Q Talk

[Pandalady]

It was 1999.  DH had gotten a job at our local Charter Communications (Spectrum) and our cable line up grew to include more channels.  I went "channel surfing" and saw Annette Funicello on QVC and stopped there.  She was selling her bear collection.  It was November, so I purchased the angel bear tree topper presented.  I still have that angel bear to this day!

[SurferWife]

2004.  I didn't buy much. But I would watch from time to time.  I started buying Christmas presents from the Q a year or two later and then I was hooked.

[AuntG]

When I got cable in 1989.

[Tommie1965]

1989. It took me a while to take the plunge, though. When I finally did I bought a pair of garnet silver earrings as a Christmas gift for my aunt. They were quite striking and I was very pleased with them. My aunt wore them for years.

[beach-mom]

2006 

I found the website because I was looking for Birkenstocks. I saw pages and pages, signed up and ordered them then exited the website without looking at anything else.

A few weeks later I took a break from cleaning on a Saturday. Sitting on the ottoman in our family room I started flipping through channels. I stopped when I saw Laura Geller demonstrating Pink Grapefruit blush. I wanted that blush! The next segment was Mally demonstrating her Starlight liners. I wanted those too. So I went to the website and ordered them. I had never heard of Mally or Laura.

 I didn't watch again until one Friday morning when I was getting ready. I didn't like the segment they were doing on the network morning show I watched, so I started flipping through channels. I landed on QVC where Pat and Jayne were doing their morning show. I liked their camaraderie and watched until I had to leave. Then I started watching every Friday.

 I joined the forums, and the rest is history. It took a few years though until I really paid attention to the schedule of shows.

Fun thread @aj1980- thanks!    

[PocoLoco]

I  remember "Tootie", a horn that would toot when they showed the lowest price.  I don't remember the channel.  I know I bought a lot of Technibond jewelry, and "peach skin" clothing for Daniel Kiveiat.

[speedy girl]

I don't remember the year but it was the very beginning. I was very skeptical of that type of shopping and it took me quite a long time to purchase anything. I think it was jewelry from MaryBeth. 

[haddon9]

I really don't remember at all.  It was sometime in the mid 1990s and I used to make fun of the people who would buy from a TV shopping channel. 

Fast forward a few years and one of my closest friends told me how obsessed her mother and sister were always buying stuff from QVC.  I took another second look and then became hooked....probably sometime right after 9/11.  I don't remember what I purchased.

[BumblesGrandma2821]

For me it was 1986....was at my cousins and she had cable tv and we did not.....was totally addicted to MTV and would love flipping through all her channels....saw QVC and thought how weird lol....I was 16 at the time

[LavernLuvsShoes]

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@PocoLoco wrote:

I  remember "Tootie" - a horn that would toot when they showed the lowest price...

I don't remember the year that I first started watching (Shop-from-Home TV), or whether it was QVC or HSN, but I do remember "Tootie" and was fascinated at the amount of *Capodimonte" pieces that were sold during every presentation

I thought it was ugly, but apparently someone liked it (LOL)