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In which case, if the £17k figure was true it must have been a starting salary for what amounted to be a junior assistant or similar.

A few years ago Bid TV were advertising a presenter job with a quoted yearly salary of around £17k, and salaries haven't exactly skyrocketed since then, though Ideal World could be exclusively paying freelance presenters on a per-shift basis. Oh, and they're probably paying Peter Simon at least...

I've watched some of Create & Craft recently especially during lockdown, and although it's a definite improvement over Ideal World for most of the time, I recently heard a presenter (don't know their name) say something that's arguably much worse than Ideal World's idiot selling, namely that if...

Some of you may remember that on a previous eLife bike they couldn't even spell the word 'Electric' properly or similar? Well take a look at this picture from last night and see if you can spot something... Yes, some 'genius' at the eLife factory had put the 'Swift' logo on the bike UPSIDE...

IW appear to have stopped selling things like mobile phones on TV, meaning that the remaining market of people who don't have such products but may consider buying one as an impulse purchase must now be too small to be economically viable for them. Nowadays it's mainly the impulse purchase...

And the prize for the biggest disparity between 'Ideal World Price' and what they're actually selling it for goes to... ...and yes they did manage to 'sell' all of them. Supposedly real 'natural' diamonds as well. Plus it's worth repeating that ANY watch where they display a stupid fake...

Tonight's watch show had Kevski and Shaun getting really excited over their "Swiss Military Gents Ltd Ed Charmex 1946 ETA Valjoux 7750 COSC Watch with Stainless Steel Bracelet and Extra Strap", with Kev coming out with an extraordinary statement along the lines of purchasers of watches with ETA...

They still have Vostok 21st Anniversary watches for sale, and presumably they daren't feature them again on TV for fear of being rumbled as to how unpopular they are (though knowing IW they will be brought back to air eventually because they think their viewers have the collective memory span of...

For me the most annoying part of the Jane Plan sales spiel is when they say a "great choice" of food as in "What shall I eat today?", using choice as a selling point. Well once you've made your choice then the food item(s) you didn't choose are still sitting in the box, you've paid for it and...

The Vostok Europe Anniversary watches are good-looking by Vostok standards but there again my favourites are probably those, the GAZ-14 and maybe one or two of the Expedition models. Still wouldn't buy an Anniversary for the reason outlined previously as well as there being a whole raft of...

Tonight Kevski said that it was the first time Vostok had used anything other than its own colour on its logo for a corporate client (for the 21st anniversary watches), and whilst that may be strictly true it isn't the first time Vostok has used a non-standard colour for its logo since it did so...

Becque has been known as 'Shreque' on here if anyone wants a nickname for him. Watched a small part of his Mathey-Tissot presentation yesterday and Becque had attempted a really tasteless sales pitch involving someone who bought a watch after having "recovered from coronavirus", but he even...

I think Howard vanished about a year ago when COVID-19 was on the horizon (self-isolating I guess), though if he's now vaccinated he could reappear soon? Also just remembered a Bid TV presenter called Andy Oliver of which I've never seen on Ideal World/Create and Craft, though he could have...

If everyone was well aware of what's going on then Ideal World and even QVC would have closed down years ago; real bargains on Ideal World do exist but I'm guessing that at least 75% of what they sell is vastly overpriced (basically what they think they can get away with) for 90% of the time...

Watched a little bit of the sales pitch and the one thing that struck me was how blatantly cynical the whole enterprise is. That's not to say that they wouldn't be desirable if they were given higher quality components and a more sensible price tag, though I'm still less than convinced with the...

Of course if anyone has a problem with My Pillow they could always complain to the company CEO on Twitter in order to...erm...urm...oh. Politics aside, My Pillow are basically charging lots of money for pillows and other products in a choice of firmness levels, which is pointless when you can...

Peter Simon this evening whilst flogging Swan and Edgar watches saying that the price of the watch was 'unbelievable' whilst talking about the 'full' 'retail' price...yes, their RRPs are truly unbelievable (y) Anyway, had to give up watching Simon Peters because he kept talking all over guest...

Presenters doing voiceovers during lunch breaks? Lunch breaks are lunch breaks and should never intentionally be used for work purposes, paid or otherwise, though we all know that truly awful organisations tend to cut corners that way.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas! On Christmas Eve I happened to switch on Ideal World's Ideal Extra channel and they were replaying a presentation that featured something like "Guaranteed delivery by Christmas" displayed on-screen, which was obviously wrong and misleading at this point with...

When I was watching them flog the PortaS watches last night (one or two of them didn't look too bad but they're overpriced and on Ideal World, so no thank you), they mentioned "near the Swiss border" at least twice as if that's somehow impressive. France, Italy and Lichtenstein also have areas...