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[Shorty2U]

I agree about the repeating, and I dont watch Q much anymore but I do check online each day. About showing items over and over. In the Joy movie, they addressed that. It seems the more they show items and repeat talking the more people buy. I agree that does work, because it used to work on me (although Id think it over longer than most before buying).

My husband even said after seeing the movie that he was taught about that method at his job as a boss. As in how to address his employees.

Conclusion; The more Q shows items and tries to sell something the more people buy. Of course some of us have restraint..lol. but not everyone does. Obviously, that's why Q is still aound and booming!

PS I dont like LOGO, too expensive for the line and as far as My Pillow, I always wanted to try them. I have 2 friends who have the pillows and love them. I also have one friend who hated them and sent them back. So anyway, I never tried them yet.

[Q4u]

Regarding My Pillow, they've been forced to pay 1M for false advertising.

And they've lost their BBB rating.

I'm actually surprised to see them on QVC.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/full-fluff-mypillow-ordered-pay-1m-bogus-ads-n677571

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/01/04/pillowgate-bbb-revokes-mypillow-accreditat...

[Grace6663582]

I can't help but suggest with the cash you are saving because the Q is not offering any products or clothing you wish to purchase perhaps you could look into HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax or Netflix to watch and then you can begin to enjoy your viewing time watching the TV.

[stevieb]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@chickenbutt wrote:

I can't help wondering if they operate on the premise that most people don't watch the channel 24/7.    

I always felt like it was a consideration that maybe somebody gets up at 7am and watches, or at lunch time, after work, etc, but just not hour after hour after hour.  That way, they would figure that everybody who wants to see any given product, or products, would find a time frame when they could.

That's what comes to mind, for me anyway, FWIW

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I have always assumed that they are aiming to catch people at various times in a 24 hr period, and that they're not programming for 24/7-ers. BUT - over the past 12-18 months, I'm finding that on "theme" days (and every day is now a theme day), I can see a show that doesn't interest me, turn to something else, and when I turn back maybe 3-4 hours later, or 4-5 hours after that, they're still showing the same mdse or type of mdse. So it's slowly become same-old same-old for probably 18 hrs out of 24 and is boring to someone who tunes in 8-10 hrs apart, never mind those who are "accused" of watching 24/7. It didn't use to be that way. And under those circumstances, I would neither know nor care if shows were repeated; even if they're not repeated...they ARE "repeats" anyway.

Shopping channels are no longer unique, people can buy the same mdse online, often for less money. There is competition and market-splitting between shopping channels. QVC has so far refused to economize where they maybe should have started - buying smaller quantities so they don't keep non-selling stock forever, much less elaborate sets, and less emphasis on "personality" hosts and vendors, and yes, pre-recorded programming.

For all those saying they will stop buying and stop watching - clearly they already have, before this ever came about. They're doing these shows because people aren't buying. They're doing a lot of things that former customers don't like - because they have been "former" customers for many months. 

This is a downhill slide that nothing is going to suddenly, magically reverse. They aren't going to start hemorrhaging money to bring back items and situations that might increase revenue...a little. It wouldn't be enough. It could never be enough.

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I agree with your assessment @Moonchilde... I've long said they need a wholesale paradigm shift but I'm no longer sure such is even possible or that it would help. Things seem a bit too far gone for 'tweaks', big or small, to make a difference. Sad that they had to know it was happening when it was happening and they had to know what was coming, and when making changes might still have helped, they did absolutely nothing.

[stevieb]

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@Shorty2U wrote:

I agree about the repeating, and I dont watch Q much anymore but I do check online each day. About showing items over and over. In the Joy movie, they addressed that. It seems the more they show items and repeat talking the more people buy. I agree that does work, because it used to work on me (although Id think it over longer than most before buying).

My husband even said after seeing the movie that he was taught about that method at his job as a boss. As in how to address his employees.

Conclusion; The more Q shows items and tries to sell something the more people buy. Of course some of us have restraint..lol. but not everyone does. Obviously, that's why Q is still aound and booming!

PS I dont like LOGO, too expensive for the line and as far as My Pillow, I always wanted to try them. I have 2 friends who have the pillows and love them. I also have one friend who hated them and sent them back. So anyway, I never tried them yet.

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Things change and methodology has to change with them. What might have worked well ten years ago or even a couple of years ago isn't necessarily working today. The Q is no longer 'booming'. Recent financial reports aren't particularly pretty.