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Tonight's task was 'all about selling'
So how many, and which, of the apprentices sold nowt ?
I think that should have been made clear Did anyone spot it ? |
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Kurt and Myles sold nothing.
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having "suffered" around those events for years
the biggest sellers are always the most basic boring things. like plates/glases/ sleeping bags Chemical toilets/liquid they really do make a bloody fortune. Motorhomes are also a big seller. Models like the Swift Escape one firm sold 12 in a day at a cost starting from 24,000 upto 34,000 |
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Kurt and Myles sold nothing.
Were there any others, do you know, ( from either team ) who sold nowt ? |
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Reason enough for Miles to have been brought back to the board-room then ?
Were there any others, do you know, ( from either team ) who sold nowt ? |
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This wasn't purely a selling task at all, as Sugar described it. Selling was important, yes, but ultimately this was all about selecting the right products - and in particular the retro camper versus the collapsible trailer. (As it turned out, the accessories were pretty much irrelevant.)
Neil made an objective decision based on the facts - previous rate of sale, suitability for target market. Kurt allowed Alex to sway his decision based on little other than the fact that Alex preferred the camper van. As Sugar pointed out in the boardroom, Neil loved it too - but it didn't stop him from making what turned out to be the right decision. |
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A veteran salesman at these shows said on another forum -- as Nick did in the episode -- that qualification is the key, since only around 20 per cent of visitors are there to buy anything, so that if anyone shows an interest, you sit them down with a cup of tea and then establish their intent before spending a whole hour or more with them.
In the final hour, Leah "almost" sold a campervan, which we take as code for the sale was agreed but the finances fell through (maybe the buyer got cold feet: who knows?) . If she'd been there all day, and sold two or three, they'd have won. |
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Neil made an objective decision based on the facts - previous rate of sale, suitability for target market. Kurt allowed Alex to sway his decision based on little other than the fact that Alex preferred the camper van. As Sugar pointed out in the boardroom, Neil loved it too - but it didn't stop him from making what turned out to be the right decision.
Yes, it was the wrong choice but not by a huge degree, based on vendors' sales to date of 11 @ £11,000 = £121,000 for the folding gadget as against 6 @ £17,000 = £102,000 for the campervan. This is margin of error territory: one more van sale and they are level-pegging. |
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Well, we don't actually know this. I'm sure LS said everyone sold something on Evolve, so I'd imagine he sold at least a couple of units.Yeah, the only two, I think were Kurt and Myles. Myles was very fortunate to escape that boardroom, in my opinion |
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We should be careful not to take Myles's word that it must have been a bad product because he, Myles, is a great salesman.
Yes, it was the wrong choice but not by a huge degree, based on vendors' sales to date of 11 @ £11,000 = £121,000 for the folding gadget as against 6 @ £17,000 = £102,000 for the campervan. This is margin of error territory: one more van sale and they are level-pegging. In fact, this task annoys me slightly because it was clearly always likely to hinge on one or two huge sales - the accessories part was almost irrelevant. That meant that there was quite a high degree of randomness in the task outcome. That's the case in many tasks, true, but this one even more so. |
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Annoyingly, one team had to have the retro one anyway, so even if both had packed the collapsible caravan, one wouldn't have been picked and so would have still ended up with thecretro van
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Annoyingly, one team had to have the retro one anyway, so even if both had packed the collapsible caravan, one wouldn't have been picked and so would have still ended up with thecretro van
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I found it funny that 2 of the products had featured on 'Dragon's Den", the 'Boys Military Box" and the "Roof Box". Those "Boys Boxes" were massively over priced £100 for a bunch of old tat? and I think they only sold 1 maybe 2 as they sold 2 of the "roof boxes".
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I found it funny that 2 of the products had featured on 'Dragon's Den", the 'Boys Military Box" and the "Roof Box". Those "Boys Boxes" were massively over priced £100 for a bunch of old tat? and I think they only sold 1 maybe 2 as they sold 2 of the "roof boxes".
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The roof box was being sold by Endeavour, not Evolve. The kids' box was paired with the electric bike. But, yes, £100 seemed ridiculously overpriced.
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Originally Posted by DamienS;66376064[B
]Annoyingly, one team had to have the retro one anyway,[/b] so even if both had packed the collapsible caravan, one wouldn't have been picked and so would have still ended up with thecretro van
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Annoyingly, one team had to have the retro one anyway, so even if both had packed the collapsible caravan, one wouldn't have been picked and so would have still ended up with thecretro van
Where on earth did you get this information from? There were more than 2 caravans that the teams looked at. Unless you are suggesting that producers demanded that at least one team picked the retro caravan (Which I personally don't believe) |
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Did they? I thought they had free choice of anything there. Didn't Kurt say in the boardroom that he narrowed it down to the retro van and the collapsible caravan?
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I sometimes wonder if candidates regret having lost colleagues in earlier firings. If I'd been in Kurt's shoes, I'd have been praying for Rebecca to come back and sell £17,000-worth of campervan.
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I sometimes wonder if candidates regret having lost colleagues in earlier firings. If I'd been in Kurt's shoes, I'd have been praying for Rebecca to come back and sell £17,000-worth of campervan.
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Ah yes sorry, but even so they still only sold 2 or 3 at the most, as they did sell a bike.
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I sometimes wonder if candidates regret having lost colleagues in earlier firings. If I'd been in Kurt's shoes, I'd have been praying for Rebecca to come back and sell £17,000-worth of campervan.
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One bike was only £949 though, out of £3,116.
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I thought and someone else on another post has just mentioned, that they only sold £1300 worth of product.
Evolve sold £3,116 of electric bikes and those kids' kits (plus £30k-plus of trailers). That was the Luisa, Jordan and Francesca sub-team. I think you're getting teams and products mixed up. Easily done at this stage with Sugar chopping and changing the teams every 5 minutes. Sometimes I wonder if candidates occasionally get into the wrong cars by mistake after an Apprenti-Shuffle! |
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Reason enough for Miles to have been brought back to the board-room then ?
Were there any others, do you know, ( from either team ) who sold nowt ? |
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