Are these two not the most annoying people you're ever seen on TV? Billy Mays peddles all those obnoxious (but probably useful) orange cleaning products. I get that everyone needs to make a living and he has probably profited well from these ventures. I think his signature loud voice wouldn't be as annoying if I didn't constantly wake up in front of the television at 4am with his loud voice trying to sell me orange junk. Now he's even peddling medical insurance. This is the equivalent of buying a car from the ice cream man. It just doesn't work.
More annoying is "Vince" the guy from Shamwow. When I googled his name I actually found message boards dedicated to their distaste for this, how did they put it? Oh yeah - "douchebag". Everything about this guy is annoying. His commercial (click the blog title to see the commercial), his voice, his attitude and his look (what's up with the mic headset).
Doesn't this guy look like the weasel from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons?
Even worse is his little comment about how you need to call in the next 20 minutes for their "special deal" because "we can't do this all day..."
Isn't that what you DO? Peddle your wares? Offer deals to get people to purchase? Aren't you a salesman?
I think we need to declare a year long moratorium on infomercials until someone has something better to sell. Let them sell them on QVC or HSN in the interim.
And someone needs to smack Vince (he seems more like a "Lenny" or "Skippy") in the back of the head...
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Peddle your wares? That's Awesome!
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