Not funny

[Grizelda]

To put it bluntly, the BA for quite a few brands of clothing, Imogen, laughs too much and for too long at presenters' comments that are just not funny enough to merit such prolonged peals of laughter. I turned off the TV the other day because it was getting too much on my ear 'oles. At some point in her life someone must have told her that she has a nice laugh. Keep it for your socialising, missus, and not when you're selling clothes. There's another hyena who sells garden stuff. Get her off!

 

[ERICS MUM]

I often wonder what the people in the gallery are doing whilst the BA and/or QVC presenters are playing the fool on air ? Perhaps all they are concerned about is watching the orders coming in.

 

[VapidStoat]

They're probably encouraged to act more "human" so the poor lonely sad sacks sat at home in their vastly overpriced Marla and Ruthless wardrobe will feel like they're all part of the same gang. And hopefully spend lots more cash at Q

 

[merryone]

They're probably encouraged to act more "human" so the poor lonely sad sacks sat at home in their vastly overpriced Marla and Ruthless wardrobe will feel like they're all part of the same gang. And hopefully spend lots more cash at Q

The customers or Marla's clothes?

 

[Grizelda]

There are a lot of sad sacks wearing sad sacks. Couldn't get any sadder than that.

 

[Bea Frugal]

One of Jill’s annoying traits is that she thinks she’s funny and she plays to the gallery if they’re receptive. There’s a giggly jewellery guest who I’ve seen with her a few times. Jill milks her for laughs and I feel the guest obliges out of nerves and not wanting to be rude. I think though that we expect a lot of the presenters and guests. When I started watching I was glued to it all but now days go by and I don’t even look. It becomes very tiresome. I think that’s a pattern for many people.

 

[VapidStoat]

The customers or Marla's clothes?

I think that it's probably interchangeable at this point

 

[stratobuddy]

I often wonder what the people in the gallery are doing .....

They are useless at controlling the camera shots. The number of times the presenter is pointing at something, and obviously expecting the gallery to select the correct camera for a closeup, but they don't, it is so frequent. If I was the presenter, I would ask them to show what I am talking about and wait until they did.

 

[VapidStoat]

They are useless at controlling the camera shots. The number of times the presenter is pointing at something, and obviously expecting the gallery to select the correct camera for a closeup, but they don't, it is so frequent. If I was the presenter, I would ask them to show what I am talking about and wait until they did.

That has happened a few times on Ruth's shows. I'm not her biggest fan, but I don't blame her for speaking out when she's trying to point out something relevant to the item on air and the camera's doing a leisurely pan of a model walking on instead.

But it's not just Q that has this issue. There have been plenty of times on other shopping channels where a presenter has had to repeatedly ask for a camera to show what they're holding instead of slowly meandering about and showing nothing useful at all.

 

[Grizelda]

Sometimes the camera is just coming in on a closeup shot of the product and the BA snatches it away out of view. Unless it's a robot camera, the camera(person!) must be really pi**ed off.

 

[Deleted member 21838]

Brand Ambassador? The modern day working equivalent of a Lollipop Person with no stick and no white coat on a zero hours contract.

 

[Grizelda]

Brand Ambassador? The modern day working equivalent of a Lollipop Person with no stick and no white coat on a zero hours contract.

Two people pushing a product - one of them them knowing more about the item - makes customers more inclined to buy. I think this is true and that BA's are paid commission on their sales.

 

[candycane]

They're probably encouraged to act more "human" so the poor lonely sad sacks sat at home in their vastly overpriced Marla and Ruthless wardrobe will feel like they're all part of the same gang. And hopefully spend lots more cash at Q

Bit harsh Vapid. After all WE are watching QVC as well, presumably at home. You are right though that people on their own do watch and like to feel part of the gang and they do spend money. I've always thought there should be a little warning in the corner of the screen, "only buy what you can afford".

CC

 

[VapidStoat]

Bit harsh Vapid. After all WE are watching QVC as well, presumably at home. You are right though that people on their own do watch and like to feel part of the gang and they do spend money. I've always thought there should be a little warning in the corner of the screen, "only buy what you can afford".

CC

How do you know that I'm not a sad sack? Though I'm not covered head to toe in Marla; I still have two wardrobes and three chests of drawers full of Yong Kim to get through.

 

[Grizelda]

How do you know that I'm not a sad sack? Though I'm not covered head to toe in Marla; I still have two wardrobes and three chests of drawers full of Yong Kim to get through.

I bought many Yong Kim clothes, but I only have one left - an asymmetrical blouse. I gave all the others away, because they no longer fit my lifestyle. I bought them because the styles were unique, but I must add that the stitching was poor quality. It often unravelled. Most of us are 'sad sacks' at times, but not because we watch or buy from QVC.

 

[VapidStoat]

I bought many Yong Kim clothes, but I only have one left - an asymmetrical blouse. I gave all the others away, because they no longer fit my lifestyle. I bought them because the styles were unique, but I must add that the stitching was poor quality. It often unravelled. Most of us are 'sad sacks' at times, but not because we watch or buy from QVC.

The biggest issue I had with Yong Kim was the non-ironing. Walking about in layers of wrinkled clothes might be acceptable when you're a teen or twenty something, but on an overweight, allegedly "mature" person? I'd be worried about the family deciding it was a sign that I was losing it and deciding to put me in a home for my own good.

Just in case I was working myself up to bursting in to the local Waitrose with my knickers on my head declaring that I was the second coming of Catherine the Great, or something.