harrytumkins
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Rare look at QVC
"open-topped yarn"
£69 quid
Just buy it
"open-topped yarn"
£69 quid
Just buy it
I read that. I'd love to know the legal basis for this. Calling him Gollum or a dodgy market trader are not nice comments but is it libellous? There's plenty of evidence regarding dubious sales tactics, I'm sure people were just describing what he was doing. His Goddess may love him but some people on here don't, but if she only wants to read a Mills and Boon description of him I suggest she stays away from forums.Just had a read of that, christ wish i had been around here back then sounds like it was real fun.
So the Goddess didn't like folks slagging off Mike of the Masons, shame, not.
With 90 year old FlintyRare look at QVC
"open-topped yarn"
£69 quid
Just buy it
No disrespect to Sally (because I think this is a sign of the times) but is this the sort of thing people are watching these days? A neighbour of mine said he doesn't own a TV, they just watch YouTube channels.does a cracking Spanish accent too by all accounts, answers to the name of Juan Kerr!
It still amazes me Sally Jacks keeps claiming this 'northern bird' tag or in her accent 'nowvern bird'. She might be living in Lancashire these days but she sounds about as northern as Harry Redknapp.
@Hammy60 you missed caravan of love house martins!!
I barely look in my own cupboards to be honest so I've absolutely no interest in watching someone go through theirsNo disrespect to Sally (because I think this is a sign of the times) but is this the sort of thing people are watching these days? A neighbour of mine said he doesn't own a TV, they just watch YouTube channels.
I'm a huge fan of YouTube to help me when building flat pack furniture (I'm totally useless and the visuals help) or following fitness videos (very slow ones for people with chronic health conditions!!). It just wouldn't occur to me to watch a shopping telly presenter doing a tour of her caravan and looking in her cupboards. But that's just me and it would be a boring world if we were all the same.
I read that. I'd love to know the legal basis for this. Calling him Gollum or a dodgy market trader are not nice comments but is it libellous? There's plenty of evidence regarding dubious sales tactics, I'm sure people were just describing what he was doing. His Goddess may love him but some people on here don't, but if she only wants to read a Mills and Boon description of him I suggest she stays away from forums.
The few remaining shopping TV channels must know by now not to repeat the same mistake that Ideal World made in taking on nearly all of the Bid/Price-drop TV presenters. People were watching Bid and Price-drop not because of the excellence of the presenters but because they were absolute car crashes to watch (especially Price-drop) towards the end of their existences, and although there's a logic to attracting familiar faces hence more/different viewers to your shopping TV channel, Ideal World effectively took on Bid TV's dodgy reputation in the process (and with less 'entertainment value') which in the longer term sank it.
In retrospect Ideal World might even have been still profitable today if it had only taken on three or four of the best Bid/Price-drop presenters instead of importing nearly all of their collective incompetence, though of course the rot extended to management as well as the on-screen 'talent'.
Also, are shopping channels only getting viewers who are tuning in there and then? Didn't know George Foreman grill was launched there, I love mine and its used a lot. But if it needs replacing, I'll probably use Amazon, or my local Argos if I need it now. It wouldn't occur to me to see if a shopping channel had one, and of course the high p&p would put me off. I was never much of a shopping channel shopper (mainly here for the banter!) so others may have a different view.Going back to the demise of the shopping channel in general, I think one of the biggest problems is having nothing new to sell anymore. The George Foreman grill was launched on a shopping channel as was the Magic Bullet blender, Lock n' locks, memory foam mattress toppers, ahh bras, the wonder Core exerciser, I'm sure there's loads I've forgotten. These products are now all available in the mainstream and have been for ages, not only that, cheaper imitations are widely available. The shopping channels are no longer the leaders in innovation that they used to be. The Jewellery channels seem to be hanging in there because they're concentrating on one thing and attract people who are specifically looking for it. QVC on the other hand is a mystery to me. I don't know what they're like in the other countries they serve, but over here they're a ludicrously expensive department store selling mainstream stuff that can be bought cheaper literally everywhere else. I can only surmise that it's a combination of Kim & Co, Marla Wynne, Diamonique and those blind to the pitfalls of the 60 day MBG that's keeping them where they are!
Would I want to rewind to the those heady days? Yes and no. Yes because they were entertaining and dare I say exciting, and no because despite discovering some brilliant products that I still use today I did buy an awful lot of crap that I most certainly wouldn't have bought had I not seen it on the telly. I remember buying this weird mobile phone that hung around your neck like an old person's alarm. It had no dial and was operated by means of one central button and the rest was voice operated - It had its problems, one being that you had to speak very loudly and very carefully if you didn't want "phone home" to be interpreted as "phone John" or "doctor" on one occasion! I guess it picked up some background noise. I went out one balmy sunny evening with it hanging around my neck then out of nowhere the heavens opened and I got soaked to the skin - The phone did not enjoy the experience and stopped working from that day forth - It wasn't cheap!
I feel so old....Regarding Sally’s YouTube channel, I think she makes them more for women or that is how it comes over, that’s why I subscribe
People will watch anything though, not shopping related, but a lot of channels run especially by teens are like, What I had to eat on a day, when I’ve only eat blue food
You wouldn’t be the firstI feel so old....
I think I should start a channel aimed at over 50s ranting about all the things that have annoyed me today!
Isn't that GB News?I feel so old....
I think I should start a channel aimed at over 50s ranting about all the things that have annoyed me today!
QVC is a mystery - it doesn't really follow any of the rules of what should and what shouldn't work. It's quite cult-like, and it often feels that the audience is told to drink the Kool-Aid. They had a rare misstep of launching a 'social shopping app called 'Qurio' where people were encouraged to post videos and pictures with reviews of their products: probably the worst advert for being part of the 'QVC family' that they could have imagined.Rare look at QVC
"open-topped yarn"
£69 quid
Just buy it
I watched about 5 minutes of that recently. Never again...Isn't that GB News?
As far as QVC's concerned anyway - They're on their own lol! "Cult like" - I think you've hit the nail square on the head there. There'd be absolute uproar if M&S started adding £3.95 postage to every item in your basket!QVC is a mystery - it doesn't really follow any of the rules of what should and what shouldn't work. It's quite cult-like, and it often feels that the audience is told to drink the Kool-Aid. They had a rare misstep of launching a 'social shopping app called 'Qurio' where people were encouraged to post videos and pictures with reviews of their products: probably the worst advert for being part of the 'QVC family' that they could have imagined.
You don't hear so much about Qurio now
I've just had to clear out then re-arrange my under-sink cupboard in order to access the stop tap. Found lots of items I'd forgotten I had.I barely look in my own cupboards to be honest so I've absolutely no interest in watching someone go through theirs
if you bought chocolate for Christmas now, one it would get eaten by Christmas, or it will have gone offChristmas in July one to avoid serious tat!
Chocolate who buys this stuff in July for Christmas.
Oh know I hear the ominous scurrying to the website qurio qurio your feeling very very sleepy,when you wake up buy buy buy!