Up until fairly recently, the bid and price drop websites carried different stock, whilst there were quite a few duplicated products, you'd often find quantities and sizes were different, so if you couldn't find what you were looking for, you'd probably find it available on the other channel and vice versa. They were also different in that with Bid's website you could buy anything and accumulate a basket and pay for it all together and pay just one postage charge, and if you spent £50 or more you'd get p&p free - That option's now completely disappeared. I've also noticed that with any kind of deal they're doing they make sure that it's only available via the telephone.
Anyway Bid and price drop's website carry exactly the same stock, and whilst the tv scheduling is different - It's the same shop. I wonder if it's really worth them carrying on like this. I realise that having two different shows on at the same time means they'll sell more in one day and they'll be getting the revenue from phonecalls, I guess it must cover the cost of the extra channel space and second studio - But I can still see it being merged into one single operation to cut costs. They daren't raise the price of the postage!
Anyway Bid and price drop's website carry exactly the same stock, and whilst the tv scheduling is different - It's the same shop. I wonder if it's really worth them carrying on like this. I realise that having two different shows on at the same time means they'll sell more in one day and they'll be getting the revenue from phonecalls, I guess it must cover the cost of the extra channel space and second studio - But I can still see it being merged into one single operation to cut costs. They daren't raise the price of the postage!
