topic Re: Hosts in Community Chat

Hosts

matty liz — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:44:35 GMT

I have to laugh, we go after the hosts so often. I find myself doing that too and I'm really not like that. I got to thinking, QVC has made this shopping channel so about the hosts being crazy that it is hard to acknowledge the products. I love fashion, wheither I buy or watch but QVC has made night time shows a turn off to me. It isn't the hosts as much as what QVC thinks we fall for.

Re: Hosts

sweetee2 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:56:10 GMT

I've been watching " the Q" many many years now. Either it's my age or trying to keep up with all the new hosts don't know I just don't care to watch it anymore.

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cjm61 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:57:26 GMT

I agree @matty liz . Years ago, I've been shopping QVC since 1986, there wasn't one host I couldn't watch. I loved them all. QVC was on in my home all day. Now, as you mentioned, I generally do not let other's get under my skin. However, more and more hosts have deterred me from watching QVC. Or, I should say, having it on for background noise. I will occasionally have it on but I never just sit and watch it. I also make a point not to place any order, even online, when a host is on that I cannot watch.

Somehow, this style of presenting must be working as they would have had the hosts discontinue these selling tactics. There are still a handful of hosts I do actually enjoy watching but it's few and far between.

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skatting44 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:09:25 GMT

rarely watch because of the Hosts . I can't stand their antics and rude interruptions . There is to much time aloted per item . I shop online .or watch when they only have the Reps present the items

I do buy from many other retailers .

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kaydee50 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:44:24 GMT

QVC is no longer a "shopping" channel. It's focus is now on the hosts, i.e., so and so in the kitchen, so and so with shoes, etc. etc. I do not care about who the host is and do not know 90% of them. Been watching 20+ years and the focus is no longer on the products but the hosts. I guess the PTB think we will buy anything from certain hosts. I'm not one of those people!!

And from what I read on these forums, QVC seems to be having serious financial problems. I, for one, am not surprised.

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kindred cats — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:42:00 GMT

IMHO many of the hosts now sound so insincere and phony, not to mention pushy, that it makes it almost impossible to watch.

I'd love to name names, however, I guess that would be rude???

Let it be said, it's both male and female hosts.

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781Florist — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:50:11 GMT

I think that I am spared a great deal of the anguish many posters seem to have over the

style and/or personality of many QVC hosts because I do not need to watch any jewelry or fashion shows, Many of those hosts seem to get most of the gunfire on here.

I watch and enjoy the home, kitchen, electronics, food and seasonal shows, and so there are a few hosts I tend to see much more often than others. However, being human, I must admit to liking a few hosts way more than others, and sometimes it is for no other reason than personal preference rather than any one aspect of

somebody's style of presentation. A few hosts that I especially enjoy get roasted and toasted on these boards. Also, some that I don't care for are favorites of a lot of folks.

I think this is where that expression about Baskin Robbins having 31 flavors comes from.

Something for everyone. I know that it's kind of a stock-in-trade response on these boards for people to remark that nobody has to watch anyone they don't like or buy anything they don't like......and both of those things are true.

But people like the release they get from venting so I think it is O.K. for posters to lob a few grenades when they have had it with someone or something that triggers them.

I chuckle, laugh groan and eyeroll at a lot of the back and forth. These boards often

inform, amuse, entertain, annoy and console people. I think this forum does it's job pretty well.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:20:44 GMT

I've been watching QVC practically since day 1. I try to avoid being criticizing hosts to the point of bashing. I try to remember that it's a hard job that most people could not do. It just looks easy on TV. I love QVC. I love everything about QVC and HSN. I don't watch much of either on TV. I'm not the type to plunk my self down in front of the TV and watch for two or three hours. I shop their websites. I watch selected programs that interest me. I don't watch shows that don't interest me. Like food shows and garden shows. QVC is a retailer, not a source of entertainment for me.

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ladyann45 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:56:45 GMT

You know I have to agree with you in part. I think as we age we tend to judge people by our standards and compare people of those in the pass. Times changes and people are different. I fine as I grow older my spending habits have change and my desire for things are not like they use to be. Some people think that we need to pleased at times when we ourselves can't please others as well. If we had one day to be invisible we would be surprised most of the people we know feel the same way about us as well. All of the shopping channels have changed in their style and everyone of them have hosts that act just like the ones on the Q. So in other words welcome to the new way of doing business.

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Puppy Lips — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:10:11 GMT

I have been shopping with and watching QVC for a long time. But I think I started after Kathy Levine left. I was watching her on a diamonique show recently. She is wonderful. Now I know why shoppers thought so highly of her and missed her.

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Spurt — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:37:14 GMT

@cjm61 wrote:
I agree @matty liz . Years ago, I've been shopping QVC since 1986, there wasn't one host I couldn't watch. I loved them all. QVC was on in my home all day. Now, as you mentioned, I generally do not let other's get under my skin. However, more and more hosts have deterred me from watching QVC. Or, I should say, having it on for background noise. I will occasionally have it on but I never just sit and watch it. I also make a point not to place any order, even online, when a host is on that I cannot watch.

Somehow, this style of presenting must be working as they would have had the hosts discontinue these selling tactics. There are still a handful of hosts I do actually enjoy watching but it's few and far between.

@cjm61

It's not working...read the financial reports available online the declines in sales are now in double digits.....I think the QVC Executives are missing the point of what's going on and flooding streaming channels with hosts shows, less on the products more focus on the hosts on the presentation shows doesn't seem to be working at all!!!

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Spurt — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:44:13 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
I've been watching QVC practically since day 1. I try to avoid being criticizing hosts to the point of bashing. I try to remember that it's a hard job that most people could not do. It just looks easy on TV. I love QVC. I love everything about QVC and HSN. I don't watch much of either on TV. I'm not the type to plunk my self down in front of the TV and watch for two or three hours. I shop their websites. I watch selected programs that interest me. I don't watch shows that don't interest me. Like food shows and garden shows. QVC is a retailer, not a source of entertainment for me.

@chrystaltree

People are doing what you are----watching only shows that interest them and that's why sales and revenues are down.....they aren't showing much that interest viewers anymore.....its repetition of the same limited products and annoying hosts that are driving people away.....the website doesn't have a whole lot of info either....questions posted there mostly go unanswered....

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chrystaltree — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:21:46 GMT

@Spurt wrote:

@chrystaltree wrote:

I've been watching QVC practically since day 1. I try to avoid being criticizing hosts to the point of bashing. I try to remember that it's a hard job that most people could not do. It just looks easy on TV. I love QVC. I love everything about QVC and HSN. I don't watch much of either on TV. I'm not the type to plunk my self down in front of the TV and watch for two or three hours. I shop their websites. I watch selected programs that interest me. I don't watch shows that don't interest me. Like food shows and garden shows. QVC is a retailer, not a source of entertainment for me.

@chrystaltree

People are doing what you are----watching only shows that interest them and that's why sales and revenues are down.....they aren't showing much that interest viewers anymore.....its repetition of the same limited products and annoying hosts that are driving people away.....the website doesn't have a whole lot of info either....questions posted there mostly go unanswered....

If the QVC Shopping experience is so awful. STOP WATCHING. Why in heavens name are watching something that makes you so miserable and unhappy? QVC was never intended to be a source of entertainment.

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avid shopper — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:48:31 GMT

For the most part the hosts are atrocious! But I blame the company and what they lay out as expections for them.

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Teddixat — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:24:07 GMT

@ladyann45 well said!! Honestly there are hosts I really cannot watch, so I either mute or change the channel but bashing them or holding them or anyone for that matter, to my standards is ridiculous. We are all different and we shouldn't expect people to think, feel, talk or behave like us let alone critize them for it. The energy it takes is simply a waste. Some folks who post here seem to have an obsession with the Q and it's hosts.

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We rescue cats — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:49:19 GMT

I have also been a customer practically since day 1, and Kathy Levine was absolutely one of my favorites. I no longer watch QVC to watch it, I usually jump to it when a commercial pops up that I don't want to see. Other than that I check the website each day. QVC has introduced me to many brands and products, for which I am most appreciative but some of the antics and the constant banter when they have host 'couples' on is not for me.

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abbeydabby — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 21:14:00 GMT

It's all a generational issue IMO. Do you watch Tik-Tok, Instagram, etc.? If so, you would see that they move faster and faster and the sales presentations are quick. If you are used to a more slow detailed sales presentation then a quicker, louder, more boistrous then QVC today doesn't work for you. But if QVC is attempting to modernize to gain a new customer base then faster moving and talking hosts make more sense.

The older loyal customer base is aging out for ongoing sales. They need to get a younger customer if they are to survive. IMO it's too little too late.

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Goat12 — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:21:49 GMT

I agree most of the hosts they have on now are "unwatchable". I can't stand watching their silly antics and phony chatter and their "I am wonderful" attitude. When these hosts are on, I cannot watch the shows. I now find myself buying more from retail stores and shopping online at QVC. How I miss the hosts that were "fun", but not stupid silly. Some of the shows I love to watch, but not when these hosts with their goofy antics are presenting them. I love watching Mary Beth, Dan, Sandra, Jane and Pat, David. QVC needs to get more hosts like them. Until then, I won't buy from a show that is being hosted by the "goofy" and "dishonest" hosts.

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tototwo — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:20:23 GMT

I do believe it's a generational thing. Q is trying to reach the younger folks who are used to the antics on their social media feeds. They want screaming silliness and hosts in pajamas.

I don't. I'm old. I prefer calm and details about each item shown. I remember the early days of QVC where most hosts sat at tables to present items - and hosts were dressed up in suits and dresses. Not torn jeans or joggers. I'm an old fuddy-duddy. I just can't watch QVC anymore.

I just had a memory of Mike Rowe sitting behind a desk selling porcelain figurines.... Those were good times!

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We rescue cats — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:33:05 GMT

I miss 2 that were there when I started watching QVC....Kathy Levine-tho she shows up from time to time, and Bob Bowersox. I loved Bob's kitchen show, and have a couple of his cookbooks.