Speculation on THE QVC MINDSET

[Neighbor]

Hi all, first is there a QVC mindset?  Yes I am positive there is. What is it ? It is about substituting real activity, productive activity that results in satisfaction for  instead the easy viewing of stuff not needed, but wanted for the hype that has nourished the  desire to have it,  something, anything, a  gift for self, and then another and another. 

And then to  return much if not all of it after the party of opening those QVC boxes that come each day. It becomes addictive, got to have a box to open, when will UPS arrive?

Seems to me to be close kin to a theft to order that which one has no intention of keeping and paying for, but that is what I saw daily when I was a landlord. Tenants absolutely  addicted to getting those boxes, and then UPS picking them up again. 

So what of this mindset, how is it individuals (some or many) have come to substitute for being productive and making well reasoned use of the gain from productivity with instead sitting at home alone waiting for the quick fix of opening a cardboard box? 

[NConly]

In part I would say big box stores have a part in this mind set. They move into town have plenty of employees to help customers find products at a lower price, put many Mom and Pop stores out of business, reduce employees now when one goes to big box store they can not find the product or an employee to help find it. So in 1/4 of the time of a trip to the big box store one can buy online most thing and it is delivered.

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, NConly said:

So in 1/4 of the time of a trip to the big box store one can buy online most thing and it is delivered.

Interesting; what I saw was the number of returns UPS seemed to pick up each day at the apartments.

Personally I hate doing online purchases as it seems nearly every time I do  my credit card bill  gets some unauthorized bill too. I recently ordered some car mirrors and then also got a bill for a ride on some Japan rapid transit ride. I ordered  a NRA CD and found two multi thousand dollar tv systems on my bill  from the same physical area as those CD's came from. Grrr.

Guess I have a different mindset,  a "Living Fossil" mindset. Liked it better when I carried  USA gold backs. well silver certificates anyway, and live merchants knew what they were.

Lord help me if I ever actually live long enough to have  purchase some of the stuff  presented as personal clothing items on tv. "Only 99,999 left in,- oh it's the one color you will like least, but hurry hurry hurry." LOL

Why I liked the days of Zodys better.  Their stuff was mostly in purple.  That was just a nasty flashback. Zodys, Ha! "We" have progressed from a Zodys to a QVC. All in a world of indistinguishable differences as the time of the signs clicks on, the big hand on 59 the little hand almost past 11 but not quite.

Counting it all for joyl the good, the bad, and the ugly for there is hope certain in our Lord. He is coming soon, not likely riding in UPS truck though. (Did I say that?) Apologies to the more serious minded this morning.

[NConly]

Well being a landlord you would see more than I because I have lived in houses last forty years. I do not doubt what you saw. It may be people younger than me (1950) do go overboard with returns or are never satisfied with what they get or did not pay enough attention during the purchasing. It could be a mindset if one is brought up in a family of upper middle class or higher. I had/have 6 brother 4 sisters and most of my life there was no internet. People with just a couple kids do seem to spoil them to different degrees.

All this is like you said speculation on my part. In my teens I new kids that had their own car or had 3 or for guitars in their rooms or two different drum sets.  

[farouk]

4 minutes ago, NConly said:

Well being a landlord you would see more than I because I have lived in houses last forty years. I do not doubt what you saw. It may be people younger than me (1950) do go overboard with returns or are never satisfied with what they get or did not pay enough attention during the purchasing. It could be a mindset if one is brought up in a family of upper middle class or higher. I had/have 6 brother 4 sisters and most of my life there was no internet. People with just a couple kids do seem to spoil them to different degrees.

All this is like you said speculation on my part. In my teens I new kids that had their own car or had 3 or for guitars in their rooms or two different drum sets.  

Hi @NConly It's interesting that FedEx has even become a verb: to FedEx a parcel, etc.

[NConly]

4 minutes ago, farouk said:

Hi @NConly It's interesting that FedEx has even become a verb: to FedEx a parcel, etc.

In 1980 I was 30 anyone born in 1980 and after have been brought up in a different world than I was imo. As a kid in the 50's and 60's we lived more like someone in the 30's or 40's did.

[farouk]

7 minutes ago, NConly said:

In 1980 I was 30 anyone born in 1980 and after have been brought up in a different world than I was imo. As a kid in the 50's and 60's we lived more like someone in the 30's or 40's did.

@NConly Well, there wasn't internet ordering and delivery then.

 

[farouk]

44 minutes ago, NConly said:

go overboard with returns or are never satisfied with what they get

@NConly Well, I know ppl who had almost nothing in their youth and they stayed content.............

[ladypeartree]

Perhaps the people doing all the online ordering are lonely ? If the only person you see all day is the person delivering or collecting parcels then that may account for a good many orders being placed 

[farouk]

5 minutes ago, ladypeartree said:

Perhaps the people doing all the online ordering are lonely ? If the only person you see all day is the person delivering or collecting parcels then that may account for a good many orders being placed 

Well, if so, it's an expensive way of having company all so briefly..........