QVC - A Complete Joke!

[sheepdog]

Hi

As I sit here typing this message, QVC are running a show called 'Prepare The Guest Room'. Prepare the guest room...I ask you!!! Who the hell on low income has a house with a spare guest room, especially during the recession. I've never encountered such middle-class bias in all my life. It really has become a channel so far up its own backside reality goes goes out of the window! Back in the 90's QVC never took itself too seriously and appeared to be a little more down to earth with it's products and marketing style but I'm afraid those days are long gone.
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Er, who said QVC is for the lower classes (gosh I hate the British self-classification of social order)? It might have the stigma of being a shopping channel but QVC has to appeal to all markets not one particular segment. Otherwise they become stagnant and basically don't sell to those who can buy.

Not all of us have been affected by the recession - myself included, complete opposite in fact - but there are people who shows like that have an appeal. Nothing wrong with it to me and shows a bit of imagination beyond just displaying items. Said it before, if you can demonstrate the product in an environment with other related items, people will buy having been enlightened. Whether they buy or not, it does make a change from normal programming.

BTW, presenter rant very good

 

[letbuyerbeware]

Well well well Diva On Wheels

I cant wait for your next instalment, brilliant!!

 

[Tabs]

Diva, much as i agree with some of your points - AY, JF etc, i dont feel that having a guest room is so much a big deal, in reality JR guest room could quite possibly be one of her grown up childrens old bedroom. I'm much happier hearing about their guest rooms than JR/AD/DG holiday home abroad, that imo is being "stuck up and showing off" rather than guest room. Oh and welcome to the forums

 

[Lemonsqueezy]

I have a guest room :blush: I am lucky to have a big house with lots of bed rooms....hovever there ain't nothing posh about it or me!
Of late hubby and I have re named it the "Guess" room because we get up some weekend mornings and have to guess if there's anyone in there thanks to my 18 year old daughter and her random overnight invites :devil:

 

[Bea Frugal]

Hello and Welcome Diva. Looking forward to some more posts. Bea

 

[silversequin]

I dream of sorting out my "guest" room, had vague plans to turn it into a sort of study\reading room, but the bookcase from Ikea that I bought for this purpose is still in its box (will be ready for "Antiques Roadshow" if I don't get a move on) and I still keep dumping thing in there

 

[dottiebird]

Diva, much as i agree with some of your points - AY, JF etc, i dont feel that having a guest room is so much a big deal, in reality JR guest room could quite possibly be one of her grown up childrens old bedroom. I'm much happier hearing about their guest rooms than JR/AD/DG holiday home abroad, that imo is being "stuck up and showing off" rather than guest room. Oh and welcome to the forums

JR definitely does have a guest room:sleepy: She was mentioning on a Northern Nights presentation how she has to change 5 beds (assume that must mean a spare bedroom).......:sleepy::sleepy: :angry: Just get on with the presenting woman, we don't need to know and we aren't bovvered.

 

[Toril]

I had a 'guest bedroom' in my last house, but never called it that. It was always referred to as the spare bedroom and was hardly ever used. The wardrobe in there was quite useful though, for storage.

I've now got two 'spare/guest' bedrooms. :blush: One I have furnished to use as a study and the other one is to put guests in, if any descend on me.

Do I live in a mansion with loads of spare rooms? No.

Am I 'posh?' - the heck I am!

I simply live on my own now, because of a divorce, and the house I moved to has 3 bedrooms ............ and I'll also admit to watching QVC when I've nowt else to do. :wink:

Great post by the way, Becky ......... and welcome to the forum.

 

[nannieA]

Welcome Diva,
luv the posts keep em coming and please give us some insight into the other channel's presenters.

 

[star234]

well we now have 2 spare rooms most of the time, until the kids come home from Uni,
must make me very posh
I like the idea of us being very posh.:rock::rock::rock:

 

[BusyMum]

oh dear...I'm sitting in my "guest bedroom" - it houses my computer and all associated paraphanalia, is lined with shelves for books, videos etc, also the ironing board and a rail for hanging up the clothes before and after ironing..oops!

 

[Swankypants]

Different strokes for different folks I guess is the moral of the thread, like a handbag for £250 is obscene to some and acceptable to others. It would be so dreary if we were all the same.

They could change the record sometimes though. There are some hilarious threads on here called 'What I learned..' that illustrate this perfectly.

I, too, have a guest room, it's the Travelodge down the road.....

 

[diva_on_wheelz]

Hey well I'm pleased my posts have provoked a healthy reaction and there's some great feedback guys, cheers!

Just on a couple of points regarding the pronunciation issue which seems to haunt guests and presenters of QVC. It's obvious to me that they pronounce their names differently because they think they're better than us mere plebs who buy from the channel that's all. It's to give an 'us and them' vibe to the whole thing. They want to tell us what to believe about a particular product and because of their haughty attitude it seems to work because psychologically most of us take note of what people in authority say. Not that I do, I'm just saying that daft people actually believe the likes of AY who claims to be a beauty 'expert' when in reality she's a glorified saleswoman.

Secondly, nobody that I know of in my little cul-de-sac in Oldham has a guest room. Why call it 'guest' room instead of 'spare' room, well it's the old 'estate agent' sales rhetoric coming into play. The products they sell offer gullible people a lifestyle they've read about in magazines (Kelly Hoppen bedding anyone?) and thus the merchandise has become more expensive and exclusive.

Coming from a staunch Socialist mining family it makes me sick to be honest. I hate the falseness, the fakery, the grinning and posing for the cameras, the constant garbage about materialism and properties abroad along with lavish holidays.

They need to get down from that pedestal and live in the real world for once in their sad inane lives! I want to see products and pricing that everyone can afford, products that are ethically sound, clothes and cosmetics demonstrated on 'real' women not models who have the pick of the crop. At the moment QVC doesn't market themselves to those on lower income, not that they have to as a retailer but it would be nice to see some diversity in what they offer the public (since we pay their wages!)

Cheers!

Becky (*_*)

 

[Artemis]

I don't have a problem with their "middle class bias" and the lifestyle they purport to sell us. We don't have to watch, we don't have to buy and if we want to go downmarket, there's always Ideal World........

 

[watersiren]

Hey well I'm pleased my posts have provoked a healthy reaction and there's some great feedback guys, cheers!

Just on a couple of points regarding the pronunciation issue which seems to haunt guests and presenters of QVC. It's obvious to me that they pronounce their names differently because they think they're better than us mere plebs who buy from the channel that's all. It's to give an 'us and them' vibe to the whole thing. They want to tell us what to believe about a particular product and because of their haughty attitude it seems to work because psychologically most of us take note of what people in authority say. Not that I do, I'm just saying that daft people actually believe the likes of AY who claims to be a beauty 'expert' when in reality she's a glorified saleswoman.

Secondly, nobody that I know of in my little cul-de-sac in Oldham has a guest room. Why call it 'guest' room instead of 'spare' room, well it's the old 'estate agent' sales rhetoric coming into play. The products they sell offer gullible people a lifestyle they've read about in magazines (Kelly Hoppen bedding anyone?) and thus the merchandise has become more expensive and exclusive.

Coming from a staunch Socialist mining family it makes me sick to be honest. I hate the falseness, the fakery, the grinning and posing for the cameras, the constant garbage about materialism and properties abroad along with lavish holidays.

They need to get down from that pedestal and live in the real world for once in their sad inane lives! I want to see products and pricing that everyone can afford, products that are ethically sound, clothes and cosmetics demonstrated on 'real' women not models who have the pick of the crop. At the moment QVC doesn't market themselves to those on lower income, not that they have to as a retailer but it would be nice to see some diversity in what they offer the public (since we pay their wages!)

Cheers!

Becky (*_*)

And how is that relevant? Every individual has his/her own history and background. Why should it bother any commercial organisation?
I have for the first time a 'guest' room and a 'downstairs loo'!!! I never understood what that was and why one needed one. Apparently, developers need to comply with regulations regarding access for disabled people. The type of property depends on the geographical area, it seems. At least,I can be a worthy L'Occitane customer now. Yay!!!
I agree that presenters need to come down a peg or two. Of lately, they try to appeal to people with disposable income, who often tend to be professionals. This stupid, housewife image who tries to emulate rubbish celebrity does not sit well with the later.

 

[vampyre]

I'm sorry I don't think wishing your name to be pronounced in a certain way, and for some purists the correct way is elitist at all. I do think mocking a person's name is particularly bad form.

 

[diva_on_wheelz]

Well I'm glad you've got a downstairs toilet and that builders are taking my disabled comrades into account for once when constructing houses!

 

[Artemis]

I'm sorry I don't think wishing your name to be pronounced in a certain way, and for some purists the correct way is elitist in any way. I do think mocking a person's name is particularly bad form.

.....and I agree with you and have made my feelings about this known on other threads too.

 

[diva_on_wheelz]

Believe me, there's nothing wrong with liking and buying 'nice' things - I do it lots of times and I'm a shopaholic but I do think the likes of QVC is a bit uptight and ridiculous sometimes (a £75 face cream, what a disgrace!!!)

Plus I stand by the name issue. No, people's names aren't amusing apart from when they try and pronounce them in a quirky way to try and set themselves apart from the rest of society. Get a life and be secure in yourself!

 

[watersiren]

Believe me, there's nothing wrong with liking and buying 'nice' things - I do it lots of times and I'm a shopaholic but I do think the likes of QVC is a bit uptight and ridiculous sometimes (a £75 face cream, what a disgrace!!!)

Plus I stand by the name issue. No, people's names aren't amusing apart from when they try and pronounce them in a quirky way to try and set themselves apart from the rest of society. Get a life and be secure in yourself!

Setting materialism aside, these two go together if one wishes to achieve sth worthy in their lives. That's what makes good scientists, athletes and so on. That's what preserves civilisation and drives advancement.