On no, please don't tell me you're offended by that as well???

Eek - maybe you are a northern ex car sales person, who wears too much fake tan, wears skirts too tight for your derrier, with a large bossom sat at home knitting watching QVC (or other channel) whilst your labrador looks on at you quizzically?

Sorry that's not a dig at you, just trying to be funny (note to myself don't try to be what I am obviously not)

You got three of those right. I won't say which ones though.

That seems to be a theme in the way he regards female candidates on the show.

Impulse buy, you've been looking for something for awhile and it is easy to buy off the TV I guess, but I don't think individuals buy it in big quantities, it is the quantity of individuals that buy that is reflected in sales.

I'm sure most of these TV sales rely on websites etc which list items so people will watch when there is something they want like looking in an Argos book. If they don't have a website then I don't know how it would work out.

I don't that that is the reason.

Quite a few of those on the present and previous shows and it has never stopped them from progressing.

When you are as old as Sir Alan and me Naomi at 25 is indeed a "young girl".

I'm going to run the risk of sounding like Katie here , but . . . the people who watch these tv sales shows are the same people who watch BB every day (and possibly all day). They are people who have no life to speak of, they just get hooked on inane nonsense to fill their day.

Should I be fluttering my eyelids and cocking my head to one side in a flirty manner right now?? (even though I am a bloke!!)

Can I ask why you assume to buy something from the TV you have to be watching it for ages? You can just flicker through the channels and spot something you want and impulse buy. I remember not having a clue about what to buy my two younger brothers for Christmas as the large age gap made me clueless. Going through the channels I spotted two radio controlled cars listened for five minutes and bought them. Not watched it since as there has been no need to.

Imagine the odds of that happening for you and then imagine the tv producers building a business case based on those odds. It wouldn't stack up. Your experience is a one off, a minority event. The success of the tv programme depends not on you and others like you, but on those people that Katie identified. People who watch it avidly and basically buy crap. Probably the same people who get hooked on buying off ebay.

I very much doubt it is a one off event as when I bought said cars I wasn't the only 'new user' listed on the screen, in fact there were at least half that were new users if not more. There will always be a percentage of people who get addicted to things, but to make assumptions like Katie has done is pretty ignorant. That stereotype wouldn't have enough hours in the day to watch BB as well.

I just searched for the channel I bought off and they do indeed list items and when they will be sold, as well as appearing in searches, so nobody has to watch hours on end to find something they like. They simply search it and know the time or chance upon the website when they are searching for a particular item. Some of the sales SAS reported should be a normal level will actually come from people online that haven't actually even switched their TV on. (If they were mainly reliant on people spending hours watching the tv they would have little need for such a developed website)

Sorry to spoil the stereotype.

Oh dear, oh dear.

what?

Exactly what I was thinking. I recall Miriam was a real contender in the first series, performed the best out of her team on the selling task but because her face didnt fit SAS just invented a reason to get shot of her and keep Paul and Tim in.

Although Naomi hasnt been the strongest contender in the series so far she was the strongest in her team last night, Simon failed on EVERY level, terrible salesman, zero direction to his team, just came across as a total buffoon but because for whatever reason SAS favours him all his failures were put down to lack of support from his team!!!

Teflon man sails through to the semi, hope those interviewers make mincemeat of clown boy and snake woman.

I watched the first four or five episodes but havent had time to watch the rest, however i know who has been fired. However i cannot remember who miriam was!

is that a nickname for a contestant, or have i completly forgot someone?

Miriam was a contestant from Series 1 who controversially got fired after a very good performance in the Live TV selling task.

Why did Nick not say anything about Simon in the board room? He was completely horrified watching him in action. He should have been fired like a human cannonball!

Nick wanted to say something but unfortunately had been struck temporarily dumb by witnessing such ineptitude at close quarters. I believe he was unable to even make hand signals for several days.

What a fix! What a leading question to ask! They have stated that SAS's firings are often re-filmed and this was obviously one of those occasions. He offered Simon a very leading question..."do you think you were let down in the product selection?"...em who isn't going to say yes, when they are facing the fear of being fired?! It is obvious that Simon was primed for the response that we saw on the tv. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have at least a couple of attempt to perfect his response either. I thought the result was shocking and if I had been Naomi I would have clumped SAS! :O(

You have concerns about Lohit getting pregnant?

Problem is, there are two parts to the equation of 'making money' here: product selection, and selling the products.

Naomi (more so that Tre) sold the products. She sold two wheelchairs, when no one believed that it could be done. £400 worth of the total amount made by the team. Simon sold a small amount of decoupage pads - I can't remember how much, but it was around £50-60 (wasn't it? ). Simon sold no trampolines. The rest of the £900+ must have come from sales of the depilator. Sold by Naomi. With apparently very little help/direction/producing from Simon.

Naomi sold effectively on TV. She wasn't 'TV presenting. She was 'selling'.

Which, I thought, was one of the skills Sir Alan was looking for.

I also feel that it's unfair to criticise Naomi's product choices, given that they were 'sold' so badly by Simon. How can you be sure that the problmes lies with the 'product' rather than with the 'selling'?

None of this was covered in 'the boardroom', as seen on TV. Was Naomi not given the chance to make points along those lines? Or was she given the chance, but missed them? (The editing of the boardroom scene looked, IMO, as if they hadn't given her the chance).

I certainly feel Naomi didn't go because she was the worst of the three. I feel Naomi went for the same reason Miriam went in S1. Sir Alan did not want to let go of the boys as yet.

SAS has clearly chosen his winner already..Simon. He's let him off the hook on too many occasions .. he probably has more in common with Simon than he's letting on...despite the Oxbridge education...it'll all come out in the wash.

Hang on a minute... it was Simon's first time in the boardroom, so SAS has only 'let him off the hook' once. All the other weeks, he has either been on the winning team, or not taken into the boardroom by the TC. And the only time that has not been justified was with Tre on the selling to trade task.

The boardroom was heavily edited this week, not much was shown being said from Naomi and instead we get filler material in SAS sending them out then back in again.

Last time, SAS admitted he made a mistake with Miriam, maybe he will do the same here....

That's it exactly.