Kitchen

[PA Mom-mom]

Just tuned into "Love in Paradise" on the Hallmark Channel (with Luke Perry). They were eating dinner on the veranda and one of the casserole dishes was Temp-tations Floral Lace Green. Is that a usual occurrence? I don't watch Hallmark very often, but I'm tired of watching the news.

[Lali1]

I know they don't sell her brand here but I was watching the show 911 last week and saw a pioneer woman utensil holder that I had once wanted in someone's kitchen. It had me searching for one and I ended up getting a huge white one with my Walmart pickup it was $10 versus $30 something for the PW one. It looks better with my many red utensils then the other would have. 

[loriqvc]

@PA Mom-mom - My father is a huge Hallmark movie fan (I think he kept all the chick flick genes that were coming my way!), so over the years, we've noticed quite a few "cameos" by Temp-tations, though it's almost always one of the Old World patterns.

[PA Mom-mom]

@loriqvc  Interesting! I wonder if it was intentional product placement or coincidence.

[loriqvc]

@PA Mom-mom - It seems to all just be a coincidence; I've seen a few instances when people have commented about these sightings on the Temp-tations Facebook page, and Tara and Lisa always seem to be surprised and excited.

[AuntG]

My guess is that set designers buy at thrift shops. The guy who decorated the old Magnum TV show wrote something about that. I once saw some mugs that I have on a Hallmark Christmas movie. The scene took place in the lead actresses childhood home, so having gotten mine in the early 1990's, it made sense.

[Mominohio]

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@loriqvc wrote:

@PA Mom-mom - It seems to all just be a coincidence; I've seen a few instances when people have commented about these sightings on the Temp-tations Facebook page, and Tara and Lisa always seem to be surprised and excited.

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Tara and Lisa are pretty phony anymore. I don't know whether it is smart product placement or just something the set designers run across and place, but I wouldn't trust their 'surprise'. 

[loriqvc]

@Mominohio - That's interesting—I actually feel like they've shown their personalities more as they record content more often (especially when they are together), and they seem genuine and fun to me.

[Mominohio]

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@loriqvc wrote:

@Mominohio - That's interesting—I actually feel like they've shown their personalities more as they record content more often (especially when they are together), and they seem genuine and fun to me.

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@loriqvc 

I don't mean to be a downer or an @$$, and I have huge collections of Temp-tations in many patterns and colors. In fact, I sold a huge set of over 30 pieces/sets just yesterday as I need to downsize. 

But over the years, especially following them on Facebook and having to deal with their customer service, it is obvious that they really only care about the bottom line and they only care about the customers enough to keep the money flowing in. 

They have been really unresponsive over the years to customers who have had issues with quality, and I mean customers who have thousands of pieces. Some people have collected this line in massive amounts, and were actually told they better stop posting pieces that failed in the oven etc. Others have asked legit questions about the issues they have had, and they are never answered. 

My personal experience repeatedly with her CS (not QVC's) is that they do everything to deflect an issue back on the customer as their fault, and I've been talked to like I'm a child and an idiot child at that, more than once. 

I like Lisa and find her more genuine overall than Tara, but both of them are terribly disingenuous in my opinion. They misrepresent the product sometimes (like showing you can bake cookies on the lid its, but then the instructions and actual use tells us that they break when used like a cookie sheet). She will often say things like "we have never done a -----before, when in fact, they have done three different versions of that same thing. She would have you believe that she 'invented' stoneware, lid its, oven to table to fridge concept when in fact other lines did it decades before she did. 

They try to pass off the line as something you will hand down for generations, and it will only be by luck if a few pieces last that long. 

I have just resigned myself to using and enjoying what I have. I have to throw away at least a half a dozen pieces a year for crazing issues. Some of them were never used but for display. In gathering the set that I sold yesterday, I found three pieces crazed and trashed them. Again today, as I moved my brown Old World into the storage area where I had removed the sold set, I found another five pieces crazed, some of them only used a couple of times and not in the oven, for serving only. They will need to be trashed as well. 

So again, not trying to be a basher, but just realistic about both of them and the product line as well. It's been a love/hate relationship for me, that is for sure. Love the designs and the colors and the availability of so many matching pieces, but disappointed in the quality, really the longevity, of the pieces, as well as what I have come to see as a phoney presence on air and online.

[hellokitty]

@Mominohio Sorry about the Temptations.  I don't own any now.  I bought a piece at a yard sale and it didn't last very long so I never invested money in the rest of the line.  I did buy a lot of Henn pottery which I think was made in Ohio but they went out of business.

As far as Tara goes, I don't pay that much attention to her.