Presenters 'duetting'

[LV73]

Talking about duetting presenters, I've been flicking through the channels and who did I see with Debbie Flint? Ruth Linnett from Gemporia! Flogging fake gems on base metals.

 

[Battiola73]

She does forget herself sometimes and goes into Gemporia sales mode.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

I quite liked Ruth Linnett. She was one of the last of the knowledgeable presenters before she went.

The only irritation was the continual random outbursts of "Sausages" or "Shopping". Not sure what that was all about.

 

[Ant7t]

I quite liked Ruth Linnett. She was one of the last of the knowledgeable presenters before she went.

The only irritation was the continual random outbursts of "Sausages" or "Shopping". Not sure what that was all about.

Catchphrases. Wonder if that followed her to QVC?

 

[historymystery]

I quite liked Ruth Linnett. She was one of the last of the knowledgeable presenters before she went.

The only irritation was the continual random outbursts of "Sausages" or "Shopping". Not sure what that was all about.

I always thought she was crazy as a box of frogs, but likeable. I've also no idea what the 'sausages' thing was all about, but I supposed the 'shopping' shout-out was just to encourage people to buy.

 

[Nicci205]

7 pm and I've just watched a few minutes of Jess and Toby, duetting over the presenting of some lip balm or another from a toiletries range. What is the point of having two presenters on screen when they are just talking over each other? It's virtually impossible to make head or tail of what they're saying, because each of them are saying something different. Switched over and on the Gem Collector side we have Emily giggling while presenting something called Egyptian Desert Glass. Good grief, can it get any worse? Looked like a piece of chalk from where I was viewing.

I personally find the whole dual presenting thing just unnecessary. It is much better with a calm single presenter like Jeff in Gemporia or maybe Chloe on TJC. I find two OTT at times.

 

[Solent Warship]

The whole reverse auction model is stupid. They also recycle a lot of items for auctions and then they show up on the breakfast sale wheel the next day. I like the Deb Cavill style presentations. Set price for 10 items in 10 flavours, 2 mins each with useful info about gem origin and design etc. or more sale wheel. They need to take the trashiness out of the shows, including the drawn out patronising, shouty auctions. Steve might be mentoring presenters to be entrepreneurs with their spin off brands? Looks more like amateur hour. Gemporia should just have gems and kimbie if it’s relevant (too much of late). Health and beauty should be out.

Apparently I heard that Angeline (is that her name) is shortly going to introduce her latest spin off. Tupperwear, yes you read that right. What the heck has plastic storage containers got to do with Gems.

 

[Solent Warship]

The whole reverse auction model is stupid. They also recycle a lot of items for auctions and then they show up on the breakfast sale wheel the next day. I like the Deb Cavill style presentations. Set price for 10 items in 10 flavours, 2 mins each with useful info about gem origin and design etc. or more sale wheel. They need to take the trashiness out of the shows, including the drawn out patronising, shouty auctions. Steve might be mentoring presenters to be entrepreneurs with their spin off brands? Looks more like amateur hour. Gemporia should just have gems and kimbie if it’s relevant (too much of late). Health and beauty should be out.

Apparently I heard that Angeline (is that her name) is shortly going to introduce her latest spin off. Tupperwear, yes you read that right. What the heck has plastic storage containers got to do with Gems

She has between 2,000-3,000 followers on insta and facebook, many are likely Gemporia watchers. She’s a relative nobody that has been lucky to get a beauty buyer job at Gemporia- likely sourcing from the same Chinese manufacturer as Kimbie. If she were to go it alone, she’d need to buy inventory and establish a set amount of guaranteed sales through social media etc to make a living. Gemporia gives her a salaried job (Steve still owns Visage) and free TV air time to customers that are likely to buy near on anything if you can “fling it in” the basket for £10. Visage could easily go down the same path of Destello as there is nothing special about it. People who want beauty products from TV will shop the reputable brands at QVC etc. She wouldn’t be suitable as a presenter on QVC or anywhere else either. Just can’t be taken seriously.

I've even noticed that on Gem Collector, scales @ £30, identical on ebay £5. Some torch £40 or £50 can't recall, ebay £10. Carved obsidian buddah and dragon Jim saying they should be £400 or so. Again identical on ebay £6. He knocked them out at £30. How can they get away with saying they've been carved by their people in India when they're blatantly lying they're mass produced.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

Apparently I heard that Angeline (is that her name) is shortly going to introduce her latest spin off. Tupperwear, yes you read that right. What the heck has plastic storage containers got to do with Gems

I've even noticed that on Gem Collector, scales @ £30, identical on ebay £5. Some torch £40 or £50 can't recall, ebay £10. Carved obsidian buddah and dragon Jim saying they should be £400 or so. Again identical on ebay £6. He knocked them out at £30. How can they get away with saying they've been carved by their people in India when they're blatantly lying they're mass produced.

They get away with it because the ASA are a waste of time, and Trading Standards are just as useless these days too.

 

[historymystery]

Apparently I heard that Angeline (is that her name) is shortly going to introduce her latest spin off. Tupperwear, yes you read that right. What the heck has plastic storage containers got to do with Gems.

Oh yes, just what the world needs...more Tupperware or look-alikes. As if the shops aren't full of them already, not to mention re-using the plastic containers from your Chinese takeaway. Hang on, though, these will possibly have angels of light figurines or a smoky quartz crystal that will make sure your cake never goes stale embedded in the lid.

 

[rubia]

Oh yes, just what the world needs...more Tupperware or look-alikes. As if the shops aren't full of them already, not to mention re-using the plastic containers from your Chinese takeaway. Hang on, though, these will possibly have angels of light figurines or a smoky quartz crystal that will make sure your cake never goes stale embedded in the lid.

Yes this exactly what we need NOT. However I doubt anyone can dissuade her she is a law into herself.

 

[Nicci205]

Apparently I heard that Angeline (is that her name) is shortly going to introduce her latest spin off. Tupperwear, yes you read that right. What the heck has plastic storage containers got to do with Gems

I've even noticed that on Gem Collector, scales @ £30, identical on ebay £5. Some torch £40 or £50 can't recall, ebay £10. Carved obsidian buddah and dragon Jim saying they should be £400 or so. Again identical on ebay £6. He knocked them out at £30. How can they get away with saying they've been carved by their people in India when they're blatantly lying they're mass produced.

Mass produced and you can tell. Poor quality, varnished thrown together and much cheaper elsewhere e.g. ebay as you have said. It's shameful!

 

[TheManWithNoName]

If Gemporia can't survive selling jewellery, what makes them think that they can survive selling stuff that people can get delivered next day, for free, on Amazon?

 

[AndyW]

Might be just me but this period of "sale" prices has cemented the idea in my mind that Gemporia & GC are set in aspic now. A bit like a stray Little Chef you might come across on an unlit A road that the parent company forgot to close down. (I don't watch JM or the other hobby-focussed channels.).

As people have commented, GC seems to be recycling its listings with odd, different pricing on different days (and not just downwards, either) as if there's a "see which sucker's about tonight" attitude. Similar on Gems. How many strands of mass-produced pearls can someone want? Yes, some items have been cheap but mass-produced in China and mostly coated in that brassy alloy that comes off the moment you pop it out of the plastic pouch. Sarah Wait had three - just three - items in a Tahitian pearl hour. Definitely stock from the Charlie Barron days but Charlie Barron-era prices too. £299 for a three pearl necklace is the price - "sale", implying a discount on usual prices, is a fib at best.

With no new Lehrer designs, dodgy diamonds in 14K gold sold by an oily rich American, containers from China with who knows what in them, high end pieces outsourced to Cavill & Co, no real gem "hunting" by anyone, hours of pills and bedding (some re-branded from YouBamboo to MenoMy in a shameless bid at selling to ladies who suffer heat flushes), if true, launching a new range of plastic boxes just about sums up TGGC at the end of 2024.

I wonder what 2025 will bring...

 

[rubia]

Might be just me but this period of "sale" prices has cemented the idea in my mind that Gemporia & GC are set in aspic now. A bit like a stray Little Chef you might come across on an unlit A road that the parent company forgot to close down. (I don't watch JM or the other hobby-focussed channels.).

As people have commented, GC seems to be recycling its listings with odd, different pricing on different days (and not just downwards, either) as if there's a "see which sucker's about tonight" attitude. Similar on Gems. How many strands of mass-produced pearls can someone want? Yes, some items have been cheap but mass-produced in China and mostly coated in that brassy alloy that comes off the moment you pop it out of the plastic pouch. Sarah Wait had three - just three - items in a Tahitian pearl hour. Definitely stock from the Charlie Barron days but Charlie Barron-era prices too. £299 for a three pearl necklace is the price - "sale", implying a discount on usual prices, is a fib at best.

With no new Lehrer designs, dodgy diamonds in 14K gold sold by an oily rich American, containers from China with who knows what in them, high end pieces outsourced to Cavill & Co, no real gem "hunting" by anyone, hours of pills and bedding (some re-branded from YouBamboo to MenoMy in a shameless bid at selling to ladies who suffer heat flushes), if true, launching a new range of plastic boxes just about sums up TGGC at the end of 2024.

I wonder what 2025 will bring...

This is a perfect description of what Gemporia has become, a Chinese shop! Except their prices don't match with the Chinese shops I have visited when abroad! They have no one with any sense any longer just big egos. It is now unrecognizable to the Gemporia of I knew and watched of old.

 

[historymystery]

Yes this exactly what we need NOT. However I doubt anyone can dissuade her she is a law into herself.

I would have thought this product was a bit downmarket for Ange to want to be associated with it. She's always seemed to have a very high opinion of herself and regularly tells viewers how long she's worked at the channel. I do wonder if it's more a case of being told 'we've got a consignment of sandwich boxes to flog....and you're the lucky one whose name came up'.....

 

[rubia]

I would have thought this product was a bit downmarket for Ange to want to be associated with it. She's always seemed to have a very high opinion of herself and regularly tells viewers how long she's worked at the channel. I do wonder if it's more a case of being told 'we've got a consignment of sandwich boxes to flog....and you're the lucky one whose name came up'.....

I think she will have asked for it, she is so confident that she can sell anything and will....I believe she thinks she can save Gemporia!! I wonder how Nick puts up with her holier than thou attitude alongside her arrogance. Her and Ellis should be long gone. Imo.

 

[TheManWithNoName]

I wonder what 2025 will bring...

Pearls
Dave Troth
Jade
Dave Troth
Tat covered in gold tone
Dave Troth
Pearls
Dave Troth
Jade
Dave Troth
Jake Thompson with his cringey VTs
Jade
Pearls
Dave Troth

 

[Deasmum]

Pearls
Dave Troth
Jade
Dave Troth
Tat covered in gold tone
Dave Troth
Pearls
Dave Troth
Jade
Dave Troth
Jake Thompson with his cringey VTs
Jade
Pearls
Dave Troth

Yes, that's about it

 

[historymystery]

Pearls
Dave Troth
Jade
Dave Troth
Tat covered in gold tone
Dave Troth
Pearls
Dave Troth
Jade
Dave Troth
Jake Thompson with his cringey VTs
Jade
Pearls
Dave Troth

The tat's 'drenched in gold', if you don't mind! This is not just any old tat, it's Gemporia tat.

I wonder if, by chance, Ellis will be regularly telling us how to buy? I do hope so, because if she leaves it for longer than 5 minutes before showing the VT then we might forget...