Cosa succede con quei canali televisivi di shopping in Germania? Mi piacciono sempre perché sembrano un sogno febbrile.
Esistono diversi canali simili con programmi televisivi simili: vendono prodotti straordinari che possono cambiarti la vita, parlano di quei prodotti con un’eccitazione esagerata, gli articoli tipo TEMU costano un sacco di soldi e spesso c’è il timer che mostra quanti articoli sono rimasti – e funziona sempre come un matto, non importa che ora o giorno sia.
Qualcuno sta davvero comprando quei prodotti? Oppure si tratta di una truffa di alto livello o addirittura di riciclaggio di denaro?
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Teleshopping was very common in many countries in the television era, it’s really bizarre, it works similar to gameshows where a FOMO is induced and (usually) pensioners get tricked into buying something they don’t need.
If you’re talking about the ads where people seem to fail at seemingly simple tasks, a lot of those products are actually designed for disabled people. They just also try to market it to the general population because generally they wouldn’t be profitable if they only marketed towards the target demographic.
I don’t think this is unique to Germany? Some of these channels have/had dubbed American content, complete with the requisite manic overacting.
I wouldn’t be surprised if most customers had issues with shopping addiction and hoarding disorders.
I enjoyed watching those as a kid. The people who buy that stuff are very old people who get scammed easily or have a shopping addiction in general
>Is anyone really buying those products? Or is it some high class scam or even money laundering?
Both. These businesses are definitely shady as hell and their main target are usually elderly people who are easy to fool. I didn’t believe that anyone actually bought any of this stuff either but then I found out a few years ago that my great aunt regularly watches these channels and buys nearly EVERYTHING to the point where her house is full of this cheap stuff and she can’t even use it. I’m pretty sure she just buys it out of boredom and that’s exactly who these channels aim at.
Their target audience are elderly people who are more likely to fall for those shoddy offers. With our currently overaged society there’s plenty of old folks to take advantage of.
That’s classic American-style teleshopping.
They do sell some stuff, although not as much as some time ago. After all, Germany is a big retirement home with a very high amount of people over 60.