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Of course the MyPillow guy has a story -- and it's wilder than you think
http://www.nola.com/ ^ | 4/8/18

Posted on 04/08/2018 7:46:51 AM PDT by BBell

The pillow salesman had so much crack cocaine pounding through his bloodstream he hadn't slept for two weeks, he would later say. Even the drug dealers were counseling Mike Lindell to slow down.

It was March 2008, and the Minneapolis-area entrepreneur's life was in free fall. Marriage broken. House lost. Business - a company he started four years earlier called MyPillow - struggling. Two weeks into this particular hot-wired bender, Lindell went to his usual drug dealers for a fix. But the guys had already put word out on the street: no one sell to Lindell until he sleeps.

"They were three of the biggest dealers in the cities," Lindell recounted to the Salvation Army in 2015. "They refused to sell to me again. One of them tried babysitting me until I fell asleep."

Instead, he snuck outside to score elsewhere. But no one wanted his business. Lindell waved around a $100 bill for $5 worth of crack. Nothing. He tried to hide his distinct mustache behind his hand. No luck.

"I get back to the apartment, and [the dealer] is sitting there, and he goes, 'How'd that work out for you?'" Lindell explained to CNBC last September. His dealer picked up Lindell's phone and snapped a photo of the addict's face - walking dead skin tone, disheveled hair, mug shot scowl. It was a memento of what it looked like at rock bottom.

Lindell got clean the next year, and powered ahead with MyPillow, turning an idea plucked from a dream into a successful international business claiming nearly 30 million sales. For years he struggled against addiction and long business odds. Today, Lindell finds himself up against a political backlash.

Last week, Fox News host Laura Ingraham hopped on Twitter to blast David Hogg, the Parkland massacre survivor turned to gun

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: advertising; camerahogg; ingraham; mikelindell; mypillow; mypillowguy
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To: BBell

1. I don’t think the CNN/MSLSD demographic can afford 50 dollar pillows. Most of them probably don’t sleep in the same bed too many nights in a row, anyhow, so it would be a waste of money.

2. I’m not paying 50 bucks for a pillow, but I wish him well.


41 posted on 04/08/2018 9:01:36 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Whether you think the My Pillow Guy is the best, most stable person in the world is NOT the point. The point is that he and his business were threatened by liberal hate groups that if they didn’t pull their advertising from Ingraham’s show there would be consequences. Lindell told them to go pound salt. Whether you think Mike Lindell is a great guy or has a good product or not, you should respect his refusal to be cowed by liberal hate groups. I, personally, am going to support him. I’ll buy one of the pillows, not because I need a new pillow, but I admire the spine it takes for him to not allow his business to be dictated to by awful libs performing legalized extortion. I will send him a note saying this and I hope he reads it. We NEED to support people who refuse to be told what to think and what to say with their advertising dollars. Period.


42 posted on 04/08/2018 9:07:28 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: BBell

Lefties hate this guy, and have been gunning for him hard.


43 posted on 04/08/2018 9:07:41 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: SkyDancer

They advertise so often. Just like those costly psoriasis treatments.


44 posted on 04/08/2018 9:13:18 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: BBell
In 2017, MyPillow's founder estimated the company had spent $100 million on infomercials, with 30 million pillows sold to $300 million in annual revenue.

ONE THIRD of revenue going to infomercials. That's why I never, ever would consider buying a product off an infomercial.

45 posted on 04/08/2018 9:16:27 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SkyDancer

You should see the featherbed prices! There’s a site called cuddledown — not the most expensive, but a great selection if you want to spend a thousand or so for something better than a mattress (imho). Their pillows can go a few hundred, too.


46 posted on 04/08/2018 9:20:57 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: BBell

Just bought a couple My Pillows.

I don’t care what they cost!


47 posted on 04/08/2018 9:21:57 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Is anyone but me bothered by the cross he wears outside of his shirt? (I always wear mine but it doesn’t show.)


48 posted on 04/08/2018 9:23:24 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

NordicTrack was heavy into infomercials for a time-—yet they are great products.

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49 posted on 04/08/2018 9:24:37 AM PDT by Mears
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Except I like My Pillow. I sleep better than with a couple of previous ones, maybe a coincidence, maybe not.


50 posted on 04/08/2018 9:25:06 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: proud American in Canada
I got one as a gift. The firmer one. It's okay for sleeping, great for reading in bed.

Get the less filled one, if you have a choice, but since you said "a couple", get one of each.

As for "difference", the fill feels like cubed pieces with irregular features, so I'm guessing it "locks" with spaces to breathe.

Regardless, I still regret not grabbing my down pillow during the divorce...

51 posted on 04/08/2018 9:26:58 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: All

another friggin hit piece by the media. How many articles will they write about all the arrests and addictions of people who supported Barry and Hitlery?
They covered up serial rape for over 20 years to protect a democrat donor.


52 posted on 04/08/2018 9:27:24 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: ConservativeMind

We love ours! Even bought 2 more regular and 2 travel size at the latest home & garden show. Never pay retail! They are on sale so much...


53 posted on 04/08/2018 9:29:36 AM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Story rings true ... if a drug buyer gets out of hand no dealer wants the attention that comes with higher profile users that might flip for a deal or be tailed to the dealers home or place of business


54 posted on 04/08/2018 9:32:26 AM PDT by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: ConservativeMind

As I mentioned before, ours were gifts; we received a soft one, and a medium density one. (They come in soft, medium and firm.) The soft one was perfect, but the medium one was too firm for me. Rather than return it, I opened up the seam, took out a few handsful of foam, and stitched it back up. PERFECT! Wash and dry like a dream, too, though we have a front loading washing machine; a machine with a regular agitator is going to be hard on most pillows; I can’t say how it would affect them.


55 posted on 04/08/2018 9:46:40 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative (S)
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To: SkyDancer

Watch for promotions.
We paid much less for two of the pillows and they’re great.


56 posted on 04/08/2018 9:46:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: BBell
Who knew? Drug dealers with scruples?

Just good business sense, not an atom of scruples there - you can't keep dealing to people who have died. If drug dealers had even the slightest conception of scruples, they wouldn't peddle this poison in the first place.
57 posted on 04/08/2018 9:50:57 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: FreedomNotSafety

He does give back. Big supporter of Salvation Army, for one. He also looks out for his employees; one guy was leaving for work THREE HOURS early, to walk to work; Lindell saw to it that he got a car. The Salvation Army is a good organization, though. When a family member was injured in a disaster, they’re the only group that actually helped her; Red Cross was pretty useless.


58 posted on 04/08/2018 9:52:05 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative (S)
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To: newnhdad

Actually, it’s his testimony, and he tells it himself. He wants people to know how the LORD delivered him.


59 posted on 04/08/2018 9:55:56 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative (S)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Well if somehow I can cram them into my flight bag I’d get two. Those motel/hotel pillows are either like rocks or flat with no support.


60 posted on 04/08/2018 10:02:06 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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