sit-up tv (bid shopping) - OFF AIR

It's bid's 13th birthday this weekend - it appears they're not superstitious, as all sort of deals are going on involving the number 13. There's a 13th birthday DOG, and a 13th birthday promo with old clips from the bid-up.tv era (possibly from YouTube).

With this, they appear to have ramped up on the Christmas-themed promos as well.

Who have they got writing the ticker tonight? A 13 month old?

The clips seem to be from the bid tv era - I haven't seen any with the rising price arrow (although I know there were falling price auctions before they changed their name).

Peter Simon made several references to how the price can be no higher than £13. The first product sold (after the Deal of the Day) was a Klaus Cobec watch at £36.

What time are they doing the cake?

Probably near the end of the night. What did happen last time that was so incredible it needed to be mentioned?

Dave - my guess is it'll be done just before 0130. We're following developments live in the chat room.

Lisa Brash has just sent Rezzy Ghadjar home early due to her being unwell, so she will now miss out on the cake. She only had to wait another twenty minutes. Meanwhile, there are amazing scenes on Bid as Peter Simon has sold over 1800 (one thousand, eight hundred) plush dogs. In fact, it is actually 3600+ dogs as you get two of them.

I'm thinking the whole cake presentation may well be a disappointment. It's not as if they can even overrun past 01:30 nowadays as another company has paid for that air time.

As for last time, didn't the cake end up in Peter Simon's face?

An incredibly random post but I was at the European Parliament museum in Brussels the other day and Ashley House who was a presenter during the early years of Price-Drop and before that was a contestant on Fame Academy was the host and narrator of the parliament "experience". Bit of a surprise to see him after all these years, especially in Belgium! I wonder what's he's up to these days.

I see calls to Bid and Price Drop now cost "£1.53 from a BT Landline + network extras" instead of the "£1.53 per call from a BT Landline" that was displayed previously. I expect they were required to make this change by some regulatory body but the new text actually gives less information than the old text did. It doesn't tell you that the charge is per call and I don't think the phrase "network extras" actually means anything, does it?

No it doesn't. The network doesn't charge 'extra', they charge what they like (could be less but normally isn't).

"£1.53 per call from a BT line, other networks may charge more" would be more helpful

Phonelines have been down for around an hour now, and not sure why but they aren't throwing to JCM Direct so it's all ad-libbing.

The websites don't seem to be loading either.