One Last Plea For Show Titles...

Jackhound Mom · ‎03-09-2010

Dear QVC,

Please give your hourly shows a meaningful title. I begged for this last year and things got better.

"Great Gifts" etc tells me/us nothing. I don't want to look through every show to see what you are selling. Shoe shopping, Electronics, Food, Jewelry, gives us a clue if we want to breeze through the show or not.

I have shopped less because I don't see lineups that interest me.

Thanks for considering my point of view.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Jackhound Mom. ITA. Carolyn’s Favorite Gifts, etc. are not watched or recorded here, either. Who has time to watch back 8 hrs. of recorded shows when we have no idea what they’re about?

Alison Wonderland · ‎02-05-2018

@Jackhound Mom wrote:
Dear QVC,
Please give your hourly shows a meaningful title. I begged for this last year and things got better.
"Great Gifts" etc tells me/us nothing. I don't want to look through every show to see what you are selling. Shoe shopping, Electronics, Food, Jewelry, gives us a clue if we want to breeze through the show or not.
I have shopped less because I don't see lineups that interest me.
Thanks for considering my point of view.

I come down on the other side of that. The Great Gifts shows are usually a little bit of everything with no theme aside from the idea that they might be giftable. They're often beauty and electronics, and jewelry and home goods. During this time of year, I actually find them more useful than one-hour jewelry shows or two-hour fashion shows because I don't always know what I want to get someone for Christmas and might find something for my dad and something for my sister in a Great Gifts show.

Alison Wonderland · ‎02-05-2018

@Shanus wrote:
@Jackhound Mom. ITA. Carolyn’s Favorite Gifts, etc. are not watched or recorded here, either. Who has time to watch back 8 hrs. of recorded shows when we have no idea what they’re about?

When it comes down to it, I don't even want to spend 60 minutes on a one-hour show to get information about a single product I might want to know more about.

That's what fast forward is for. Even if I record a show with a theme, like beauty, I'm still not going to watch the entire show just in case they have one product I'm interested in. I can record an hour of QVC and use fast forward to go through the whole show and only stop if I see something I like. It usually takes 3-5 minutes if nothing catches my eye and I can watch a full product presentation of any product I want.

tototwo · ‎03-09-2010

I wholeheartedly agree with you, @Jackhound Mom. I've posted about this same thing several times - mainly just to vent because it's just a small handful of us viewers who feel this way. I only tune to QVC for certain types of products or specific brands. With hours and hours of miscellaneous shows, I don't watch at all. (Except, I did get up in the early morning once last week to watch a Bob Mackie show)

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loriqvc · ‎11-06-2011

I agree that the lack of themes can be a bit frustrating, particularly when the majority of the shows seem to end up presenting the same couple of dozen items no matter what they're titled. And that's why I never watch ANY of the gift shows—near the end of the day, I go online and check out the list of items presented in all the shows, and if any catch my eye, I watch the recorded presentation to see if I want to make a purchase. Since the latter rarely happens (especially with so few new "gift" items), the process only takes about 10-15 minutes and saves me a lot of eye rolling and frustration with the Q and Q2 programming throughout the day.

corita · ‎08-20-2012

@loriqvc wrote:
I agree that the lack of themes can be a bit frustrating, particularly when the majority of the shows seem to end up presenting the same couple of dozen items no matter what they're titled. And that's why I never watch ANY of the gift shows—near the end of the day, I go online and check out the list of items presented in all the shows, and if any catch my eye, I watch the recorded presentation to see if I want to make a purchase. Since the latter rarely happens (especially with so few new "gift" items), the process only takes about 10-15 minutes and saves me a lot of eye rolling and frustration with the Q and Q2 programming throughout the day.
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I do the same thing. I do not want to watch hours of shows just to find one item. And I do not want to watch presentations of hosts that I do not enjoy!

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Alison Wonderland wrote:
@Shanus wrote:
@Jackhound Mom. ITA. Carolyn’s Favorite Gifts, etc. are not watched or recorded here, either. Who has time to watch back 8 hrs. of recorded shows when we have no idea what they’re about?

When it comes down to it, I don't even want to spend 60 minutes on a one-hour show to get information about a single product I might want to know more about.

That's what fast forward is for. Even if I record a show with a theme, like beauty, I'm still not going to watch the entire show just in case they have one product I'm interested in. I can record an hour of QVC and use fast forward to go through the whole show and only stop if I see something I like. It usually takes 3-5 minutes if nothing catches my eye and I can watch a full product presentation of any product I want.

@Alison Wonderland I agree. My FF button on the remote is wearing out. I’d much rather speed through a one hour show with a specific title than Late Nite Gifts which can be 4 hours. I just don’t record those.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@loriqvc wrote:
I agree that the lack of themes can be a bit frustrating, particularly when the majority of the shows seem to end up presenting the same couple of dozen items no matter what they're titled. And that's why I never watch ANY of the gift shows—near the end of the day, I go online and check out the list of items presented in all the shows, and if any catch my eye, I watch the recorded presentation to see if I want to make a purchase. Since the latter rarely happens (especially with so few new "gift" items), the process only takes about 10-15 minutes and saves me a lot of eye rolling and frustration with the Q and Q2 programming throughout the day.

@loriqvc Unless Q2 has something so appealing I must record, I’ve given up on that channel. On my cable lineup, it comes in on small screen and even on a lg. TV is annoying to watch.