OK...since someone started this one, and I have wanted to do this for a long time, I figured I would go and ask.
What do you think about various networks good, bad or indifferent? Have you even been screwed? Defradued? Had a good experience? A bad experience? A combination thereof?
Face it. A lot of people on here are glued to the tube for some show, and we all know that some are better than others in their own right. Some have a lot more hype than there ought to be, but not always.
I will say this. I love watching GSN, but they are more hit and miss than some might think. I think depending on what it is and what you''re looking for, you might make out better on JTV. I will gladly tell you about the sham we had with a show no longer on the air called Jewelry Vault and how that played out, and I can tell you that on another network (I can''t remember which one exactly) that the merchandise fell apart during shipping. LOL
I will say this about GSN:
Their claims on diamonds are valid. I''ve seen what they say, and what they give you. They do have really good diamonds. On their other stuff, there have been more than one occassion where things end up shrinking considerably as compared to what you thought, and for the money, it''s more like full retail than it is between traditional wholesale and traditional retail or "full list" prices.
I am sick and tired of those tanzanites and mandarins on there. Now he''s starting to make up for it with tourmalines-not that I don''t like them but he is starting to push those a lot lately too.
I hate when Frank gripes about air time, yet he can go on and on and on with something and waste more air time than anyone on there.
There are 2 items in particular that someone I know of bought from there, and the experience was good.
I have also noticed something about their camera. I have to go online and crank my saturation up as their digital camera isn''t putting things out with full saturation. That is why their rubies look purple, and everything else is off. I know what good Pakastani or Burma peridot looks like, and i had to go and adjust the saturation to get their green stones to look right and their rubies to look right. If you watch them on regular TV, you''ll never get your colors to display right from their feed because most sets don''t have an adjustment for saturation. So when they say it''s your tube, it''s not. It''s their camera feed not being saturated enough.
As far as JTV goes, well...I pretty much put my thoughts in another thread on that. I can say that I can identify with what some have said about showing one thing, and then when it comes home, it''s another story. At least they will allow you to return it, and they were a lot worse than they are now actually.
What do you think about various networks good, bad or indifferent? Have you even been screwed? Defradued? Had a good experience? A bad experience? A combination thereof?
Face it. A lot of people on here are glued to the tube for some show, and we all know that some are better than others in their own right. Some have a lot more hype than there ought to be, but not always.
I will say this. I love watching GSN, but they are more hit and miss than some might think. I think depending on what it is and what you''re looking for, you might make out better on JTV. I will gladly tell you about the sham we had with a show no longer on the air called Jewelry Vault and how that played out, and I can tell you that on another network (I can''t remember which one exactly) that the merchandise fell apart during shipping. LOL
I will say this about GSN:
Their claims on diamonds are valid. I''ve seen what they say, and what they give you. They do have really good diamonds. On their other stuff, there have been more than one occassion where things end up shrinking considerably as compared to what you thought, and for the money, it''s more like full retail than it is between traditional wholesale and traditional retail or "full list" prices.
I am sick and tired of those tanzanites and mandarins on there. Now he''s starting to make up for it with tourmalines-not that I don''t like them but he is starting to push those a lot lately too.
I hate when Frank gripes about air time, yet he can go on and on and on with something and waste more air time than anyone on there.
There are 2 items in particular that someone I know of bought from there, and the experience was good.
I have also noticed something about their camera. I have to go online and crank my saturation up as their digital camera isn''t putting things out with full saturation. That is why their rubies look purple, and everything else is off. I know what good Pakastani or Burma peridot looks like, and i had to go and adjust the saturation to get their green stones to look right and their rubies to look right. If you watch them on regular TV, you''ll never get your colors to display right from their feed because most sets don''t have an adjustment for saturation. So when they say it''s your tube, it''s not. It''s their camera feed not being saturated enough.
As far as JTV goes, well...I pretty much put my thoughts in another thread on that. I can say that I can identify with what some have said about showing one thing, and then when it comes home, it''s another story. At least they will allow you to return it, and they were a lot worse than they are now actually.