DirectBuy

DirectBuy has been advertising quite a bit on TV and I've always wondered if they were as great as touted on TV. In a nutshell, the commercial states that they are America's #1 place to buy big ticket home improvement items for your home. The commercial entices you to call the phone number to receive a visitor's pass to visit a nearby DirectBuy showroom.

Well, based on online testimony, the membership for DirectBuy is $5000. The sales reps are trained to force you into forking over the $5000 during your free visit or you're banned forever. As for their prices, people note DirectBuy is higher than prices you would get as Lowes, Home Depot, Sears, etc. Shipping prices, shipping damage, return policy, and product delivery times were also huge negatives noted by members.

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Lindsay Wagner on Sleep Number Commercials

I was about to go to sleep last night and the Sleep Number mattress infomercial came on. If any of you have seen these infomercials over the years, you'll remember that Lindsay Wagner from Bionic Woman fame is the pitch person. I'll admit she's always looked pretty good. Then I noticed something last night, every time she was on the screen the image would be fuzzy. It was as if she was in her own dreamlike state. This was not a technical issue, it was intentional. Has she aged to the point that her appearances on this infomercial have to be blurred?