Bu-bu-bu-bu-Bulb Head!! Slick gimmick ads |
Post Reply |
Author | |
Jimbo
Honor Roll Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 56960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Posted: 14 Nov 2022 at 3:47am |
There are these gadget commercials that have been running for awhile now, from a company called Bulb Head.
At the end of the ad, their little tag line is.... Bu-bu-bu-bu-Bulb Head!!! They sell crap like.... Angel View mirror Red Dog Socket Lizard Flare Light Cup Call Hands Free Phone Mount Atomic Beam Lantern Yummy Can Bacon Cooker Ruby Space Triangles Ruby Slider Floor Protectors Etc., etc. Infomercial type junk. Bass-O-Matic. Anyway, what they're doing is, toward the end of the ad, a siren starts going off like an air raid alert, then they start in with some BS about... BREAKING NEWS!!!! The (product being advertised) might be discontinued. Due to rising prices and supply chain issues, production of (the product being advertised) will cease immediately!!! So you'd better act now!!! Unfortunately there is a strict limit of only three per order!!! How stupid are some people??? They've probably figured out that if they tell people that something might not be available in the future, they'll buy as many as they can get their hands on, whereas otherwise, they'd have only bought one. What a sleazy con job!!! |
|
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
|
Sponsored Links | |
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63906 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
It used to be "Call within the next 10 minutes, and you'll get this extra piece of crap!" (as if the call centers know exactly when and where the commercial airs, and are going to match it up with the buyer's location). Anyway, buyer beware. |
|
CaptainErnie
Junior Executive Joined: 28 Feb 2012 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 2489 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
"How stupid are some people???
They've probably figured out that if they tell people that something might not be available in the future, they'll buy as many as they can get their hands on, whereas otherwise, they'd have only bought one. What a sleazy con job!!!" Remember Toilet paper at the onset of COVID??? |
|
Children are just God's little way of punishing us for having sex
|
|
radioandnascarfan
Junior Executive Joined: 19 Nov 2019 Location: Toledo, OH Status: Offline Points: 2545 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
Bulbhead seems like one of the biggest infomercial advertisers on subchannels. I've seen them for a few years.
|
|
ThatNerdInPhilly
Junior Executive Joined: 23 Oct 2014 Location: Philadelphia Status: Offline Points: 3275 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
The ads and items they peddle are really f-ing bad...but as soon as you see the "BU BU BU BULB HEAD" jingle-logo in the end, you REALLY know it's pure trash.
The sunglasses that kill blinding glare..2 words, Polarized lenses. You can find these sunglasses at any Ross,TJ Maxx for $4-7 bucks! My aunt did buy me these yellow night driving glasses "NO GLARE," Yeah...ok, these did not work what so ever .
ONE item I did see on TV, cheap produced commercial...looked like BS - and again my aunt bought this, so I tried it. Alien Tape, I'm pretty damn impressed with that, its good stuff. |
|
|
|
Jimbo
Honor Roll Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 56960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I hear it's pretty good as long as you're using it on very smooth, non-porous surfaces like tile, glass, ceramic, plastic, metal, etc. The problem with the ads for it, is that they show a guy taping a brick to a brick/concrete/masonry wall, which is of course, very rough and porous. I saw a review video, probably on YouTube, where they replicated that. Needless to say, it did not work like in the ad. |
|
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
|
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63906 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I used to use them in photography to cut down on glare and make the sky more intensely blue. I'd hold one over the camera lens and turn it till I got the desired effect. Eventually, I coughed up the $12 or so for an actual polarizing filter that screwed into the camera. |
|
Jimbo
Honor Roll Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 56960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
But the camera never looked as cool again, without the sunglasses on.
|
|
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
|
zippyjet
Junior Executive Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Location: Baltimore, Md. Status: Offline Points: 1998 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
|
I approve this message.
|
|
Capt. Beefheart
Junior Executive Joined: 27 Aug 2022 Location: South Carolina Status: Offline Points: 60 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Our local Dollar General has Lizard Flares on the discount shelf. Must not be as much demand as they'd want us to think.
|
|
Post Reply | |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |