As seen on tv products

Has anyone bought anything off the tv? Years ago I bought a magic bullet – we loved it! It worked great for a while and then the motor burned out, and it wasn’t something we replaced. My daughter loves all the commercials on tv, she thinks the eggies ones sounds great. Someone sent me a review of it yesterday and boy did it sound complicated to use, and messy. I actually really hate peeling eggs, but all the washing that went along with the eggies product sounds worse to me.

It seems like the trend now is to advertise more and more stuff for kids, only available on tv…pillow pets were like that (now they are everywhere, including staples), all kinds of craft sets too – something like Fab Effex or something like that is the one I see a lot of now. I find it a bit scary that they don’t give you the price on the commercial – and all these shipping,handling, processing fees etc. could get out of hand.

Some of those products now you at Dollarama too, Shamwow, the one to keep nails and tools on your arm (a magnet cuff), that nut chopper…it always makes me laugh when we see them there.

So, yes or no to buying off the tv? And what kind of stuff have you guys seen at Dollarama?