QVC's Dubious Dell Deal

According to PCWorld.com, if you just bought one of the much hyped Dell Inspiron Mini 10 notebooks from QVC, you got a "raw deal."

QVC started selling the Mini 10 about a week ago for $559, claiming that the retail value was $688.

However, if you checkout Dell's website, the a Mini 10 with the exact same configuration (1.6GHz Intel Atom processor Z530) plus shipping is only $487--$72 less than the QVC price and a whopping $201 less than what QVC claims is the retail price.

QVC's President and CEO, Mike George (AKA King George) came from Dell and has built up what appears to be a mutually beneficial relationship between the Q and Dell--much to the dismay of loyal viewers tired of being inundated with all the hour-long Dell shows. Why wouldn't he get the best price for his customers?

Was QVC or Dell preying on naïve shoppers?

About Yesterday ...

My office is out of coffee and I'm feeling like a good Monday morning rant is in order.

I just want to state for the record that an entire day of Dell on QVC and Joy Mangano on HSN does not make for a happy home shopping watcher.

It seems as though King George is turning QVC into the Dell infomercial channel. I'm beginning to think that he still really works for Dell and this whole CEO of QVC thing is just a front.




And why on God's green earth is HSN letting Joy Mangano take over the entire channel? Either it's her pushing her huggable products or it's her minions of vendors pushing their products--while she's cracking the whip behind them--practically all the time.

There are limits. We can only take so much. Stop. The. Madness.

Home Shopping Bloopers

Typical man ... but, at least he's honest!