three and a half months into my recovery from QVC

[iloveshopping]

If you phone Customer Services they will send you a list of all your outstanding Easypayments and the month they are due with the item number. I wanted one of all my past easypayments so that I could check that some of the items that I had returned and were on easypayment had been refunded and no new ones taken but they could not provide that.
They did offer if I emailed them with specific easypayment queries to give me the item number.
I try to avoid the easypayments all together as I consider that if I can't afford something I should not be buying it. As Rainbowdottie says it is just 'stuff'

 

[stratobuddy]

Unfortunately I am still addicted to collecting "stuff" but now it comes from Lidl (their weekly specials) and not QVC. Much cheaper though!

 

[iloveshopping]

Unfortunately I am still addicted to collecting "stuff" but now it comes from Lidl (their weekly specials) and not QVC. Much cheaper though!

So's my boyfriend unfortunately. He will buy anything if he considers it a bargain. A parcel arrived recently with 3 universal remotes, 9 pedometers and some other tat. At the moment there is a bargain £20 toy tractor for aged 3+ on the table (we don't know any three year olds)and a set of DVDs 'The Big Bang Theory'

If you ever find a solution let me know. His problem is worse than yours because he will not acknowledge that it is an addiction.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I do like easy payments but god knows why. It just appeals to me for some reason. Even if I can afford the product outright, if it's on easy pay I'm having it! lol

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, I don't have anyone to answer to financially. I live alone, although I'm not single but that does mean my cash is my own. I have a good job and I can afford pretty much whatever I want (well within reason ... I can't spend £1000s or even £100s without thinking) but I've spent more than I ought to have done in the past. That's not QVCs fault, it's mine and I'd be spending it somewhere else if not with QVC so that's why I'm pleased with my spreadsheet spending curb.

In a funny way QVC has taught me to spend less far more quickly than I would have otherwise.

 

[BusyMum]

I only used easy-pay once and that was by accident, I used the express checkout on the website and only realised later that it had given me EZP..rang CS and too late to change it by then so I had three payments to "worry" about - like you iloveshopping, I figure if I can't afford to pay for it outright then I've no right to be buying it at all.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

That's one thing with "tapping the app". As far as I know you cannot opt out of easy pays. As I said I am drawn to them anyway but am getting more controlled with it. I ordered a top a few weeks back that was about £20 including postage but did it on the app and it was easy pay or nowt as far as I could see.

 

[BusyMum]

Ha ha..! I haven't an app to tap, but on the website if you go to the other checkout (not express) you can alter the method of payment - at least that's what the lady from CS told me at the time.

 

[silversequin]

I used to get a bit suckered in with easy pays and now it is such a relief when I check my bank balance and don't have to factor in the "odd" tenner or so coming out in the next few days for some pair of earring that I can't even remember where I've put them. I used to write my easy pays on the kitchen calendar and when I realised I had four on the go and it was topping £80 that particular month I knew I had to do something.

Rainbowdottie you are so right, it is "just stuff" and sadly I am a bit drawn to stuff but my therapy is to think of how soon my intial thrill fades with whatever it was I was craving until I owned it and also to think of less costly ways to treat myself. It sounds mad but I am raising some sweet peas from seed and am really excited to see them germinating. Seems to be working for me at the moment anyway!

 

[rainbowdottie]

I too like as much "stuff" as the next person.I can just about justify anything to myself.Now I say to myself it is just stuff and do I need it? If I think logically well I do - then I do buy if I have the money.Since the beginning of this year I've bought a trespass TSV and a kipling TSV in feb (?) both well used.

I bought a kipling ginowen bag a few days ago.Very good buy.

And do you know what? I don't feel guilty as I used to in the past.I haven't overspent,I haven't been wishing my CC statement or easy pays away.It feels good to want and really use "stuff"