The Gun Show.... Sham-WOW!!!!

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Lol, I make fun of overhyped marketing of cheap junk by saying "sham-WOW", and low and behold, there was actually a Sham-Wow booth at today's huge (and packed) gun show. The worst part? About every 10th person it looked like had bought one and was carrying around their new sham-wows. And we wonder why stupid crap is at the gun shows - it's because we BUY said stupid crap. Not ME, but WE as a group of attendees.

 

[stevemis]

I saw these folks a few months ago at a show here in NC. I didn't see a single person walking around with their product, though.

I'll be at the next show in a couple of weeks. If I see them again, I'll watch the spiel and then ask them how well it cleans guns, then I'll leave.

 

[seale]

Everybody is in a different stage of learning about personal arsenal management, and the only way to learn is to stick your neck out and buy a gun. Yea, there are a lot of really stupid purchases at gun shows but if you say something the seller will eat you alive and the buyer won't be grateful for the help. Sad, but it's how it is.

 

[nwilliams]

Man I hate those Sham-Wow commercials

Now back to guns.....

 

[wyocarp]

I've never heard of this. I guess I don't get out much. A quick search and I am informed. So, do they not work? I can't imagine selling anything with sham in the name.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

personal arsenal management

Tee hee; that's descriptive indeed; you should be the first to write a book on this subject.

P.S. It's uncanny how badly gun sellers are at spelling... Reading various tags, today I saw a "Portagese" rifle, a "Blunderbust", and about 5 other similarly misspelled items - it's funny to see how people just spell out phonetically from how they think something is pronounced (incorrectly on both counts).

I can't imagine selling anything with sham in the name.

Lol, and yet they do. I'm sure that they work, but why pay $20 for what is essentially four glorified shop rags?

 

[Superlite27]

Oooooh!

A non-firearm related company actually using a firearm venue to sell their product.

Evidently, this company doesn't view gun owners as a liability, but a market of consumers. How unlike most companies that would never want to be associated with the likes of us.

They are either a smart vendor, or one that is just using us.

I can't decide whether this is a blessing, or a curse.

What if other companies start seeing gun owners as viable customers?

Is this the beginning of gun owners being seen as mainstream consumers, or are we just being used?

If we start being a target consumer, does this mean we can look forward to car dealerships, vacuum cleaner sales, home gyms, and all other manner of crap showing up in booths at gun shows?

I can't figure if this is a good thing or not. Any other opinions?

 

[Superlite27]

it's funny to see how people just spell out phonetically

Shouldn't this be "foneticlee"?

 

[I whittles what I see]

I plan on using one of those sham-Wows as a personal home made bullet proof vest. The commercial says they soak up anything, how about bullets.

Are the blood afterwards, one of the two

 

[Owens]

Sauces,
Not sure where you are located, but they had them things at the show in Lubbock, TX today too.

Sh what? I thought it was a guns show. And jerky and purses, and cookies and.....

and guns. Plenty crowded. Didn't find anything I couldn't live without though.

 

[Sebastian the Ibis]

Sounds like a great opportunity to get a gun cleaned. Too bad you didn't have a mosin slathered in cosmoline for a demo.

 

[gbran]

PremiumSauces

Sounds like you may have went to the same show as I did today. I got there about 9:15 and had both a long line into the parking lot and the hall. This show comes to town 5 times per year and I've never seen it so packed. The MiWall folks who have the huge ammo booth were not there today, which was a letdown for me, as I buy most of my ammo and reloading stuff from them. Prices were pretty high too. And just north of the ShamWow booth was the lady selling ponchos to the poodle walker crowd.

 

[feedthehogs]

The American public is a sucker for junk. On direct tv I count no less than 15 full time channels related to selling garbage.

Including that knife show(not smokey mountain) that you can buy a complete collection of 500 knives for 50 bucks or something like that.

No self respecting knife owner would own garbage like that.
I'd rather carry a spork.

The only good thing is the impending economic collapse should thin the herd quite nicely.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

In the '60s and '70s,every teenager with a car had a "shammy". It was the skin of the Chamois goat and was used to dry a car after washing without leaving any streaks. It worked beautifully. I never saw any way to use it on guns though. I don't know if the Sham-Wow works or not but it definitely did not belong at a GUN show.

 

[Superlite27]

The only good thing is the impending economic collapse should thin the herd quite nicely.

I predict the opposite. I believe the impending economic collapse will bring the salespeople out of the woodwork. It wouldn't surprise me to see people literally "selling garbage" in the near future. So many out of jobs, many will turn to selling that garbage in order to try and feed their families.

 

[jeffsenpai]

I got a sham-wow for christmas, was the last thing I ever expected! LOL the commercials make me laugh.

 

[7.62X25mm]

Sham Wow -- Have a close look at the ad: About 9 cuts on the camera when he's mopping up the cola. "You following me mr. camera guy?" Cut, cut, cut. The Sham Wow is not really mopping up the cola. Editing cuts the cola mop up.

"If you order in the next 20 minutes -- I can't do this all day."

He's been doing this all day for two years. Call the number any time and ask if the special deal is still good.

Gun show is the perfect market for this stuff. The other place would be an auto show or circus.

"You'll be sayin' 'WOW! What a dummy I was!' "

 

[7.62X25mm]

system glitch

 

[jcwit]

WOW What a dummy I was.

Why? Your local auto parts store & W/W sell the same thing. Only they call it a synthetic chamois. Course they cost more at the store. Must be the overhead.

 

[hankdatank1362]

Had to get this IBTL....

BILLY MAYS IS THE ANTICHRIST!!!!!!


He's everywhere, always hocking some cheap crap for $19.95 !


I saw three different commercials with him back to back the other day. I was so disgusted, I turned to an NFL game, and I don't really follow the pros. Anyway, who were they interviewing on the sidelines? Terell Owens? Tony Romo? Nope!

BILLY MAYS!!!!!


RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!!! BILLY MAYS IS EVERYWHERE!!!!!

 

[Doggy Daddy]

re: Billy Mays.

Is it possible to get your voice sounding that stressed without scrotalrubberbands?

 

[jcwit]

Yeh but don't you wish you could make the kind of money he's making. He's laghing all the way to the bank.

 

[chuckusaret]

I don't buy any that is advertised for $19.95 and if you buy in the next 60 seconds you will get Bla Bla a $20 value. This type sales pitch turned me off years ago with Ronco products. As soon as you hear the start of the ad you know it is a rip off. I do have a leather shammy I bought over twenty years ago from a similar type ad, but I was stationed overseas and had no other choice. I still have the same leather shammy. But back in those days it was $9.95 and if you buy now you get free mailing.

 

[Golden Hound]

Just in case someone doesn't know, the name comes from the French "Chamois" which is a kind of fine polishing cloth. It's pronounced sham-wah. Sham-WOW is a stupid take on the original name.

 

[Sniper X]

I will say the sham wow works as described in the ad. Will also say that Smokey Mountain as far as the TV show is concerned, sells knives from Germany, China, the USA, and India, and probably other countries, but they do price them accordingly, but do watch price them accordingly and well to boot. I am a small collector of a collection of under 100. But I do pay attention to what they sell and where it is from. And I would not say the lajority is form china and india in any one given show, unlike the other TV knife show which is 90% china made stuff.