Random musings and general banter.

[Duke of Cheese]

Desperate to sell? Tell the punters to double-up purpose on a £17.99 shonky shoe warmer upper to use it shoeless and sit by it for warmth. It speaks volumes for the sort of hapless idiots they think they are pitching to. Frighteningly, there are people, probably cold, heating bills conscious, who’d go for the completely unsuitable for described purpose, and buy it, thinking it will save them from putting their proper heating on. Words of condemnation sometimes run out.

 

[cheeky chappie]

Numii again, thought when it sold out we weren't going to see it again this year.

I found this in their terms & conditions, read the small print folks!

SOLD OUT
Ideal World stores products across five (5) different storage facilities. When a product is classed as 'sold out', this confirms there are zero (0) of that product left within one (1) or more of Ideal World's five (5) storage facilities but not necessarily all five (5.) That is to say, one (1) or more of Ideal World's storage facilities might have a quantity of a product left and Ideal World reserve the right to sell that product even though it has previously been classed as 'sold out.' Once these storage facilities are empty of the product, it can again be deemed as 'sold out' even though stock of the product might have been replenished in one (1) or more of the storage facilities that were devoid of the product. In a scenario where all five (5) storage facilities are empty in relation to a product, Ideal World reserve the right to class it as being 'sold out' even if a stock replenishment is expected within 24 hours or any time duration thereafter. All rights reserved. Nothing you have just read can be considered factual.

 

[cheeky chappie]

I rather enjoyed it, let's face it, we only had three channels, so not much to choose from.

Now we have 100s of channels ... and still not much to choose from!

 

[Battiola73]

I found this in their terms & conditions, read the small print folks!

SOLD OUT
Ideal World stores products across five (5) different storage facilities. When a product is classed as 'sold out', this confirms there are zero (0) of that product left within one (1) or more of Ideal World's five (5) storage facilities but not necessarily all five (5.) That is to say, one (1) or more of Ideal World's storage facilities might have a quantity of a product left and Ideal World reserve the right to sell that product even though it has previously been classed as 'sold out.' Once these storage facilities are empty of the product, it can again be deemed as 'sold out' even though stock of the product might have been replenished in one (1) or more of the storage facilities that were devoid of the product. In a scenario where all five (5) storage facilities are empty in relation to a product, Ideal World reserve the right to class it as being 'sold out' even if a stock replenishment is expected within 24 hours or any time duration thereafter. All rights reserved. Nothing you have just read can be considered factual.

So a storage facility could be a lock up garage or a filing cabinet and doesn’t necessarily mean a warehouse?

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Essentially, I take that to mean that they can continually say a product is sold out when it isn’t really sold out at all, in terms of what a normal person would accept as reasonably being sold out? Is that right?

 

[HughTwo]

Looks like they're even sneakier than we thought.

I just assumed the "these will go......six left.....we've sold out of the gold.....no more...." was just the sharp practice loved by Dirty Peter and Of-the-Masons.

Seems it's company policy to mislead viewers with fake sell-outs

 

[Battiola73]

I wonder if all their storage facilities are in the UK? If they have a large warehouse at the suppliers/manufacturers in a far flung part of the world (e.g China) then in theory, they’ll never be sold out.

When QVC say it’s Sold Out in the warehouse, the next sentence is but we do have advanced orders that will be despatched on x date. Otherwise it’s actually sold out. When they have their clearance sales, the presenters will often state when it’s gone we most probably won’t be reordering.

 

[cheeky chappie]

I found this in their terms & conditions, read the small print folks!

SOLD OUT
Ideal World stores products across five (5) different storage facilities. When a product is classed as 'sold out', this confirms there are zero (0) of that product left within one (1) or more of Ideal World's five (5) storage facilities but not necessarily all five (5.) That is to say, one (1) or more of Ideal World's storage facilities might have a quantity of a product left and Ideal World reserve the right to sell that product even though it has previously been classed as 'sold out.' Once these storage facilities are empty of the product, it can again be deemed as 'sold out' even though stock of the product might have been replenished in one (1) or more of the storage facilities that were devoid of the product. In a scenario where all five (5) storage facilities are empty in relation to a product, Ideal World reserve the right to class it as being 'sold out' even if a stock replenishment is expected within 24 hours or any time duration thereafter. All rights reserved. Nothing you have just read can be considered factual.

tbh I wasn't expecting anyone to believe this was real! So I suppose I'd better say ...

early April's fool!!!

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Those LED pull cord lights could be another alternate use product for Caine to suggest. They could be used as deep sea illumination for sunken old wrecks (not Peter Simon). They certainly plumb new depths...

 

[Hammy60]

tbh I wasn't expecting anyone to believe this was real! So I suppose I'd better say ...

early April's fool!!!

While it may have been a joke, there is a lot of truth in your post, just replace warehouse stocks with show allocation stock and you get the same result, ie it's only the stock for that show that's sold out, still more stock for other shows in the warehouse, although presenters don't say that.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

tbh I wasn't expecting anyone to believe this was real! So I suppose I'd better say ...

early April's fool!!!

Ha Ha. You had me fooled- good and proper. My mother wanted to name me Gullible as I was always being conned into wasted travels.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Newbie

 

[cheeky chappie]

Ha Ha. You had me fooled- good and proper. My mother wanted to name me Gullible as I was always being conned into wasted travels.

Can I interest you in some magic beans?

 

[cheeky chappie]

While it may have been a joke, there is a lot of truth in your post, just replace warehouse stocks with show allocation stock and you get the same result, ie it's only the stock for that show that's sold out, still more stock for other shows in the warehouse, although presenters don't say that.

Yeah it's all smoke and mirrors with them.

Bounce backs from folk not checking out.
Additional stock found down the back of the green room sofa.
Managing to secure additional stock after lengthy through the night negotiations with the wholesaler (Costco.)

etc etc.

 

[Hammy60]

Yeah it's all smoke and mirrors with them.

Bounce backs from folk not checking out.
Additional stock found down the back of the green room sofa.
Managing to secure additional stock after lengthy through the night negotiations with the wholesaler (Costco.)

etc etc.

Bottom of Kevski's wardrobe.

 

[Hammy60]

Another on the happy talk without breathing pills.

 

[Jazzydrury]

She’s got support teacher vibes

 

[Jazzydrury]

New presenter, same old crap

 

[Duke of Cheese]

I was corrected for a support fruit analogy on the CVQ Forum earlier. Then duped by CC to follow...And to make things even worse...Penelope Keith is covering on Exemplar Planet this afternoon...Same South Chelsea tat, though

 

[Jazzydrury]

RGuess what she lives in a very old house, and the damp boxes would be ideal