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Old September 26th 04, 11:29 PM
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Price Drop TV. Isn't that the channel that has been featured on
Watchdog recently for scamming the gullible public?


No, that was Auction World TV, on $ky. Price Drop TV have been offering Globes
recently at a fantastically high guide price. I saw the same product in Costco
last week for about £41 plus VAT.


But the globes do show what the world will look like after being hit by another
planet.
I think those that cut out the shapes of the countries, must work in the dark.


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Old September 26th 04, 11:46 PM
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No, that was Auction World TV, on $ky. Price Drop TV have been offering Globes
recently at a fantastically high guide price. I saw the same product in Costco
last week for about £41 plus VAT.


They probably come out of the Far East sweat shops at a few quid each.

Didn't Bid Up TV used to put a guide price of nearly £1k on these
objects?

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Old September 27th 04, 12:37 AM
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The thing about these auction sites is that the things they sell are either
'exclusive' to them, i.e. they can put whatever guide price they like on, or
the item is only available from other auction tv/ web sites. The whole thing
is a scam.
I too saw the globe in Costco just yesterday and was shocked at just how
much profit price-drop.tv is still making on these awful looking globes.
(normally the globes go far about £250)
Whoever buys theses tacky things obviously have far too much money and so
little taste.


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In message , JohnT
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No, that was Auction World TV, on $ky. Price Drop TV have been offering

Globes
recently at a fantastically high guide price. I saw the same product in

Costco
last week for about £41 plus VAT.


They probably come out of the Far East sweat shops at a few quid each.

Didn't Bid Up TV used to put a guide price of nearly £1k on these
objects?

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Old September 27th 04, 02:19 AM
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In article , nospam
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The thing about these auction sites is that the things they sell are either
'exclusive' to them, i.e. they can put whatever guide price they like on, or
the item is only available from other auction tv/ web sites. The whole thing
is a scam.
I too saw the globe in Costco just yesterday and was shocked at just how
much profit price-drop.tv is still making on these awful looking globes.
(normally the globes go far about £250)
Whoever buys theses tacky things obviously have far too much money and so
little taste.

Just as the lottery is a tax on the poor, shopping channels are a tax on
the stupid - they have replaced Ratners.

If their profits replaced the license fee everyone would be happy!
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Old September 27th 04, 11:48 AM
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Simes wrote:

Unfortunately, it isn't even a loss! The coming of ITV3 doesn't mean the end
of price-drop.tv, it just means they'll be somewhere else on the digital
spectrum.


True, very true,
I do not think ITV will be that interesting either, but I will have a
look and see what it is about.



Phew. That's a relief


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Old September 27th 04, 11:58 AM
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Just as the lottery is a tax on the poor, shopping channels are a tax on
the stupid - they have replaced Ratners.



As far as the Bid-up and Price-drop ugly sisters go, you're probably right,
but just occasionally (well, twice) I've turned to QVC and found something I
really wanted, that I would've bought anyway, and after checking prices
everywhere they've been the cheapest. Not only that, but their service is
first rate.

I think there's a place for QVC. But the other shopping channels are just
wasting valuable space. And the trouble is that they'll go on and on as long
as there's a chav out there who still needs a 9ct gold curb chain.

Androo


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Old September 27th 04, 08:08 PM
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Just as the lottery is a tax on the poor, shopping channels are a tax on
the stupid - they have replaced Ratners.



As far as the Bid-up and Price-drop ugly sisters go, you're probably right,
but just occasionally (well, twice) I've turned to QVC and found something I
really wanted, that I would've bought anyway, and after checking prices
everywhere they've been the cheapest. Not only that, but their service is
first rate.


You will find that many items are exclusive to QVC in Europe so you will
not be able to compare prices easily.

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Old September 28th 04, 02:01 AM
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In article , Androo
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I think there's a place for QVC. But the other shopping channels are just
wasting valuable space.

I wouldn't know. After having shopping channels available on my STB fro
a week or so when I bought it I came to the conclusion that no sane
person could ever watch that crap and removed them from the list of
available channels.
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Old September 28th 04, 06:52 PM
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You will find that many items are exclusive to QVC in Europe so you will
not be able to compare prices easily.



True enough. But the two things I have bought were available elsewhere and
they were definitely cheaper. QVC is okay.

Androo


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