IronGym Pull UP Bar from HELL! AS seen on TV shiznit.

GREAT product, HORRIBLE company....

Wanna get strong? Wanna get lean? Wanna get ripped? Ahhh...YES please!

Before you read this you have to check out the actual site and the product i am talking about, go HERE. (but do come back here, ya hear!)

Alright, so most of you that know me or have seen me know that i am in pretty good shape and like to workout on regular basis. Since shutting down my Lifetime, put a hole in your wallet, gym membership a year a go i had to find an alternative methods to get my daily workout. So here i was watching some TV when the commercial for the IronGym bar came up (just like on their site). At first i was saying that is pretty cool but i am not paying $60 for a metal rod with grips. But then, as much as i hate to admit it, i was sucked in by their closing technique. "Buy now and get if for HALF OFF"the announcer said. So forgoing the phone ordering process because human interaction only slows the process down i decided to go to their site and get it there. Filled out all my info got some extras like the straps for ab workouts and i was good to go. Spend a total of $50 and felt pretty good about my purchase that i made with my biz AMEX card.

So i eagerly awaited the day that my pull up bar would come so i can test their claims and save $60 per month in gym fees. Finally the day came and i got the goods. Opened the box inspected the goods and assembled it. YES, assembly of the bar is required, which is pretty easy considering i had directions :-). Placed it just like the commercials and went to work. This thing was AWESOME! I loved it so much because it was the single piece of exercise equipment that i have ever used that was actually fun and guess what it WORKED! Now i was not some out of shape guy nor was i a buddy builder but i kid you not this thing worked like a charm. I lost weight and had better muscle definition. This was the first thing i have ever bough from a TV infomercial and i was impressed. I just always thought those things were cheap and all CRAP, but this worked.

THE PROBLEM:

A few weeks passed by and i got a phone call from a company, don't recall the name because i could not understand what the person on the other end said. So i answered the phone (this is my cell phone mind you the only phone i use) from a number that i now know is from somewhere in San Diego, CA.

here is the transcript of the conversations recalled from my memory:

women speaking broken English: "ah....ahh....hello? Can i speak with G...G....GGohr...Gohr..."

i interrupt and say: "GORAN!? Yes this is what are you selling and how did you get this number!"

Woman goes into script reading mode: "yes Mr. Goran i am calling on behalf of (insert company name here) to let you know that you are receiving a free $100 gift card from us because you have such good history with AMEX card ending in XXXX where would you like us to send this car?"

NO WAY! IronGym sold MY info to this company so they can hustle me for more stuff? DAMN, sometimes i just hate marketing. I know they sold my info because i asked the lady how they got my info and she told me that it was from an online purchase around X date. WOW....IronGym you SUCK!

WHAT I DID:

So after i told the rep that i was not interested and to take me off their calling list i immediately called the number back to OPT OUT of their calling system. I also added my cell phone number to the DO NOT call list I continued to receive a call per week from these guys and every time i was polite and told them that i was not interested and to take me off their list. But his apparently did not work. Until one day, a guy called me from that company and again i told him that i was not interested and to take me of their list. He proceeded to be an idiot over the phone and try to hard sell me. I HATE THIS! Needless to say i gave him some insight on why he was being a jerk and they never called me since.

Overall i give this product a SMASH because the S*** really works! I do see now that you can buy similar products in retail stores and avoid the telemarketing battle.