Random musings and general banter.

[EmmaP]

Think Arc at must be a West Country thing, as you don’t hear many say it

 

[historymystery]

Quote from Sally "it's got the quilting of Chanel, it's not Chanel". So why mention Chanel?

I think she meant it was dredged out of the Channel.... It's OK though - they've dried it out by putting it in front of the IW radiators.

 

[Wanderer]

It would need to be intensive and very long term - the therapeutic process for trauma on this level hasn’t yet been invented

I am certain Opatra have a therapeutic device on the drawing board right now for this problem.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

No chips for me with his large plates in there…

 

[Samki]

No chips for me with his large plates in there…

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Chef mark could legitimately throw water at this one

 

[Wanderer]

No chips for me with his large plates in there…

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What is with chips & cheese?

 

[Duke of Cheese]

That’s me done….

 

[Muttley]

It would need to be intensive and very long term - the therapeutic process for trauma on this level hasn’t yet been invented

I've found someone quite cheap. She says she has a lot of medical experience and often speaks at seminars. She's from Burnley

 

[Wanderer]

I've found someone quite cheap. She says she has a lot of medical experience and often speaks at seminars. She's from Burnley

A specialist in aversion therapy?

 

[EmmaP]

I've found someone quite cheap. She says she has a lot of medical experience and often speaks at seminars. She's from Burnley

She was saying earlier she has a medical talk about Blood Work being announced next Week, and Doctors around the world will be sent it

 

[Wanderer]

That’s me done….

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[PhædrusR]

I’ve seen it all now.
Have a look at the IW price of this….
It’s worth no more than £30.

I can only assume they are doing what ResultCo said all those years ago about their range - pricing them ‘optimistically’ so the client can appear to offer enormous savings.

I truly think this is disgusting.

I wonder if anyone actually buys them from IW at this price?

Without wishing to stereotype the average IW consumer, they don't strike me as having thousands of pounds to splash out on watches, especially on non-mainstream brands.

I know there's the odd 'watch collector' who buy IW watches for their prize collection, but even so £2.4k for a non-tourbillon, or even for a tourbillon, usually £1k+ on IW, so this seems a lot.

Or is it so that later when being sold for £130 later, they can claim you're getting a 2 and a half grand watch worth it all day long, for a hundred plus.

MFI used to do the same thing. Price up a sofa in Aberdeen for 30 days, then sell it at 'half Price', everywhere later on.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

I wonder if anyone actually buys them from IW at this price?

Without wishing to stereotype the average IW consumer, they don't strike me as having thousands of pounds to splash out on watches, especially on non-mainstream brands.

I know there's the odd 'watch collector' who buy IW watches for their prize collection, but even so £2.4k for a non-tourbillon, or even for a tourbillon, usually £1k+ on IW, so this seems a lot.

Or is it so that later when being sold for £130 later, they can claim you're getting a 2 and a half grand watch worth it all day long, for a hundred plus.

MFI used to do the same thing. Price up a sofa in Aberdeen for 30 days, then sell it at 'half Price', everywhere later on.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there - though as Hammy said, they might’ve mispriced it as a flying tourbillon as well.
I’m just wondering how someone buying it might feel when they bring it me for a service and I give them a price (say £200) that exceeds the value of the watch, and suggest I just buy another cheapo movement for them and drop it in - which is generally what we’d agree to do.

 

[Francy19]

Spitting Image was fab. Remember watching it in the 80’s. The reboot was good too, especially Donald Trump sketches. Hilarious

 

[Hammy60]

She was saying earlier she has a medical talk about Blood Work being announced next Week, and Doctors around the world will be sent it

Sounds good, but in reality she's not giving a medical talk about blood work, she's not qualified for that, she's a case study and will be telling Doctors her personal experiences during the diagnoses & treatment of her Anemia.

 

[EmmaP]

Sounds good, but in reality she's not giving a medical talk about blood work, she's not qualified for that, she's a case study and will be telling Doctors her personal experiences during the diagnoses & treatment of her Anemia.

That isn’t how she worded it

 

[cheeky chappie]

I wonder if anyone actually buys them from IW at this price?

Without wishing to stereotype the average IW consumer, they don't strike me as having thousands of pounds to splash out on watches, especially on non-mainstream brands.

I know there's the odd 'watch collector' who buy IW watches for their prize collection, but even so £2.4k for a non-tourbillon, or even for a tourbillon, usually £1k+ on IW, so this seems a lot.

Or is it so that later when being sold for £130 later, they can claim you're getting a 2 and a half grand watch worth it all day long, for a hundred plus.

MFI used to do the same thing. Price up a sofa in Aberdeen for 30 days, then sell it at 'half Price', everywhere later on.

Ok we can say it's on the viewer to research before they buy. However, there will be viewers out there who simply don't use the internet (mainly the elderly) therefore can't really check prices quickly and/or those who are very trusting by nature. Also those who, how can I put this diplomatically, are in control of their own finances etc but perhaps struggle to varying degrees with day to day life from a mental capacity perspective. It's these people I feel sorry for in relation to any product IW sell that can be had cheaper elsewhere, sometimes considerably so. And, prices aside, these people will be more inclined to believe the misinformation and lies even where price isn't an issue.

These viewers are GOLD to selly telly.

 

[Hammy60]

That isn’t how she worded it

Probably not, but she isn't qualified to give anything else but her personal experiences to medical professionals, she's no Hematologist.

 

[EmmaP]

I noticed when I got up this morning, nobody watches Joanne

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Their sales output is virtually entirely based in language and style towards the elderly. They are not unique, of course. But the approach at times reminds me of a hidden camera item on Watchdog. Sadly, no Matt Allwright, though, to crash into the studio and confront the likes of Simon for cynical mis-selling and get the place ultimately changed for the better or taken off-air. Fear factoring is very much key to their presentations. Constant scaremongering regarding being cold at home for heating related items. Manipulating temperatures outside. Or talking about being robbed by ‘Scrammers’ as Walter would say, for those protective type wallets they sell. Even the ludicrous malapropisms he uses, you feel are made deliberately to empathise with older people struggling with the terms of modern language today. Regularly playing the completely inadequate system supposedly there to protect viewers from disreputable retail conduct like this.

There appears no end to it - the ridiculously selective price comparisons, making medical claims then immediately withdrawing them (the seed sewn), making unjustified similarities to expensive brands for cheap tat. Again - immediately withdrawn. Constant abuse of a vulnerable audience they SHOULD be being transparent with. Genuinely- how some of these people working there sleep at night, I will never know. That said - people with a moral position and a social conscience in general wouldn’t be regularly working in that environment, would they?