Tele-Brands, TVC and other shopping networks Selling Garbage.

Do you want to buy anything from the popular TV Information companies like Telebrands, Home Shopping Network, TVC ?. All those air lounges, eye max (eye massagers), exercisers, blender, etc; are you interested in them? Well here is my opinion. Try and guess which of these products Ive purchased(and regretted) from Almira Marketing, Porvorim Goa and post it as a comment.


If you've lived through any of the infomercials on TV (which means you don't have a happy life) you will hear the bold claims and promises made by them. The air lounge from TVC sky shop can be dragged by a jeep on road and a football team can jump on it without damaging it. If you use the eyemax you can decrease your number, if you used magnetic slippers and other crap you can regulate blood pressure and reduce pain. If you use the sauna belt (each company having its own version) you can reduce your weight, the ab exerciser can get you six packs and the Home Jogger is a better substitute for actual jogging etc etc.

The reality is very different. The air lounge (and other inflatable furniture) is made of bad material which stretched with pressure and gets holes. In 6 months it will have more patches on it then your grandmothers quilt. The eyemax is junk. Only eye surgery is proven to be effective but even that is not entirely guaranteed to improve your number. You'll have a better chance munching carrots. As for the cooling effect the EyeMax claims to give, a couple of slices from a cucumber will do a better job and the rest can be a tasty snack as you cool your eyes. Magnetic Therapy is proven scientifically to be useless. If you want blood to calculate in your body or part of your body just pour hot and cold water alternately over the required parts of the body. It does a perfect job. If you think the magnetic belts and slipper circulate iron, sorry, the magnetic field of the magnets are too weak to penetrate the skin. You'll require magnets the size of a car tire to do that and still you wont get the desired result. Don't even think you can grow tall with magnets(as the ads claim) Just play basketball for that and maintain a healthy diet.

The Sauna belt, the legendary product that everyone knows, does what the ads claim. The ads claim that the first time you use it, you will loose 2 inches off your waist. This implies that you can loose weight if you continue to use it. It works but why? The first time you use it, the sauna belt doesn't melt your fat(as shown in the animation) it makes you sweat and releases water from under your skins. So, in reality, you are loosing 2 inches of water and not fat. The next day your body replenishes the water under your skin. You measure before and after and loo again you lost 2 inches. You will assume that you are eating too much because you can see that sauna belt works but you are gaining weight again by eating and then reduces your diet intake and that reduces your weight. With the sauna belt, you are doing nothing more than extracting water and giving yourself a nasty burn mark. If you want to reduce weight, trust yourself and hit the track every morning and live oil free.

The exercisers are great in their designs but the materials they are made of in low in quality. You can seriously injure yourself for which you cannot demand any compensation. If you really want to buy them, get it from a branded showroom there there will be trainer to advice whats best for you and why.

Home jogger AKA Morning walker is a joke. Nothing can and ever will substitute the effect that real jogging has on every part and organ of your body and the fresh feeling it brings in the morning.

Don't even think of buying any electrical item unless you want to burn your house down. I've seen the irons and the mixers for myself and the plastic is no better than that of the toys available on sale on the streets.

I wont comment on the religious items since "I dont want to Hurt the sentiments of any individual or group". But I'm impressed with the bold claim they make about how it improved love, life, health wealth etc. Maybe I don't want all that which is why I haven't bought those items from these companies.

Did I mention, these products do not have any warranty? Seriously, they dont. A Sauna belt costing 2000 bucks will give you a nasty shock but cannot be replaces. The airlounge costing 6000 cannot be replaced. Wait a minute, that reminds me of some other business that work on no replacement- no guarantee: drugs, scrapyard, prostitution, con-artists, gambling etc

Bottom line, these shopping networks have no accountability. In the US the claims can be challenged in the court of law. The companies have to maintain a good standard of quality because the compensation they'll have to pay if they loose even one case if good enough to take them out of business for the next 3 generations.In India, you will be screwed. The distributors dont accept liability, the TV channels flash their disclaimers during the infomercials, the manufacturers are not India so they cannot be sued. When toys exported form China to the US were found to be coated with lead paint that can cause brain damage, cancer and even death in people US reacted strongly and banned them. When the same Chinese products enter India the FDA and other Govt organisations don't even bother testing them. They are in fact in denial. We cant expect anything from anyone but ourselves, therefore we need to be smart customers and not lazy couch potatoes.

So dont be an ignorant by buying anything from teleshopping Network, TVC sky shop, and other infomercials on TV. Just get out ass out of your house preferably with your family and have a great time with them as you check your options before selecting a good quality, trustworthy and more importantly "a safe" product.