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Covid stuff

bad4257 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:19:39 GMT

I know ALL about the reasons for coverage but on the Shopping Channels hawking Masks etc is a bit much. Night and day we are saturated with coverage .....don't we need some other form of entertainment and other forms of TV coverage....talking about jumping on the band wagaon......I have gotten to the point I dont watch anymore Covid coverage....need something else, If you agree or disagree be kind....

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MrSour — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:27:10 GMT

I hear you the Dubrows are getting tiresome they are on continuously selling their covid stuff.

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Desertdi — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:42:33 GMT

It's all part of a big public relations campaign to make us WANT all that stuff

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Spurt — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:53:21 GMT

In our area it's a bit ironic, because with the vaccines and all....the "powers that be" are actually thinking of doing away with the masks requirement since the new case numbers and hospitalizations have been low.... If this becomes "the thing" in other parts of the country a lot of people are going to have a lot of masks that wont be used and just stored away...

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Pook — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:59:50 GMT

Last year everyone kept posting that more masks, hand sanitizer, etc should be sold here and obviously people are buying this stuff! They cannot please everyone but sales speak volumes! Also, there are many other things on tv to watch for "entertainment"! I never thought of a shopping channel as the place to go for "entertainment"!!!

Plus those looking for "entertainment " here are usually the ones that proclaim they have stopped purchasing here!

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skatting44 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:31:15 GMT

Oh feel so sorry for the Dubrows , wearing themselves to the bone.

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Pearlee — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:49:06 GMT

@bad4257 wrote:
I know ALL about the reasons for coverage but on the Shopping Channels hawking Masks etc is a bit much. Night and day we are saturated with coverage .....don't we need some other form of entertainment and other forms of TV coverage....talking about jumping on the band wagaon......I have gotten to the point I dont watch anymore Covid coverage....need something else, If you agree or disagree be kind....

@bad4257. QVC isn't in the entertainment business. It is a retailer selling merchandise to make a profit. It will sell those products that make a profit for it.

If you don't like what is on the air, don't watch QVC but rather look online at the product review of shows that interest you and skip the ones that don't.

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ALRATIBA — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:05:35 GMT

It's easy to avoid stuff on TV that annoys me.

I stopped watching all the mainstream news channels one Sunday morning in 1998 .... way back in the Clinton administration. I'm email lists of news source that I trust.

I only tune into QVC when there's a "show" on that I'm interested in .... depending on the host.

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Spurt — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:24:05 GMT

For those that think of QVC as just a retailer they don't echo the same sentiments as QVC's CEO, Mike George, who also thinks about the entertainment aspect. In an interview with Yahoo Finance this is what he had to say....

"If you think about the old stereotypical experience [of a home shopping network], it's a customer watching QVC on her TV. Today's consumer is interacting with us on multiple screens. She has her PC or tablet besides her, and probably her smart phone.

Twenty-five years ago, we pioneered the testimonial call, when the customer calls into the show to say, "I really like and used this product." Today, she might be using her PC and tablet to engage in a Facebook chat about the program, or asking us questions on Facebook or QVC.com. We're using all of the technology to engage that customer. The formula is such that there is a little more time spent telling the stories behind the story, a little more of an entertainment focus to the programs. There's also an opportunity to have more of a talk show format....."

Thank you "channel changers" for the reminder.....

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Kachina624 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:21:27 GMT

Why not sell them when everyone in the entire world is buying? A great opportunity for a retailer.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:28:47 GMT

@Spurt. Then if a customer further interacts by making a comment on the corporate sponsored community forum and criticizes something a host, says, does or wears, she gets shot down for being "unkind". The company's tolerance for interaction seems to have definite limits. Never mind how "unkind" the host may be to viewers.

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qvcaddition — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:34:28 GMT

@bad4257

@bad4257 wrote:
I know ALL about the reasons for coverage but on the Shopping Channels hawking Masks etc is a bit much. Night and day we are saturated with coverage .....don't we need some other form of entertainment and other forms of TV coverage....talking about jumping on the band wagaon......I have gotten to the point I dont watch anymore Covid coverage....need something else, If you agree or disagree be kind....

ITA

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MrSour — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:35:09 GMT

For elderly people who can't leave the house find these people to be entertaining and their friends I personally don't but if it makes them happy that's ok.

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Spurt — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:56:53 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Spurt. Then if a customer further interacts by making a comment on the corporate sponsored community forum and criticizes something a host, says, does or wears, she gets shot down for being "unkind". The company's tolerance for interaction seems to have definite limits. Never mind how "unkind" the host may be to viewers.

@Kachina624

I understand what you are saying but I have to use an old cliche, ---" it's their Forums, so their rules.". some posters took the hosts criticisms way too far so I can understand why rules had to be implemented...

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febe2 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:00:31 GMT

@skatting44 wrote:
Oh feel so sorry for the Dubrows , wearing themselves to the bone.

For the good of humanity! They might as well call ShopHQ "The Dubrow channel.

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febe2 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:03:53 GMT

Plus the government is giving free masks now, too. Cutting into the Dubrows 24/7 sales!

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millieshops — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:35:49 GMT

@Spurt Assuming powers that be means politicians, I will keep wearing my mask and staying as far out of my old normal as I personally feel is healthy for me until I am convinced that the numbers of infections and the numbers of severe cases leading to hospitalizations are likely to stay down.

Covid just doesn’t pay a bit of attention to what those powers say — but I didn’t trust many of them prior to the pandemic and see no reason at all to think they have suddenly become clairvoyant.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:37:55 GMT

@febe2. I doubt the people to whom the government is giving masks are the same people watching shopping channels.

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MW in Iowa — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 01:49:39 GMT

@MrSour wrote:
I hear you the Dubrows are getting tiresome they are on continuously selling their covid stuff.

I know this sounds un feeling , but if all the merchandise they sell , you would think she wouldn't got covid. Some of those sanitizing machines are questionable at best. Masks yes, but the rest ?

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CalminHeart — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:31:32 GMT

@Spurt wrote:
In our area it's a bit ironic, because with the vaccines and all....the "powers that be" are actually thinking of doing away with the masks requirement since the new case numbers and hospitalizations have been low.... If this becomes "the thing" in other parts of the country a lot of people are going to have a lot of masks that wont be used and just stored away...

Our governor never had a mask mandate and other precautions were minimal (at best) which is why our statistics are always so bad. I won't stop wearing a mask just because some governor or politician said it's ok. I'll follow the scientists who are experts in pandemics.