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Carla Hall chicken outrageous $$$$$!

Irishgirl555 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 05:30:45 GMT

Several days ago I caught the last couple minutes of her chicken ....3 half chickens for 99.00 & now over $100!! Are you kidding Q! Do you know about the grocery prices in the real world!? Still in shock 😖

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CAcableGirl2 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:05:25 GMT

@Irishgirl555 Yikes, that's over $24 per pound (and that's including bones!). For that much, those 1/2 chickens better cook themselves, serve it to me, and clean up the kitchen. And $109.98 serves 12 (according to them), so that's either a leg, a thigh, a wing, or a breast for $9.16 per serving.

Nashville hot chicken is good, but no way would I pay that much for chicken that I still have to cook.

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Desertdi — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 08:13:11 GMT

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Roscoe the Rascal — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 10:07:55 GMT

Not takers here

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Renata22 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:41:14 GMT

I was also in shock, as usual, at the food prices on the q. I really don't understand anyone buying things at these prices. I can get a whole cooked chicken at Sam's for $4.98.

I noticed the other day the potstickers are $1 a piece! They have always been higher than the store prices, but that is just outrageous.

And also, they were selling sausage for something like $33 a pound. It's sausage!

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Suneshine — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:48:08 GMT

All of the food prices are outrageous. Perhaps there is a market that QVC is catering to but that does not include the average customer. They rationalize it but comparing it to a restaurant price but at least at a restaurant I don't have to prepare it, serve it, cook the sides and all of the clean-up. So if prices are equal.....I will just go out to eat. There is no savings at all buying food from QVC.

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mspatmac — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 13:16:03 GMT

I agree prices are high but there are those that can well afford it and choose to buy. They should have the opportunity to do so.

Everyone spends their money differently and has a different need, something for everyone,

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Chessa35 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 13:46:01 GMT

That's what happens when you're a Chef ...you can .

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SoCal Bred — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:24:07 GMT

I don't know about her chicken but I just caught a glimpse of when she was presenting her Lemon Bars, now those look delicious!

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Love my grandkids — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:40:36 GMT

At that price I want her to come to my house, do the prep and cooking, serve my meal and do the clean up!

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Othereeeen — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:02:19 GMT

@Irishgirl555

I'm beginning to think they are trolling customers.....can you imagine the strategy meeting when discussing the "new product" offering and how to push it?

Let's look in shall we?...

We join the group of hosts and Management in the QVC conference room.

On the table is a display of three HALF chickens, dusted with smoked paprika. It is artfully arranged on a Temptations platter ( only 45.00 on Easy Pay!!)

The famous "chef" Carla Hall, looks on as the QVC head of food prep launches his speil:

"I think we can realisticially ask 99.99 for this offering....and we can loudly bray that it's UNDER one hundred dollars for "premium" chicken, with "special" spices on it ( He holds up a can of McCormick Salt/pepper/smoked paprika mixture)...

"We can say its "southern" special spices!!! That'll give Venable the chance to relate stories of his sainted mother preparing such chicken when he was a boy, on the hearth in thier humbledirt floored cabin in the N.Carolina woods ( before he bought her that McMansion with his "Q" salary...not that there's anything wrong with that!!)...

"He can Happy Dance it a few times to distract the viewers from the price.....which IS admittedly high ( We checked....here in W. Chester Pa, you can buy two WHOLE chickens AND the spices AND the fuel to cook it) for about 20.00 total)...but we know now that we can charge ANYTHING for locally available foods and the customers will PAY..PAY...PAY!!! ....

ANd Easy Pay will make sure they're still paying for this "special chicken" at Christmas!!!

Rachel and Alberti...( he says, looking at Ms. Boesing and Mr Popaj)...Make sure you squeeze the heck out of the chicken to show how juicy it is!!!

And make a YumYum face....and Rachel...when you mention the price, immediately go into your cackle and laughter so they don't realize how RIDICULOUS the price is!!! LIck your fingers too!!! Distract with extreme prejudice!!!!

Alberti...you jump around beside Rachel.....run up to the camera and laugh at how outrageous this chicken is and how special the opportunity to get soaked buying it!!!

We'll sell thousands of them!!!

Any questions? OK team...good luck!!!"

We see the famous chef is now sitting in her chair, head bent....she's been browsing the new Mercedes catalog on her phone...thinking about which one she'll buy when this sells out in ten minutes!!!

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Carmie — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:14:41 GMT

The chicken is selling for $30.... $10 each.

The cooler, ice, packaging, and fast shipment fees total $70.

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Irishgirl555 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:34:46 GMT

Very entertaining read Othereeeen!! But seriously QVC should be ashamed of themselves for pushing this overpriced food on people who just can't look away and say NO! I know a couple of them and they are buying buying all the time! Yes if you have so much money fine...but maybe share with your local food Bank instead hmmm?

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RollTide2008 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:34:50 GMT

Should I start a thread about every product Q shows that I’m not going to buy?

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Carmie — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:50:14 GMT

@Irishgirl555 wrote:
Very entertaining read Othereeeen!! But seriously QVC should be ashamed of themselves for pushing this overpriced food on people who just can't look away and say NO! I know a couple of them and they are buying buying all the time! Yes if you have so much money fine...but maybe share with your local food Bank instead hmmm?

What? It is not like QVC is forcing anyone to watch or to buy anything.

Everyone is responsible for their own actions. People can't look away and say " no." What?

If you know such people, what are you doing to help them? If they're buying all of the time, they either have money or are irresponsible. Either way, it has nothing to do with QVC.

How do these people manage to drive by a Tesla dealer's car lot?

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DREAMON — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:55:40 GMT

I personally thought the price was outrageous but if you can afford ..go for it. It's your money an you can spend it as you wish. I never want to tell others how to spend THEIR money.

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Othereeeen — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 16:04:35 GMT

@Carmie

Yep people ARE responsible for thier own decisions....

That would include being a Gulla Billy ( Believing the hyperbole without stopping to think, compare and evaluate).

And admittedly, there's a reason why QVC charges so much...because they can!! They are a business,in it to make money, and we all know what PT Barnum once so famously observed:

"There's a fool born every minute!!!!"...( or some such)....."Let's sell them three half chickens for 100.00 ...if they sell out, next week we'll raise it to 125.00!!!"

I like QVC!!! Tune in several times a day just for the fun of it!!

And remember folks...people bought PET ROCKS by the millions!!!!

Rocks !!!! for crying out loud!!!!

I hope it stays on forever so I never have to go back to the OTHER sales presentations on every other channel and genre!!!

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jackthebear — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 16:10:03 GMT

@Othereeeen wrote:
@Irishgirl555

I'm beginning to think they are trolling customers.....can you imagine the strategy meeting when discussing the "new product" offering and how to push it?

Let's look in shall we?...

We join the group of hosts and Management in the QVC conference room.

On the table is a display of three HALF chickens, dusted with smoked paprika. It is artfully arranged on a Temptations platter ( only 45.00 on Easy Pay!!)

The famous "chef" Carla Hall, looks on as the QVC head of food prep launches his speil:

"I think we can realisticially ask 99.99 for this offering....and we can loudly bray that it's UNDER one hundred dollars for "premium" chicken, with "special" spices on it ( He holds up a can of McCormick Salt/pepper/smoked paprika mixture)...

"We can say its "southern" special spices!!! That'll give Venable the chance to relate stories of his sainted mother preparing such chicken when he was a boy, on the hearth in thier humbledirt floored cabin in the N.Carolina woods ( before he bought her that McMansion with his "Q" salary...not that there's anything wrong with that!!)...

"He can Happy Dance it a few times to distract the viewers from the price.....which IS admittedly high ( We checked....here in W. Chester Pa, you can buy two WHOLE chickens AND the spices AND the fuel to cook it) for about 20.00 total)...but we know now that we can charge ANYTHING for locally available foods and the customers will PAY..PAY...PAY!!! ....

ANd Easy Pay will make sure they're still paying for this "special chicken" at Christmas!!!

Rachel and Alberti...( he says, looking at Ms. Boesing and Mr Popaj)...Make sure you squeeze the heck out of the chicken to show how juicy it is!!!

And make a YumYum face....and Rachel...when you mention the price, immediately go into your cackle and laughter so they don't realize how RIDICULOUS the price is!!! LIck your fingers too!!! Distract with extreme prejudice!!!!

Alberti...you jump around beside Rachel.....run up to the camera and laugh at how outrageous this chicken is and how special the opportunity to get soaked buying it!!!

We'll sell thousands of them!!!

Any questions? OK team...good luck!!!"

We see the famous chef is now sitting in her chair, head bent....she's been browsing the new Mercedes catalog on her phone...thinking about which one she'll buy when this sells out in ten minutes!!!

will admit that similar scenarios play in my head when Kim and Isaac mention how much modal cotton tees cost, when I bought 2 for $20 and the easy pay for theirs is 3 at almost $20

so yes they ask and people pay

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mspatmac — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 19:06:16 GMT

As far as I know this is still the USA where products are offered and people are free to buy or not.

-People are free to voice their opinions on said product or not.

-People are free to try and keep others from buying said product or not

-People are free to make their own choices and buy said product or not

Do and buy what you want!

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wagirl — Mon, 01 May 2023 13:46:16 GMT

That just cracks me up---I can't get over how people think that they can cook chicken that warrants that kind of money??!! I cook a pretty MEAN bird myself----would NEVER waste that much $$ on a bird and 1/2----I don't care who cooks it---good grief!!!