Random musings and general banter.

Him saying IW we’re doing Duchamp a favour

Mikes doing the Double Shifts today, well not two shifts together

Has Peter Simon gone in to hibernating for Christmas? Mike's doing his slot now.

EDIT: Christmas has got my day mixed up, it's not Friday yet!

My understanding of why they sell these Chumpywumpy watches for anything up to a quarter of the manufacturer’s RRP would be the manufacturer’s RRP is pitched unrealistically high in relation to their production costs of the watches. In turn, allowing companies like Ideal World to make out you are getting a massive reduction. Strange, no well-known high street watch brand with checkable and trackable pricing structures ever appears for sale with a similar sales pitch.

I would imagine if you buy one of these Chumpywumbylumpybumpy watches and then take it for independent valuation, you may be disappointed to find your £1700 timepiece comes in around £1200 or more less than the RRP Ideal World quoted you on it. If you are lucky, it might just reach what you paid for it on the night. All of that is an opinion, by the way, and not presented as a fact, But nonetheless, I do think it’s quite an accurate opinion.

The absolute garbage coming out of Morongan’s mouth last night about the watch manufacturer using some tuppenny-ha'penny shopping television channel watched by few as an alternative to them deploying £400,000 on a formal advertising budget actually turned several of my stomachs. This BS can potentially influence hard-up and vulnerable through retail ignorance viewers to part with their monies based upon nothing more than hot air. It remains a disgraceful way to try to get people to part with their cash.

I don’t normally post after about 10.30 at night, but was sat on my bed last night, and couldn’t believe his antics

Carried on watching and strangely after midnight, they were selling some Disney stuff, surely you sell that earlier in the evening

Have a feeling Sally is on her break, as her afternoon shift has Emma presenting

Duke of Cheese said:

Their donation to comedy strap line should be ‘The Gift That Keeps On Giving’. Particularly so in Morgan’s case. I’ve never seen and heard such ridiculous sales patters come out from such an apparently sincere, solemn but fixed gaze holding face. He always seems one off-camera moment away from losing it completely and laughing his head off at what he’s just been saying.

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Do you reckon he was Svengali in a previous life?

Duke of Cheese said:

The absolute garbage coming out of Morongan’s mouth last night about the watch manufacturer using some tuppenny-ha'penny shopping television channel watched by few as an alternative to them deploying £400,000 on a formal advertising budget actually turned several of my stomachs. This BS can potentially influence hard-up and vulnerable through retail ignorance viewers to part with their monies based upon nothing more than hot air. It remains a disgraceful way to try to get people to part with their cash.

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lol, it makes absolutely zero sense.

I make and sell product x on my website for £1000. However I want to get my new brand name out there.

So I give some product x to IW to sell for £250, in the hope this will increase brand awareness etc.

Here's the business for dummies question. How many prospective buyers of my product, after seeing it on IW for £250, are going to make future purchases from my website at four times the price?

And that aside, if someone's using my product x out and about and they're asked about it (which IW love to say will happen!), chances are the owner will answer by saying 'I got it off IW' so again others aren't necessarily being directed to my website. And even if they Google product x, they'll see it for £1000 on my website but £250 on IW.

We've discussed it all numerous times before. Inflated RRPs on the manufacturer website etc etc.

Reading off the back of the box on-air intense pre-show product preparation again.

cheeky chappie said:

lol, it makes absolutely zero sense.

I make and sell product x on my website for £1000. However I want to get my new brand name out there.

So I give some product x to IW to sell for £250, in the hope this will increase brand awareness etc.

Here's the business for dummies question. How many prospective buyers of my product, after seeing it on IW for £250, are going to make future purchases from my website at four times the price?

And that aside, if someone's using my product x out and about and they're asked about it (which IW love to say will happen!), chances are the owner will answer by saying 'I got it off IW' so again others aren't necessarily being directed to my website. And even if they Google product x, they'll see it for £1000 on my website but £250 on IW.

We've discussed it all numerous times before. Inflated RRPs on the manufacturer website etc etc.

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Spot on, CC. Spot on..

Battiola73 said:

Do you reckon he was Svengali in a previous life?

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He should certainly be swung around by the ingénues.

I know Muttley, finds Yiannis Creepy

God, that man is so cheesy and 40 years plus out of date in how to relate to people on-air.

They were selling a real leather duffel luggage bag last night for £35. 'Go have a Google, compare prices' was the advice. 'You'll see bags for £100, £200, £300 or more!'

A quick Google confirms this is true. No great surprise. So their bag at £35 appears to be great value and possibly is. However, there's another aspect to comparing products and prices. Will some of the more expensive bags be a rip off? No doubt. However, many of them will be made from higher quality leather and other components. The construction will be to a higher standard. The overall finish will be to a higher standard. And some will be of a brand name that people desire almost regardless of quality. The old saying sometimes still holds true today i.e. you get what you pay for. Quality products may indeed cost x times more, however they usually last x times longer

So yes, you're selling a bag for £35, great, fine. However it won't be to the same quality as most of the bags retailing for £100+.

Exactly.

Jazzydrury said:

I know Muttley, finds Yiannis Creepy

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I could never watch him on Create and Craft as I thought him creepy too.

Volevont, head of vacuuming and heating operations, demonstrating a very basic brand vacuum cleaner, the man announces 'totalllllllllll gaaaaaame changer' in his twang, followed by the seeds n cereal demo.

Then subsequently , and predictably, getting delirious on announcing a.... H E P A filter

He was like this with the rattan... A DAAAAAY BED'

Saddo.

Jazzydrury said:

Have a feeling Sally is on her break, as her afternoon shift has Emma presenting

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Maybe she has the press coming to report on her decorations this afternoon.

SiRich said:

Volevont, head of vacuuming and heating operations, demonstrating a very basic brand vacuum cleaner, the man announces 'totalllllllllll gaaaaaame changer' in his twang, followed by the seeds n cereal demo.

Then subsequently , and predictably, getting delirious on announcing a.... H E P A filter

He was like this with the rattan... A DAAAAAY BED'

Saddo.

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HEPA was commercialised in the 1950s.

These would suck up cereal etc from hard surfaces

galesgal57 said:

Maybe she has the press coming to report on her decorations this afternoon.

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I bet her front garden looks like a Grotto

On our road I think about 3 houses have lights up at the window, one being us