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Years ago......

Group 5 minus 1 — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:19:07 GMT

When dinosaurs roamed the earth I liked to watch hosts. I learned a lot about jewelry from K. Levine. Now its just flipping hair and drinking wine and jumping around.

Re: Years ago......

qualitygal — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:23:39 GMT

Who did the dinosaurs shows?

Re: Years ago......

Group 5 minus 1 — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:26:16 GMT

Kathy Levine, Jane Treacy, Dave King, the two Lisa's, Bob Bowersock(sp)

Re: Years ago......

Pook — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:46:55 GMT

But also remember that years ago before the internet there was no other option but to watch hosts and could order only when items were presented so there was no other way to purchase! Way better now and no need to feel forced to watch. Maybe QVC or tv shopping is not for those who have such disdain for the hosts!!

Re: Years ago......

QVCkitty1 — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:03:13 GMT

@Pook wrote:
But also remember that years ago before the internet there was no other option but to watch hosts and could order only when items were presented so there was no other way to purchase! Way better now and no need to feel forced to watch. Maybe QVC or tv shopping is not for those who have such disdain for the hosts!!

@Pook , Also remember there was a fair amount of foolishness in the Q's old days. Remember the dumb costumes ?

Re: Years ago......

Pook — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:10:46 GMT

@QVCkitty1 Sure do remember all that fairy dust floating around with costumes and not normal clothes to sell that costume jewelry!! Then those old west silver day costumes and settings.

Re: Years ago......

Critter Friend — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:16:37 GMT

Does anybody remember the game the hosts would play with the people that called it. It was a wooden stand that had Q V C on it and the caller would guess a letter and the host would flip the letter over to see what prize the caller had won?

Re: Years ago......

cjm61 — Tue, 09 May 2023 15:00:30 GMT

@Pook Actually, you could order any item at any time, however, you needed the item number. I had sticky notes all over my house with item numbers and would make little notes to myself what the items were. Oh, and the tapes I had of QVC. LOL. I recently transferred my VHS kids tapes and saw shows I had taped 30 years ago. It was quite funny to see, the studio consisted of a table and a chair with host, no decor whatsoever.

Although the hosts are definitely not the same, even the old timers have changed their selling technique, some hosts are still fun to watch. If posters do have a disdain for certain hosts, there are many others they can choose to watch. They don't have to avoid QVC all together.

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Jk9 — Tue, 09 May 2023 16:11:06 GMT

@cjm61 For a time you could only order when the item was being presented, then they switched to letting you order if you had the number. I kept a pad nearby with all the item numbers of things I liked so I could order whenever.

But, in the beginning (not sure how long it lasted) you could only order while item was being shown. I think they learned real quickly that some of us weren't that fast on the draw and changed that process.

Re: Years ago......

Group 5 minus 1 — Tue, 09 May 2023 20:01:05 GMT

But the presentations for items were shorter and I liked the quick takes.

Re: Years ago......

CherryHugs — Tue, 09 May 2023 20:20:20 GMT

It has not been many years for me but I dislike how they try to be so entertaining and funny and girls party etc. I do not like it at all and dont like the dancing, the talking at the same time etc. . If there is something I want to see on any of the shopping channels I have to mute it for most of the show. It is nervewracking the way they act, its a shopping network not a party.

Re: Years ago......

cjm61 — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:25:50 GMT

@Jk9 I started shopping with QVC in the Spring of 1986. I never had a problem ordering an item as long as I had the item number. However, I did call once when I didn't have the number and tried to see if the CS dept could find the item. They could not. Not sure when you started shopping but I have always been able to order if I called and gave them the number, and of course, it was in stock.

It was a challenge for sure. I would have these item numbers all over and if I didn't notate what it was for I had no idea. They did repeat items over and over though so if you missed it then it usually came back eventually.

Re: Years ago......

JeanLouiseFinch — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:34:53 GMT

I learned what Capodimonte porcelain was and that somehow HSN thought we all needed it, a lot of it, in our lives. I remember a host named 'Muzzy' and he'd honk a horn sometimes. What a wild one he was. LOL

Re: Years ago......

ECBG — Mon, 15 May 2023 17:24:28 GMT

Kathy Levine was so wonderful then! I had sleeping babies.