Thank you, Valerie Par Hill

Agree! Valerie is always a pleasure to watch and her products are wonderful.

I have a tons of her items also. I especially love her gumdrop and wafflecone flameless candle trees, the perfect items for my gingerbread and candy theme, along with the gingerbread houses.

I love to watch Valerie too. Trouble is, when I watch, I buy. Too much.

I used to feel that way about VPH...not so much anymore. I have been buying her products for over 10 yrs and this year I had to send back more than 50% due to quality issues.

In the past I would have to return a few products a year and replace/exchange, but this year is the worst ever.

Receiving 2 sets of the TSV candles, and finding out all 8 were junk, poor quality, just put me over the tipping point of possibly no return to buying any of her products in the future. I guess I have been burned one too many times.

I watched her show this morning and the joy seems to be gone. I hope it's only temporary...don't know. I think if she has anymore presentations on those candles, I will probably cringe and find the remote.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but at least I'm not the only one who feels this way...between reading the candle reviews and some of folks posts on VPH FB comments on the candles over the past several days.

There is no fun in ordering a product and then have to pray it's a 'good' one

For those who continue to receive consistently quality products that are VPH, you are lucky

I look forward to all of Valerie's shows. I love her products and learn so much seeing how she has put things together.

Well said, OP, and I agree!

On 8/22/2014 Susan Louise said:

I used to feel that way about VPH...not so much anymore. I have been buying her products for over 10 yrs and this year I had to send back more than 50% due to quality issues.

In the past I would have to return a few products a year and replace/exchange, but this year is the worst ever.

Receiving 2 sets of the TSV candles, and finding out all 8 were junk, poor quality, just put me over the tipping point of possibly no return to buying any of her products in the future. I guess I have been burned one too many times.

I watched her show this morning and the joy seems to be gone. I hope it's only temporary...don't know. I think if she has anymore presentations on those candles, I will probably cringe and find the remote.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but at least I'm not the only one who feels this way...between reading the candle reviews and some of folks posts on VPH FB comments on the candles over the past several days.

There is no fun in ordering a product and then have to pray it's a 'good' one

For those who continue to receive consistently quality products that are VPH, you are lucky

I love to watch Valerie, and find her very fun, gracious, and informative. I, too, am having some difficulty reconciling her on air honesty with the quality of many of the items I have been receiving this past year or so.

I too, have been buying/receiving Valerie products for at least 15 years, and this last round of CIJ purchases will make me think much harder before jumping on the line to order when she is on. I will have returned at least a half a dozen items/sets, most mercury glass that is substandard, and who's timers don't work properly.

I think Valerie needs to really reign in the quality control right now, before she looses the respect and following of many of us who have trusted her for decades. Temp-tations is undergoing a very bad run of quality control, and many long time collectors are abandoning the line. More than the loss of sales, I think that these women would value their reputation more than the money, and I hope both are able to get things straightened out before it is too late.

On 8/22/2014 mominohio said:

On 8/22/2014 Susan Louise said:

I used to feel that way about VPH...not so much anymore. I have been buying her products for over 10 yrs and this year I had to send back more than 50% due to quality issues.

In the past I would have to return a few products a year and replace/exchange, but this year is the worst ever.

Receiving 2 sets of the TSV candles, and finding out all 8 were junk, poor quality, just put me over the tipping point of possibly no return to buying any of her products in the future. I guess I have been burned one too many times.

I watched her show this morning and the joy seems to be gone. I hope it's only temporary...don't know. I think if she has anymore presentations on those candles, I will probably cringe and find the remote.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but at least I'm not the only one who feels this way...between reading the candle reviews and some of folks posts on VPH FB comments on the candles over the past several days.

There is no fun in ordering a product and then have to pray it's a 'good' one

For those who continue to receive consistently quality products that are VPH, you are lucky

I love to watch Valerie, and find her very fun, gracious, and informative. I, too, am having some difficulty reconciling her on air honesty with the quality of many of the items I have been receiving this past year or so.

I too, have been buying/receiving Valerie products for at least 15 years, and this last round of CIJ purchases will make me think much harder before jumping on the line to order when she is on. I will have returned at least a half a dozen items/sets, most mercury glass that is substandard, and who's timers don't work properly.

I think Valerie needs to really reign in the quality control right now, before she looses the respect and following of many of us who have trusted her for decades. Temp-tations is undergoing a very bad run of quality control, and many long time collectors are abandoning the line. More than the loss of sales, I think that these women would value their reputation more than the money, and I hope both are able to get things straightened out before it is too late.

Glad to know I'm not alone...

I also had problems with Temp-tations. I only got 2 sets of the soup/sandwich and the set of 2 pie dishes last year...both sets in the confetti.

Both times I had order 2nd sets of each. The background was a tan on one of each set and an ivory...such varying colored backgrounds...horrible! I know they are hand painted, but the consistency/quality of both sets was just not acceptable. No more of that line of products for me either.

I had to keep the sets I had, wait for a 2nd set to arrive so I can best match 2 of each set...nuts! Thank goodness I never had a desire to get the huge sets or dinnerware...

And Tara is expanding her line into decor. You would think she would just concentrate on making the line she has better/consistant quality instead of adding more products

I agree with you OP. I could live on Valerie's set