Take this weeks challenge for example. Argos placed an order for 2.500 (or something like that) chairs but will they ever be on sale in Argos? Was it a real pitch or do the customers basically all just play along and its like 'ok if this was a real chair and i was spending real money then yes I'd buy one?'

Yes It's all hypothetical.

They are all actors.

I swear I saw one of the Argos buyers as Widow Twankey past Christmas.

given argos have 700 stores its just over 3 per store, but its meant to be a theoretical if we has x what would you buy from us? and its free advertising for the companies

A lot falser than it looks on telly, but a lot more real than its detractors insist on the internet.

what about the small shops? do they have the 100 odd made or get the money back? I want a chable

Sometimes there are real products to sell - the beer task for example was a genuine item.
A few years ago, the ice cream one was real too. However the design task has always been a hypothetical selling situation

It's a TV show which at all points is edited to suit the editorial intent, not false but more a heavily skewed, dramatised truth.

Of course in reality without TV cameras they are not likely to get half the deals they do, more likely to get a "sod off I'm busy"

ive always wondered this, ive not seen anything sold in chain shops that were invented on the apprentice

I have purchased a tangle teaser.

Free advertising?! I always had a perception of Lakeland as a company with good quality, well-designed stuff (not actually bought much there so influenced by their PR is suppose). My perception went right downhill when they agreed to buy the incontinent cafetiere rubbish bin concept. Now I perceive them as gimmick grabbing tat merchants

well yeah i kinda agree