TV and Catalogue Shopping
Have you ever been strapped for cash at the end of the month, waiting for pay day to come around the corner? Wouldn’t it be great if you could buy now and pay later? If this sounds like you then you need to check out catalogue shopping. Catalogue shopping allows you to purchase items then pay for them in instalments at a later date.
When it comes to shopping catalogues, as the customer, you get the widest range of choice. Where shops can only offer the current stock that they are holding, the shopping catalogue can offer you the full range of stock with all the options, such as colour and sizes.
There is a wide range of catalogues available, with some specialising. Catalogues such as Simply Be offer a range for a high street fashion clothing for plus sized women. If you are looking to purchase from a certain niche in the retail market catalogues can offer a wider range than the overage high street store.
Other brands of catalogue offer a wider range of products, for example the Next Directory. Next offer clothing for all the family, as well as home and electrical products.
Which catalogue you use is down to personal choice, and with so many on the market there is a catalogue out there for everyone.
TV shopping works in very similar way to catalogue shopping. The payment options are similar in that you can either buy now and pay later or pay at the time of purchase.
TV shopping channels have been around since 1982, when they were first launched in the United States, with the Home Shopping Network (HSN). Since then channels have developed and are now common place in countries all over the work.
These channels sell anything from health and fitness equipment to collectables and fashion, all at prices cheaper than the high street.
QVC is one of the industry leaders in television shopping with UK sales at £359.7 million in 2008. The channel is broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with live programming from 9am – 2am. The channel also boasts to reaching 22.8 million homes in the UK alone.
The great thing about TV shopping is that you can get a bargain in your own home, in your own time.
