What happened to my crown?

[stratobuddy]

I didn't watch any QVC yesterday and forgot that the crown was supposed to be auctioned, so I never got the chance to buy it.

Was it auctioned, and if so, how much did it go for?

 

[SUPERCOOLWILLOW]

i think it went for £1,000 or something

 

[stratobuddy]

I thought it was expected to go for £25,000 to £50,000

 

[SparklyBarbs]

I thought it was expected to go for £25,000 to £50,000

Think there was a bit of excitement here on the forum on Wednesday night, so maybe a lot of people were otherwise engaged and too busy to bid for it he he :wink:

 

[stratobuddy]

I would have bought it for £1000 !!!

 

[Loveinamist]

Never mind, make do with this one instead. :mysmilie_846:

 

[stratobuddy]

I am amazed that - - - - -

- - - no-one on this forum knows what price the crown sold for.

I tried to find out on the website, but couldn't.

Just had an idea - - - I will ring their "award winning CS" to see if they know, then I will let you know.

 

[stratobuddy]

They spent 5 minutes ringing around various depts to try and find out but couldn't.

They promised to ring me back when they know.

 

[YORKO]

Probably embarrased because they only got ten bob for it

 

[bags]

Due to my own personally story I find it hard to watch but because they weren't releasing items on the web before nearly being shown I had it on with the sound down.
I caught at the end, a board with markers showing the latest bid amount and the crown was showing at around a £1,000.
Don't know if that was Julia's bid but she was wearing it at the end of the show.
Perhaps someone on Twitter could contact her to ask what the auction ended at.

 

[SUPERCOOLWILLOW]

i did acutally say it went for £1,000 which i thought was cheap

 

[stratobuddy]

As I said, I thought it was supposed to be "worth" £34,000 (from memory) so I would have paid £1000 for it.

 

[stratobuddy]

I've just found this link.

I don't understand that it was supposed to be for auction, yet the pic shows it for sale at £10,528.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...Cs-home-shopping-crown-royal-snip-10-528.html

EDIT - - - The VALUE (whatever that means) is the price above, but they expect to get more than that for it.

 

[Brissles]

That report in the Daily Mail was dated in May this year. It seems uncanny that no mention of the final price has been mentioned anywhere - as SW says it went for £1000 then perhaps its red faces all around as they expected to get so much more for it. And even more 'odd' that there was no mention of the lucky winner either.

 

[SUPERCOOLWILLOW]

i nearly bidded for it just because i could understand the work in it and it seemed good value for what it is and was

 

[stratobuddy]

It must have cost well over £1000 to make it, what with all the silver and the different coloured eeeeks. A work of skilled craftmanship. I didn't see any promos for it on Q before the event, either on TV or the website.

Here is the Queen modelling it, was she on QVC on the BCC day?

 

[stratobuddy]

QUOTE - - "The replica was commissioned by QVC and took 30 days to make."

Assuming a near-minimum wage of £7/hr, the labour cost alone would be about £1700, and that's assuming it was all done by just 1 person, which is unlikely. And craftmanship like that would be well over £7/hr anyway.

If it really went for £1000 then I'm gutted I didn't bid for it.

 

[Loveinamist]

Dear Strato, think you might have to let this go, for sanity's sake.

 

[tristar]

I smell a rat with this. I think Roberts may have 'capped' the bid and got away with it with a £1,000 donation. Hence why there is no mention of it and nobody at the call centre knows. After all she thinks she is a queen just because she has put in the years at qvc

 

[stratobuddy]

Still waiting for QVC to ring back, I hope it won't be at 3 am.