Turbohot

Not watching tonight. In last week's episode, girls seemed to be more dunderhead-ish than the boys this time.

Myles

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Hasn't the nice northern lady got a lovely voice......come to mention it so has the cockerneey!

jonc

How brain dead, 1 million units of a **** product! Their team were particularly sh!te on this task! Sooo close to 2 being fired!!

Turbohot

Actually, the boys were brighter only by an mm margin. Remember their bags with smudged printing all over? Bleddy amateurs. Very embarrassing refund ever in the history of retail it was.


Anyway, over to you watchers for tonight's booting tale.

JTaylor

That was terrible.

P1Fanatic

Aggro wench was always going to get the boot. Lucky that numnuts with the numbers didnt follow her. Just tell them the cost per unit and the RRP and they can calculate the margin themselves.

davegtt

Is it me or are the candidates complete retards? I mean, if I was going on that program, you know there will be an early doors invent something, why has non of them planned out these tasks in advance rather than turn up and rely on other because I bet thats what they actually have done in the past rather than all these success stories we hear from them.

If theyre that successful wtf are they applying for a 100k a year job with Sugar or now a 250k investment. If your idea is that good you dont need to be on a ****e tv program to make it in life.

Cant help but think anybody with no business experience but lots of life experience and common sense would walk through that program blind folded.

Lisawrx

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I agree. I don't understand how they struggled so much with the figures, and I am sh*t with that sort of thing. Give a price and RRP, offer a discount on larger orders (as the aim of the task is to get the largest orders possible) so long as the discounted price is still higher than their production costs. It's not rocket science.

All that said, regardless of how badly they pitched and did their costings, their product was sh*t and was therefore destined for failure, imo.

P1Fanatic

Lol yep your right – I said to the mrs it doesn’t even cover the length of the bath. In the demo it didn’t look like it even stayed in place, water still got on the floor and the comment about kids using the pens to draw all over the bathtub, tiles etc was spot on. That said Amazon did order 7,500 so if their costings had been better they might have got a bit more. The tap cosy idea was far better.

PM on the boys side was useless. Stopping the inventor who had the most passion for the product from speaking in the pitches. How stupid is that. And then at the meal at the Ivy banging on about how good he was. Muppet

jonc

Yes, but at least the PM on the boys side stood his ground. That dude that came up with the washing up gloves idea, lied about the "market research" for those gloves and really tried to push for his idea instead; said the PM was crap etc, then when they won the task was all congratulatory and back patting, the two faced ****. The PM is still a muppet though with his "winning" speech.

P1Fanatic

I thought both the boys products were crap. I don’t think it was just the glove idea chap pushing it and it always hard to tell exactly what happened with the market research as we only see the edited version. They were right that the PM had already decided on the bin before they even went for the market research – that was what annoyed them the most.

Lisawrx

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I'll admit, until the guy at Lakeland had mentioned about kids drawing all over the bath, I hadn't even thought of that myself, so that was another con of that product. I know Amazon placed an order, but to be honest, I was surprised they did. It was just an overpriced piece of floppy plastic that didn't really work as intended. I too, think the tap cosy would have been the better product, probably cheaper to produce and therefore the cost price for the retailers would be lower, increasing the chances of getting larger orders. I think it was more practical, and if designed well, it could have been a good little pick up item, if not over-priced, plus it seemed to come out on top in the market research, which the PM ignored. Ignoring market research seems to be a common theme in The Apprentice.

EddScott

"I think I'd rather just buy a sponge"

Pretty much destroyed that lads super duper marigolds idea.

How utterly stupid was that million unit comment - how the f*ck she can blame someone else (wrong figures or not) is beyond me. Wouldn't you think to check?

Dr Hu

That Jenna (i think) who did the figures is a sour, weasel faced cow who's voice sounds like nails down a blackboard....... she was lucky not to go. in fact they were all lucky

None of the girls i've warmed too!

IMHO

jonc

Yep, the only one that could be considered eye candy went out in the first episode.

urban

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Nope - not just you.
A example from last nights PM - he like a killer whale, all friendly etc until its business time

Stupid cvnt!

EddScott

Katie is quite nice.

The one that went last night wore eye makeup like a tranny.

The irish girl looks like shes sucking a lemon.

Agree figures girl is a bit of a weasel.

Only one that looks like shes making any effort is Karen

GlesgaKiss

I like the Scottish one. She's got a nice accent. But then I'm biased.

Felix.

I am astounded that these have been hand picked from the cream of British business brilliance - and they still strugle with the basics

There will be a buying task, where the muppets will tell the supplier exactly what they have to buy and at what price - is this not like showing your hand to your dealer!!

SwissTony

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Proper 'shouty' TV


As in you spend your time 'shouting; insults at the muppets on the show

sti-04!!

Its all corporate. Is it bad that i like Jenna. I thought she grafted & tried to get a result.

Lee247

I watched it tonight and wish I hadn't bothered. Who is the wimmins with the ghastly, nasal, high pitched voice. She survived, if that help
I don't like Sugar :shudder:

Lee247

Oh and I dislike with a passion, Azhar. He needs a good kick in the groin. Who does he think he is

jonc

So Katie Wright got fired this week, but I have to say in the Apprentice: Your Fired show, she scrubbed up pretty nicely!! That Adam was a complete muppet and I just want to punch that fish faced Stephen in the face!!