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TV HOME SHOPPING CHANNELS

Ever wonder why your local cable TV companies carry so many home shopping shows? It may be because your local cable operator may be getting a "piece of the action" or share of the profits on every sale that comes in from the area your cable operator serves.

Cable TV subscribers may not necessarily want all these "impulse buying" type shows, it may just be what the corporate conglomerates want in order to reap windfall profits from selling merchandise to cable subscribers in your area.

Compared to "big city" retailers and discount stores, home shopping channels may be offering somewhat overpriced merchandise. Also, what home shopping channels do not tell you is they may experience up to 50% returns of the merchandise purchased from a home shopping channel.

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