Random musings and general banter.

[Hammy60]

May as well start a new Random Musing & General Banter thread for Shop Extra in this new section created by Graham .

First show on the agenda 2pm Simon Iles trying to flog some of his Piranha Products.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Hi Hammy, what a good idea

 

[Jazzydrury]

The Wizzy Whisk yay

 

[Hammy60]

Hi Hammy, what a good idea

With the other thread covering IW, TJC shows, and now shop extra shows, might be easier to keep track of things if there is separate discussions for the different channels.

 

[Jazzydrury]

First Cynical post

As it’s on the main channel, are they going to have todays products on Club Price, and encourage new viewers to join the club, and then when it comes to Shop Extra you don’t get it, So that way they would have got some new viewers joining thee club

 

[Jazzydrury]

Wonder if they will relaunch Tech Items, and use Janice as a guest

 

[Hammy60]

Wonder if they will relaunch Tech Items, and use Janice as a guest

May do, but have a feeling at the start it'll be a lot of products we're familiar with from IW, ie health & Beauty, fashion, interiors, gardening, Simon Iles type brands etc, oh and Air Fryers.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Does the actual channel begin tonight or is this hour, very much a hour on its own right

 

[Jazzydrury]

If nobody else isn’t going to bother watching I don’t mind and give a honest review

 

[Hammy60]

If nobody else isn’t going to bother watching I don’t mind and give a honest review

Probably won't be much to review, apart from maybe more details of the shop extra channel, be just Simon wasting more vegetables and milk, selling products that have been available else wheres for ages, just because he found a Chinese supplier to stick the Piranha branding on the products doesn't make them any more special to the hundreds of alternatives out there.

The Piranha products are hard Company to track down, they've a web site and address but no company details seem to exist at Companies House, although Simon Iles claims to be a Director. Wonder if they are just a brand he's create for his "Seen on TV" company.

 

[Jazzydrury]

What I will be interested to see is if, they do the hard sell or not

 

[Jazzydrury]

The presenter they are using Is quite likeable, a younger version of Dean

 

[Jazzydrury]

10 minutes to shyster time

 

[Jazzydrury]

Launches 24 August

 

[Jazzydrury]

As I thought the items have club prices

 

[Hammy60]

The presenter they are using Is quite likeable, a younger version of Dean

As soon as he said "legends" then he wants all the products then he's in the black book already.

He never shuts up like Dean, although he hasn't said much about himself so far so not sure he's a mini Dean just yet.

 

[Jazzydrury]

I’ve emailed in with my name and address let’s see if they have more than 4 viewers

 

[Jazzydrury]

Shop Extra will have Club Prices, but to get that you have to pay £10 a year at the moment, but ud get 10% off all items

 

[Jazzydrury]

There will be cooking hours, as they are having a oven fitted

 

[PhædrusR]

After RDM drones, Piranha and Vostok Europe watches, more former IW brands announced as Shop Extra partnerships:

- Blue Magic
- Airfryer Genie (thought they'd gone bust)
- The Handy
- Webb
- Greenworks

So it's looking like Shop Extra will just be a cut-down clone of IW, selling niche house & garden and cleaning products.

Not very ambitious and no new level of innovation or product selection compared to IW. Shame. A missed opportunity perhaps. We shall see.