Random musings and general banter.

[Latearrival]

All credit to sally she has managed to make me spend money.
I have exactly the same backpack she’s showing @ £19.99 I checked,
Mine is well used a few years old and the straps are splitting away from bag. Kept thinking I should get rid but kept putting it off.
Searched eBay where I bought mine originally and I’ve bought a new one
£16.99 and no p&p.

 

[Deleted member 21838]

The former Ideal World made one massive mistake. It tried to sell items at times at great prices. Prices so good even I bought several things from them. The margins obviously weren't there, and along with a naturally diminishing audience to compound matters, and their spiralling levels of debt to creditors, they folded. I don't think there is any fear of fantastic deals with this version. I imagine survival depends on it becoming a kind of TV Poundland, in the sense of low level type goods bought en masse at a snip, then sold in enough numbers at the £9.99 to £19.99 price levels to give a decent return. Whereas Ideal World Two was selling more expensive stuff like Rug Doctors at give away prices with a pro rata much poorer profit margin or probably no profit margin at all.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Sally did say it was mostly fashion querys she had

 

[Latearrival]

Sally did say it was mostly fashion querys she had

If what they used to say about their customers is true there are no end of them suffering withdraw symptoms due to the lack of availability of bengalines.

 

[galesgal57]

Sally did say it was mostly fashion querys she had

It's the garden shows I miss. It was nice to have them wittering on every Sunday morning.

 

[Herring]

The former Ideal World made one massive mistake. It tried to sell items at times at great prices. Prices so good even I bought several things from them. The margins obviously weren't there, and along with a naturally diminishing audience to compound matters, and their spiralling levels of debt to creditors, they folded. I don't think there is any fear of fantastic deals with this version. I imagine survival depends on it becoming a kind of TV Poundland, in the sense of low level type goods bought en masse at a snip, then sold in enough numbers at the £9.99 to £19.99 price levels to give a decent return. Whereas Ideal World Two was selling more expensive stuff like Rug Doctors at give away prices with a pro rata much poorer profit margin or probably no profit margin at all.

Enough profit margin to pay for Simon Lies to demo - he don't come cheap.

 

[Hammy60]

The former Ideal World made one massive mistake. It tried to sell items at times at great prices. Prices so good even I bought several things from them. The margins obviously weren't there, and along with a naturally diminishing audience to compound matters, and their spiralling levels of debt to creditors, they folded. I don't think there is any fear of fantastic deals with this version. I imagine survival depends on it becoming a kind of TV Poundland, in the sense of low level type goods bought en masse at a snip, then sold in enough numbers at the £9.99 to £19.99 price levels to give a decent return. Whereas Ideal World Two was selling more expensive stuff like Rug Doctors at give away prices with a pro rata much poorer profit margin or probably no profit margin at all.

That mistake was kinda forced on them, it's what companies that are struggling do to get cash flow to keep paying the daily bills, rather than dealing with the root cause for a failing business model.

Think the biggest mistake was when Hamish took over after the failure of Ideal Shopping Direct, he should have made wholesale changes in the management, preseenters and more importantly the ethos of the company, as it was he didn't and that Ideal World continued in the same vein as Ideal Shopping Direct, doomed to failure.

By the looks of it TJC seem to have a similar ethos and don't seem to realise that while they may have a loyal set of viewers they also have a sizable of the potential viewers who wouldn't go near any shopping telly channel employing these presenters and their sales tactics.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Mike is selling a set of 3 suitcases for £99.99 they show a comparsion of £410

 

[Herring]

If what they used to say about their customers is true there are no end of them suffering withdraw symptoms due to the lack of availability of bengalines.

I think there was something special in those bengalines given the withdrawal symptoms so many are having without them!

Which also makes me wonder this: if all these ladies loved the bengalines and presumably bought them, why do they need more... regularly? are they only good for a couple of wears or something? I've got chino's older than most uni students that I still wear…

 

[Latearrival]

Am I the only one who looks at the suitcases and thinks Those wheels won’t last long on flights.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Am I the only one who looks at the suitcases and thinks Those wheels won’t last long on flights.

Cheap and Crap

 

[Hammy60]

Mike of the Masons, speaking about buying power, just saying "Ideal World as a company are huge"

Actually Mike, as a company TJC might be huge, but Ideal World as a company are DEAD.

 

[Herring]

Mike of the Masons, speaking about buying power, just saying "Ideal World as a company are huge"

Actually Mike, as a company TJC might be huge, but Ideal World as a company are DEAD.

HUGE enough but, according to Sally earlier, having trouble getting suppliers… Makes total sense.

 

[Latearrival]

I think there was something special in those bengalines given the withdrawal symptoms so many are having without them!

Which also makes me wonder this: if all these ladies loved the bengalines and presumably bought them, why do they need more... regularly? are they only good for a couple of wears or something? I've got chino's older than most uni students that I still wear…

New colours different pockets different waist bands each year you know you just can’t have enough

 

[Hammy60]

Mike is selling a set of 3 suitcases for £99.99 they show a comparsion of £410

Aye but it's not a direct comparison. But they don't say what they're actually comparing against so you can make your own mind up.

 

[Gooner1963]

Wonder why they don't show a price comparison with Amazon on the suitcases Amazon £149.99 theirs £99.99 they're must be a reason

 

[Hammy60]

I think there was something special in those bengalines given the withdrawal symptoms so many are having without them!

Which also makes me wonder this: if all these ladies loved the bengalines and presumably bought them, why do they need more... regularly? are they only good for a couple of wears or something? I've got chino's older than most uni students that I still wear…

Think i heard on one show somebody had over 70 pairs.

 

[Herring]

New colours different pockets different waist bands each year you know you just can’t have enough

Tbf, my late mum was a BUGGER (can we say that here, I mean it affectionally) for buying endless ladies trousers from those overpriced fashion catalogs stuffed inside every Sunday newspaper. Not sure she'd have been as hot for Selly Telly bengalines though…

 

[Jazzydrury]

I’m sure some of these presenters would like there customers to think, they’d been on holiday

 

[Herring]

Think i heard on one show somebody had over 70 pairs.

Wonder if she's married to the guy who's got over 70 IW watches…