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So it's finally happened. Bye bye Bid. Farewell to Price Drop. Good riddance.
Or, to borrow from the ludicrous Price Drop selling model:
Waah waah waah waaaaaah
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
Most likely the initial rot set in when they first introduced a clock for falling price auctions, meaning that the price stopped falling at a predetermined point, but of course there have been numerous gaffes both on and off-screen ever since. During the past week it became obvious to me that they were now in serious trouble; I watched Shop at Bid for 10 minutes recently and the same five buyers' names were displayed throughout that time, plus the hilariously inept Price Drop format was OK for certain items but certainly not for jewellery which they singularly failed to sell anything of at the time I was watching. Throwing away potential purchases when they really needed to make every sale count seemed like a route to a quick suicide to me, and surely they could have done something with the Price Drop format that would have worked better from a business perspective.
In one sense I'm sad that it has all come to an end. Bid and Price Drop have been my favourite sources of trash TV over the last 10 years, and there hasn't been anything quite like it ever in the history of broadcasting. And, unfortunately, most of the very reasons why it was so compelling during its later years were unfortunately closely allied to the reasons why it shouldn't have been on-air at all.
Best wishes to all of the camera crew, production staff, backroom workers and slaves to the Sit-up empire plus a few of the presenters (Justin Hazell springs to mind), but the rest of the presenters badly let the side down. As others have said, keeping the presenters who may have sold the most under an old broken regime was a huge mistake when you needed to attract new customers in order to survive. On another forum, someone said that one of the presenters (perhaps Steve Macdonald) looked like an unkempt Big Issue seller, and when other presenters resembled uncouth salespeople in various stages of derangement (or were simply deranged either by accident or design) it's no wonder that sales hit the buffers when they tried to go all Ideal World with the Shop at Bid format. Shop at Bid tried to be staid and sensible but failed due to a lack of quality products, poor presenters and simply because they had scared nearly all their potential customers away.
So then, farewell to (mainly) bad rubbish.
Or, to borrow from the ludicrous Price Drop selling model:
Waah waah waah waaaaaah
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
Most likely the initial rot set in when they first introduced a clock for falling price auctions, meaning that the price stopped falling at a predetermined point, but of course there have been numerous gaffes both on and off-screen ever since. During the past week it became obvious to me that they were now in serious trouble; I watched Shop at Bid for 10 minutes recently and the same five buyers' names were displayed throughout that time, plus the hilariously inept Price Drop format was OK for certain items but certainly not for jewellery which they singularly failed to sell anything of at the time I was watching. Throwing away potential purchases when they really needed to make every sale count seemed like a route to a quick suicide to me, and surely they could have done something with the Price Drop format that would have worked better from a business perspective.
In one sense I'm sad that it has all come to an end. Bid and Price Drop have been my favourite sources of trash TV over the last 10 years, and there hasn't been anything quite like it ever in the history of broadcasting. And, unfortunately, most of the very reasons why it was so compelling during its later years were unfortunately closely allied to the reasons why it shouldn't have been on-air at all.
Best wishes to all of the camera crew, production staff, backroom workers and slaves to the Sit-up empire plus a few of the presenters (Justin Hazell springs to mind), but the rest of the presenters badly let the side down. As others have said, keeping the presenters who may have sold the most under an old broken regime was a huge mistake when you needed to attract new customers in order to survive. On another forum, someone said that one of the presenters (perhaps Steve Macdonald) looked like an unkempt Big Issue seller, and when other presenters resembled uncouth salespeople in various stages of derangement (or were simply deranged either by accident or design) it's no wonder that sales hit the buffers when they tried to go all Ideal World with the Shop at Bid format. Shop at Bid tried to be staid and sensible but failed due to a lack of quality products, poor presenters and simply because they had scared nearly all their potential customers away.
So then, farewell to (mainly) bad rubbish.
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I think this figure is well off the mark knowing IW presenters were paid approx £60k a year back in 2010.
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im surprised someone on here aint suggested we all club together & buy the company for as little as possible & show them we knew what we were on about on here
(me being slightly joking)
(me being slightly joking)
Have Beans On Toast and then let it all out.
That would seem very appropriate :mysmilie_59:
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You pissed the price-drop.tv logo with the dot
Well spotted Benny I will update it immediately
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I'm going to send them a sympathy card - and then charge them £7.99 to deliver it.
That's the going rate for something that's as light as a feather isn't it?
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Here's my quid.
PJ.
In an Ideal World ...
Lets do a conga
Great idea. We could use MeMike's head as a bongo drum
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I'm glad bid and price drop have gone. Now all I need is for this forum to go and then my secret unhealthy fascination with the shysters will be over. I can't believe I know who Gollum, Schlock, Dirty Peter, Bod, Forest Gump, Split Ends, Gasper, Frump, Lord Kean, Dockyard Doris and Neil are. What time I have mindlessly wasted flicking onto the channels to watch the shysters in action and then reading this forum. Has been a bit of fun though, some of you guys are very funny!
I have to admit that "Dockyard Doris" is my personal fav lol. Perfume Pete is another name that always cracks me up.
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does anyone have the short lived dibbing.com logo?, I think I have everything else in this pic now, its a shame you can't see it at full size though on here
edit it won't load the pic at the moment - normal service will be resumed shortly, in the meantime log on to the website and continue buying bargains there
edit it won't load the pic at the moment - normal service will be resumed shortly, in the meantime log on to the website and continue buying bargains there
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I was just this very minute thinking how odd it is that it's nearly 10.00pm and there's no Peter to tune into.
I bet he's in some low boozer, necking a can of Breaker and telling anybody who'll listen that he used to work for the BBC :mysmilie_59:
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Mine too, Dockyard Doris sums her up (unfortunately!). I also like"The Dirty Peter", the name, not the person!
