen On TV

I'm so happy to see your As Seen On TV reviews site because I'm wild about the Fridge Locker.  When I first saw it on Pitchmen I thought it was the absolutely stupidest thing I had ever seen, which made it the perfect infomercial product.

The Fridge Locker commercial was hilarious and the scene in Pitchmen showing the bear trying to break into the thing was an instant classic. I immediately thought this would become one of the most popular late night infomercials ever but wondered who actually needed the product.

It dawned on me the next day at work that I was someone who needed it and there were probably a lot of others out there in the same situation.  My issue is this.  I work in a large office and as a group, the employees order food from Costco to be delivered to the office each month.  It's great to have a stockpile of snacks and drinks at work and it definitely saves money doing the bulk thing.  However, without fail, most of my sodas and fruit gets gobbled up by my coworkers. I never complain about it but others certainly do. It never occurred to me to have some type of food locker in the refrigerator to protect my food.  Luckily, the inventors of the Fridge Locker did.

So I ended up ordering the Fridge Locker because I could not find it in stores. I'm not much for buying things without actually holding it my hands first, but I took the risk because I knew having this in the office would be a lot of fun. I paid $19.99 plus shipping & handling.  In total my order for two fridge lockers came to $34.97. I certainly don't need two of them because believe it or not, one of them holds plenty of food.

When the fridge locker arrived I put it together in about five minutes.  It came with 3 identical sides, a front gate and rear wall, a bunch of plastic clip inserts and a clip tool.  The instructions were relatively simple and easy to follow. This was the first time in my life I ever bought a product that came with spare parts in case you lose some. I was very impressed by that and wanted to mention it. I had four clips left over and the extras were noted in the instructions.

Once I had gotten it together I really wanted to put it to the test and see how sturdy it was. I tugged on it and even pulled on the sides it was surprisingly sturdy.  The only weakness may be the gate because by definition the gate swings and the pegs where the gate connects with the sides might be vulnerable.  But stealing food is a crime of opportunity and the Fridge Locker removes the opportunity so it is definitely strong enough to do the job.

There was some question as to if it would be too large for the standard fridge, or be to small to hold a significant amount of food.  I have to say that both of these issues were answered to my satisfaction. The fridge locker is designed to take up as little space possible in a standard size refrigerator.

I'm so happy to see your As Seen On TV reviews site because I'm wild about the Fridge Locker.  When I first saw it on Pitchmen I thought it was the absolutely stupidest thing I had ever seen, which made it the perfect infomercial product.

The Fridge Locker commercial was hilarious and the scene in Pitchmen showing the bear trying to break into the thing was an instant classic. I immediately thought this would become one of the most popular late night infomercials ever but wondered who actually needed the product.

It dawned on me the next day at work that I was someone who needed it and there were probably a lot of others out there in the same situation.  My issue is this.  I work in a large office and as a group, the employees order food from Costco to be delivered to the office each month.  It's great to have a stockpile of snacks and drinks at work and it definitely saves money doing the bulk thing.  However, without fail, most of my sodas and fruit gets gobbled up by my coworkers. I never complain about it but others certainly do. It never occurred to me to have some type of food locker in the refrigerator to protect my food.  Luckily, the inventors of the Fridge Locker did.

So I ended up ordering the Fridge Locker because I could not find it in stores. I'm not much for buying things without actually holding it my hands first, but I took the risk because I knew having this in the office would be a lot of fun. I paid $19.99 plus shipping & handling.  In total my order for two fridge lockers came to $34.97. I certainly don't need two of them because believe it or not, one of them holds plenty of food.

When the fridge locker arrived I put it together in about five minutes.  It came with 3 identical sides, a front gate and rear wall, a bunch of plastic clip inserts and a clip tool.  The instructions were relatively simple and easy to follow. This was the first time in my life I ever bought a product that came with spare parts in case you lose some. I was very impressed by that and wanted to mention it. I had four clips left over and the extras were noted in the instructions.

Once I had gotten it together I really wanted to put it to the test and see how sturdy it was. I tugged on it and even pulled on the sides it was surprisingly sturdy.  The only weakness may be the gate because by definition the gate swings and the pegs where the gate connects with the sides might be vulnerable.  But stealing food is a crime of opportunity and the Fridge Locker removes the opportunity so it is definitely strong enough to do the job.

There was some question as to if it would be too large for the standard fridge, or be to small to hold a significant amount of food.  I have to say that both of these issues were answered to my satisfaction. The fridge locker is designed to take up as little space possible in a standard size refrigerator.

 

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The Perfect Punch

As a self proclaimed As Seen On TV junkie, I love to find out about new products.  Perhaps it is my desire to poke fun at the ridiculous or my cynical nature but I love taking aim at a fresh new infomercial product whenever I get the chance.  However, this time I'm actually impressed with what I have seen so far from the Perfect Punch.

No, it is not a recipe for the ultimate party drink or some fancy little scapbooking tool, it is the latest in a long line of As Seen On TV fitness products and I hate to say that this one has a real fighting chance to became an instant smash hit. Yep, we are going to see this one around for awhile and unfortunately for me, there is really nothing funny I can say about the product or the infomercial at all.  The Perfect Punch seems to be the real deal.

There are so many fitness products released every year and each one seems dumber than than the next, but the makers of the Perfect Punch are really on to something here and my gut tells me we may be looking at the next fitness fad.

I have never seen a product that appeals more to the macho nature of man than the Perfect Punch and I have to admit that I am completely taken it.  If you have not seen the commercial I can tell you that this entire product is based on MMA training principles.  It is a simple, yet totally awesome, set of MMA Training Gloves attached together by a resistance band which trains you how to throw the perfect punch.  It also provides a thorough low impact cardio workout.

Mixed Martial Arts has never been as popular as it is today and fight fans will definitely want to get their hand on this training system.  Even if they have no intention of ever stepping into the ring the principles of this workout have been proven effective time and time again.  Boxers have been shadowboxing for years and the Perfect Punch is an updated version of this process geared toward training today's generation of fighters. 

The fact that people now have a way to train like their favorite fighters and look pretty cool doing it is what leads me to believe the Perfect Punch will be a hit right out of the gates.  It is a novel idea among droves of fitness products but it is certainly no novelty.  This is real training and fight preparation packaged up for us by FOX Sports celebrity Jay Glazer. But unlike most As Seen On TV fitness products, there are no weird machines that will just collect dust in the garage.

The Perfect Punch comes with really awesome MMA Training Gloves, a couple of power bands which help provide progressive resistance during reps and Jay Glazer's workout DVD.  It is a simple product which will be easy to use for everybody.  And, the most impressive part is that everyone can benefit from it because it is really effective but even more fun to do. Everyone will enjoy using it because for most of us it will be a completely new way to workout.

Experts are always talking about how important it is to change up your workouts and the Perfect Punch MMA Training system is a total departure from any routine you may be currently doing. I think you will even see this being used in health clubs around the country and I wouldn't be surprised if there were entire fitness classes built around the Perfect Punch itself.

The jury is still out on the Perfect Punch but in my opinion it is case closed. Every once in awhile a new product will come out which is so innovative that even naysayers like me have to give it props.  So if and when the Perfect Punch becomes the As Seen On TV fitness product of the year remember that you heard it here first.  

 

 

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This File is a Wonder

I have tried many an As Seen on TV product and I have to say hands down the Wonder File is by far one of the best prodcuts I have ordered. I watched the commercial and I thought I got to get one of these. The wonder file arrived about three weeks after purchase. That was the only bummer. I wish they sold these in stores. I like it so much  I ordered another so with the buy one get one I now have four. One for me, one for our child and one for my house and office. I must say I am addicted to this file. If you are a neat freak like myself you are going to love this contraption. This is not your average file it is a wonder. So if you were on the edge on this one I say go for it you won't regret the purchase. Watch the video it really can do what it shows and the quality of this file is much better than I ever expected.