Outrageous! Hungarian phone-in show tries to sell hand sanitizer for 165 Euros

Everybody tries to get the best out of this horrible situation the world is in right now, and there seems to be no limit in exploiting desperate people. Hungarian channel screened a phone-in program that tried to sell 90ml of hand sanitiser for 165 Euros.

Pesti Hírlap writes that a clip of a phone-in show surfaced on the internet, where they are selling hand sanitisers for 165 Euros. In this clip, the host emphasises that they only have 100 packages available, and he even apologises for not having enough for everyone.

These 30-minute-or-so phone-in shows (in the U.S. known as “As seen on TV”) work with direct-response mail-order through a telephone number. These aim to sell a wide range of products from kitchen, household, automotive, cleaning, health, and beauty products, or in this case, hand sanitisers. Ékszer TV is one of these shows that run on a channel called ATV.

Ékszer TV uses all the classics: so much information on the screen that your face gets dizzy, the most dramatic background music you can imagine, and an energetic and annoying host. The most highly criticised element of the show, however, is the product: packages of hand sanitisers.