Kitchen

[Dreamer13]

I have recently purchased the muffin baker, 2 quart, and 1 quart pieces in Home Goods, they are EXACTLY the same but they dont say Temptations. I thought Tara was the inventor? I have purchased many sets from QVC and I really like them but feel lied to. What do you think?

[millieshops]

Maybe Home Goods bought up overstock that Tara's supplier was getting rid of????

I used to see lots of HSN and QVC things at auctions. Dealers bought up whole pallets of items - jewelry, linens, kitchenware, etc. I have a set of great frying pans that cost me almost nothing compared to the onair prices.

[Cardamom]

What pattern is it? Is it made in China?

[ANewHue]

Quite a few years ago I saw them at a flea market. I asked if they were temptations and the vendor said yes. I remember them being more substantial than the first ones I purchased a few years ago.

[Dreamer13]

The muffin baker is OW spice and the other 2 are FL I got a blue one and a cranberry. They are made in China but they dont say Temp tations.

[Cardamom]

On 2/12/2014 Dreamer13 said: The muffin baker is OW spice and the other 2 are FL I got a blue one and a cranberry. They are made in China but they dont say Temp tations.

Thanks. I'll have to check there. FL is my favorite. I'd much rather pick pieces out in person.

[homedecor1]

Old Time Pottery has the same thing but they aren't marked Temptations ~ I assume since they are liquidators they buy overstock. One time I did see at a yard sale a lady was selling lots of Temptations - I did buy a piece to serve with.

(My older pieces from the first time Temptations was presented have never had any problems like I've seen over the past few years.)

[gkelly]

On 2/12/2014 Dreamer13 said: The muffin baker is OW spice and the other 2 are FL I got a blue one and a cranberry. They are made in China but they dont say Temp tations.

If they don't say Temp-tations then it's not Temp-tations...simple. A while back a poster said that there were some stoneware that looked like TT but it was a ""knock off"". NO ONE has a patent on dishes that happen to ""look like"" another. Recently a poster said that there was stoneware on another shopping channel with stoneware that resembled TT.

[Anniecamp]

They may be "seconds", therefore unmarked.

[jcnc111]

Many times QVC will say something is exclusive to them. Sometimes it's the color or the configuration of a product that makes it exclusive. A variation of the same product can be purchased elsewhere. The company making the product will sell it under several difference brand names, and slightly change something, but for the most part it is still the same product.