I like the beauty shows, it's something that interests me and probably always will, but it has become very boring and staid. It's the same few products from the same few brands, at high prices with exorbitant P&P. I'll never understand how QVC will charge P&P on high value orders when no-one else does now. And I'm often surprised at how many products you'll get to see on a brand's own website that QVC never even look at. I'd still much rather have beauty over "fashion" at the prices they charge. I couldn't afford them, not that I'd want to. I'm confined to home a lot, due to poor health, and advocate that variety is the spice of life. This is why I dislike whole day events of a single product type, or those long, dull three-hour shows, even the beauty stuff, it's too long. I'm not going to make comment, other than a passing reference, to the torture that was 24 hours of "gardening". I record anything that might be of interest so I can skip through it and just pick out the bits I really want to see. I'm not worried about missing special offers as there aren't any! And that awful last show of Lulu's last night. JF was screeching about how we should all be buying 4 at once and then they cut the show off with another promo before they'd finished properly.
As a final note, despite loving the beauty, I have to say I'm less and less convinced that any of it works. Perhaps it's to do with having had two cataract operations and having bought a new, larger TV, but the people selling this stuff look terrible! Surely if their miracle wonder slop really worked, they'd all look like perfect 20-somethings? Most of them have bad skin or that leathery too-much-sun look, age spots, bad hair etc. I'm not perfect, far from it, but I'm not trying to flog product that's supposed to stop all that.
I've been with QVC since day 1 and it has gone way downhill. I'm not a business person but even I can see this can't go on forever, something in their corporate structure needs to change to bring them in line and up-to-date with modern retail.
Rant over (for now!)