Random musings and general banter.

[Professor Branestawm]

High End Timepieces? Is she having a laugh? One of the biggest retailers of watches in the country?? IW3??? Don’t worry. Say whatever you like. Nobody checks or wants to. World renowned brand - William Hunt of Hainault. That’s the returns address.

This really - truly- is a photo of the place. Check google maps!
It’s high-end sophistication!

 

[PhaedrusR]

One of those watches has stopped.

Great advert for their time keeping.

Noticed quite often when they demo cheap automatics that they're not always running, i.e. ticking. Or the flywheel/balance wheel is moving very slowly, with hardly any power in it/the spring.

They seem scared to either manually wind them with the crown winder or pick them up and shake them a bit to wind the automatic with the rotor.

They often seem scared to demo the functions, move the rotating bezel if it has one or use the stopwatch, etc., treating them more like presentation jewellery than functional timepieces!

 

[Duke of Cheese]

I am trying to think of a shopping television presenter on any channel that appeared to have any knowledge of watches whatsoever apart from telling the time? Actually, I am trying to think of a watch expert guest on any shopping channel that appeared to have any knowledge of watches either. Reynolds didn’t seem to know anything technical about watches in general. The actors saying anything for a sale. Neil with Roamer, perhaps? Hammy will know..Or the Professor.

 

[Lord Helpus]

This really - truly- is a photo of the place. Check google maps!
It’s high-end sophistication!

One can hardly imagine Natalia drawing up outside such a place in her swish limousine fresh from castle dark.

 

[Old Man Steptoe]

Classy

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Are we sure we have the right photo? I am looking for up market and sumptuous, and all I see are some industrial units near the wrong end of the Central Line. Could this be a rival company but with a similar name - Mike Hunt Watches?

 

[Jazzydrury]

I see Jezza is back

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Stealing a living on there. Can’t abide him.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Classy

It’s those 2 bin bags

 

[Duke of Cheese]

What on earth is the ‘COMPARISON PRICE’? Shown above the Ideal World Price. Comparison with something else? A dead halibut? Comparison with the same item?

 

[Lord Helpus]

Stealing a living on there. Can’t abide him.

Jezza looks and sounds more yobbish every day.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

He should be flogging Curly Wurlies…Reprising Terry Scott.

 

[Kit10]

I buy from QVC most months (occasionally weeks!). I have never had a concern that I’d made a mistake or would be worried in case I couldn’t get a refund. They demonstrate the items well, no tall tales or drama. It’s just a million light years away from IW3. Anything that needs a charge has one, so no embarrassing waffling. If it comes in a box, the one on screen is not tatty, ripped and broken. I ordered 4 things last night at 8.45, and I’ve had confirmation today from Evri that they will deliver them tomorrow. I know they don’t have the same budget as IW3, but FFS have your presenters do some prep. And have your Floor Managers do their job, so that the Presenters have a fighting chance. Watch QVC to see how it’s done.

 

[cheeky chappie]

Emma coming up with watches , according to the mouth, nobody in the world knows more about watches than Emma.

Which is why she's a presenter on a market stall esque shopping channel ...

Jeez do these folk actually listen to the guff that comes out their mouths?!?

 

[cheeky chappie]

I buy from QVC most months (occasionally weeks!). I have never had a concern that I’d made a mistake or would be worried in case I couldn’t get a refund. They demonstrate the items well, no tall tales or drama. It’s just a million light years away from IW3. Anything that needs a charge has one, so no embarrassing waffling. If it comes in a box, the one on screen is not tatty, ripped and broken. I ordered 4 things last night at 8.45, and I’ve had confirmation today from Evri that they will deliver them tomorrow. I know they don’t have the same budget as IW3, but FFS have your presenters do some prep. And have your Floor Managers do their job, so that the Presenters have a fighting chance. Watch QVC to see how it’s done.

If QVC is Selfridges, IW is Poundland mind you that's doing a disservice to Poundland ...

 

[Professor Branestawm]

I am trying to think of a shopping television presenter on any channel that appeared to have any knowledge of watches whatsoever apart from telling the time? Actually, I am trying to think of a watch expert guest on any shopping channel that appeared to have any knowledge of watches either. Reynolds didn’t seem to know anything technical about watches in general. The actors saying anything for a sale. Neil with Roamer, perhaps? Hammy will know..Or the Professor.

I agree with you, Duke. I think their knowledge, at best, is that of the salesperson. Superficially, Kevski seemed ok. But as time went on, the gaps in his knowledge, the mistakes he made, and the bizarre claims he’d come out with, revealed him as, essentially, a bulk importer, not a watchmaker.
And as for the rest of them….

 

[Professor Branestawm]

He should be flogging Curly Wurlies…Reprising Terry Scott.

My brother bought them all.


Seriously, though, between them and walnut whips I must’ve lost so many fillings as a kid!

 

[cheeky chappie]

It's great when they have the 'buy all' section on the screen, such amazing savings. e.g. selling 5 variants of a product for £49.99 each.

Buy 1 for £49.99
Buy all 5 for £249.95

Jeez, thanks, lol.

 

[cheeky chappie]

My brother bought them all.


Seriously, though, between them and walnut whips I must’ve lost so many fillings as a kid!

When I think back to the stuff I subjected my teeth to as a youngster, including those MASSIVE gobstoppers!!!

 

[galesgal57]

Foghorn is demonstrating the hula hoop, and she is screaming.