She was very nervous. Laura was the perfect vendor to pair her with since she is a former host. I hope that she doesn’t pick up Siao-ming’s constant laughing. At one point, when they were on screen together, it was impossible to understand either of them because of the laugh speaking of both of them at the same time. I wish her the best. She’s got huge shoes to fill. It would be perfect if Callie or Suzanne mentors her.

Especially now that most vendors, particularly long time ones like Jay, Adrienne, Lou Caputo, Ellen Bunner, Lori Leland, Terri Toner, Tom Wise, etc live in FL, have to travel at their own cost to West Chester, which is about 1 hour from Philadelphia, they are going to get them all in one lump of shows. Unless Lou has them show out of Caputo studios, of course. I know that’s why QVC has less variety all the time. Molly and Chas Dean bought homes in the West Chester area but not many others did because NYers like Dr Denese, Isaac Mizrahi, Dennis Basso can easily drive or take the train.

I hear that! And I noticed Nicole was constantly laughing the other day and it was incredibly distracting. When she was with Sam during the DG2 show, she was fine. I wonder if the producers are saying things in their ears. That would be on the producers to not do that, because it really doesn’t help sales, so I doubt they would do that. I eeally like watching Nicole but it was nearly impossible. The boards would be busy because as soon as someone posts something the least bit not positive, one of the first cliche comments come back as either “still you watch” or “I’d like to see you do their job”. Guess what? I don’t want to do the job. I buy from these people. I don’t want my salesperson to keep fakish laughing (or even real laughing) constantly while they are describing something to me to buy. If it were in person, I would turn and leave. If it’s on tv, I change the channel. But these cliche responses are ALWAYS on my bingo card, so there is that!

If you want to make excuses for her, that’s up to you. Don’t use the “she’s going through a change”. She just did, a few years ago, when she moved from ShopHQ in MN to HSN in FL. She was like that in MN too. Unprepared, mugging for the camera, talking over the vendor, exaggerating untruths when it helped her sales…she learned all those bad gaits from ShopHQ and Evine.

And her husband moved up with her. She just came back from a vacation with her family who has lived in CO for years.

Most brand new buyers are not going to come to this board – at least right away. Some will, but most will not.

YES, THOUSANDS of buyers. Not just for the ONE product, but if they are turned off of ONE product, chances are that they will not buy anything else from the brand. Their one chance to make a new customer can be made or broken by a bad first look. That number was the amount of new orders made during one visit.