Re: UKNM: Quixell - QVC on the Net?

[Sam Michel]

At 11:28 30/10/98 +0100, Peter Beech wrote:

>Little to do with marketing, but funny.

>

>Quixell's diversification holds no bounds - they're becoming the Home

>Shopping Channel of the Net, which I guess might be informative about the

>UK Net audience. Check out these offers :


[fantastic QVC-style offer snipped...]


>I wonder - Will Lee be wearing the 'Crossover Horses Head' knuckleduster?

>or, wild man Stefan be seen sporting the 'Scenic Frieze'? ...

>

>Steve has been frantically bidding for the 'breadmaker' but lost out at the

>eleventh hour.


The only thing Quixell is missing is an old-fashioned wooden ruler to measure all this stuff with, QVC style, that would just about top everything off.


>What are you people bidding for in the Quixell auction mania - please no

>serious responses about PCs and peripherals, I get what auctions are about,

>but there seems to be a wider phenomenon at work here - more akin to buying

>crap that you don't want in the sales just because you can.

>

>I saw last week that a printer was going for more than you can get it for

>on the high street - is it bidding fever?


I've certainly felt the call, it can get pretty addictive, too. I suppose it's all part of the online shopping 'experience', maybe it's a case of an auction providing some of the interactivity which you miss by not going into a shop.



Toodle Pip


Sam

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