topic Re: Wine! in Q Talk

Wine!

Gkhm — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:26:27 GMT

Can't anyone get through one hour without wine???

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rms1954 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:27:49 GMT

It's not real alcohol. Considering it's New Year's Eve, what is the big deal.

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Gkhm — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:36:33 GMT

It is constant… Not just New Year's Eve!

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Malcontent — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 03:32:31 GMT

Drink Grappa.

Buon Anno!

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Carmie — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 03:35:28 GMT

Who cares?

They are adults, not children. No one needs a chaperone.

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KKJ — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 04:08:09 GMT

I admit that I don't understand all the uproar on these boards over the hosts drinking wine, if it even is that.

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BoopOMatic — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 04:58:33 GMT

@rms1954 wrote:
It's not real alcohol. Considering it's New Year's Eve, what is the big deal.

Why do you think it isn't real alcohol?

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Sooner — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:02:47 GMT

Doesn't matter whether it is real or not, it is presented as real. Would you object if they smoked dope or cigarettes? Well, then why not object to another DUI promoting item?

I don't care what people do, but I do think product placement and encouraging drinking is not what QVC should be doing.

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icezeus — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:29:50 GMT

I do not think that it is real wine, and I can't even remember the last time that I have even seen a host take a sip. Allie might have tonight, since they were doing a New Years drop of a mini ball. I really don't pay close attention to it.

I am another person that does not get what the uproar is over the hosts holding a glass of wine, and pretending to cheer people on with it. Do you think that we are going to be overcome by the urge to go and drink a glass of alcohol? Have no fear, I am sure that the majority of the viewers are safe from the sinful urges. Jeez..

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MarkeieMark — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:28:08 GMT

All the money I gave them in 2021, they should be drinking Champagne.

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banned again — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:48:55 GMT

Interesting that they started "drinking" on-air after Founder Joseph Segel passed away. It seems all heck broke loose two years ago after he died, but this is just another marketing scheme from one Tammy Kriebel, so who's surprised?

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Johnnyeager — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 09:46:10 GMT

Poor Tammy must have really done you wrong somewhere in your employment history there.

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Gkhm — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:45:24 GMT

Have you checked the jump in the number of alcoholics, drug use, suicide over the last two years? It has increased dramatically. Why promote it while people are suffering?

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CalminHeart — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 13:24:16 GMT

Like every other tv show, it's NA. But it might be more interesting if it was real wine. I can't imagine hawking the same products day after day, week after week, year after year.

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Patriot3 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 13:26:35 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
Doesn't matter whether it is real or not, it is presented as real. Would you object if they smoked dope or cigarettes? Well, then why not object to another DUI promoting item?

I don't care what people do, but I do think product placement and encouraging drinking is not what QVC should be doing.

@Sooner Agree......I was going to post the similar thing......the implication is there that it is indeed wine and I don't see the need for it.

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Gorgf — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:25:12 GMT

It seems part of the acting thing that some hosts are doing like in the movies. I can understand a New Years Eve set or selling wine that makes sense to me. It it is over and over even on the Friday promos. Just overdone. Too predictable. I drink wine but don't have a glass sitting around every night.

It isn't fashionable or cool any more. Like other sales ploys and props that get stale and morphs into a turn off over time.

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OKPrincess — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:40:42 GMT

Most people in the old movies are smoking, drinking 🍷 or doing both

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Spurt — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:33:22 GMT

@Gorgf wrote:
It seems part of the acting thing that some hosts are doing like in the movies. I can understand a New Years Eve set or selling wine that makes sense to me. It it is over and over even on the Friday promos. Just overdone. Too predictable. I drink wine but don't have a glass sitting around every night.

It isn't fashionable or cool any more. Like other sales ploys and props that get stale and morphs into a turn off over time.

@Gorgf

Your post put it in the proper perspective...

Its just another thing where QVC is like a Bull Dog with a chew toy, once QVC gets hooked on some gimmick they just wont let it go (no offense meant to Bull Dogs 😉)

The premise is that the hosts are your friends just you and them chillin together---QVC thinks it will draw people in and increase sales, BUT it becomes overkill and in reality the opposite happens ----and it ends up turning people off so they turn the channel... Unfortuanately for many viewers QVC doesnt "get that"......

Cant wait to see their latest financial report to see how they are actually doing...The "host are your friends" ploy never worked for QVC in the past, sales and revenues started to decline and it was the pandemic and quarantine that has helped QVC as people stayed in their homes and shopped, but people are becoming bored and want to get out and about and do some in store shopping for a nice change of pace...

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KKJ — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:06:20 GMT

@icezeus wrote:
I do not think that it is real wine, and I can't even remember the last time that I have even seen a host take a sip. Allie might have tonight, since they were doing a New Years drop of a mini ball. I really don't pay close attention to it.

I am another person that does not get what the uproar is over the hosts holding a glass of wine, and pretending to cheer people on with it. Do you think that we are going to be overcome by the urge to go and drink a glass of alcohol? Have no fear, I am sure that the majority of the viewers are safe from the sinful urges. Jeez..

Exactly, and are those so bothered by it also outraged by all the alcohol commercials and drinking on tv shows and in the movies? I don't think the hosts holding a glass of wine will turn us all into raging alcoholics.

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RollTide2008 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:10:39 GMT

I can’t imagine being so bored this is what I get outraged over. You do you though.