Glass birds

[Brighthunter]

On now, quick, don't miss out - weird glass birds (the antiques of tomorrow according to Ellis!) they have scary staring eyes and look very fragile

 

[TheManWithNoName]

On now, quick, don't miss out - weird glass birds (the antiques of tomorrow according to Ellis!) they have scary staring eyes and look very fragile

But they don't sell brass and glass......

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Ellis said she could start the price at £500. Yeah, you could Ellis.

I could also start the price of my 6 year old car with 140,000 miles on the clock at £20,000.

In the real world, nobody is going to buy either of them for those prices.

And what is it with Gemporia and birds?

First of all, Dave Troth has based his Dove 'Blue' Jade on something white and Anaemic.

Now they're selling 'Peacocks' that have the eyes of a Tarsier, the beak of a Duck, wearing blue crowns on their head - and generally looking a bit deformed.

If I owned a zoo with a Peacock that looks like that, I'd be calling in a vet to euthanise it and put it out of its misery.

If they were selling these as 'cartoon' like items, then fair enough - but Ellis is making out that these are works of art and going to be worth a fortune in years to come. She's even told people to keep their box and receipt........

Gemporia's 'Peacock'

An actual Peacock

 

[MrMarple]

Jesus wept, they really are absolutely hideous.

 

[Brighthunter]

It was the eyes that got me, they are like the sugar ones I buy for Halloween cookies

 

[TheManWithNoName]

It was the eyes that got me, they are like the sugar ones I buy for Halloween cookies

The last time I saw something with eyes like that, it was being arrested outside a nightclub for indulging in, and being in possession of, some rather exotic substances

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Found something VERY similar:

Glass Crystal Peacock Pair Showpiece

Shri Balaji Enterprises - Offering Glass Crystal Peacock Pair Showpiece, For Anywhere, Packaging Type: Box at Rs 599/piece in New Delhi, Delhi. Also find Glass Showpiece price list | ID: 23603512712

www.indiamart.com

500 Indian Rupees - which converts to £4.90p

Gemporia sold their for £29.99p

In my opinion, they're the sort of thing you'd see in a seaside gift shop for a tenner.

 

[Kit10]

I couldn’t believe it when I saw them, and more to come tomorrow, apparently. Seagulls, no less. I really don’t know how Ellis could keep a straight face.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

I couldn’t believe it when I saw them, and more to come tomorrow, apparently. Seagulls, no less. I really don’t know how Ellis could keep a straight face.

Dont forget to get in early to secure yours - Ellis said that these are on an introductory price, and they'll cost more next time around!!

Good luck to each and every one of you, we'll done!

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Jesus wept, they really are absolutely hideous.

Harsh! That's really disrespectful to hideous things.

 

[Imogene9500]

Glass birds ... really? What is going on at Gemporia!! I'm so sorry I missed them for fun factor of Ellis trying to sell them. Hopefully they will pop up on many another show .... even though it would have been an heirloom sell out What with rabbit heads, Steve's fat freezing clinic, Dave Jade and now glass birds ..what next!! It's just Alice in Wonderland ..!

 

[Brighthunter]

I think these glass creations will be on all weekend, so there's plenty of time to catch them and don't forget - antiques of the future! Save the box and the receipt because they will be on the Antiques Roadshow one day. I saw on the FB group that some people loved them, so each to their own I guess. A bog-eyed bird to one person, is exquisite, glass finery to another

 

[Kit10]

Ellis was encouraging us to buy them in pairs, as they would be more valuable in the future. Hopefully I won’t miss the Seagulls, I’m clearing a space to display them in right now!

 

[TheManWithNoName]

I’m clearing a space to display them in right now!

Was your wheelie bin really full then?

 

[Kit10]

Was your wheelie bin really full then?

Yeah, full of Jade, Queen Conch and gold tone fissure filled rubies!

 

[user 17461]

I laughed when I saw Ellis desperately trying to flog these.

They look like something you could win at a fair, or at a dodgy arcade at Skegness or Blackpool.

And £30.00? I feel sorry for the mugs who bought them, and the poor chumps who will be "gifted" them. Anyone who gave me something like that as a present would be immediately cut out of my will. They're not getting their hands on my gold tone, snot coloured jade after I die!

 

[AndyW]

If I had a fantastic time on a sunny day out in Skegness and won this at a "Shoot The Tin Ducks" type fairground scam for £1, I'd love it. If it was made by someone I loved dearly, who'd made it at night school and gave it to me at Christmas, I'd love it.

(It would still go in a cabinet so I wouldn't have to dust the ugly fecker!)

But £29.99 + £3.95 P&P? What a price to "open your order"! I'd rather open a tarantula cage and leave the door ajar!

 

[SnowMoon]

Well, it looks like they are buying cheap jade on websites (not from mines) and even cheaper tatt from similar sites to Ali Baba etc. Then marking them up at, sometimes, dozens, if not hundreds, of times what they paid for them before sticking on the hard sell to get gullible viewers to drag them out of the financial abyss their greed got them into. This might sound harsh, but from what we have seen by finding similar, if not identical, items for a fraction of the price on the web the evidence is pretty damning. It's sad to watch any integrity or respect they had as a brand finally running down the plughole. Of course this is my opinion, but everything I have seen is pointing this way.
I really hoped when Steve came back things would improve but, in my opinion, it is worse. I promised myself not to shop with them until at least Christmas, when I hoped things would be on the up. Now I am really doubting I will ever shop again - partly because I am not sure they will even be on air in 18 months. Extremely sad.

 

[Imogene9500]

Well, it looks like they are buying cheap jade on websites (not from mines) and even cheaper tatt from similar sites to Ali Baba etc. Then marking them up at, sometimes, dozens, if not hundreds, of times what they paid for them before sticking on the hard sell to get gullible viewers to drag them out of the financial abyss their greed got them into. This might sound harsh, but from what we have seen by finding similar, if not identical, items for a fraction of the price on the web the evidence is pretty damning. It's sad to watch any integrity or respect they had as a brand finally running down the plughole. Of course this is my opinion, but everything I have seen is pointing this way.
I really hoped when Steve came back things would improve but, in my opinion, it is worse. I promised myself not to shop with them until at least Christmas, when I hoped things would be on the up. Now I am really doubting I will ever shop again - partly because I am not sure they will even be on air in 18 months. Extremely sad.

That sounds pretty much spot on to me and where Destello fits in as well ... a while ago I did a couple of searches to see if I could find Hattie's 'limited collection designs' anywhere else and there were some handbags on Shein looking suspiciously identical. I feel sad too that Gemporia is so far from what is used to be

 

[Pepperpot]

Has Angeline tried selling these ghastly offerings? I would consider tuning in again just to see her try, abandoning the final sheds of her remaining integrity and self-respect...

And below yet more utter nonsense from the Gemporia website....