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Bid and Price Drop are off air (April 2014)

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DA
David
Sally Jacks posted:
Absolutely devastated. You will have all heard the news I am sure by now. What an amazing place to work, with fantastic friends and the best fun ever. I will miss it more than you can ever imagine and also everyone that watched and kept me entertained on social media. Keep in touch. Just gutted, more than words can say. Xxxx







JB
JasonB
Anything happening on the channels now or are they still playing looped music?
WP
WillPS
As expected, the infomercials have not appeared.
TA
Tao
Quick note to those after the music from my earlier post; the URL has changed to http://derp.dazusu.com - as the link was posted on another forum filled with vile trolls; I'll be taking it down tonight around 8pm - the bandwidth its consumed has been more than expected!

Edit: http://derp.dazusu.com
Last edited by Tao on 18 April 2014 3:56pm
JA
JAS84
WillPS posted:
AJ posted:
robertclark125 posted:
When Shop! closed down years ago, was that Littlewoods who backed it, and just decided to close the business, rather than the firm going bust?


Yeah, that was axed.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a6652/granada-and-littlewoods-axe-shop.html

It was odd that they went through the rigmarole of a lengthy "closing down sale" though, when all their stock was stuff found in the Index catalogue.
Which was axed itself in 2005. Index must've already been failing.
BR
Brekkie
JasonB posted:
What about the sets in the studios? Will they be left standing until a new company moves in to the unit they're in?

Every last screw will probably be sold.
DA
David
Tao posted:
Quick note to those after the music from my earlier post; the URL has changed to http://situp.dazusu.com - as the link was posted on another forum filled with vile trolls; I'll be taking it down tonight around 8pm - the bandwidth its consumed has been more than expected!


Good luck if you get it.
AJ
AJ
According to ShoppingTelly, I apparently had something to do with Sit-Up. This is based on my earlier post where I said they were an abhorrent group of people for revelling in the demise of a business and the loss of 220+ jobs.

LOL Laughing

I've worked at a theme park for 8 years, and now at a mobile services provider. I've never worked in the television industry (although I am trained to do so).

So, if you express any kind of disappointment in the loss of jobs, then you apparently have had your "snout in the sit-up trough." Says it all about that disgusting bunch of people really.

Anyway... the channels did truly lose their way in the last few weeks to the last year. The company used to pride itself on entertaining whilst selling products. In the end we ended up with Bid as an Ideal World clone (and a poor one at that), and Price Drop ended up with a confusing win/lose format where they ended up not selling things to people who actually wanted to buy. It's no wonder they went belly up in the end.

It'll be interesting to see if anyone steps in to mimic the more successful formats in the future. I think there's a gap in the market for a live rising price auction format with quality products and experiences, along with a falling price format too. They're exciting to watch and participate in (that's in my opinion anyway). The key thing is that if you do this sort of format, then you need to be whiter than white with honesty. It'll never work when you're charging extortionate postage prices with a £1.53 premium rate call.
SF
Shane Forster
AJ posted:
According to ShoppingTelly, I apparently had something to do with Sit-Up. This is based on my earlier post where I said they were an abhorrent group of people for revelling in the demise of a business and the loss of 220+ jobs.

LOL Laughing

I've worked at a theme park for 8 years, and now at a mobile services provider. I've never worked in the television industry (although I am trained to do so).

So, if you express any kind of disappointment in the loss of jobs, then you apparently have had your "snout in the sit-up trough." Says it all about that disgusting bunch of people really.

Anyway... the channels did truly lose their way in the last few weeks to the last year. The company used to pride itself on entertaining whilst selling products. In the end we ended up with Bid as an Ideal World clone (and a poor one at that), and Price Drop ended up with a confusing win/lose format where they ended up not selling things to people who actually wanted to buy. It's no wonder they went belly up in the end.

It'll be interesting to see if anyone steps in to mimic the more successful formats in the future. I think there's a gap in the market for a live rising price auction format with quality products and experiences, along with a falling price format too. They're exciting to watch and participate in (that's in my opinion anyway). The key thing is that if you do this sort of format, then you need to be whiter than white with honesty. It'll never work when you're charging extortionate postage prices with a £1.53 premium rate call.


People get bored of buying tat worth £1 for £20. It was truly disgusting. I also hated their "Shop at Bid" format. It was boring and lifeless. I also think that they should have implemented a feature enabling customers to Tweet the presenters live. Their format wasn't modern at all.
TW
tweedledum
Shane Forster posted:
AJ posted:
According to ShoppingTelly, I apparently had something to do with Sit-Up. This is based on my earlier post where I said they were an abhorrent group of people for revelling in the demise of a business and the loss of 220+ jobs.

LOL Laughing

I've worked at a theme park for 8 years, and now at a mobile services provider. I've never worked in the television industry (although I am trained to do so).

So, if you express any kind of disappointment in the loss of jobs, then you apparently have had your "snout in the sit-up trough." Says it all about that disgusting bunch of people really.

Anyway... the channels did truly lose their way in the last few weeks to the last year. The company used to pride itself on entertaining whilst selling products. In the end we ended up with Bid as an Ideal World clone (and a poor one at that), and Price Drop ended up with a confusing win/lose format where they ended up not selling things to people who actually wanted to buy. It's no wonder they went belly up in the end.

It'll be interesting to see if anyone steps in to mimic the more successful formats in the future. I think there's a gap in the market for a live rising price auction format with quality products and experiences, along with a falling price format too. They're exciting to watch and participate in (that's in my opinion anyway). The key thing is that if you do this sort of format, then you need to be whiter than white with honesty. It'll never work when you're charging extortionate postage prices with a £1.53 premium rate call.


People get bored of buying tat worth £1 for £20. It was truly disgusting. I also hated their "Shop at Bid" format. It was boring and lifeless. I also think that they should have implemented a feature enabling customers to Tweet the presenters live. Their format wasn't modern at all.

Viewers/buyers would not have been more likely to buy if the format was modern. At the end of the day, the main aim is to get a profit. Sadly, they failed.
AJ
AJ
tweedledum posted:
Viewers/buyers would not have been more likely to buy if the format was modern. At the end of the day, the main aim is to get a profit. Sadly, they failed.


Exactly. The problem in the end days was the tat that they sold. Worry angels, Primark quality "fashion," garden ornaments. All stuff which you can pick up on the high street or down the local market for a couple of quid.

People are a lot more savvy than they were a decade ago. Why have something delivered to your door for £8 + call charges from them, when you can get it cheaper and delivered for free on ebay or Amazon?

They were much better around 5-6 years ago. A better selection of products, and good quality too. I remember the days when they sold wine by the case, Gucci products and decent household brands like Russell Hobbs etc etc. Hell, even those lapis lazuli gemstone globes they used to flog by the hundreds were better than what they sold in the last couple of years.
BR
Brekkie
It will be interesting to see whether other shopping channels end up following the same path. They might benefit in the short term from a competitors demise but ultimately I suspect it might be similar to music stores where the whole industry just isn't really relevent at the moment and one by one they will go. I can't see why people would sit through hours of a shopping channel to buy something when they can just go online and probably find it cheaper.

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