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1	The product has just been described, [[ButWaitTheresMore almost every amazing feature]] has been described: now, how much would you pay for this little miracle?
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3	How this is handled depends on how the infomercial is structured. Normally the demonstrator will ask this question. The host, usually female and often blond, will guess a price that is on the steep side of reasonable. The demonstrator will then correct them, and name the true price and [[PaymentPlanPitch possible payment plans]]. There will often be WittyBanter between the two as the demonstrator keeps trying to get the host to guess the price and the host keeps guessing higher and higher amounts. The host will also be shocked, shocked I tell you, about how cheap the product actually is.
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5	Ron Popeil infomercials handle it in a different way. Popeil may be accompanied by a "host" (often his daughter) or he may act as both host and demonstrator, but he doesn't need anyone to suggest a price. He'll tell you that you're not about to pay $240 for this item, or $230, or $210 like one of those fancy department store products. (''[[AbsoluteComparative Which]]'' [[AbsoluteComparative stores and products are conveniently not mentioned]]) Not $200, not $190, and not even $180 like many of you might have been thinking. Not $175, and not $170 either. No, this product is available for [[PaymentPlanPitch four easy monthly payments]] of just $39.99 each.
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7	[[ButWaitTheresMore But Wait, There's More]]!
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10	!!Parodies:
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12	* Parodied in a ''Series/GoodEats'' episode dedicated to knives where Alton, playing Chef Klaus in an infomercial muses, "Now how much are you willing to give Klaus? One hundred? Two hundred? Heh heh, I [[BriefAccentImitation sink]] so but today Klaus is feeling generous."
13	* Spoofed in the Dr. Tran short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JW133F0AK4 Roybertitos,]]'' along with other commercial tropes.
14	* Also spoofed on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' when Tommy tried to sell chocolate door-to-door by performing a skit with Harry:
15	-->'''[[StraightMan Tommy]]''': How far would you walk for a bar of chocolate?\
16	'''[[CloudCuckooLander Harry]]''': To get a bar of chocolate or at the request of a bar of chocolate?\
17	'''Tommy''': ...to get one.\
18	'''Harry''': Oh, fifty-three miles.\
19	'''Tommy''': Well, now you can have chocolate ''in your own home''!\
20	'''Harry''': ''In my own home''?!\
21	'''Tommy''': That's right. Now, how much would you pay for that?\
22	'''Harry''': For my own home or for a bar of chocolate?\
23	'''Tommy''': A bar of chocolate.\
24	'''Harry''': Ah!\
25	''[door is slammed in their faces]''
26	* Used by Swindle in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' while selling increasingly ridiculous weapons to Lugnut and Blitzwing.
27	* Sometimes made fun of by Colin and Ryan on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' during the "Greatest Hits" game.
28	-->'''Colin''': "Why, I'd pay upwards of- more."
29	* Spoofed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' involving an Infomercial parody where Babs tries to sell drying pins, only for the audience to boo and hiss every time she mentions a price, forcing her to lower it and add even more "bonus" items, until the price gets ridiculously low. This backfires, however, when the offer even includes "the Sun" which she has apparently brought into the studio, thus, vaporizing everyone.
30	* The phrase is quoted verbatim in the Music/WeirdAlYankovic song [[Music/WeirdAlYankovicIn3D "Mr. Popeil"]], which was inspired by Popeil's infomercials.
31	* Parodied in a ''Series/MadTV1995'' sketch for the Spishak "Omni-Bowl", a bowl that can double as a cereal bowl AND a small pasta bowl. When the spokesman asks how much people would expect to pay for the product, the other actors agree that $8000 sounds about right. The spokesman shocks them by saying they would have to only pay $400 for the wondrous bowl.
32	--> Wow! That's a $7000 savings!

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