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Apparently, it is all down to their GeoCities original website clashing with their AOL dial-up connection.
 
My name is Den I’m one hundred and ten,currently holding a plastic sheet for a air conditioning unit🤔 something not quite right here,they can’t be making many sales and must be losing a shed load of money 💴 even repeats cost money to broadcast!
Nothing working except for eBay 😂 and Den droning on and on!
 
Repeat at 21:55?? Clearly very little they can flog in the studio that is available on the eBay selling platform. What an abject shambles they are.

Tellingbone lines down, too?? Are they on a party line??? For me, they’ve had it. Back to the Covid rattan furniture presentation now. Would you commit £700 to them at present? Not that there is any way of committing it to them.
 
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Why would they not have any phone operators available? It doesn’t make any business sense. Surely if your website has gone down the one key thing you have are your phone operators so people can telephone in with an order. But apparently, this method is also malfunctioning.
 
The Duke of Cheese said:
Why would they not have any phone operators available? It doesn’t make any business sense. Surely if your website has gone down the one key thing you have are your phone operators so people can telephone in with an order. But apparently, this method is also malfunctioning.
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Assuming this is a legitimate upgrade or repairing system, i'm going to assume that in normal times the phone line orders and the web site orders will be using the same method for stock control, so it's possible with the web site down the phone lines have no accurate update of stock levels, so it would make sense to have the phones down to make sure they aren't overselling products.

It'#s interesting that they can still take orders on ebay and Garden Bargains, obviously the stock control for these two web sites are operated separately from the main web site
 
Well, you have to assume the end isn’t immediately nigh as the website was back up last time I looked. But I don’t know how they stand for live programming today? Nonetheless, having their website down for so long and showing programs from years ago as some sort of cover doesn’t reflect well on them as a business of a competent nature. Surely a professional outfit would have scrapped one of their ITV overnight shows, or even two of them, and done the website maintenance (whatever that really means) in stages over those periods? Not ruined an entire day’s business for themselves. Website housekeeping done properly shouldn’t take what is effectively out of service for a day or so, should it?

Regardless of how healthy or how poor their financial position actually is - the message that yesterday sends out to me at least, is not to order anything expensive from them currently and certainly nothing much over about a fiver if you were absolutely desperate to do so.
 
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The Duke of Cheese said:
Well, you have to assume the end isn’t immediately nigh as the website was back up last time I looked. But I don’t know how they stand for live programming today? Nonetheless, having their website down for so long and showing programs from years ago as some sort of cover doesn’t reflect well on them as a business of a competent nature. Surely a professional outfit would have scrapped one of their ITV overnight shows, or even two of them, and done the website maintenance (whatever that really means) in stages over those periods? Not ruined an entire day’s business for themselves. Website housekeeping done properly shouldn’t take what is effectively out of service for a day or so, should it?

Regardless of how healthy or how poor their financial position actually is - the message that yesterday sends out to me at least, is not to order anything expensive from them currently and certainly nothing much over about a fiver if you were absolutely desperate to do so.
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Yeah normally those things happen over night, unless ITVs contract says you must be available to us 363 nights a year
 
I think unless we find out what 'website maintenance' actually meant (and we're not going to, of course), you can only speculate as to what really happened.
 
The Duke of Cheese said:
Well, you have to assume the end isn’t immediately nigh as the website was back up last time I looked. But I don’t know how they stand for live programming today? Nonetheless, having their website down for so long and showing programs from years ago as some sort of cover doesn’t reflect well on them as a business of a competent nature. Surely a professional outfit would have scrapped one of their ITV overnight shows, or even two of them, and done the website maintenance (whatever that really means) in stages over those periods? Not ruined an entire day’s business for themselves. Website housekeeping done properly shouldn’t take what is effectively out of service for a day or so, should it?

Regardless of how healthy or how poor their financial position actually is - the message that yesterday sends out to me at least, is not to order anything expensive from them currently and certainly nothing much over about a fiver if you were absolutely desperate to do so.
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Yesterday just confirms they are just a bunch of amateurs.

If it was a planned upgrade/maintenance, then as you say, they could have planned the day far better, ie warned viewers in advance, verbally from presenters and a VT every so often, highlighting web site and phones would be down and that viewers could still order through ebay or partner web sites. On the day they could have organised a better selection of shows with partner brands (Emma etc) where viewers visited brand sites to order rather than the IW site. They could also have had the ebay direct web address on screen for individual products, like they do with partner brands, rather than the just go to ebay outlet and search yourself for item or the QR code which a lot of people don't use or even know how to use.
 
Why does Sally Jacks continually claim she is northern. No one from Burnley (and i dont live that far away) ive ever net says ‘youy’.

In no way shape or form has she got a lancashire accent, a squarky southern accent that drops the odd northern bit in.
 
If she has ever been to Burnley, let alone been raised there, her accent betrays her. No way has she got any form of a Lancashire accent. I always assumed she was from the West Midlands listening to her squeaking on and on and on…
 
The Duke of Cheese said:
If she has ever been to Burnley, let alone been raised there, her accent betrays her. No way has she got any form of a Lancashire accent. I always assumed she was from the West Midlands listening to her squeaking on and on and on…
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No she defintely lives in Burnley, Her Son Frankie sounds more northern than her

Don’t diss the jacks, she drives hundreds of miles 2 times a week to work for IW
 
Hammy60 said:
Yesterday just confirms they are just a bunch of amateurs.

If it was a planned upgrade/maintenance, then as you say, they could have planned the day far better, ie warned viewers in advance, verbally from presenters and a VT every so often, highlighting web site and phones would be down and that viewers could still order through ebay or partner web sites. On the day they could have organised a better selection of shows with partner brands (Emma etc) where viewers visited brand sites to order rather than the IW site. They could also have had the ebay direct web address on screen for individual products, like they do with partner brands, rather than the just go to ebay outlet and search yourself for item or the QR code which a lot of people don't use or even know how to use.
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Hammy you dope, you have to remember viewers are meant to be believe Emma, Garden Bargains are sold from IW, they would have to be honest and say they don’t
 

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