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Useless Products, "As seen on TV"
A useless product or item can be anything. If you’re thinking of all the products that you see on television like our biggest one “As seen on TV” or other infomercials that are selling products. Some of these products are useless to me but I can understand people trying to invent the silliest things, but sometimes those silly things are what people buy. I personally find a certain product not in hygiene standards like the wax vac, whatever happened to regular q-tips. From sunglasses to kitchen to pets it’s all invented well not all but most of them. You can’t’ forget you get a second one free if you call within the next 5 minutes. Inventors of these products are like a onetime hit, in my opinion. They advertise it a lot so much and when that happens they lose customers. It’s all for the money, I understand it’s just business. Some of these products are useless because they sell for cheap. Cheap usually means not of good brand or make. That my friends is easy money. In my strongest opinion don’t buy bootless products that you know you are going to have for a bit. Save your money, spend it on something that’s going to benefit you. I don’t like the bogus items sold on television because there all lies at times, but business is business. Funny, worthless and nonsense products are you just one of those to catch your eye so you can buy.
The author defines cell yell as a, “tendency of many cellphone users to speak into their phones more loudly than necessary, unwittingly involving surrounding strangers in their personal business”. Some people just don’t care and like to trough there business out there. Which in my opinion, we need to be careful what we say out loud because we never know who is listening. The changes that where made since the 1950’s is talking in a booth for more privacy, that’s something that this era doesn’t have nor that I have seen. This is what the author had to say, “In the 1950's, people were used to the privacy of enclosed

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