Loud and Clear: Infomercial Review
Loud and Clear: Infomercial Review
I'm a man torn between two emotions now, because I want to tell you about this infomercial I saw for a product that I really like—but with a commercial that's completely. The product that I think is super-cool is Loud and Clear. What makes it neat is that it's this assisted-hearing device that picks up sounds and conversation from an amazing distance. But even cooler, it looks like one of those Bluetooth headsets you use to listen to your cell phone. So everybody around you would likely think that's one it is.
Okay, now for the loony commercial. We start with the elderly lady who's asking her friend what the Bingo caller just said, and we're led to believe she missed her prize because she didn't hear it. And yet the guy is not calling out anything any more. Bingo-players all over the room are chit-chatting. Seems to me she didn't miss it; go claim your prize, Bingo Pro! (I won't even talk about the silly stereotype of a room full of senior citizens playing Bingo).
Even loonier is when we see the same woman wearing her Loud and Clear at church as the announcer talks about how everyone around you will think it's for your phone. Well, I suppose—except my grandmother doesn't wear her cell phone headset at church.
But by far, the silliest thing in this commercial is the offer that if you call right now, they will send yo two Loud and Clears. Two? One for each ear? I'm thinking at the point that you need two of these, it's time to go to the doctor for something more professional.
But personally, I have decent hearing and I'm gonna buy the Loud and Clear. I'm not so interested in hearing the church service or the animal sounds or even the TV that they promote. No, it's the potential, that the commercial proudly proclaims, of spying on your neighbors. Now THAT has my interest!
I'm a man torn between two emotions now, because I want to tell you about this infomercial I saw for a product that I really like—but with a commercial that's completely. The product that I think is super-cool is Loud and Clear. What makes it neat is that it's this assisted-hearing device that picks up sounds and conversation from an amazing distance. But even cooler, it looks like one of those Bluetooth headsets you use to listen to your cell phone. So everybody around you would likely think that's one it is.
Okay, now for the loony commercial. We start with the elderly lady who's asking her friend what the Bingo caller just said, and we're led to believe she missed her prize because she didn't hear it. And yet the guy is not calling out anything any more. Bingo-players all over the room are chit-chatting. Seems to me she didn't miss it; go claim your prize, Bingo Pro! (I won't even talk about the silly stereotype of a room full of senior citizens playing Bingo).
Even loonier is when we see the same woman wearing her Loud and Clear at church as the announcer talks about how everyone around you will think it's for your phone. Well, I suppose—except my grandmother doesn't wear her cell phone headset at church.
But by far, the silliest thing in this commercial is the offer that if you call right now, they will send yo two Loud and Clears. Two? One for each ear? I'm thinking at the point that you need two of these, it's time to go to the doctor for something more professional.
But personally, I have decent hearing and I'm gonna buy the Loud and Clear. I'm not so interested in hearing the church service or the animal sounds or even the TV that they promote. No, it's the potential, that the commercial proudly proclaims, of spying on your neighbors. Now THAT has my interest!
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