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I can't be the only person that thinks Bundleberry is a ridiculous name? And that her alluding to the super special reason for the ladybirds is total nonsense?
 
Retrovertigo said:
I can't be the only person that thinks Bundleberry is a ridiculous name? And that her alluding to the super special reason for the ladybirds is total nonsense?
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Of course it is really just a QVC own brand which they pay her to front. I sometimes get surveys from QVC with the chance of winning credit on my account. I do remember the one they put forward for her. Went along the lines of which celeb would fit with homeware and she was the top name. No doubt she got the gig not because she came top of the poll(by the way there is never an option to say none of them), but they put her name out there because of BGT thing and a known face.

I always have a good laugh as they no doubt have been trying to get Willowby for something but she is too expensive. But other surveys and bang the name they put top suddenly appears doing a brand for QVC which will always be a QVC own brand. They have this idea that z list celebs will made the loyal QVC customers buy. No forking way in my case!
 
I get the surveys too and they`re the reason you never see Ruth Langsford wearing her stuff outside the Q studios, why Amanda Holden probably doesn`t give shelf space to Bundleberry in her own home and why Rylan was recently on air promoting candles.In fact somewhere on here is a thread where I mentioned many months ago that I`d been sent a survey asking which person would be best suited to fronting a home fragrance range and one of the choices was Rylan.
It`s just another acting role for them all. They`re paid faces, no more, no less, nothing genuine about their supposed input into the so called ranges and they simply learn a script, grab their pay cheque and hope enough people swallow the hype so they`ll be invited back enough times to top up their pension pots.
 
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Lies lies lies :mysmilie_498::mysmilie_505::mysmilie_478:

But they touted out Rylan clearly saying he’d worked on his fragrance line for FOUR! Years!
How then can they be allowed to say that if they have just done a survey asking who’d be best selling this range we have created?
Think perhaps those folk they send surveys to about who should we get to front this brand we have just created, should send them to Ofcom or whoever
 
Gosh! I am obviously a bit naive because I didn't think they were Q own brands! I didn't think Q, certainly in the UK, would be in the business of putting together a collection and making stuff, or at least organising production with a manufacturer.I know they are behind Northern Nights and is it Centigrade? What else do they own? I'm preparing to be stunned, lol. (Please don't say MB, YC or Decleor!!)
 
Mazza said:
Gosh! I am obviously a bit naive because I didn't think they were Q own brands! I didn't think Q, certainly in the UK, would be in the business of putting together a collection and making stuff, or at least organising production with a manufacturer.I know they are behind Northern Nights and is it Centigrade? What else do they own? I'm preparing to be stunned, lol. (Please don't say MB, YC or Decleor!!)
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Yeah I must admit to feeling a bit shocked to read all of this - I guess Q's buyers went out looking for bits n bobs for the Bundleberry line, AH got picked and she was then presented with 'her' collection, wow.

Not sure how Rylan can lay claim to 4 years' of work mind if the same is true, that is a baldfaced lie!
 
donna255 said:
Of course it is really just a QVC own brand which they pay her to front. I sometimes get surveys from QVC with the chance of winning credit on my account. I do remember the one they put forward for her. Went along the lines of which celeb would fit with homeware and she was the top name. No doubt she got the gig not because she came top of the poll(by the way there is never an option to say none of them), but they put her name out there because of BGT thing and a known face.

I always have a good laugh as they no doubt have been trying to get Willowby for something but she is too expensive. But other surveys and bang the name they put top suddenly appears doing a brand for QVC which will always be a QVC own brand. They have this idea that z list celebs will made the loyal QVC customers buy. No forking way in my case!
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She got the gig because she needs the money. According to reports she was pissed off because she didn't get the This Morning gig with Schofield - who put the brakes on her getting the job, when Willoughby was off earning even more cash for her stint in Australia.

I think its safe to assume that many of the American brands we see are owned either in full or part by QVC, (as QVC is a US company). Years ago I did a bit of 'digging' into a well known cosmetic brand at the time, and the deeper I went into the internet, the more umbrella companies I discovered, but I eventually found QVC behind the brand.
 
Mazza said:
Gosh! I am obviously a bit naive because I didn't think they were Q own brands! I didn't think Q, certainly in the UK, would be in the business of putting together a collection and making stuff, or at least organising production with a manufacturer.I know they are behind Northern Nights and is it Centigrade? What else do they own? I'm preparing to be stunned, lol. (Please don't say MB, YC or Decleor!!)
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QVC own most of the brands on QVC, they're sent over from QVC America and maybe change the brand name for the British market, although I've got to say, Cuddl Duds has been lost in translation.
 
The guest celeb presenters are paid to showcase the products, just as a model is paid to show fashion for a designer. Not one of them is manufacturing the stuff or own it. They also seem to emerging from the ITV stable/management umbrella, including Andi Peters. Wonder who will turn up next after the promise of a big fat fee?
 
Linwood said:
The guest celeb presenters are paid to showcase the products, just as a model is paid to show fashion for a designer. Not one of them is manufacturing the stuff or own it. They also seem to emerging from the ITV stable/management umbrella, including Andi Peters. Wonder who will turn up next after the promise of a big fat fee?
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I guess those getting the questionnaires will know just who’s top of the list :mysmilie_17:
 
It's odd though, isn't it? Because some people are clearly named as Brand Ambassadors, like Rosa or Jemma. And Andi Peters presents stuff he has "curated" (that cracks me up, it's hardly an exhibition at the V&A is it!) from various brands. But the likes of Ruth, Amanda and Rylan all say it is their brand. Like Kelly Hoppen or Lulu Guinness who I know make stuff especially for the Q but their brands exist in their own right. I suppose the test must be if you can find these things elsewhere....

Do we think then that staff at Q have gone to a candle factory and had a design session with the owners and just recruited Rylan post facto? Or do they pick Rylan and he goes to the meetings as well and gives some input? A bit like a celebrity perfume? If Q is doing that and managing the sourcing process, they must employ far more people than I imagined. Because you need to organise the whole thing from soup to nuts don't you? You can't just say yeah, I'd like a Black Fig candle in a straight jar please and hope 300 of them turn up two months later, smelling right, looking right and in line with any UK/EU regs.
 
I had a survey a couple of weeks ago asking for opinions on "specialist" Christmas hampers such as wine hampers, vegan hampers, meat hampers etc so in the comments box at the end of the survey I simply wrote, don`t bother, your prices are a joke, the companies you use are a bigger joke and the couriers are the biggest joke of all judging by the number of people who don`t even get their hampers.
 
There’s some difference in ‘Shops Own’ brands then isn’t there.

ie Northern Nights, Cooks Essentials, Eek and Home Reflections etc that Q openly say are theirs.
So which are then are theirs but not sold as such?

I know a Alison Cork item I’ve had seems very like the Home Reflection item I have.
I noted in the past a review of one of her trees referred to a tree the person had previously purchased from the Santa’s Best range.
 
Yeah you can, there are a couple of trade manufacturers in the uk that that is exactly how they work. Mind you pretty sure Qs candles are from China with as many corners cut as possible.
 
Mazza said:
It's odd though, isn't it? Because some people are clearly named as Brand Ambassadors, like Rosa or Jemma. And Andi Peters presents stuff he has "curated" (that cracks me up, it's hardly an exhibition at the V&A is it!) from various brands. But the likes of Ruth, Amanda and Rylan all say it is their brand. Like Kelly Hoppen or Lulu Guinness who I know make stuff especially for the Q but their brands exist in their own right. I suppose the test must be if you can find these things elsewhere....

Do we think then that staff at Q have gone to a candle factory and had a design session with the owners and just recruited Rylan post facto? Or do they pick Rylan and he goes to the meetings as well and gives some input? A bit like a celebrity perfume? If Q is doing that and managing the sourcing process, they must employ far more people than I imagined. Because you need to organise the whole thing from soup to nuts don't you? You can't just say yeah, I'd like a Black Fig candle in a straight jar please and hope 300 of them turn up two months later, smelling right, looking right and in line with any UK/EU regs.
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Clearly Ruth and the others who 'front' a range (also the likes of Snowden and Mone for the 'eek ), don't sit for hours in front of a design programme on a computer or at a drawing board, trying to come up with new 'designs' for QVC. Its not their skill set and don't have the time, but love to make you think they do.

Does Posh Beckham have the design skills to make her outfits - of course not. There are a team of professional designers who know their job, and no doubt Ruth et al might suggest a zip or a button just for the credibility of 'input', and the next time they see the garment is when they turn up to do the show. For all we care it may as well be Sooty and Sweep doing the guesting.

Consider how many times even Kelly Hoppen hasn't a clue as to what QVC are calling the colour of a product, and even once indicated she hadn't seen the design !!!!! What the hell ?

No, its all a huge con and marketing tool used by QVC. M & S have Holly Willoughby - and do we really believe she actually designs what she wears ? of course not, but she gets paid handsomely for the 'fairy tale' !!
 

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