Things you are sure are scams in commercials?

After a poster on here claimed he fell for a scam in a commercial because a respected, trusted celebrity was the spokesperson, I decided to make a thread about things you're sure are scams in commercial. I think the reverse mortgages that Henry Winkler is shelling for is a scam. Something about "Borrow money from your home equity(or something like that) and still own your home," doesn't seem right to me. I'm almost sure if you start borrowing money from your house, the bank actually owns your house, not you.

Weight loss, hormone replacement, etc are mainly scams.  

"We can fix your credit" ads always set my radar off, especially when it involves some shifty car dealer with lots of used junkers on his lot that he needs to sell. One of my clients fell for one of these schemes and ended up further down the toilet than he was before. He managed to get financing on a used car at 19.5% interest and thought it was a good deal. The car was sold "as is" and, needless to say, it shuddered to a permanent halt about 9 months later. The guy stopped making payments and you can guess the rest. I'd rather borrow money from the Cosa Nostra than a car dealer cum financier any day. 

All those shyster lawyer ads that air during daytime TV. There's one that runs here that has the guy saying, "If YOU have PAIN, you need LAW! Call 1-800-PAIN-LAW!" Like I'm really going to give my business to some guy who advertises like that!

I agree about the scumball lawyers. They will take a person who has a pimple on there ass and find some one to sue. We have one here in PA. who says that if you were injured on a bus to let him know. I guess they have deep pockets ( or the taxpayers do !). Even if they "suggest that you take a settlement, they get their cut.
  Another good one is the person who loses 100 lbs. but has no flabby skin or stretch marks. especially the woman in the bikini who has the nice tight flat stomach.

The Everest and IT Tech scream scam to me, especially because I actually applied to one of these "schools," called National School Of Technology, and the woman in charge of Admissions couldn't even properly answer my mother's(who wanted her then 20 year old to go to a good school, graduate, and find a good job) reasonable question of how many students graduate and find good jobs. Plus, they would have charged me thousanfs of dollars for this for profit school, and I would have to have to basically have to put up my parent's house as collateral to get a school loan.

My Mom called it a scam and urged me to go to a non profit vocational school, which gave me classes for free. I was glad Mom saved me from that scam

Ken 1802 wrote: The Everest and IT Tech scream scam to me, especially because I actually applied to one of these "schools," called National School Of Technology, and the woman in charge of Admissions couldn't even properly answer my mother's(who wanted her then 20 year old to go to a good school, graduate, and find a good job) reasonable question of how many students graduate and find good jobs. Plus, they would have charged me thousanfs of dollars for this for profit school, and I would have to have to basically have to put up my parent's house as collateral to get a school loan. My Mom called it a scam and urged me to go to a non profit vocational school, which gave me classes for free. I was glad Mom saved me from that scam

I find those Lipozene ads with the gross animation of the person getting fatter and fatter (that only fat fetishists would like.) Seems to be like a scam to me!

There was a anti drug commercial the FCC(or whoever's in charge of TV allowance airings)emselves made the staff pull from the airwaves for straight up fraud. In the commercial, they showed the suppossed brain waves of a 14 year old non marijuana smoker as being fast. Then, they showed the suppossed brain waves of a 14 year old marijuana smoker as being slow. It turns out, these weren't brain waves at all, they scammed the country by using a heart machine of conscious person and a person in a coma(or something like that). They were forced to stop lying to the public with a cease and desist order to remove the dishonest commercial.

I just saw an ad for "Free Rx"...."Plus you get a free cellphone, free this, free that...."

Mostly everything unfortunately - because of how people abuse marketing.

If I had to list an example:

As Seen On TV products - never bought an ASOT product that either a) worked or b) when it did, had any lasting durability. It's gotten to the point where the red ASOT box on a product is the kiss of death as far me actually buying it.

Snesgamer wrote: Mostly everything unfortunately - because of how people abuse marketing. If I had to list an example: As Seen On TV products - never bought an ASOT product that either a) worked or b) when it did, had any lasting durability. It's gotten to the point where the red ASOT box on a product is the kiss of death as far me actually buying it.

I'd like to add the line "For a limited time only!"

They might as well say "We're full of BULLSH**!"

Go ahead, think of a commercial that uses that phrase - say for example one of those "commemorative coin" ones.

"These new Obama coins can be yours for the low, low price of $xx.yy!! WE'RE FULL OF BULLSH**!" Makes a lot more sense.