Definitely cost cutting! When was the last non-metal beaded TSV?
Oh my God, remind me not to tune in on the 10th. Can't stand that snooty woman and her clacking jewellery. She will no doubt be omnipresent throughout the whole day looking like a Downton Abbey wannabe, bossing everyone around: "Can I just show this," "would you like to go in for a close-up?" "Oh I'm looking in the wrong camera," "oh I'm not going to engage with you" but rebuff you at every opportunity with some cold-shouldered brush-off whilst I pursue my own agenda whilst speaking in a very twee voice." Imagine if they put her on with Dale Franklin and he was doing his usual shtick by making statements with slightly disconcerting avuncular, sexual overtones? Ew! I think I'd puke! Or worse still, gasping Jill Franks wearing some hideous off-the-shoulder top with a million clacking necklaces and bracelets, the "number 11" furrowed lines in her forehead and her crows' feet becoming prominent as she gaspingly tells us how she simply adores this, and how her girlfriend has a tiger's eye necklace and how she simply couldn't live without hers and that someone complimented her on it the other day, yawny, yawny yawn!
I didn't know who Julius was talking about, but I think Nikki is one of the best brand ambassadors because she shows the jewellery and all the colours so you actually get a really good feel for the pieces. She's also selling aspiration which I think she's brilliant at. She's always very ladylike and professional and doesn't irritate me like some of them.
LR has recently lost me as a customer - I always used to like them for the fact that their pieces were simply stones with no added 'bling' - the shape, quality and grain of the stones was the main attraction.
Now the brand is using 'fillers' to bulk out the look - charging the same but cheapening the product... really, really disappointing.
BTW - this is a brand decision and nothing to do with Q - the LR website has more and more metal bits every time I look there.
Lol about Jill Franks.Oh my God, remind me not to tune in on the 10th. Can't stand that snooty woman and her clacking jewellery. She will no doubt be omnipresent throughout the whole day looking like a Downton Abbey wannabe, bossing everyone around: "Can I just show this," "would you like to go in for a close-up?" "Oh I'm looking in the wrong camera," "oh I'm not going to engage with you" but rebuff you at every opportunity with some cold-shouldered brush-off whilst I pursue my own agenda whilst speaking in a very twee voice." Imagine if they put her on with Dale Franklin and he was doing his usual shtick by making statements with slightly disconcerting avuncular, sexual overtones? Ew! I think I'd puke! Or worse still, gasping Jill Franks wearing some hideous off-the-shoulder top with a million clacking necklaces and bracelets, the "number 11" furrowed lines in her forehead and her crows' feet becoming prominent as she gaspingly tells us how she simply adores this, and how her girlfriend has a tiger's eye necklace and how she simply couldn't live without hers and that someone complimented her on it the other day, yawny, yawny yawn!