Spinoza wrote: ↑4 months ago
Tony is all warm and friendly and polite while dealing with Jessica tonight after being a pr*ck to Michele yesterday.
(I can’t watch for more than a minute before he annoys me more than I can stand!)
Again, does he have a real job? Or is SLC how he really makes his money? I swear the guy is on SLC several times every day for hours and hours! How is that possible for such a busy big shot?!? Funny, if you do a search for him, the few links that appear are almost all SLC related. Jeez, I can do a search for a peasant like me and get more results than the supposed world-reknown big shot gem expert!
I think much could be said on this topic and expanding into the smoke and mirrors of LC in general. This could also pertain to the post on the forum here about who “Modani” really is, and the credibility/value of those pieces. Remember that many of the lines sold across the different areas/departments are owned or have an exclusive deal somewhere in the pipeline that ultimately make it controlled by LC… Tamsy, Homesmart, Bali Legacy, David Pollack, and even one could argue Opatra as well. Tony’s prowess as a Gem Hunter is obviously a part of this build up of exclusivity as a sales tactic that LC tries to imprint on us as the customer to think his finds are so exclusive that they could only be sold via a shopping channel that half of America’s cable providers do not carry, and those that do have it hidden somewhere in the 1000s section of their channels (like mine does), making it almost impossible to find.
Furthermore about Tony and the personalities that appear on LC, I think it should also be remembered that so many of the LC personalities (including Tony) have only existed in the home shopping space on stations that were always very small and/or eventually went out of business. I believe Dan Dennis, Karen Connelly, Hannah and Deanna are the only LC hosts to have worked at the “big” networks of QVC and HSN. Nikki as well, but I am not sure if she is still at LC at all now that she is appearing as a brand representative on QVC the last I heard. Anyway… I think we all agree that HQ, JTV, as well as smaller networks that have since gone out of business and previously employed many of the current LC crop (Katie, Craig, Cheryl, Kim, Chuck, Matt, Sean W, Steve C) are a lower tier of shopping experience and yet the aforementioned are all the cast-offs who landed here for whatever reason. You also have others who I am not sure of their background but based on their own comments on-air or reading their bio on the website, so their credibility is a little varied. Still, I find myself liking the homegrown talent like Heather and Becky more than the K+C’s of the bunch.I have sort of skewed away from my original point, sorry about that, but when thinking about Tony and his presence on LC, he seems to check all the boxes of what makes being a customer or viewer of LC not a pleasant experience. And sorry for Michele to having to be dismissed by working with him. She is not one of my favorites but I do feel bad for her and any female host who gets totally belittled by their interrupting male co-host (Marva with Steve, Hannah with Matt, Heather with Chuck, etc). LC obviously must be run similarly behind the scenes because it’s very apparent they don’t see a problem with the actions of the male hosts.
(I can’t watch for more than a minute before he annoys me more than I can stand!)
What kind of stone is it?