Lodge Farm Kitchen - Ridiculously Expensive

[Atticus]

I can't believe the prices on the screen at the moment.

4 small ready meals for £35!?

http://www.qvcuk.com/Lodge-Farm-Kit....html?sc=SRCH&cm_sp=VIEWPOSITION-_-3-_-803785

That's a ridiculous price. It works out at £8.75 for a ready meal...

All of the other items are just as stupidly expensive.

Are there many people who would actually seriously pay this?

 

[whitesnake]

I can't believe the prices on the screen at the moment.

4 small ready meals for £35!?

http://www.qvcuk.com/Lodge-Farm-Kit....html?sc=SRCH&cm_sp=VIEWPOSITION-_-3-_-803785

That's a ridiculous price. It works out at £8.75 for a ready meal...

All of the other items are just as stupidly expensive.

Are there many people who would actually seriously pay this?

Ha ha!! Great minds must work alike Atticus, our posts were sent as exactly the same time. I honestly cannot believe people pay this price but they must do otherwise they wouldn't be on QVC. More money than sense springs to mind.

 

[Atticus]

Haha - yes I just noticed we published at the exact same time. Clearly both shocked at what was actually on screen!

I know QVC food is always expensive, but I think this is the most ludicrous I've seen!

 

[Craftalot]

I know, it makes me so cross that they have the brass nerve to try fleecing people like this. As if this factory-made crap is worth a fraction of the price they're trying to charge. What do you think the mark-up on this is: x4, x5?

 

[louise66]

I concur 100% with what has been said. If people were savvy enough to know they were being ripped off and, consequently, didn't spend their hard earned on this gloop, the Q wouldn't sell it. A friend of mine is a real foodie and is not averse to spending £70 and more on joints of meat. Although I am vegetarian for over 30 years, I realise that some may feel that flesh from a certain breed of animal is better than that from another, so may be prepared to pay more. But the prices for a few sausage rolls is exorbitant. I don't eat pastry but, if I did, I could buy two cheese and onion rolls from the supermarket for 50p! It is, imo, pure laziness, spending all this money on ready meals, when it would be so easy and quick to cook them yourself.

 

[KimP]

They look like pretty modest portions as well, small ready meal size. Wont be buying, not even for teacher!

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

According to Dale they don't have enough pies/s rolls to go around so someone is buying.

Perhaps a customer could give their point of view (genuine request) as to why they feel it is a good buy.

 

[srhgts]

If you're spending that kind of money you may as well go to a restaurant and have something fresh.

 

[Bettyboo]

I think it's scandalous that they are charging these sort of prices when people in this country are having to use food banks. The price of these ready meals cost more than some people have to buy food for a week.

 

[alan1302]

I think it's scandalous that they are charging these sort of prices when people in this country are having to use food banks. The price of these ready meals cost more than some people have to buy food for a week.

I disagree it's scandalous for QVC to sell them. They sell what people will buy.

 

[whitesnake]

I could make a weeks meals for what they are charging for 4 ready meals and I buy good quality meat from my local butcher. It is far cheaper to make your own food and you know what is going in it. I find it obscene that QVC are selling this sort of thing at such exorbitant prices when people are having to use food banks to get by. If anyone has bought or tried these products please tell us about them because I really want to know what the quality is like.

 

[Atticus]

If you're spending that kind of money you may as well go to a restaurant and have something fresh.

My thoughts exactly. At £8.50 a go, you might as well go out and grab something to eat or get a take-away.

Or you could get just a ready meal from a supermarket - even a premium one from M&S or Waitrose would be half the price!

 

[Tiddlywinks]

I disagree it's scandalous for QVC to sell them. They sell what people will buy.

I agree... If people want to spend THEIR money on these meals or anything else of their choosing then so what?

It's not obscene, it's just capitalism. There will be food banks in the UK regardless of whether Q sells luxuries or basics.

 

[PrussianRed]

I've had a look at these products on Q website and am incredulous at the prices!

Looked at Lodge Farm's own website and the main meals are around £4.95 mark and the desserts £3.20. QVC are charging £27 + p&p for 6 dessert portions. Utter and total rip-off. If you like the look of the stuff, order it direct from the company :wonder:

 

[Autumn]

I disagree it's scandalous for QVC to sell them. They sell what people will buy.

True they do however perhaps they should remove the "Value" from there name then :mysmilie_59:

 

[Tiddlywinks]

True they do however perhaps they should remove the "Value" from there name then :mysmilie_59:

'Value' is very subjective - the people buying the products will be the ones best placed to decide if the items were worth the cost.

Value does not mean inexpensive.

 

[Craftalot]

I agree... If people want to spend THEIR money on these meals or anything else of their choosing then so what?

It's not obscene, it's just capitalism. There will be food banks in the UK regardless of whether Q sells luxuries or basics.

By this argument, you'd also agree that if someone, with free choice, takes out a payday loan at 5000% interest then that's not obscene either, just capitalism? I think most people would think that example is obscene and not 'just capitalism'. You might counter this by saying: 'yes indeed, this example is obscene rather than capitalism because such people are desperate or vulnerable or unable to access mainstream credit and thus have to pay a hefty premium to receive 'sub-prime' credit'. But that argument also holds for QVC and their ludicrously-priced pies. Lots of people who buy this stuff have problems: gullible, easily-led people who'll believe whatever their presenter 'friend' tells them. Or people who are housebound and have (or believe they have) fewer choices. Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone by any means - the majority of posters on this forum are generally very clued up on the Q, and what represents good value and what doesn't. But this forum does not reflect the Q's audience very accurately. And thus, the Q must, or at least should, have some moral compass, given the make-up of some of their audience and the pushy sales techniques. And selling a few manky pies for £30-odd quid is not, in my opinion, having a moral compass. Capitalism cannot just be divorced from morality - that's what led to the 2008 financial crash.

 

[Tiddlywinks]

Here we go again... This is the 'how much for a bag?' Lulu Guinness discussion all over again.

No one will be forced to buy these meals. No one starving will be forced to take a pay day loan to buy from Q.

Let's get some perspective here... QVC is selling XXX for £YYY - big deal. Buy it, don't buy it - your choice BUT accusing them of lacking a moral compass for selling expensive items is ridiculous.

 

[Craftalot]

Here we go again... This is the 'how much for a bag?' Lulu Guinness discussion all over again.

No one will be forced to buy these meals. No one starving will be forced to take a pay day loan to buy from Q.

Let's get some perspective here... QVC is selling XXX for £YYY - big deal. Buy it, don't buy it - your choice BUT accusing them of lacking a moral compass for selling expensive items is ridiculous.

That's not quite what I said, if you re-read it. Expensive items aren't the issue - it's overpriced items. And it's not about 'being forced': it's about being persuaded by some very slick, clever people that something is what it palpably isn't. I do not in any way suggest that QVC doesn't have the right to do what they do. And, moreover, that people have the equal right to buy whatever they want. It's about the moral turpitude of doing so. Maybe instead of calling it 'ridiculous' you could come up with a reasoned, intelligent argument as to why you think I'm wrong. Anyway, this wasn't posted for an argument, it was posted because that's my point of view.

 

[Tiddlywinks]

That's not quite what I said, if you re-read it. Expensive items aren't the issue - it's overpriced items. Maybe instead of calling it 'ridiculous' you could come up with a reasoned, intelligent argument as to why you think I'm wrong. Anyway, this wasn't posted for an argument, it was posted because that's my point of view.

Who gets to decide what's 'overpriced'?

People are buying so that's the 'market price'... If they considered it overpriced then they wouldn't purchase. Simple economics.