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Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

Cat sack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChjMRfi40c.
Japanese QVC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMo3F5IouNs
American QVC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oG7ZbZnTcA

From lovely looking clothing to overpriced electronics (they like to bundle them with garbage) you can buy all your needs at QVC. Need a ham? They'll have them. Box of oranges? Sure why not. Weird device to regrow hair? Yep. Skincare? Yep. Fake Christmas trees? gently caress yeah. Garbage looking steel jewelry with inspirational words? You know the answer. Now I sometimes will put on HSN but the quality just feels lacking, it's like a second rate QVC.

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bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!
YOU KNOW WHAT THIS THREAD MAKES ME DO OP?!

IT MAKES ME DO THE HAPPY DANCE!

HAPPY DANCE
HAPPY DANCE

GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice
Don't kick him when he's down, man

Lauroon Kyanka
Sep 17, 2017

*trips on a ladybug*

*dies of old age*
qvc can gently caress off. they somehow convinced my poor susceptible grandmother that all the grandchildren needed ipads for christmas back in 2012. they gave her a "great" payment plan. that she is still paying off. we did everything to return them but they just wouldn't budge.

it was a nice gesture but we just hated seeing her go through all that trouble.

old people and tons of money don't mix.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
kovee z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1hzk-uStLo

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!

Lauroon Kyanka posted:

qvc can gently caress off. they somehow convinced my poor susceptible grandmother that all the grandchildren needed ipads for christmas back in 2012. they gave her a "great" payment plan. that she is still paying off. we did everything to return them but they just wouldn't budge.

it was a nice gesture but we just hated seeing her go through all that trouble.

old people and tons of money don't mix.

QVC is the loving master of this. Everything about it is setup to create the illusion that these hosts are just your best friends you never met, and they’re looking out for you by bringing the “deals” that aren’t actually deals at all*. Like, hosts will actually look into the camera with warm eyes and fake smiles and say things like “give yourself permission” to buy whatever thing is being presented. The new thing they’ve started doing is, whenever they show the “if sold separate” breakdown, they refer to it as the “value story.”

* I’ve bought some legit nice stuff from QVC at decent prices, but whenever they sell tech stuff, it’s always a ripoff because companies like Apple aren’t going to give them big discounts on iPads or whatever, so instead they bundle it with $200 of lovely accessories and warranties to “justify” selling last year’s model for more than the newest one retails for, then go “oh but you can get it on 6-pay! WHAT A VALUE STORY!”

Foreskin Problems
Nov 4, 2012

It's doing fine, actually.
Hell yeah, QVC rules :dance:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e77oXjFkIs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdIwUYRrruY

Pound_Coin
Feb 5, 2004
£


In Europe, QVC is transmitted out of a dedicated office/studio in Chiswick Park, West London, It's a very nice serviced buisness park with public activities and opendays and the like: http://www.enjoy-work.com/home/

In short really quite a nice place to work, summer sees BBQs and outdoor sports and actvities arranged by the park owning company for both people who work in the park and members of the public.

When QVC moved in, they hired their own outside security company to ensure that no non-QVC plebs could attend any QVC planned events (bear in mind this is a park open to the public and very popular with locals.)


Even at the most removed level, QVC is poo poo people.

That is my QVC story.

Ralph Crammed In
May 11, 2007

Let's get clean and smart


I love the channel that just sells knives and swords because it's entertaining as all hell to both listen to two uncharismatic middle aged dudes try to come up with stuff to say about garbage knives as well as speculate on who the gently caress is buying all these crap knives and swords.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Ralph Crammed In posted:

I love the channel that just sells knives and swords because it's entertaining as all hell to both listen to two uncharismatic middle aged dudes try to come up with stuff to say about garbage knives as well as speculate on who the gently caress is buying all these crap knives and swords.

That's Shop at Home, the trailer park of television. They used to have a sports collectibles show where they'd try to dump loads of worthless baseball cards for "huge deals" and probably got more than a few suckers. Maybe it still runs, but I live in an area with more entertainment options than antenna tv.

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

That's Shop at Home, the trailer park of television. They used to have a sports collectibles show where they'd try to dump loads of worthless baseball cards for "huge deals" and probably got more than a few suckers. Maybe it still runs, but I live in an area with more entertainment options than antenna tv.

That baseball card guy was awesome.

IF YOU CALL NOW, I'LL EVEN THROW IN 20 OF THIS FAKE GOLD KEN GRIFFEY JUNIOR CARD!!!! TWEEEEENTY OF THEM! THEY REALLY COULDN'T HAVE MADE MANY OF THESE, THEY'RE GOOOOOLD KEN GRIFFEY JUNIORS! JUNIOR, JUNIOR, JUNIOR!!! SAY IT TWENTY TIMES!!!! BUT YOU HAVE. TO. HURRY!

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dev286
Nov 30, 2006

Let it be all the best.
There is something remarkable about the kind of improv skill you need to have to be able to do to host QVC. It's part carnie, part car salesman, part talk show host. So it's kind of depressing to see talent squandered like that on selling grandmas overpriced blenders.

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