I spent many, many hours today watching The Liquidation Channel, where they were having a 24 hour marathon called The Tanzanite Smackdown.
I have never been so entertained in my life.
Extremely poor production values. Seriously… just… seriously.
“Actresses” who seemed to have no script whatsoever, having to ad-lib everything and doing it poorly.
A very large, baritone-yet-mumbly-voiced man named Sharron Becton with an untamed beard who would occasionally come out and lower the price of the jewelry even further than it had already been knocked down. I could really only understand about 60% of whatever he said.
The quantity remaining of each item would sometimes inexplicably jump UP after slowly ticking down. Did a wave of people call in and cancel their orders, or were the graphics guys drunk/high?
The 1.9 million dollar tanzanite gemstone that they knocked down to the low, low price of $149,999.99. With 2.99 shipping and handling of course. Shannon was in on lowering the price of this one, much to all of our pleasure.
The graphic that showed you how much you were saving would sometimes display "You save -1 over regular price!" Then it would tick to something real. But I loved seeing the -1 in savings.
Constantly hearing about how tanzanite is 1000 times rarer than diamond, that it only comes from one mine in the world, etc. GOTTA BUY IT NOW!
When one of the ladies teased us that we were about to see a special guest celebrity… and it turned out to be Shannon Becton! What a riot!!!
At one point, they pulled up the website on the screen, which was showing a slightly delayed broadcast of the live tv show inside a frame, which would then show all of that inside of a frame, etc, etc… and this really caught one of the ladies off guard. “Whoa!.. what a deal we have here for you.” Nice save!
When one of the hostesses shifted her eyes around and said, “Shannon has left the studio, so I’m gonna go ahead and do something here…” and after a bunch of buildup, she added another piece of jewelry to a 4 piece set. It was SO dramatic, I almost peed my pants.
No, I am not drunk or high. Although I can only imagine how funny this would have been if I WERE drunk or high.
I’m not sure what’s worse: You spending hours watching the Tanzanite sale on the liquidation channel, or me taking time out of my precious Sunday morning to read about it.
I have seen the channel and it is like a train wreck that I just can’t look away from.
What gets me is that they will show a piece of jewelry that has badly cut gemstones, dirty gemstones or visibly flawed gemstones and present it as “beautiful jewelry”. You would think they would present the best pieces on air and if these are their best pieces, I feel very badly for their customers.
They had pearls on one night and the quality was awful. I’m all for getting a good price, but it’s not a good deal if the quality is crap.
Yeah I didn’t even feel like mentioning the terrible quality of the stuff. I think that goes without saying on something like “the liquidation channel”
It IS a trainwreck that you just can’t look away from…
I also love how they always have the tags on everything that they are showing, even modeling. Sometimes the models try to hide the tag and it’s so funny.
Seriously people, check out their website for a laugh sometime. You won’t regret it.
About that “tanzanite is extremely rare” BS…they’ve been pushing that line for years. I’ll bet that the tanzanite mines are chock full of the stuff-like the DeBeers propaganda.
I remember back in college (must have been 2007 or so) that they were claiming that the tanzanite mine (the only one in the world) was going to be closing up soon, or had been closed up, so all the tanzanite in the world that was going to be for sale was already mined up. And you needed to buy it today because the price was going to skyrocket! :rolleyes:
Is this one of those drinking games where the winner is the last one to die of alcohol poisoning? Because I usually love those, but I’ve filled up all my usual body disposal areas.
I spent a few minutes watching a similar channel in the UK a few weeks back. Fascinating stuff. I wondered about the counter showing the number of items left. I’m torn between whether to believe it bears any resemblance to reality, or is a total fabrication. The wonders of human silliness combined with the mass audience of TV make me think it is just conceivably real. On the other hand it all just seems too glib and I think it more likely that the numbers are total BS. They are just trying to get suckers to think others are buying the stuff (to appeal to sheep) and to put time pressure on potential buyers.
I would actually be SHOCKED if those counters weren’t fabricated from whole cloth. I don’t believe them for a second. Except for the one they sold for 150 thousand dollars and only had one of.
See, he was intentionally trying to be funny. Thanks for sharing that!
The liquidation channel on the other hand… well, let’s just say I wouldn’t expect to see Shannon Becton with his own TV show on a major cable or network channel someday.
Hello, and let me introduce myself. I am Kunilou, and I have been a member of this group since 1999. I’d like to address some of your concerns that you outlined in your post.
First, and most importantly, you are posting to a thread that no one has seen in 2 1/2 years. In our little world, this is known as “reviving a zombie.”
Secondly, by reviving this zombie, you have opened yourself to relentless mockery and undisguised contempt. This is particularly true because you are a representative of the Liquidition Channel, and thus will be seen as coming in here to pump your own product, which is considered bad form
And finally, pumping your own product without prior permission is generally considered a violation of this board’s terms of service, for which I have just reported you.
However, I invite you to hang around and see what happens.