Random musings and general banter.

[Jazzydrury]

I'm not sure their system and graphics are set up for that kind of onscreen messages, ie the shows aren't linked to a web page of the products like IW did. Have a feeling this is being run on a shoestring budget and minimal resources compared to IW's set up. It'll probable just be someone giving the presenters messages in their ear when low in stock etc.

C&C do updates though same firm

 

[Deleted member 21838]

Cou

of course he isn’t he was literally giving stuff away,

A Rolex Submariner free with every large chopper…

 

[Deleted member 21838]

And of course that much-missed Simonism: “YOU MUST INSURE THIS” (for a 200 quid watch).

 

[Jazzydrury]

Tim had a nice little dig at Den last night, though, letting viewers on that she loved sunbathing, and that she smoked which didn’t help her collagen levels

 

[Professor Branestawm]

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.

Wasn’t that a Monty Python sketch? The Pirahna Brothers? Sort of a low-rent Kray Twins, Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were sociopathic criminals employing a combination of "violence and sarcasm".
Perhaps these are the new values and sales techniques Shop Extra and Simon will be using? Oh well, no change there, then….!!

 

[Professor Branestawm]

And of course that much-missed Simonism: “YOU MUST INSURE THIS” (for a 200 quid watch).

I often wonder how many IW customers try that, only to be laughed away by the insurance people. Actually, I suppose they’ll be happy to take the money, knowing that it’s unlikely anyone will steal them, and that even if they did, replacement from AliBaba really would be ‘as cheap as chips’.

 

[Deleted member 21838]

I don’t what it is, but it all seems so familiar??

 

[Latearrival]

Drat old age had me thinking I was gonna miss the first week of ideal world mark 2. I could have sworn it was gonna start at the end of the month until I popped by and caught the comments on here.
I’m two days in and ……
you really do not wanna know what I’ve been thinking.
yesterday I watched the Fab Four full of self congratulation at being back on shopping telly, extolling Family freindship and fun, im still wondering just what the heck that means.

Currently find myself watching the miracle shammy that isn’t a shammy and needs muscle man to wring it out.

 

[Latearrival]

I’m a tad confused about the club memberships I’m clearly missing something. Both the same price per year both give 10% discount, one give free standard delivery the other doesn’t. Both I thought claimed you could use either on both create and craft and shopping extra.
clearly I’ve missed something in the small print.
Could someone enlighten me please.

 

[Hammy60]

I often wonder how many IW customers try that, only to be laughed away by the insurance people. Actually, I suppose they’ll be happy to take the money, knowing that it’s unlikely anyone will steal them, and that even if they did, replacement from AliBaba really would be ‘as cheap as chips’.

The Insurance thing i can see folks doing as most will just add it to their existing policies, Insurance folks probably won't be aware of what watch was insured etc till a claim is put in, that's when any problems might happen, ie if they've used IW RRPs as the value for replacing instead of the price they paid.

The thing I've often wondered was when, on odd occasion, especially when they had one of the more expensive watch Peter Simon said take it into a Jewelers and ask for a valuation, pretty sure if anybody did do that then they wouldn't have goot the valuation they were expecting.

 

[Hammy60]

I’m a tad confused about the club memberships I’m clearly missing something. Both the same price per year both give 10% discount, one give free standard delivery the other doesn’t. Both I thought claimed you could use either on both create and craft and shopping extra.
clearly I’ve missed something in the small print.
Could someone enlighten me please.

The 10% discount one is £10 for the Year, the other with 10% discount & free delivery is £10 a month, so £120 a year.

 

[Keep Going]

For a "new" channel many of the items (ok all in reality) they are selling are like something from a school tombola that folk have said just give that for the school tombola.

Nothing new to see here at all, no imagination at all! Do a quick search online and get any these items from a much more trustworthy source.

 

[Latearrival]

The 10% discount one is £10 for the Year, the other with 10% discount & free delivery is £10 a month, so £120 a year.

Thanks clearly I missed that distinction

 

[Deleted member 21838]

They need to go back 20 years and borrow some of the old Ideal World launch products - The Talking Salmon in a Frame, Fuk Luk Sau models. Karaoke Machines… Another old friend appears - the H20 woman - Bex, is it? Just waiting for Mick Mason‘s return now….

 

[Latearrival]

For a "new" channel many of the items (ok all in reality) they are selling are like something from a school tombola that folk have said just give that for the school tombola.

Nothing new to see here at all, no imagination at all! Do a quick search online and get any these items from a much more trustworthy source.

Plus they can be found cheaper and often with free P&P included.

 

[Hammy60]

They need to go back 20 years and borrow some of the old Ideal World launch products - The Talking Salmon in a Frame, Fuk Luk Sau models. Karaoke Machines… Another old friend appears - the H20 woman - Bex, is it? Just waiting for Mick Mason‘s return now….

You know even when she was on IW, for some strange reason on evening shows, probably her glazed looking eyes and acting extra animated, i always get the feeling she's been parting in some hydration but with something a bit stronger than H2O.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Hayley Sparkes is on and Says she trained in beauty therapy, finely at last.

If she is trained why did they make her a presenter at the end and embrass her if they knew she was trained in beauty

 

[Deleted member 21838]

Same s1t, different day…

 

[cheeky chappie]

For a "new" channel many of the items (ok all in reality) they are selling are like something from a school tombola that folk have said just give that for the school tombola.

Nothing new to see here at all, no imagination at all! Do a quick search online and get any these items from a much more trustworthy source.

This is what makes it so laughable in the modern era. If you do see something you like on IW, you can frequently (although granted not always) find it cheaper online e.g. Amazon.

Yes there are still quite a few out there who are digitally excluded (no Internet, no smartphone etc) however as that number decreases ...

 

[cheeky chappie]

Same s1t, different day…

Family ...
Friendship ...
Fun ...
Same sh1t ...
Different day ...

Has a more accurate ring to it