Speculation on THE QVC MINDSET

[NConly]

19 minutes ago, farouk said:

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

We had almost nothing when I grew up. My Mom did not finish school and she was busy raising 11 kids, Dad drove a beer truck days and spent most nights out drinking beer.

[farouk]

2 minutes ago, NConly said:

We had almost nothing when I grew up. My Mom did not finish school and she was busy raising 11 kids, Dad drove a beer truck days and spent most nights out drinking beer.

@NConly On the one hand ppl can remember difficulties; on the other, there was more of a contentment to life also in those days - so ppl have said - that today's more materialist culture does not have............

[Marathoner]

7 hours 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 

I'm reminded of people I once knew before the age of digital spam. Remember those cold-calling telemarketing telephone calls? 

A friend would answer the phone and once the telemarketer started in with their spiel, he would quietly pass the receiver into the hands of his toddler son... it was immensely comical. 

Then, there was the elderly fellow who looked forward to those calls. Why did he look forward to them?

"I enjoy boring them to tears with long-winded stories about the old days. An excellent deterrent!"

Edited August 1, 2024 by Marathoner

[Neighbor]

7 hours ago, farouk said:

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

I don't know if today there are still free returns with the seller paying all the shipping fees both ways, not QVC or the customer. Anyone know? Seems to me it was free returns back when  the tenants were ordering  so many items and then having them picked up again. I always figured the stuff must look better on tv than when it arrives and the customer's excitement turns to buyer's remorse.

Ha, in a sense  I guess I do the same thing when in stores like Lowes or Home Depot to this day. I will load up stuff I need, start toward the check out area and rethink, no I can't buy that after all, I can still make do. I put one item back, then another, and another and... eventually I have nothing n the cart., and leave the store.  

Very much different than buying the Gospel message of Jesus  isn't it? No buyer's remorse there, and one gets a brand new mindset about nearly all things. 

[Neighbor]

38 minutes ago, Marathoner said:

I'm reminded of people I once knew before the age of digital spam. Remember those cold-calling telemarketing telephone calls? 

A friend would answer the phone and once the telemarketer started in with their spiel, he would quietly pass the receiver into the hands of his toddler son... it was immensely comical. 

Then, there was the elderly fellow who looked forward to those calls. Why did he look forward to them?

"I enjoy boring them to tears with long-winded stories about the old days. An excellent deterrent!"

I used to distribute over 90,000 local telephone numbers to  sales personnel, going through them about 4 times a year. It was an absolute numbers game with a predictable numeric result.  60 attempted calls per hour per telephone solicitor.   Sold just over $1,000,000 a year of product  that way  back in the early 1980's.

I tried one of the very earliest of auto dialers to make  what would now be a very primitive A1 phone solicitation device. It was not very successful, in fact it was a flop.

Best way was to distribute the numbers among the sales people with each salesperson having hired their own appointment makers to dial by the hour. A hard job but one that fed many a home bound and often a handicapped individual. 

  I used to take the incoming complaints about sales calls too!

[Marathoner]

2 hours ago, Neighbor said:

I used to distribute over 90,000 local telephone numbers to  sales personnel, going through them about 4 times a year. It was an absolute numbers game with a predictable numeric result.  60 attempted calls per hour per telephone solicitor.   Sold just over $1,000,000 a year of product  that way  back in the early 1980's.

I tried one of the very earliest of auto dialers to make  what would now be a very primitive A1 phone solicitation device. It was not very successful, in fact it was a flop.

Best way was to distribute the numbers among the sales people with each salesperson having hired their own appointment makers to dial by the hour. A hard job but one that fed many a home bound and often a handicapped individual. 

  I used to take the incoming complaints about sales calls too!