Home shopping network pioneer QVC files for bankruptcy protection

Sorry about your loss, but congrats on your inheritance of commemorative plates, knick knacks, and single use kitchen gadgets

Probably why they are filing for bankruptcy, their customer base if slowly dying off and nobody buys their garbage anymore.

I'm sure my mom's passing put a dent into those Quacker Factory sales...

Same. I think my grandma bought the same crappy necklace 10 times. They’re not worth anything, I think my aunt gave them to her daughter to use as jewelry in some play. My grandma would just sit staring at that channel endlessly.

My mom too. Their customer base is dying out. No more shitty steaks for me though. RIP mom. Still don't know what to do with the 20 pairs of shoes. 

Ronco rotisserie. Set it... AND FORGET IT!

LOL my father in law died and Remington firearms filed for bankruptcy less than a month later.

Sorry for your lose, but Andre’s passing probably cut into it more.

You're probably not far from the truth losing a generation to cord cutting is probably what kill them.

Yours too, I thought my grandma was the only one!

Sorry for your loss. My mom's use of their liberal rerun policy probably didn't help either....

Mine too lmao 2025 was a b****

Yes but only if they act in the next five minutes.

How about four easy payments, and one complicated payment. We don't know which one it will be, but one of those payments is gonna be haaaard.

My grandmother lived in a rural area and was too disabled to leave the house often. QVC made her feel like she had friends with her in the living room. It made her life much less lonely. The only purchases she made were when she got gift cards for birthday and Christmas. 

HSN and QVC were predatory - offering credit to people who had no business having it, putting them further and further into debt to get their late-night fix on a shopping addiction. I watched a program once where they went into a woman's house, and she had dozens of unopened QVC boxes - it didn't even matter that she had them in her house, she was just excited to get that dopamine hit from the shopping. I recall looking at the site once or twice, and it seemed like about 90% of their offerings were aimed at lonely older women, like widows, for example, who had a bit of money to spend. So yeah, I don't feel sorry for them, they can go away.

The South Park episode on this is… quite dark, but funny and spot on.

I am not elderly and I buy my makeup brand off their website as it is significantly cheaper on QVC than anywhere else--except the stuff on ebay that I don't know where the hell it has been. Amazon was never that c**** and now has 3rd parties selling the brand on there. If I want to buy makeup out of a garage, I'll do it on ebay. The moisturizer I sometimes use is also cheapest and most reliable on QVC. This actually affects me.

A 30% decline is sizable when most of that revenue is soaked up by the expense of broadcasting on a global basis to local subchannels, cable and streaming platforms. Home shopping is the inverse of religious broadcast television. Where broadcasters like TBN and Daystar can essentially broadcast for free under the guise of the First Amendment, OVC and HSN have to sell their home shopping service to station owners and occupy channel space that would otherwise make more money as a broadcast network affiliate or an independent station syndicating program libraries and selling advertiising. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and I can pick up 8 different variations of HSN, OVC and independent shopping channels. That's entirely too many shopping networks that are hosted on channels that could easily carry more profitable programming

There’s stats about alcohol that show a massive fraction of sales is driven by a small fraction of heavy drinkers. Same with gambling. I wonder if there’s just no way a modest, well-run online store with mass appeal can make up for all the dying old people that were literally addicted to QVC and emptied their entire bank accounts.

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Surprisingly, Ayn Rand is largely to blame for this.

My mom was a 4th grade teacher. She had every holiday sweater they sold. She's been gone for 13 years and we have some still. Not sure why...

Watching the Quacker Factory lady was therapeutic

Imagine being sears and having a network of warehouses, brick and mortar stores, and a catalogue to shop from home. Could have turned that into online shopping.

No but that sounds sick af

My brother had one of these! It sat in a random box flashing for ages after he moved out.

Sounds like something you'd find in North Korea with a loop of Dear Leader's blah blah.

Live sports. The gamboling addicts need to have reliable access to sports.

News and live sports and repeats of crime procedurals.

Same with a friend’s grandma, she had stacks and stacks of unopened qvc orders with a trail in between them to her bed.

My stepmom has bought their stuff from Macy’s website 

Amazon is a crapshoot now, with so many junk products. I ditched Prime and barely look at it anymore except to get a new pack of vacuum bags once in a blue moon.

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