What to do with Kirstie & Phil ?

eamon

To give Sarah Beenie a bit of credit in the early series of her shows she made a point of stating

Do your research
Make a budget and keep to it

Kirsty & Phil on the other hand ....................................................

Cleaver

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Seriously?

These programmes made absolutely no difference to actively encouraging people to buy!?

And there was loads of advice to pay over the asking price, in terms of bidding wars you often saw them in.

Is that the fault of the show, or is the show merely stating what often needed to be done at that point in time in order to purchase a house because of the market conditions?

There are TV shows, adverts, marketing campaigns, articles and a whole host of other things all over the place which are bombarding you with suggestions, products and ideas to part with your cash. It's up to you whether you take them or not.

I would suggest that, sometimes, the advice to bid above the asking price was good advice. In a competitive market it meant that people obtained the product they wanted.

Graham_Devon

Cleaver wrote: »

Is that the fault of the show, or is the show merely stating what often needed to be done at that point in time in order to purchase a house because of the market conditions?

There are TV shows, adverts, marketing campaigns, articles and a whole host of other things all over the place which are bombarding you with suggestions, products and ideas to part with your cash. It's up to you whether you take them or not.

I would suggest that, sometimes, the advice to bid above the asking price was good advice. In a competitive market it meant that people obtained the product they wanted.

I wasn't passing comment.

Merely replying to FTBfun who was making out none of this stuf happened on the show.

neverdespairgirl

OH and I watched a bit of the Christmas programme yesterday, in disbelief. It was one long advert.

doire_2

I wacthed the last five minutes of lastnights show. Phil playing a trumpet to a bunch of muppets. Channel 4 wasn't the best channel to watch but they are scrapping the barrel with this rubbish now

doire_2

ess0two wrote: »

Thats right,seems mainly those who dont own as well who whinge the most.

Oh look its their No.1 fan

dizziblonde

I can't stand Sarah Beenie... I like Kirstie and Phil though!

Kirstie's craft programme is quite unintentionally hillarious - "here try glass blowing for a truly unique budget feature for your lounge"... yeah Kirstie, lemme just get right down to my neighbourhood glassblower and get on that.

I like property programmes though, probably for the same reason lots of people do - it's fun looking at the inside of other people's houses and critiquing their decor. Never sat there and thought "ooh if I copy them I'll make a killing" more "blumming heck who decided intestinal pink was a good colour for a bathroom". Plus it was always funny laughing at the prices when they hit up London and the south-east.... "Jenny needs a 26 bedroom mansion for a country retreat and a city crashpad for a quarter of a million in an up-and-coming (were there ever any "totally on the slide") part of London."

The ones that I DO think give people stupid ideas are Homes under the Hammer - I had to laugh at a local letting agent marketing a place as "as seen on Homes under the Hammer"... I'd seen said episode and know full well the LL was the usual wideboy type who'd painted over a total hovel in magnolia to a really bodge job standard to cram as many fools as he could in at twice the going rental rate.

For the large part though it's a less distruptive and more legitimate way of doing the whole "gawking at other people's houses" thing - and I'd rather people did it on TV programmes than disrupting others' lives with pointless viewings they have no intention of following up on. People are intrinsically nosey blighters and lots of us like seeing what other people's houses are like.

john539

doire wrote: »

I wacthed the last five minutes of lastnights show. Phil playing a trumpet to a bunch of muppets. Channel 4 wasn't the best channel to watch but they are scrapping the barrel with this rubbish now

Almost thinking up programs to keep them employed.

Anyone see the bit where Kirstie says the "party is going with a real swing", as it cuts to some old bimbo blond haired guest as she spends 2 minutes masticating her jaws as she tastes the wine.

Who wants to watch a bunch of old has been farts on Tv ?

doire_2

How come property !!!!!! always featured houses that the average FTB had no hope of buying?

FTBFun

john539 wrote: »

Almost thinking up programs to keep them employed.

Isn't that the point of making most TV programmes? I doubt they do it for the craic.