Most people, even if they won’t admit it, have at some point in life allowed their television remotes to take them to the darker side of the TV guide, the higher numbers, where channels such as QVC, Price Crash and The Jewellery Channel try to get you to embrace teleshopping bidding wars. The onscreen salespeople do their utmost to tempt those fed up with Coronation Street omnibuses and CSI repeats to buy a whole variety of products from interactive pommel horses, talking scales through to giant car sponges.
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