On air and show suggestions

Please stop the long presentations……….OVERKILL makes me turn HSN off!

Since you haven’t realized Joy Mangano is not an asset but a liability, just keep her behind the scenes. I refuse to watch any show or buy anything that has to do with her.

I want to see Todd English alone.

Perhaps your on air demonstrations could be truthful. I just purchased a computer that was supposed to be user ready when I received it; however, one important part was missing…the adapter to connect the internal TV tuner to a coaxial cable. I can’t even get an answer on what part is needed without PAYING Gateway for that information. Bummer!!!!

Show hosts should know the product they are presenting!! Tamara didn’t know her TS!! The larger bottles were au du Perfume; the smaller bottles were PERFUME!!!! NOT little bottles for the purse! Marilyn must have just died on that presentation!!!! Terrible!!!!

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Suggestion for Joy Mangano when selling/presenting huggable hangers. I just ordered a gift set to give my girlfriend. She is having her bedroom/bath remodeled and is most excited about her new walk-in closet. I think it will make a perfect gift for her for that occasion: bedroom makeover. (Also, if she had left her older home as is, she would have needed them to makeover her old closet — which had no space.)

PLEASE tell your hosts that we are NOT STUPID and not telling the FULL price of an item only stops us from buying and watching. It started with Shannon and now most of your hosts are unable to give the full price. They say things like “it’s ONLY 29.00” when in fact the price is 89.00!!! That’s why I do not listen to most of your hosts. I plan to contact the BBB to see if this is legal. Thank you

You have a wonderful legal dept. – that is obvious. However, I have learned the hard way many times, that what the hosts DO say about a product doesn’t tell the whole story. What they DO NOT say is sometimes more important. Do you think people will just not bother to send something back when they find out the COMPLETE description upon reading instructions, etc. Lying by omission is still concealing info. You can do better than that.

Do not have plus size models. I know this is the politically correct thing right now, but they do not represent real people and frankly the clothing doesn’t look that great on them. Do not support the fastest rising health crisis in the U.S. today – obesity. Thank you.

By having such great close-ups, adversely jewelry is very mis-represented. Stones appear “bigger” than they really are. Its like you can’t see the forrest for the trees. Then you are disappointed when getting a piece and the stones, etc. are so tiny. Thank you.

I have been watching your TS all day 12/1/09 by Lanc%u00f4me and was totally disappointed by the way you all catered to white women only. I noticed you spent hours and hours showing how the product would work on and look on white women only, with only a few mere mentions of how women of other ethnicity would look with the product, and I found that to be very discriminative. You have MANY women of color that shops with you all, for gosh sake, the first lady of the United States is a woman of color, should any of that matter to you all? THAT IS TOTALLY DISRESPECTFUL TO WOMEN OF COLOR, and I think I should share my feeling with my friends and family.
Signed,
Deeping Disgusted Shopper

I think the emphasis should be on the products and not on the hosts as television actors/performers. The vendors know a lot about their products, so the hosts should let them speak and not talk over them.

Some items run small and some run large, in spite of the Garment Measurements Chart, and we really need the hosts and vendors to give us size information. I have been annoyed many times by the absence of important information during the presentations. Example: Both Iman and Callie were wearing Iman’s foldable flats during the presentation. They HAD to know these shoes run small!! But, neither one of them said one word about it. Luckily, some reviewers said size up 1/2 size and others said size up 1 size, but, really, the vendor and/or host should TELL US. Another example: Diane Gilman had a cowl-neck sweater as a price-buster for $39-something. The Garment Measurements Chart gave measurements in size large that looked too big in the hips, but I figured I’d watch the video and get some specific size information. Diane Gilman can talk and talk like nobody’s business, but neither she nor the host said one word about sizing. The host Amy did say (and demonstrate) the stretchiness of the fabric, but no information about whether to order your usual size, order smaller, or order larger. Result: I didn’t buy it because I didn’t have enough size information.

Suggestions: (1) When you’re showing the item on the hanger, TELL US what size that one is. I am tired of straining my eyes to try to see the size tag (which I end up not being able to read) so I can guess how small or large it runs. (2) Ask the models on air, and let them respond to the host who will then repeat it for us: Is the item running small or large? Is she wearing her regular size. If not, what size is she wearing?

PLEASE take more time showing the INSIDE of the purses. We can already see all the hardware and the outside. I want to know if it is going to be functional for me before purchasing it. When I go to a store the first thing I do is OPEN the purse before even considering purchasing it. Thank you

Tell the hosts not to wait too long to show the inside of handbags, luggages. For example, whe Helen was with Falchi, she keeps on forgetting to show the inside and even go over the colors. She just talks too much nonsense most of the time. TV shoppers just want to shop and not listen to “trying-hard to be funny” hosts. Take out the nonsense and too much ‘showbiz’ in presentations.

Thanks for listening!
Most important thing that HSN could do is to not allow hosts to exaggerate or sometimes downright lie about the products.
Treat your viewers with respect by giving better information, like measuring things, showing it from all possible angles, I do not need to see the presenter as much as the product, sometimes they talk and chat am=nd joke , mean while I would prefer to be seeing the item and close-ups, also camera men sometimes seem not to be paying attention to what the presenters are saying during the presentation.
Above all tell it like it is not with all the added not so true stuff.