Dragons Den 5th March

A 1500 euro washing line. Christ.

Our man in Havana

Discuss away. I shall watch it later on.

Harpy

can't wait to see the guy in the yellow suit..

Craft25

i reckon that's a total fail, that yoke is too big and clunky to go in the average garden!! & at that price!!

Sure some guy on the english DD invented a simple cover that just clips on to the average wash line & does the same job!! 50 quid!!

I'm sure he might sell a few of them up and down the country but its far too small fry for venture capitalists to go in on!!

Typical Irish!! We'll invest in anything!! Whaddya mean prices can go down as well as up :eek:!!!

Tabnabs

Fair play to washing line man, great money for only a very small slice of company. Wonder if the British dragons would have invested those figures?

jos28

Somebody had words with the presenter. He said entrepreneur properly(well nearly)

JayeL

The host has stopped saying "ontrop-inoor"

That's half the reason I tune in!

hahahaha jesus lads...

Tabnabs

Just tuck the curtain behind the radiator (patent pending) :pac:

JayeL

I dunno, I like it, I'd buy one. Just one, mind.

The Sparrow

The problem with the washing machine dude (and the light in bag guy from last week) is that they are just investing because they like the entrepreneurs even though the products are barmy. Which is not really the point at all.

Plus has anyone else noticed how caked in makeup everyone is?

Sleepy1

That baldy fella is really serious about everything.

Craft25

second plan is 10 times better!!! they shouldn't have shown that on telly before going to a patent lawyer!!

Craft25

Craft25 wrote: »

second plan is 10 times better!!! they shouldn't have shown that on telly before going to a patent lawyer!!

Agreed!
But surely now that the idea has been published on television they have some sort of rights to it?

JayeL

"Hang on, I thought of some funny pun to describe this. It's 'curtains' for you. Lol!!!111"

JayeL

Can't wait for the "Paddy Olympics" guy, I'd say it's yellow suited man!

Wait til ye see....

Craft25

Wowsa!! whats the girl in the shower about??

"what have you always felt was missing whe you get into the shower? Yes here it is folks... your very own naked bird!!"

It's a winner!!

nice arse on yer wan there

JayeL

Interspecies relay FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

Enii

What's he selling!!!!

Utopia Parkway

He's got Bertie's old suit.

Craft25

PLANT!!!!

its like Xfactor, they're hiring actors to make a fool of!!

siobhan.murphy

is this idiot for real?

anyone from Fermoy know him?????

Utopia Parkway

I'm taking a wild guess that no one invests.:D

AKK

He's from North Kerry, as far as I recall from his appearance on ?Late Late Show/Ryan Tubridy methinks, after Ireland won the Elephant polo world cup.

siobhan.murphy

I nearly feel sorry for him now!!:D

Craft25

he should be going to TV production companies - he's a bit timmy mallet

rejkin

guys full of metaphors lol

Phototoxin

Yellow Suit guy seemed like he was some sort of artistic guy doing 'live epression' or something... roflamo!

Bit of a meh show this week tbh.

kerry4sam

I'd say he knew none of the dragons would invest...that he was there for the free advertising and getting his name out there. Think of the people who will now contact his office in Fermoy out of sheer interest now

Axwell

This lad has been on the go ages, he had no interest in investment. He has been on every tv show you can think of, late late, tubridy etc with the same rubbish. Its just media attention, the sad thing is he actually has done those other events he has mentioned, including the first irish sumo wrestler. I think on a show with people trying to bring real ideas to the table and get investment its pathetic they even let this sort of eegit on.

Axwell

Craft25 wrote: »

i reckon that's a total fail, that yoke is too big and clunky to go in the average garden!! & at that price!!

Sure some guy on the english DD invented a simple cover that just clips on to the average wash line & does the same job!! 50 quid!!

I'm sure he might sell a few of them up and down the country but its far too small fry for venture capitalists to go in on!!

Typical Irish!! We'll invest in anything!! Whaddya mean prices can go down as well as up :eek:!!!

50 quid?Try 20 it was called rotomate - his was a clothes line cover that filtered rain water down the middle of a standard spinning clothes line though. So it wasnt exactly the same and didnt have the added value of a piece of furniture, while 1500 is a very high price he has sold 25@ €950 which isnt bad at all without any real marketing. It does allow people to have a clothes line down the end of their garden without having the usual eye sore, i think he will do alright out of it.

Aidric

Dyflin wrote: »

Just tuck the curtain behind the radiator (patent pending) :pac:

That was loltastic.

Craft25

Axwell wrote: »

50 quid?Try 20 it was called rotomate - his was a clothes line cover that filtered rain water down the middle of a standard spinning clothes line though. So it wasnt exactly the same and didnt have the added value of a piece of furniture, while 1500 is a very high price he has sold 25@ €950 which isnt bad at all without any real marketing. It does allow people to have a clothes line down the end of their garden without having the usual eye sore, i think he will do alright out of it.

oh yeah, i agree he'll do alright with it selling a few as garden furniture.. but it's not the type of thing for venture capitalists is it? they should be lookin to multiply that sort of investment a fair few times over, taking a risk on the next big thing.. 5 years ago he'd have done ten times better with it aswell & the bank would have thrown the money at him for it!!

lostexpectation

mr yellow suit is really good at doing these pointless stunts, he's got sponorship before, his only problem was calling the thing the paddygames, it such negative thing, call it the sillyolympics and he nearly have got the money.

they don't do enough ideas pershow it seems, do they do as many as the uk show?

he was selling a gazebo,not a covered washing line, wasn't he?

Axwell

lostexpectation wrote: »

mr yellow suit is really good and doing these pointless stunts, he's got sponorship before, his only problem was calling the thing the paddygames, it such negative thing, call it the sillyolympics and he nearly have got the money.

they don't do enough ideas pershow it seems, do they do as many as the uk show?

he was selling a gazebo,not a covered washing line, wasn't he?

I think calling it the sillyolympics wouldnt have done him any favours either, its hardly a marketable name and id be suprised if he gets 20 entries let alone 250 its a ridiculous idea. His previous sponsorship was for events that alread existed he just took part in them and represented Ireland in them where we wouldnt normally have entered.

They show as many as the UK one they just dont seem to show as many successful or near successful ones. Its like the Irish entries either get their attention or fail miserably and are in the quick segments leaving only 2 or 3 that lasted more than 10 mins in the Den.

He was selling a covered washing line that was dressed up as a gazebo come table to make it look more appealing, as he said himself he cant patent it because of the 3 individual parts (clothesline,table,gazebo).The main idea of it though was to keep clothes dry from the rain and save on using energy to tumble dry your clothes.

dRNk SAnTA

What about "The Fauxlympics". He can have that one for free.

Syferus

I know it's probably been said to death by now, but RTÉ played Dragon's Den perfectly. They translated the show pretty much faithfully and made none of the mis-haps that truthfully do plague alot of their productions.

They deserve serious credit for this, and hopefully it will mean the people involved will get to do simliar things to other properties for RTÉ in the future.

anladmór

didnt really like the episode tonight, but yep very good overall

lostexpectation

Syferus wrote: »

I know it's probably been said to death by now, but RTÉ played Dragon's Den perfectly. They translated the show pretty much faithfully and made none of the mis-haps that truthfully do plague alot of their productions.

They deserve serious credit for this, and hopefully it will mean the people involved will get to do simliar things to other properties for RTÉ in the future.

huh?

niceirishfella

Very poor episode last night - it'd going downhill tbh, the calibre of the products/ideas is no where near the UK version.
If this programme does not improve, it'll be a 1 series show I think.

LordSutch

Syferus wrote: »

I know it's probably been said to death by now, but RTÉ played Dragon's Den perfectly. They translated the show pretty much faithfully and made none of the mis-haps that truthfully do plague alot of their productions.

I noticed in tonights episode that Richard Curran says 'Entrepreneur' correctly (kindof), I presume after last weeks embarrassment, they went back & re-did his segments again.

Syferus wrote: »

They deserve serious credit for this, and hopefully it will mean the people involved will get to do simliar things to other properties for RTÉ in the future.

I do think that the RTE version is a nice show, with nice dragons, nice entrepreneurs, some of whom have nice ideas, with entertaining pitches, (but for many) the RTE version just doesnt have the 'bite' or the flair of the BBC version, which has 'Real Dragons' (no messing about/Ruthless).

P.S. I would be slightly concerned about the guy in the yellow suit.

lostexpectation

the blokes are too nice, and the women is too much of a b, i thought she unnecessarily laughed at the window - curtain people.

cooperguy

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

Agreed!
But surely now that the idea has been published on television they have some sort of rights to it?

I think its the exact opposite actually. I forget where I heard that though so I could be wrong!

NabyLadistheman

I thought yer man in the yellow suit was Jim Carrey Cable Guy Crazy!

niceirishfella

lostexpectation wrote: »

the women is too much of a b, i thought she unnecessarily laughed at the window - curtain people.

would you blame her? It was and is one of the most dumb ass ideas ever.:eek:

Mr E

I don't blame her for laughing. The guys (god bless their efforts) had 2 planks nailed together and attached to a window sill. Seriously. Absolutely positively guaranteed to crease any curtains you put in them.

Their response? Something like "We're targeting people who don't care about creased curtains". Yup.

A clothes peg half way down and an inverted u-shaped piece of cardboard on the floor would achieve the same thing (and wouldn't look as bad.... probably).

Hmmmm.... www.rte.ie/dragonsden ... application form ......

Our man in Havana

I happen to know Eddie the Clothesline guy. I worked with him for many years. Sound chap.

niceirishfella

Bond-007 wrote: »

I happen to know Eddie the Clothesline guy. I worked with him for many years. Sound chap.

Seemed like a nice honest fella, but i would'nt buy his product.............too dear and the swallows would nest in it and sh1te all over me shirts!:D

dartsfan

Can't stand DJ Carey's wife whatever-her-name-is.