Price Drop have changed the format a bit for the 20:00 hour which they are calling "£10 Winners Club". They use the old 'Phones Locked' carry on, even though the phones are not locked (as I expect was the case most of the time when they had the 0901 number, it's just now it is free to check). The product falls to £10 instantly which is a guaranteed winning price, if they don't sell them all at £10 they drop the price as normal. However, one of the products (a glass bowl) didn't sell, so instead of continuing to drop the price and make it a 'Better luck next time' they removed the quantity and the price from the screen and declared it a winner despite the website still showing they had 4 left.
Price Drop have changed the format a bit for the 20:00 hour which they are calling "£10 Winners Club". They use the old 'Phones Locked' carry on, even though the phones are not locked (as I expect was the case most of the time when they had the 0901 number, it's just now it is free to check). The product falls to £10 instantly which is a guaranteed winning price, if they don't sell them all at £10 they drop the price as normal. However, one of the products (a glass bowl) didn't sell, so instead of continuing to drop the price and make it a 'Better luck next time' they removed the quantity and the price from the screen and declared it a winner despite the website still showing they had 4 left.
I saw the 'Phones Locked' thing on Monday evening. How many glass bowls were available to start with?
[Shop at] Bid are having a Home and Garden Extravaganza. They are outside somewhere. Not sure if it is just outside the studios or they have gone somewhere special. They are cleaning decking and cars and stuff.
I see that the lower left part of the graphics on [Shop at] Bid, which would normally show the potential saving available, currently has a blue rectangle obscuring it. I also noticed a similar thing this morning so I rewound and saw that the hour had started off with the wrong information in the box...
Obviously paying £79.99 for something that normally costs £99.99 does not save £100. This was 'corrected' by placing a blue box over the graphics... about 20 minutes in to the hour...
While I was writing this post, Peter Simon has said that the graphics currently on screen are incorrect. It shows that some flowers that they are selling for £12.99 have a Bid Normal Price of £99.99. "Just ignore the Bid Normal Price" "We can't change it electronically" and ""It's not our fault, some gremlins have got in to the system". As I said, the bottom graphic was covered when I turned over so I don't know what that said at the top of the hour. It seems the kind of thing they may get in trouble for, making a false claim that they have admitted is false on air and haven't done anything to correct it. It reminds me of when the clocks went forward and they couldn't take phone calls. It took them ages to remove the phone number from the screen.
The graphics must be created before they go to air then. Surely it wouldn't harm someone to check that the pricing and savings are correct before they publish them?
The graphic should say on the images above:
Bid Normal Price: £99.00
£79.99
You Save £20.00
