Random musings and general banter.

[Turandot]

Good question Turandot, probably prints but I don't know for sure as I don't listen properly as I can't stop laughing at Peter selling them. I love the reverential tone and the bow tie, you would think he is selling the Mona Lisa!

Update - just looked on Ebay and they had one of his prints for 99p, a couple of quid p+p and no bids! I think it was a Disney style picture, good luck if you get it! Pete was selling his at a couple of hundred quid and urged us to buy if we were able to"

Looking on Wiki. The business is based on prints of the originals and has been for years even before his death. They reckon most homes in America will have a Kincaid print in them,so the business is huge .

Thanks for the EBay tip Muttley but I will pass .Theyre not my cup of tea at all. Maybe if they paid me large sum of money to display it..........

 

[Muttley]

Looking on Wiki. The business is based on prints of the originals and has been for years even before his death. They reckon most homes in America will have a Kincaid print in them,so the business is huge .

Thanks for the EBay tip Muttley but I will pass .Theyre not my cup of tea at all. Maybe if they paid me large sum of money to display it..........

I agree with you, if they paid me I might consider it! Nah, not really. Actually, they kind of creep me out, they are so twee. I never think that when viewing a John Constable picture in a gallery, they are rural scenes but I don't have that same feeling.

 

[historymystery]

Muttley, loved your post about his comment on "looking to the light"... what a load of cobblers. ..looking FOR a light might be more to the point, as he rushes outside for a quick ciggie and a good laugh at the poor gullibles who fall for his sanctimonious patter. They have certainly been seen on auction websites from £3 upwards - I spotted one a while back for £5, and my other half saw one for £3. Admittedly, I didn't stop to see whether anything was said about its condition, as I was laughing too much to be able to use the keyboard. Sought after and exclusive? In The World of Ideal, perhaps.... Forget the General Election - there's a much more pressing issue to resolve....namely, where are all the 'flippin prints coming from? The truth must be out there, somewhere, and we need to know, as I have visions of the whole world sinking under the volume of Kinkykade prints (and if the aliens from Other Planets start pelting us with their unwanted ones, we're well and truly finished.)

Darn it, missed it! Wonder how you can "be alone" while "friends don't listen"? Seems contradictory, so perhaps best not to dwell on it, as the logic is known only to Pope Pete. When the heck will they come to the end of Kinkade? They must have 6000 warehouses stuffed full with it...where is it coming from, if the artist is no longer alive? I should think the whole world (and inhabitants of outer space, too) have a Kinkykade, as it's on so often and also available for about £3.00 for sale at other online auction websites. Seems mighty peculiar to me... Still, I'm sorry I missed not only the heavenly harp, not only the bow tie, not only the cobblers being talked, not only the hands together in prayer, not only the simpering and smirking. Did Our Bet get a mention? Must go, got to dust my Kinkykade print...[/QUOTE

Ha ha you are as funny as Peter spouting rubbish in a bow tie! He didn't mention Our Bet but I was watching Hoarders on CBS Reality and just watched in the adverts. And my mum always comments that there are a lot of pictures available by a dead artist. They must churn them out by the dozen. They were really gross today, a picture of an 18th century type cottage and he spoke of Tudor beams! Just a couple of hundred years out.

Didn't realise they were that cheap on the internet. Pete reckons they are sought after and exclusive!

 

[Turandot]

It must be quite easy to replicate prints ,it was done in the 70's ,everyone had a print of the oriental lady with the dark hair and blue background......Not that I did of course .....?..Actually it was more tasteful than the Kincaids in my opinion.

 

[aqua]

Peter's on now flogging a ring- 'I'm about to start crying now because this on your finger is the heirloom of the circle of life'.
He could have made a fortune as a TV evangelist in the USA.

 

[Muttley]

Muttley, loved your post about his comment on "looking to the light"... what a load of cobblers. ..looking FOR a light might be more to the point, as he rushes outside for a quick ciggie and a good laugh at the poor gullibles who fall for his sanctimonious patter. They have certainly been seen on auction websites from £3 upwards - I spotted one a while back for £5, and my other half saw one for £3. Admittedly, I didn't stop to see whether anything was said about its condition, as I was laughing too much to be able to use the keyboard. Sought after and exclusive? In The World of Ideal, perhaps.... Forget the General Election - there's a much more pressing issue to resolve....namely, where are all the 'flippin prints coming from? The truth must be out there, somewhere, and we need to know, as I have visions of the whole world sinking under the volume of Kinkykade prints (and if the aliens from Other Planets start pelting us with their unwanted ones, we're well and truly finished.)


Historymystery, I think we should canvass our local MP and all the candidates in this election (just informing everybody that there is an election in case none of you noticed. Its not been in any of the papers or on the TV lol!) We need to know where all these prints are coming from. We could get this issue raised in parliament. Or we could gather all the prints together and send them on that one way trip to Mars that they are talking about. But that would not be fair because Martians have never done anything to me.

And your comment about him nipping out for a fag had me in stitches - I now have an image in my head that won't go away! Also, I have suspected that he finishes his stint in the studio and bursts into laughter, I do not believe he is so "genuine" although I can see that certain people would fall for his rubbish.

 

[Muttley]

Peter's on now flogging a ring- 'I'm about to start crying now because this on your finger is the heirloom of the circle of life'.
He could have made a fortune as a TV evangelist in the USA.

Do you reckon he saw the Lion King recently hence his comment about "The Circle of Life", altogether now...

He missed his vocation in life, he definitely could have been a mad evangelist!

 

[Muttley]

It must be quite easy to replicate prints ,it was done in the 70's ,everyone had a print of the oriental lady with the dark hair and blue background......Not that I did of course .....?..Actually it was more tasteful than the Kincaids in my opinion.

I remember that print, my uncle had one, he thought it was sophisticated. I can't be snobby though, we had a lava lamp (but it was the 1970s) and I was only a child so I was definitely not responsible for it!

 

[Turandot]

Lava lamps are all the rage now .Very retro..

 

[cheesecake]

Ah dear The Moissanite hour was wonderful with Peter this afternoon, he called Charles and Colvard, "Charles and crumble" at one point and I was hooked

It does drive me up the pipe though when they bang on that "we're not comparing it to diamond" and then go on to spend the whole hour comparing it to a diamond, except this is better! Hang on, if I want some glitzy bling ring which looks like a diamond, then I for one am morfe than happy with a DQ or a CZ from Argoose. In 16 years of wearing a 1ct equivalent DQ, everyone has thought it real (those who've been bothered to comment). So yes, buy a cz for £40, or a real diamond from gemstv for £200, but where is the logic in buying a non-real, created, not-diamond-diamond, for £200+? I for one am boggled where the logic is?

Sparkling and outshining a diamond 'in every respect' as we keep hearing, surely no-one is going to believe it's real anyhoo? and if they do, they'll probably just want to steal it anyway

The mind boggles

 

[mr tom]

So about this Moissanite ...

better than a real diamond?

Peter had me believing it could power my house, let alone refract more light.

 

[mr tom]

I notice bid/ideal world got simon, mason and jacks, yet tjc picked up andrea mcclean and caroline Lyndsay (also marina berry but that's purely to feature her on their softcore porn style adverts, in my opinion)

quite the difference in transfer strategy.

 

[Keep Going]

Something thats always made me wonder is the calls we hear in the studio from the "buyers".............I maybe wrong and totally off the mark but does anyone else have doubts that all these callers are genuine "buyers" ????

I know I could never prove if this is the case or not but listening to these calls the buyers sound to professional speaking on the ball clued up "buyers"? like they could actually be a sales person selling the product ...................sometimes even more understandable then the actual pushy presenters :movie:

Haha while I type this the presenter has just said HURRY UP & BUY THIS..........ITS FLYING OUT ITS GONNA GO..................its a nutribullet no doubt it will be back on at 10pm.

 

[Greg]

I don't reckon they are genuine.

 

[historymystery]

S C O, the classic of all time was about a month or two ago, when they had some poor woman on the phone to Peter Simon during the crappy Holy Land stones hour(jewellery with lumps of so-called stone from the Holy Land set into what was eventually admitted to be plated metal, not gold or silver as Peter had originally said). It would seem in this instance it WAS a genuine member of the public, because the whole thing was surreal - the telephone line was bad in whatever part of the UK the woman was living, she couldn't hear him clearly (lucky her!) although the viewers could hear both him and her clearly. They were talking over each other, he was misunderstanding what she'd said - it was just a total farce, better than a Carry On comedy. And through it all, the maudlin (for 'maudlin' read 'excruciating') music, Peter almost in tears with emotion, the hands clasped in prayer, the utter garbage being spouted about holy light, the voice in the wilderness, spiritual mindfulness and tight underpants (no, sorry, my mistake - the tight underpants bit is wrong) - anyway, you get the gist. I was crying with laughter watching it. It was IW (aka Bid) at its' very best and Peter at his very worst. I thought of starting a campaign to bring him back doing another hour of the same - after all, they must still have ten tons of the stuff at least in the warehouse, and if they haven't, they must be digging up a motorway somewhere, so they could get some more. If you see it scheduled in the future, I highly recommend tuning in..

QUOTE=S C O;797084]Something thats always made me wonder is the calls we hear in the studio from the "buyers".............I maybe wrong and totally off the mark but does anyone else have doubts that all these callers are genuine "buyers" ????

I know I could never prove if this is the case or not but listening to these calls the buyers sound to professional speaking on the ball clued up "buyers"? like they could actually be a sales person selling the product ...................sometimes even more understandable then the actual pushy presenters :movie:

Haha while I type this the presenter has just said HURRY UP & BUY THIS..........ITS FLYING OUT ITS GONNA GO..................its a nutribullet no doubt it will be back on at 10pm.[/QUOTE]

 

[martin3645]

Never, never believe one word they say on any of these channels. They are professional sales people who would, circumstances dictate, try to sell 'sand to the arabs'. Anything purchased must be at your own risk.

 

[historymystery]

Martin, the biggest joke of all is that the presenters (and to be fair, it's not only the IW presenters, but all shopping channel presenters) repeat over and over again how they "can't say anything that's untrue or we'd be taken off air". Yeah, right. From what I can see, the ASA are toothless - all these channels ever get, if a complaint is proved, is a limp wrist slap. OK, people on here are worldly wise to their tricks, but a lot of people are more vulnerable, and I shudder to think of the problems some people must bring on themselves, financial and otherwise. Reign 'em in, I say.

Never, never believe one word they say on any of these channels. They are professional sales people who would, circumstances dictate, try to sell 'sand to the arabs'. Anything purchased must be at your own risk.

 

[Greg]

Martin, the biggest joke of all is that the presenters (and to be fair, it's not only the IW presenters, but all shopping channel presenters) repeat over and over again how they "can't say anything that's untrue or we'd be taken off air". Yeah, right. From what I can see, the ASA are toothless - all these channels ever get, if a complaint is proved, is a limp wrist slap. OK, people on here are worldly wise to their tricks, but a lot of people are more vulnerable, and I shudder to think of the problems some people must bring on themselves, financial and otherwise. Reign 'em in, I say.

Bid TV were notorious in the cynical way they manipulated their audience. Ideal World will regret using so many of their presenters.

 

[NEXUS]

Howard = Egocentrism, funny how those two just go together. IMO

 

[Keep Going]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Howards just informed us fathers day is fast approaching in June.........................cheers Howz matey!!! That lot latch onto any old day to sell anything old thing, this thing being a karcher, IW so unoriginal and unimaginative as always, deary me.