Was quite cringey seeing Natalie when Kurt spoke on the phione asking for eye candy to be sent over, although I think she's a very strong woman and quite liked her.

They got ~£3000 on the bikes and the other thing

Amen.


Surprised to see that in the beginning, Neil looked to have no chest hair?

Thought Kurt came across much better on You're Fired then he did most of the time on the show. Always had that sombre, wounded look going on.

Neil and Kurt... If I ever could. Hmm.

Cringeworthy at times and a bit too predictable in terms of the final result. A pretty average episode, overall.

Thought Sugar was fully justified in firing both Kurt and Natalie, not just for their (lack of) performance on this task but earlier ones too.

Kurt had shown himself to be too prone to errors of judgement (couldn't see the big picture on the farm shop task, inches/centimeres in Dubai) and Natalie has shown very little positive throughout other than an annoying tendency to blame everyone for everything and claim that she knew all the errors her team made with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight.

My usual thoughts in my weekly recap. Carry on Camping, people:

http://slouchingtowardstv.com/2013/0...ouble-trouble/

We saw Luisa sell one bike and one kids' kit, and nothing from Jordan or Francesca (although obviously other sales were made off-camera).

Bike plus kits sold £3,116.

Jason sold one camper (we saw Sugar congratulate him in the boardroom on his "sale" (not "sales")), so Neil presumably sold two - totalling £30,499.

Grand total for Evolve £33,615.

I wonder how much discount they gave when they sold them, must have been a considerable amount.

Neil was horrible!. Hope he gets fired soon! .. and he needs to shave his neck!

I forget what the exact retail price was, but I think it was around £11k.

Looking back at my notes (which I take for my blog) Jason made his sale for £10k. We saw Neil make one at the end for £10.5k. Total trailer sales were £30,499, so the third sale (it;s implied it was made by Neil) must have been about £10k too. So it looks like they offered discounts of between £500 and £1000 - I'm assuming they agreed with the vendor up front that they could go as far as X on discounts, presumably £1000.

Thank you.

No problem, The sales figures should be accurate - the permitted level of discount is speculation, but I doubt they would have been permitted much more than that.

He was PM of a team that won by £33,000.

Interesting to read the comments in the last few posts about discounting; although Leah has been attacked for asking about discounting, it's clear the other team must have raised this too. I guess they did it more tactfully though.

Kurt was the right one to go. Not only did he select the wrong caravan, not only was he a poor salesman, but he chose to be on the sales team for the high-price item for his own glory, not because he thought he was the right man for the role.

The last 2-3 episodes sans the boardroom scenes have been really boring

NID firings this week.

I really like this weeks episode Well, except Kurt being fired. And Natalie. i didn't really like Natalie, but I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, although it was obvious that Lord Sugar wasn't a fan so she would never of won anyway.

Next weeks episode looks to be amazing.

Alex still hasn't been a PM. He should be doing it next week I reckon?

Neither has Jason, I don't think? Lord Sugar seemed a bit annoyed that Alex wasn't PM this week. I think next week Sugar will make Jason and Alex be the PMs - preferably with team Jason winning and Alex going home.

Jason was the winning PM in week 1. Having unsuccessfully tried to step forward as PM this week, I'm sure Sugar will step in sooner rather than later to force the issue. But credit to him for not ducking and hiding and at least trying to put himself forward.

They did market research of observing who was driving caravans on their way to Birmingham, not entirely scientific.

Nearly.

As long as it's only lookalike or you'd end up getting fired if you got him!

You kidding? This episode and Dubai I thought were brilliant. I didn't like last week as much but that had more to do with candidates failing than anything else.

Everyone saying 'naughty Nick', but that's what he's there for.
Do you think he's just some facially athletic watcher?
He's there to observe and report.

To be fair, that was probably all they were allowed to do, and they would have confirmed it in their wander around the show itself once they'd arrived in Birmingham. As it was, their unscientific research was right - they just chose to ignore it when in came to actually selecting the product.

Oh dear, I am very suspicious as to why Sugardaddy called Jason back in to praise him; yes, he sold one, but Neil sold two, so why is Jason being singled out for his single sale? Is it 'you're so f***ing useless, I'm amazed you managed to do anything good' or 'I'm doing this to help justify my decision to hire you at the end, despite the fact you're sh!t, because you have a great business plan'?

I thought Neil and Luisa did very well on that task, altho Luisa managed to blot her copy book yet again, by answering Sugardaddy's question to Neil. Not sure why Leah was given credit for almost closing a sale, unless she made a sale and credit fell through, but then why would they not say that, as that's much more impressive?

No idea why the eye candy comment caused such furore, sex sells. I remember a US Apprentice where the all female team dressed up in short shorts and took guys on bike trips, basically inviting them to stare at their bums for half an hour. Thankfully their team lost. Not sure about caravan shows, but exhibitions I've been at for the building trade have featured scantily clad 'demonstration girls'.

Still seem a weak bunch of candidates, Myles should have shone on this task, and didn't, Alex does nothing but whinge and moan, Leah and Luisa's interpersonal skills are non-existent, Jordan comes across as very obnoxious for some reason I can't put my finger on, the lap dancer is generally invisible and should have gone last week, and Jason is a bumbling incompetent. Neil would have looked average on previous seasons, but the one eyed man is king in this wasteland.