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Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

expatgal — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:51:53 GMT

What is your biggest waste of money, biggest "what was I thinking?", biggest "can't even donate this thing" purchase from QVC? Mine is easy. The set of 3 Genie bras on my 60 year old, 42D, bod!

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

violann — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:08:46 GMT

I bought a sun tanning pillow one time that was made of shaped styrofoam covered with yellow terry cloth. It was shaped like some kind of bird. It was bizarre looking and totalky useless. I think I ultimately threw it away.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

Lakk — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:01:52 GMT

expatgal

Speaking of bras, I recently bought the inserts for modesty to wear with sweaters and they moved around until I just couldn't use them. Of course I had already thrown the box away and couldn't return them. They had a lot of good reviews they just weren't for me. Perhaps I could cover them with fleece and make ear muffs out of them or elbow pads. LOL

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

chickenbutt — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:06:16 GMT

The only one I can really think of is this roll out garden thing I bought years ago. It was this big roll of whatever it was that you could cut up and plant in various places, or just roll it out and plant one big, long thing.

Anyway, the idea was that it was supposed to grow a bunch of flowers. Well, all it grew was weeds. Of course, by the time I knew this, it was too late to return it. They really get ya with stuff like that.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

Lakk — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:17:51 GMT

chickenbutt,

I bought one of those too and never saw one flower. My SIL bought one and it did very well for her, of course she could make a rock grow. LOL I wish had some pictures of her yard and gardens to post she reminds me on a smaller scale of Carolyn Gracie's yard. Also I wanted to tell you I love your nickname, that SIl's youngest son when he was little had the smallest little butt and we all called him chickenbutt till he was 40!

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

chickenbutt — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:22:14 GMT

Aww, I love your chickenbutt story! Thank You. The best thing about my ID is that it makes people smile. Priceless!

Well, I guess you and I just don't have the green thumb. Well, I KNOW I don't. I totally don't do yard work and I fancied this a good idea for something I could actually do, instead of paying somebody else to do it. I was wrong.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

Lakk — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:42:17 GMT

chickenbutt

For the record your 'namesake' is a good kid (man now) and he smiles all the time, he has a great sense of humor he's a good husband and father.

My kids use to say I could kill artificial flowers so years ago I set out to prove them wrong. I had a zillion flowers planted all over the front yard. I had them around the trees and that pink stuff 'thrift' all the way down the sidewalk and flowers in flowerbeds and around the mailbox and pots on the porch etc. but all the attention they required nearly killed me while raising 5 kids. The greatest thing was one day one of their friends ( a guy that is now in his late 40's ) saw me at a funeral home and told me he use to come by here on his way home everyday just to see the front yard because his mom never planted flowers. Now sadly I do very little except on the deck for my own pleasure. I now have a landscaper that lives across the street and since they moved in their yard is fabulous and I am seriously thinking of hiring him this year to do something with my front yard again. If I can afford him!

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

shoekitty — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:54:36 GMT

The worst thing I ever bought from QVC was a key chain with a little mosquito repeller on it. It was suppose to keep them away by sonic waves or something. The key chain was joke, made of pot metal chain, with links barely held together. One broke when I went to place the little battery in it. This was maybe 20 years ago. I was shocked. Because up until then everything I bought from QVC was stellar, and good quality. I remember it came stapled to a piece of cardboard, and a link came undone when I pulled it off the board. I think I was so traumatized by this piece of qwap, I actually remember the cost after all these years, LOL! 12.99 for 2!! It was a TSV. It cost me 4 dollars to return, but I felt so cheated, hahah!

Honestly, these could have been purchased at the dollar store, that bad!

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

violann — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:29:54 GMT

We bought the instant flower garden strip too, but for us the laughs were worth the cost of the product. We always wondered if the seeds came from Mars, because they looked nothing like anything we could find in any horticultural encyclopedia.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

Group 5 minus 1 — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:04:25 GMT

A silver bracelet w/a lion's head clasp. It needs someone else to put it on. It is really pretty but I can only wear when DH is home to help me put it on. I saw there was a bangle very similar to it on Silver Day but I had only paid around $38.00 for the old one and the new was $68.00.We have tried many things to make it work. Big problem w/magnetic clasps they make the brace too large and it falls off of my wrist.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

hsawaknow — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:31:33 GMT

I bought this whiskey barrel shaped waterfall the water was suppose to come out of this black spikit or something.

Another dumb purchase was the frozen key lime pies. By the time I received them it was like soup.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

Peaches McPhee — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:52:54 GMT

I bought one of those fake hanging flower baskets with the lights that was a TSV last year. It looks OK, but the lights DON'T WORK. That type of stuff just irritates me - how can something brand new NOT WORK?.

But, no, I did not return it because the box was too big, and I was too lazy to deal with it. I do use it, without the lights.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

marky — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:35:00 GMT

Space bags---might as well have tossed the money out the car window.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

Tootie15 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:49:49 GMT

ChargeIt!! Battery station .... yes, it does recharge batteries, but they do not last half as long as QVC claims they do .... and we noticed that some of the batteries leak after they have been charged .....

Waited too long ... so was not able to return! (But we do get some extra life out of our batteries, so I guess that is a plus!!)

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

10sluvr — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:56:08 GMT

lite bites and cottage farms sun impatients and a couple of other near-duds, but useable.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

123SuzyQ123 — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 22:29:28 GMT

At the time I was trying to get my credit card paid down to ZERO and I had sworn off charging anything, yet I bought a pair of those Orthaheel shoes (was around $122 with tax and shipping) and I used the easy-pay option. Even though I still wear the shoes, I kicked myself many times for adding that onto my credit card at that time! That was my biggest mistake with the Q. The product itself wasn't a mistake, but my choosing that very time to use my charge card was the mistake!! I am over it now though. LOL

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

EastCoastViewer — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:04:55 GMT

My biggest QVC mistake was EASY PAY!

I did most of my Christmas 2012 shopping on the Q and one month I had over $600 in easy payments . Outrageous. I finally paid off my monthly charges and swore off easy pay. If I can't pay for the item outright, I don't buy it.

Re: Your Biggest QVC Mistake?

NYC Susan — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:28:41 GMT

On 2/24/2014 chickenbutt said:
The only one I can really think of is this roll out garden thing I bought years ago. It was this big roll of whatever it was that you could cut up and plant in various places, or just roll it out and plant one big, long thing.

Anyway, the idea was that it was supposed to grow a bunch of flowers. Well, all it grew was weeds. Of course, by the time I knew this, it was too late to return it. They really get ya with stuff like that.

Me too! Except I didn't even get weeds. I got nothing.

And yes, by the time I realized it was a dud, it was too late to return it. I tried, though! But they wouldn't budge.

I will never make a mistake like that again. I go to my local nursery now.