Akimbo
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When I started watching QVC 20 odd years ago, we had new items called "premieres" these morphed into "new today" presumably because the kid writing the on-screen blurb didn't know what premiere meant or how to spell it having opted to take GCSE Metal Work and dropping modern languages. It also meant they could use it more than once for that day rather than just the first airing. The presenter struggle with the plural- it's a clumsy News Today or New Todays! Then they introduced "New This Week" as well.
The "Introductory Price" started originally for 12 airings before the item reverted to the full QVC price, although I don't think Q ever stuck to this rule. This was too rigid, some items stayed at the intro-price for years, so now this has been reinvented as a "Feature Price" whatever that means. Very clever - it sounds like an "Event Price" right? There are currently 1,394 "feature prices" currently on the website which doesn't make them all that special. It's just intro prices renamed but no doubt the limited number of airing goal posts have been abandoned completely.
They seem to have dropped "Hot Picks" along the way too.
Oh dear I really need to get a life!
:blush:
The "Introductory Price" started originally for 12 airings before the item reverted to the full QVC price, although I don't think Q ever stuck to this rule. This was too rigid, some items stayed at the intro-price for years, so now this has been reinvented as a "Feature Price" whatever that means. Very clever - it sounds like an "Event Price" right? There are currently 1,394 "feature prices" currently on the website which doesn't make them all that special. It's just intro prices renamed but no doubt the limited number of airing goal posts have been abandoned completely.
They seem to have dropped "Hot Picks" along the way too.
Oh dear I really need to get a life!
:blush: