topic Re: Unnecessary info ! in Q Talk

Unnecessary info !

this is my nic — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:09:21 GMT

I don't care how many of any item was brought in for the day. Also, don't care how many of a particular item was sold during one program. The most important info is at the bottom of the screen which gives the colors and sizes available or sold out. I suppose the unnecessary info is a sales tactic. It doesn't work for me. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

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Daysdee — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:29:00 GMT

I also don't care if an "unnamed" but hinted at celebrity likes it or if a celebrity they disclose the name likes it. I want to figure out if "I" will like the item enough to buy it.

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ValuSkr — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:42:02 GMT

By giving counts, they are just letting you know an item is "very popular." And how many times have you heard that phrase? It helps create buzz, I suppose.

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fthunt — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:53:10 GMT

Many of us - or most of us..........have been around the Q too long to buy the sales pitch............last order of the year (who cares, something else will come along)......sold out in March of last year (who cares?). Their blah blah blah just makes me flip the channel quicker.

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on the bay — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:55:01 GMT

And something is not $3 for this outfit, $4 to get this home!!

Say the whole price!

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millieshops — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:01:35 GMT

@ValuSkrI think psychological research supports the practice -- not for individuals - but for the majority of the buying population.

Although we hate to admit it, most people like to belong, so if 41,000 people have already bought something, more will get into that group.

And then there are people like me - if all they did was give what I could read on the website, I'd watch even less than I already do. From the beginning of the time I started to watch QVC, it was their marketing that interested me more than the products! I bought very little for a long time and then all of a sudden I realized I was falling into the trap. Nowadays, I buy very little, I watch very little, but I follow the marketing by coming here!

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Ttownlady — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:14:57 GMT

Sounds like David V.

you hit in on the head !

and you forgot those Colors......

and all those Colors sometimes he stumbles esp. overL Lock & Lock you think by now he know the Colors in his sleep!

I only buy the product I like not just his markketing tatics still love David just wish he would not repeat the amount sold and colors million times in less than an hour.

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pupwhipped — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:46:35 GMT

Yes, and every single thing they sell is the "only order of the year" and I don't give a rat's patootie about that either.

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kivah — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:50:25 GMT

And once in a while I hear -- it's only $1.00 a day. I like Carolyn - but she has every top in 5 different colors.

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QVCkitty1 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:19:54 GMT

It's not so much the buzz words, every industry has them, but the fact that that run them into the ground. It's not sharp or innovative, just repetitious and annoying.

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Daysdee — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:23:38 GMT

@Ttownlady I like David and I watch too much, I guess because I am so tired of the many, many times he goes over the colors and the number left. Also, I think it's a waste of time to have "Josh" or whoever come in and cart the KA stand mixer away. Can't they just say yellow and orange are sold out. Many people go online to order so they will see what is available and what isn't. With all that time wasted, they could bring in some really good, new items. In my opinion, most of the prepared food items should be on the FoodFest or whatever those shows are called. Also, please don't show us the computer or mop TSV on the cooking shows since we may have seen that item several times already. I just change the channel and don't go back to ITKWD when they have other items presented.

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Daysdee — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:25:40 GMT

Also the constant pressure to get a Q card and repeating over and over about easy pay or "easy pay day." I would appreciate some days with free shipping.

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Diva on The Q — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:33:57 GMT

@pupwhipped: You're so right about that. I've noticed for the past several months, EVERY item seems to be the only order of the year. I guess that means you must buy it now or miss out forever!

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SunValley — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:46:43 GMT

Easy pay does not save me money; reduced pricing or free shipping is more of an inducement to buy. All that recent fashion day easy pay can sound so tempting at “just $7 to bring it home,” until you realize at the end of the day you are deep into easy pay debt for things you forgot you ordered—and for 5 long months—well into 2019.

i don’t buy from the updates on colors and numbers sold either, but the producers make the hosts repeat it because the orders spike when they do. If it sells, they don’t care if little ‘ol me is dead from boredom in my recliner.

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Love my grandkids — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 02:48:48 GMT

And I REALLY don't care if the show host (one in particular) has this item in this color, has it in other colors, wears it all the time, has a ton of these, etc.

I don't care...Carolyn!

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NYC Susan — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 03:09:22 GMT

@this is my nic wrote:
I don't care how many of any item was brought in for the day. Also, don't care how many of a particular item was sold during one program. The most important info is at the bottom of the screen which gives the colors and sizes available or sold out. I suppose the unnecessary info is a sales tactic. It doesn't work for me. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

It doesn't work for me either, but for some people it creates a sense of urgency. They feel there must be a reason so many people are buying, and they had better buy theirs quickly before it sells out.

To me, it screams, "SALES TACTIC", but I guess their numbers show that it increases sales. Otherwise they wouldn't do it.

I don't care how many people want something or buy something, and if something sells out before I buy it, I just assume I wasn't meant to have it. Sales tactics like this are big turn-offs for me. It always comes across as desperate.

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SunValley — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 03:25:01 GMT

Bottom line for me is: do not manipulate me. Instant no!

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AnsTha1 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:05:49 GMT

Please don’t forget the line that sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard you can get it home today for... “ 4 dollars and some change “... That line needs to be retired!

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on the bay — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:39:09 GMT

These all just seem like such "out-dated" (or "dated" as they like to say on hgtv) and I hate this overused term- sales tactics.

The over-the-top acting, fake enthusiasm, breathless false excitment and calculated posing I blame on whoever is coaching these hosts and urging them on never realizing that all this really does turn people off and away. At least those who hopefully have any awareness.

Yet I really admire the hosts who I can still listen to and sound like normal, human beings, not acting like they are in a tv show or movie about themselves.

Not yelling, not talking in a growl or valley girl speak, speed talking or speeding up and sloowinggg down etc etc.

It is a shame that so much is unwatchable these days.

Jeez-I put myself in a bad mood. I'm sorry

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Pook — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:48:53 GMT

They are just doing their job with sales tactics they are taught and in between patter to fill the time in. There is only so much that can be said after giving product information. They would then be just standing there with the camera on the product. I'm happy that I can watch for product information and look past all the other stuff and not be so bothered like so many here seem to be!