If you watch TV at all, the odds are good that you’ve seen one of those annoying commercials by the guy who talks about the incredible scientific advancement he made in “sleep science” by developing ‘My Pillow.’ I know I can almost recite the words to one of the ads by heart. I’ll confess that I found it puzzling that this guy (Michael J. Lindell) was able to afford to keep running so many of these ads for what looked, at least to me, like an obvious s**m. (One of my neighbors actually bought one last winter and told me he threw it out without bothering to try to get a refund.) Imagine my surprise to learn that he’s actually sold roughly 18 million of them in the past ten years at a price of roughly $50 a pop. Lindell has been averaging $100 million a year in revenue.

But now he’s running into more and more problems as people become aware of not only the impossible nature of the claims he makes about the pillow’s miraculous abilities, but the s**m he’s running in his advertising. (Washington Post)

The list of problems keeps growing for My Pillow, the popular Minnesota-based pillow maker known for its late-night TV informercials and celebrity endorsements.

Just months after settling a of class action lawsuit alleging false and deceptive advertising, My Pillow has taken a hit over a different set of consumer complaints.

On Tuesday, the Better Business Bureau announced that it had revoked My Pillow’s accreditation and lowered its rating from an A-plus to an F, saying the company’s longstanding “buy one, get one free” offer was unfair and confusing to customers.

The BBB said the offer violated the organization’s code of advertising by marketing pillows in a two-for-one “deal” that was in fact the regular price.

It’s a pet peeve of mine which I wish we could do something about. This is only one of the literally thousands of companies who advertise far too good to be true products on TV at all hours of the day and night for equally implausible prices. And as your parents probably warned you when you were growing up, if something sounds too good to believe, it’s probably not believable.

The first issue is the quality of the product. As indicated in the article, the founder already lost a major lawsuit to an army of people who quickly figured out that this incredible invention could not, in fact, cure multiple diseases ranging from restless leg syndrome to fibromyalgia, sleep apnea and migraines. (Really? A pillow can’t cure all those things? GET OUT OF HERE!) As I noted at the top, I already knew of one person in my neighborhood who had found the pillow to be not only decidedly not miraculous, but actually uncomfortable to sleep on and smelly. When I mentioned this article on Twitter I quickly got a few comments back from other people who had direct experience with the product.

Read more complaints: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/04/can-we-talk-about-that-my-pillow-flop-for-a-moment/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

If you watch TV at all, the odds are good that you’ve seen one of those annoying commercials by the guy who talks about the incredible scientific advancement he made in “sleep science” by developing ‘My Pillow.’ I know I can almost recite the words to one of the ads by heart. I’ll confess that I found it puzzling that this guy (Michael J. Lindell) was able to afford to keep running so many of these ads for what looked, at least to me, like an obvious s**m. (One of my neighbors actually bought one last winter and told me he threw it out without bothering to try to get a refund.) Imagine my surprise to learn that he’s actually sold roughly 18 million of them in the past ten years at a price of roughly $50 a pop. Lindell has been averaging $100 million a year in revenue.

But now he’s running into more and more problems as people become aware of not only the impossible nature of the claims he makes about the pillow’s miraculous abilities, but the s**m he’s running in his advertising. (Washington Post)

The list of problems keeps growing for My Pillow, the popular Minnesota-based pillow maker known for its late-night TV informercials and celebrity endorsements.

Just months after settling a of class action lawsuit alleging false and deceptive advertising, My Pillow has taken a hit over a different set of consumer complaints.

On Tuesday, the Better Business Bureau announced that it had revoked My Pillow’s accreditation and lowered its rating from an A-plus to an F, saying the company’s longstanding “buy one, get one free” offer was unfair and confusing to customers.

The BBB said the offer violated the organization’s code of advertising by marketing pillows in a two-for-one “deal” that was in fact the regular price.

It’s a pet peeve of mine which I wish we could do something about. This is only one of the literally thousands of companies who advertise far too good to be true products on TV at all hours of the day and night for equally implausible prices. And as your parents probably warned you when you were growing up, if something sounds too good to believe, it’s probably not believable.

The first issue is the quality of the product. As indicated in the article, the founder already lost a major lawsuit to an army of people who quickly figured out that this incredible invention could not, in fact, cure multiple diseases ranging from restless leg syndrome to fibromyalgia, sleep apnea and migraines. (Really? A pillow can’t cure all those things? GET OUT OF HERE!) As I noted at the top, I already knew of one person in my neighborhood who had found the pillow to be not only decidedly not miraculous, but actually uncomfortable to sleep on and smelly. When I mentioned this article on Twitter I quickly got a few comments back from other people who had direct experience with the product.

Read more complaints: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/04/can-we-talk-about-that-my-pillow-flop-for-a-moment/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

If you watch TV at all, the odds are good that you’ve seen one of those annoying commercials by the guy who talks about the incredible scientific advancement he made in “sleep science” by developing ‘My Pillow.’ I know I can almost recite the words to one of the ads by heart. I’ll confess that I found it puzzling that this guy (Michael J. Lindell) was able to afford to keep running so many of these ads for what looked, at least to me, like an obvious s**m. (One of my neighbors actually bought one last winter and told me he threw it out without bothering to try to get a refund.) Imagine my surprise to learn that he’s actually sold roughly 18 million of them in the past ten years at a price of roughly $50 a pop. Lindell has been averaging $100 million a year in revenue.

But now he’s running into more and more problems as people become aware of not only the impossible nature of the claims he makes about the pillow’s miraculous abilities, but the s**m he’s running in his advertising. (Washington Post)

The list of problems keeps growing for My Pillow, the popular Minnesota-based pillow maker known for its late-night TV informercials and celebrity endorsements.

Just months after settling a of class action lawsuit alleging false and deceptive advertising, My Pillow has taken a hit over a different set of consumer complaints.

On Tuesday, the Better Business Bureau announced that it had revoked My Pillow’s accreditation and lowered its rating from an A-plus to an F, saying the company’s longstanding “buy one, get one free” offer was unfair and confusing to customers.

The BBB said the offer violated the organization’s code of advertising by marketing pillows in a two-for-one “deal” that was in fact the regular price.

It’s a pet peeve of mine which I wish we could do something about. This is only one of the literally thousands of companies who advertise far too good to be true products on TV at all hours of the day and night for equally implausible prices. And as your parents probably warned you when you were growing up, if something sounds too good to believe, it’s probably not believable.

The first issue is the quality of the product. As indicated in the article, the founder already lost a major lawsuit to an army of people who quickly figured out that this incredible invention could not, in fact, cure multiple diseases ranging from restless leg syndrome to fibromyalgia, sleep apnea and migraines. (Really? A pillow can’t cure all those things? GET OUT OF HERE!) As I noted at the top, I already knew of one person in my neighborhood who had found the pillow to be not only decidedly not miraculous, but actually uncomfortable to sleep on and smelly. When I mentioned this article on Twitter I quickly got a few comments back from other people who had direct experience with the product.

Read more complaints: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/04/can-we-talk-about-that-my-pillow-flop-for-a-moment/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

If you watch TV at all, the odds are good that you’ve seen one of those annoying commercials by the guy who talks about the incredible scientific advancement he made in “sleep science” by developing ‘My Pillow.’ I know I can almost recite the words to one of the ads by heart. I’ll confess that I found it puzzling that this guy (Michael J. Lindell) was able to afford to keep running so many of these ads for what looked, at least to me, like an obvious s**m. (One of my neighbors actually bought one last winter and told me he threw it out without bothering to try to get a refund.) Imagine my surprise to learn that he’s actually sold roughly 18 million of them in the past ten years at a price of roughly $50 a pop. Lindell has been averaging $100 million a year in revenue.

But now he’s running into more and more problems as people become aware of not only the impossible nature of the claims he makes about the pillow’s miraculous abilities, but the s**m he’s running in his advertising. (Washington Post)

The list of problems keeps growing for My Pillow, the popular Minnesota-based pillow maker known for its late-night TV informercials and celebrity endorsements.

Just months after settling a of class action lawsuit alleging false and deceptive advertising, My Pillow has taken a hit over a different set of consumer complaints.

On Tuesday, the Better Business Bureau announced that it had revoked My Pillow’s accreditation and lowered its rating from an A-plus to an F, saying the company’s longstanding “buy one, get one free” offer was unfair and confusing to customers.

The BBB said the offer violated the organization’s code of advertising by marketing pillows in a two-for-one “deal” that was in fact the regular price.

It’s a pet peeve of mine which I wish we could do something about. This is only one of the literally thousands of companies who advertise far too good to be true products on TV at all hours of the day and night for equally implausible prices. And as your parents probably warned you when you were growing up, if something sounds too good to believe, it’s probably not believable.

The first issue is the quality of the product. As indicated in the article, the founder already lost a major lawsuit to an army of people who quickly figured out that this incredible invention could not, in fact, cure multiple diseases ranging from restless leg syndrome to fibromyalgia, sleep apnea and migraines. (Really? A pillow can’t cure all those things? GET OUT OF HERE!) As I noted at the top, I already knew of one person in my neighborhood who had found the pillow to be not only decidedly not miraculous, but actually uncomfortable to sleep on and smelly. When I mentioned this article on Twitter I quickly got a few comments back from other people who had direct experience with the product.

Read more complaints: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/04/can-we-talk-about-that-my-pillow-flop-for-a-moment/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl