Random musings and general banter.

Hammy60 said:

Oh more crap to ingest to support our well-being.

"A hug in a mug".

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Overpriced rubbish

Pedro better not see this, he will be taking spoons of the stuff

Think I'll stick to PG Tips

'What if this helps, even just a little bit? We can't promise it will, no one can do that about anything, however ...'

Jeez, you could say that about ANYTHING!

'What's that? You're feeling a bit low? Let me slap you around the chops a dozen or so times. That might help jolt you out of it. I can't make any promises though!'

Hammy60 said:

Afternoon pantomime time with Dr Flippin Heck the resident, health, beauty, fashion and enunciation guru. You know I'm always truly impressed by Sallista de La Marey's onscreen delivery, we should, no not should, must all follow her lead and strive to improve our enunciation and vocabulary to her phenomenally high standards.

To think there are folks that actually follow and listen to this materialistic, don't do as i do do as i say, me, me, me self accredited faux expert on everything.

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I could just imagine her joining the fake version of a famous band and phissing everybody off in the original version.

Glad that I’m not interested in watches! I would have bought thousands by now with all this dramatic low price nonsense.
Anyway,I digress:
What I wanna know is what does it mean when Mason says,when selling some items,”All we have is all we have”

Get away! What the heck does it mean? Does it mean that the all you have is all you have? Well,blow me down wiv a fevver Moyke. I would never have guessed that all you have is all you have.

How about some numbers? Or is it that you can’t/dont wish to say because maybe last night you had 1,000 and now got 999? Is that it Mikey boy?

Dreadful sales tactic and it didn’t wash with me because I of my financial position cos all I’ve got is all I’ve got!

It would be interesting to know from anybody who IS in the know what the cost would be for somebody like Reynolds coming on and showcasing his goods? QVC, apparently, don't make a charge for airtime. What they do, as far as I know, is to make money from the items sold on their platform themselves. Meaning they must purchase directly from the seller, and then said seller can appear on their shows without further fee as part of the deal.

I think Ideal World must be a different kettle of rotten fish in the previous respect. From what I can understand from watching, the watches are dispatched by Reynolds directly. Therefore, Ideal World has nothing to do with the actual sending out of the product. In turn, you would think that because of that, they make no money from any sales of the product? Again, because of that, the only way you can see that they would make money would be to charge Reynolds a fee for appearing? Least, that's how I see it?

Duke of Cheese said:

It would be interesting to know from anybody who IS in the know what the cost would be for somebody like Reynolds coming on and showcasing his goods? QVC, apparently, don't make a charge for airtime. What they do, as far as I know, is to make money from the items sold on their platform themselves. Meaning they must purchase directly from the seller, and then said seller can appear on their shows without further fee as part of the deal.

I think Ideal World must be a different kettle of rotten fish in the previous respect. From what I can understand from watching, the watches are dispatched by Reynolds directly. Therefore, Ideal World has nothing to do with the actual sending out of the product. In turn, you would think that because of that, they make no money from any sales of the product? Again, because of that, the only way you can see that they would make money would be to charge Reynolds a fee for appearing? Least, that's how I see it?

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I can't speak for the current IW, but in the old ones, some shows were 'advertiser hours' which meant the supplier paid for the airtime and that was what we got for the hour and that would be in the order of a few thousand pounds. Usually with these shows they would (wrongly or otherwise) decide the format and content of the show, our graphics would show the supplier's ordering details rather than our own and they dealt with everything so we never saw the takings at all. Take Planet Cruise or Luggie as examples of this.

Others (and Kevin falls into this category) were just standard shows in which we 'bought in' the product, agreed a margin on it, did the ordering process for them - whether that be us sending it from our warehouse or the supplier dispatching themselves, which as you rightly point out Kevin does. In that respect we would take the money from the customer, calculate our margin for the transaction and pay out the supplier a little later (well that's how it was supposed to go). To muddy the water a little, some products were never 'bought in' as such, the invoices were just calculated on what was sold and remaining inventory would be retained by the supplier or put onto a future show.

I don't know if Kevin received a fee as it was his own company so he profited from the sales anyway, but guests such as Joe, Paul Brodel, Kelley Carey, Tim Britton, Carys (generally the ones who were guesting on behalf of a product thereby acting as brand ambassador) would receive an appearance fee for their time if they were not the presenter.

Hope that helps!

Can’t remember the brand but it was a group of work men coming home in a van singing ‘we hope it’s chips, it’s chips, we all hope it’s chips…..’

Bird’s Eye Steakhouse Grills. I remember my mum cooked me some when I was about 15 or 16 with peas and chips, and as I’ve bit into one, I discovered in my gob, the largest piece of gristle that I think has ever presented itself to me in food of any description, including ice cream. My first instinct was to spit it straight out, but that probably would’ve offended my mum so I had to grab a tissue, pretend I was wiping my mouth and disposed of it that way. Transpose ‘Chips’ for ‘Gristle’. By the way, Apple dictation is the most appallingly inaccurate speech recognition service I have ever used.

Duke of Cheese said:

I grew up in North East London and went to a large all boys comprehensive school with probably a 70%/30% ratio of Afro-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, and Turkish and Greek boys to white boys. For the mid-1970s we all got on pretty well generally. Blacks and whites were mates, as were the rest of most of the diverse ethnic mixes. Sometimes, out of a class of 30 to 35 boys, there were maybe four or five white boys in the class, But there were generally no issues whatsoever that I can recall. The only two races that did seem to really hate one another then were the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots. Some real vile insults and actual strong hatreds existed. Although this was the time of the Turkish invasion of the north of Cyprus, so there was some ‘background’ to the vehement dislike one group had for the other.

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Growing up in Northern Ireland, I can remember the excitement when we had our first non white family at school. Back then we didn’t really have time for racism, as we were busy with sectarianism.

I was in Belfast a month or two back, and speaking to a Political Tours taxi-driver, he said there is a high black and Asian population there now. Fantastic city, by the way.

Hammy60 said:

Afternoon pantomime time with Dr Flippin Heck the resident, health, beauty, fashion and enunciation guru. You know I'm always truly impressed by Sallista de La Marey's onscreen delivery, we should, no not should, must all follow her lead and strive to improve our enunciation and vocabulary to her phenomenally high

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Did you hear Foghorn Sally claim that she was regularly flown around the world to speak at medical conferences about collagen, health, vitamins or whatever?

The woman is a total fantasist. Can you just imagine an inarticulate, uneducated buffoon like her lecturing medical professionals, all the while shouting at them at the top of her voice: "I am telling you!!"
The woman needs help, she really does.

I can remember begging my Mum for a Vesta Chicken Supreme. It was vile, but I had to eat it anyway. Still gives me nightmares just thinking about it. The ‘meat’ was some strange compressed cube that did not soften, even after vigorous boiling. I’ve no idea, what it was, but I doubt that it was ever chicken.

Worldie04 said:

I can't speak for the current IW, but in the old ones, some shows were 'advertiser hours' which meant the supplier paid for the airtime and that was what we got for the hour and that would be in the order of a few thousand pounds. Usually with these shows they would (wrongly or otherwise) decide the format and content of the show, our graphics would show the supplier's ordering details rather than our own and they dealt with everything so we never saw the takings at all. Take Planet Cruise or Luggie as examples of this.

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I presume The Planning Crowd ones were advertiser hours as well? Didn't they also have a company selling blinds for conservatories etc, again presumably on the AH format.

And the cockney fellow from The Apprentice. The one with the magical golf club.

Worldie04 said:

I can't speak for the current IW, but in the old ones, some shows were 'advertiser hours' which meant the supplier paid for the airtime and that was what we got for the hour and that would be in the order of a few thousand pounds. Usually with these shows they would (wrongly or otherwise) decide the format and content of the show, our graphics would show the supplier's ordering details rather than our own and they dealt with everything so we never saw the takings at all. Take Planet Cruise or Luggie as examples of this.

Others (and Kevin falls into this category) were just standard shows in which we 'bought in' the product, agreed a margin on it, did the ordering process for them - whether that be us sending it from our warehouse or the supplier dispatching themselves, which as you rightly point out Kevin does. In that respect we would take the money from the customer, calculate our margin for the transaction and pay out the supplier a little later (well that's how it was supposed to go). To muddy the water a little, some products were never 'bought in' as such, the invoices were just calculated on what was sold and remaining inventory would be retained by the supplier or put onto a future show.

I don't know if Kevin received a fee as it was his own company so he profited from the sales anyway, but guests such as Joe, Paul Brodel, Kelley Carey, Tim Britton, Carys (generally the ones who were guesting on behalf of a product thereby acting as brand ambassador) would receive an appearance fee for their time if they were not the presenter.

Hope that helps!

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Yeah, there used to be a page on the old Ideal World (Ideal Shopping Direct era) detailing those hours and rough cost, sure it came under something like become a partner brands, I remember posting about it years ago when that topic was being discussed, think it may have been when the "Will" folks first started on IW. From memory, although could be way off, seem to remember somewhere in the region of £14,000 was mentioned on the site, but as i say could be wrong, memory not what it used to be.

Good grief. - 44 cars for £10 - tat city. Words fail me

Toy car set, can be seen on any market stall. On the very rare occasion that they have had quality items, they seem to be out of date stock.

Bernie100 said:

Did you hear Foghorn Sally claim that she was regularly flown around the world to speak at medical conferences about collagen, health, vitamins or whatever?

The woman is a total fantasist. Can you just imagine an inarticulate, uneducated buffoon like her lecturing medical professionals, all the while shouting at them at the top of her voice: "I am telling you!!"
The woman needs help, she really does.

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She's been to a conference (one in Denmark) which seems to have morphed into attending medical conferences around the world. Shes not lecturing, she was invited as a Patient case study, she just tells folks attending the conference her experience with her particular medical condition (anemia i think).