PlasmaCool Infomercial Review

PlasmaCool Infomercial Review

My grandmother told me she dreads the upcoming summer months since her central air conditioning doesn't work so well any more. I remembered seeing a commercial for this nifty portable air conditioner called PlasmaCool. So I thought I'd recommend it to her. Bad idea. You should never recommend a product if you don't really know anything about it. And that goes for the guy in the commercial...who seemed not to know much more about it than I did.

For instance, Grandma asked why is it called PlasmaCool? Did they pull the plasma out of someone's blood to make it? I wasn't sure, because they never really said why in the commercial. I guess it just sounds really high-tech or something.

I told her the commercial starts off showing a hot desert and then says it helps you "beat the heat." "Well, where do they plug it up in the desert?" she asked. That hadn't really occurred to me, although I was pretty sure that was just for illustration. She didn't buy it.

I told her she can buy it for three easy payments. "How much are the payments?" she asked. "Well...." I admitted. "They didn't say." "So the payments apparently aren't easy enough for the announcer to figure out what they are," she shrieked.

I told her that there's one good thing: She can try it risk free for 30 days and send it back if she's not happy with it.

"Thirty days!" Uh-oh, I saw it coming. "There are only 30 really hot days in the summer! I could just use it from mid-July to mid-August and then send it back! Hey, do you think they'd catch on if I do that every year?"

I wasn't sure, but I wouldn't want to try it. I was desperate now to sell her on the PlasmaCool. "You know, Grandma, they say it has a lifetime filter."

"Lifetime! Well how long can that be when you reach 75 years of age?"

Well, I asked, how about the fact that it uses less energy than a coffee maker? "I use a teakettle."

So I gave up. On her, that is. But I'd sold myself on the product. I'm now the proud owner of a PlasmaCool portable air conditioner. And yes, I'll keep it beyond the 30 days, thank you!