Random musings and general banter.

[cheeky chappie]

It's the when they go, this sells or sells easily everyday at the higher price, that I laugh at. If it sells so easily at that price then why sell at a vastly reduced price, makes absolutely no business or economics sense.

Nail on head. 'If' something could easily sell for £499 but you're selling it for £99.99, you're a business mug. Sell it for £299 and you're still giving folk a bargain whilst making a decent profit.

Or ...

could ...

it ...

be ...

they're ...

talking ...

SH1TE?!?

 

[Mommabear]

Remember Joe Remblance the kitchen expert? I think he went to some craft channel but he’s got a cooking gig on QVC

 

[ronzy75]

I caught a bit of the first S&E show last night, and towards the end, PS said that if there was any stock left they would do the second show at 1/2 10. Well guess what, all of the watches were still available
And what's the betting tonights S&E show will also contain the same watches Utter pap

 

[Mommabear]

Didn’t I hear him say they would go on ITV Tuesday morning?

He said it as if to get them now before they all sell on there

 

[Deleted member 21838]

A lovely bit of Tommy Earnshaw, followed by the Linear Treadmill Story of That Old Woman in XXXL Tena Pants. Marvellous. Or possibly a Swiss Army knife manoeuvre, followed by my own eyeballs steamed for tea

 

[ronzy75]

I caught a bit of the first S&E show last night, and towards the end, PS said that if there was any stock left they would do the second show at 1/2 10. Well guess what, all of the watches were still available
And what's the betting tonights S&E show will also contain the same watches Utter pap

I do of course mean Thomas Earnshaw, and not Swan and Edgar both pretty much the same

 

[Hammy60]

Clawley on the £99.99 Longitude watch - "£99 is less than cost price for that watch."

So Jim, watches which we are told sell easily everyday at the high RRPs, are now being flogged at below cost price, so instead of both you (Dartmouth brands) and IW making a very nice profit selling at RRP both of you have decided to flog them at below cost price and make a loss.

Yeah Jim, I believe you, oh look there's a flying pig.

 

[Hammy60]

Really hard to choose what to watch tonight, a pair of lying conmen flogging watches for a loss or France V The Swiss, ok not really hard, fitba it is.

 

[ronzy75]

Really hard to choose what to watch tonight, a pair of lying conmen flogging watches for a loss or France V The Swiss, ok not really hard, fitba it is.

Ah but, you won't get the comedy on the footy

 

[candycane]

Ah but, you won't get the comedy on the footy

That will come tomorrow when England play Germany . . . . .

CC

 

[aqua]

Jim Clawley and Shaun Byetheway have got a real bromance going on - not only do they look the same with their horrible mousy hair and close cropped beards , but they dress the same too, and mirror each others movements.
I'm not being funny but ( geddit ?) , it's a bit creepy.
The latest Shaun 'I'm not being funny but ' that I heard was ' I'm not being funny but our warehouse isn't that big'.
Steady Shaun !

 

[cheeky chappie]

'Sir, this 100% silk shirt has been hand crafted using only the finest silk from the finest silkworms. The silk from 1,000,000 silkworms goes into each and every shirt and they take 30 days to craft. We supply A list celebrities, royalty and the business elite. Based on all this, would sir be interested in procuring a shirt or two?'

'Emmm sorry, no.'

'But why sir?'

'They've got no real WEIGHT to them mate!!! By the way, do you know a Scottish guy called Ray ...'

 

[cheeky chappie]

'See this Ford Fiesta we're selling for £18k mate, it would easily sell all day long for £80k mate.'

'Oh, interesting, do you or any retailers ever sell it for £80k or close to?'

'Nah mate but trust me, we KNOW it would if we did.'

 

[cheeky chappie]

(The year is 2121 and Antiques Roadshow is still running on the BBC)

'My great grandad bought the watch around 100 years ago and it's been passed down through the generations. We've always kept it insured and in a safe. As a family we did some research into Swan & Edgar and apparently they were a very well known store decades ago. That's all I know.'

(camera pans to the valuation expert who is literally rolling around on the floor laughing their head off)

 

[Paul B]

Turned IW yesterday.

Foghorn Jacks AGAIN?!

It's like playing Russian roulette with single barrelled shotgun!

I did catch a glimpse of PS (Foghorn must have been on a 'comfort break' for a few minutes) the other day. He was flogging some fitness kit - can't remember what as I turned over after a few seconds - but he must have owned the shorts and T shirt he was wearing since he was seventeen. They weren't even fit to use as cloths to wipe the car down let alone wear on TV (even selly telly). I can only presume that somewhere in the recesses of his 'comedic genius' of a mind he thought it was good for a laugh?!

 

[Mommabear]

I think he’d rather buy a packet of fags than new gear

 

[Hammy60]

Jim Clawley and Shaun Byetheway have got a real bromance going on - not only do they look the same with their horrible mousy hair and close cropped beards , but they dress the same too, and mirror each others movements.
I'm not being funny but ( geddit ?) , it's a bit creepy.
The latest Shaun 'I'm not being funny but ' that I heard was ' I'm not being funny but our warehouse isn't that big'.
Steady Shaun !

Clawley is the same with Mason, one big bromance, sure it's all an act to save having to actually say anything technical/in depth about the watches, apart from the irrelevant stories behind each watch and general vague overview of the watch, he says next to nothing about the movements apart from they have custom rotors, wow, and judging by the samples shown they couldn't even do that right, on the Bauer Skeleton watch you just make out the Miyota Rotor on the 8n24 movement under the Earnshaw Rotor which had slipped ever so slightly.
He is also getting worse with telling porkies, says even though it's £60 on IW it's a £100 pen, yet even Thomas Earnshaw only have a RRP of £60. And his "you can't get an automatic watch with a genuine leather strap for under £300/£400" is a load of rubbish as well.

Something else strange with the male presenters on IW, is there does seem to be a love for waistcoats in casual mode, last time I wore a waistcoat was about 30 years ago, and that was part of a suit.

 

[Mommabear]

I flicked over yesterday and Sally was saying she had been extremely ill lately with a mineral deficiency

Anything to do with all the Jane Plan, protocol etc she supposedly has?

 

[candycane]

I wouldn't personally recommend that Jane Plan. It really doesn't taste nice despite being "made" by professional chefs. I think anything foodwise that doesn't need refrigerated and lasts in a plastic pouch for months can't be that good for you.

CC

 

[Hammy60]

Wonder if they'll ever have a watch show on IW, where there is no misleading info, exaggeration and outright spouted about the watches they are selling.