Talk:Billy Mays

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: The following three statements are ridiculously biased and contrary to evidence. BM appears to continue to be successful and in demand: Customer response to Mays' sales pitches were negative, with a sharp decrease in sales after his first day on the network The failure of these commercials led to Orange Glo International being named among the top ten privately hemmoraghing companies from 1999 to 2001 by Inc. magazine, and its eventual buyout by Church and Dwight. Appel credited Mays' lack of salesmanship for much of the company's success. His services as a pitchman became highly avoided, and he has appeared in commercials for many diverse Snake-Oil "as seen on TV" products.[4] (edit)

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[edit] Advertising

Wikipedia is not for advertising! This article contains numerous external links to promotional websites, only a couple of the products mentioned have their own articles (I haven't look at them) but the rest are direct external links to promotional websites, e.g. http://www.mightyputty.com/

I've marked the site with the spam tag until somebody can look further into this.

--204.116.124.68 (talk) 08:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Salary

$330 mill sounds like a lot for a cleaning product whore. Maybe some proof?

[edit] NPOV

There is an unsourced statement that is debatable whether it represents a NPOV. It references his "demeaning tone", yet there is no source that says this is the reason he has appeared in less commercials, so I'm led to believe it's an opinionated statement. 69.117.70.39 02:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted and recreated

I have deleted this article and recreated it as a stub. The bulk of the biographical content was a copyright violation of this article. Additionally, the article contained startling WP:BLP violations. From this point forward, the addition of any unsourced material will be reverted without comment. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 23:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ref 3

Is broken. Trevor GH5 23:49, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

"...has gained Mays a substantial amount of recognition and a rapidly growing legion of channel changers whenever his fingernails on a blackboard voice eminates from the television screen." How un-biased.65.6.213.12 (talk) 01:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Has this page been vandalized? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.182.117 (talk) 21:42, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted Salary information

According to one of the external newspaper articles linked to from this article, $330 million was the revenue of his employer, not his personal salary. 96.233.103.109 (talk) 12:24, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stalker-ish info on his home?

Does anybody else think that tracking down, and subsequently posting a link to the appraisal of his house is a little, stalkerish? Just because its public info doesnt mean we should necessarily post it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.225.123.235 (talk) 02:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ghost hunter??

I remember seeing Billy Mays on a Sci-Fi channel production about ghost hunters, where he (using his name Billy Mays) still claimed to have been a ghost hunter. I always wanted to find more info online about that, because it was hilarious, but never can. It could be an interesting foot note to the article if someone can find it somehow.

The show focused around a lady being haunted by "real" ghosts in her house, with it sitting on her kids bed, blood dripping from the walls (in droplets), and when they went into the attic Billy Mays somehow ended up getting hung by a rope hanging in there. Then it went on with Billy and the other ghost hunters at their house with things turning on and off and windows breaking and finding scissors under their pillows and stuff.

I remember thinking it was real when I was younger, then I saw him on informercials. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.60.50 (talk) 20:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)