dragons den season 3

jimmynokia

well this show begins tonight at 9.30 on rte one with a new judge that is meant to be a tough cookie lets see what is in store this time around

Uriel.

Same as previous I'm sure, plenty of "I'm out" or "I'll give €10k" for 50% of your business. The show is a bit of a joke, I just haven't decided if Ireland lacks any decent thinking/ideas or if our "investors" are just the primary school of the investment world... Probably a mix of both tbh

Mr E

Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully the new dragon invests more than Sarah (won't be too hard!)
Moving this to the Reality TV forum....

jimmynokia

cool will i still keep subscription if its moved

JonathanAnon

God they managed to find a bigger b1atch than the last one..

jimmynokia

great start to the show with that deal i have to say and yeah she a tough one alright

Uriel.

Hopefully she'll shake it up a bit this year and actually get them to invest

jimmynokia

yeah that baldy lad always backs out

well at least she actually invested in something. risky investment imo.

Mr E

jimmynokia wrote: »

cool will i still keep subscription if its moved

Yep, it should move with the thread. Good show so far - Norah looks like she is going to be unpredictable (and fun!)

JonathanAnon

JonathanAnon wrote: »

God they managed to find a bigger b1atch than the last one..

I dont agree. and she has put her money where her mouth is immediately.

Not afraid to undercut her fellow dragons either. a plus for me so far. a breath of fresh air unlike her predecessor 'Dr No'

don't see this memories thing taking off. why not just use a carboard box...? takes up a lot of space too.

JonathanAnon

Deleted User wrote: »

she has put her money where her mouth is immediately.

True... but I guess we know now why Sarah Newman wasnt investing .. she'll probably be appearing on the show, looking for investment, this year.. also, I cant stop thinking she's Niamh Kavanagh every time they show her. ..

Uriel.

Shocking idea, especially at that price

STIG83

Id say Norah Casey takes no crap!!

JonathanAnon

JonathanAnon wrote: »

True... but I guess we know now why Sarah Newman wasnt investing .. she'll probably be appearing on the show, looking for investment, this year..

I'd say that she still has plenty of cash left - she and her business partner (not DJ!) got €60 m for their needahotel business. would be shocking if she has managed to invest and lose that much... :eek:

JonathanAnon

JonathanAnon wrote: »

True... but I guess we know now why Sarah Newman wasnt investing .. she'll probably be appearing on the show, looking for investment, this year..

Sarah wont be on the breadline in a hurry don't worry and she got two years of publicity despite having no real intention of investing.

eh i dunno

Liking the oul grow rings but cant see them getting cash.

eh i dunno

eh i dunno wrote: »

Liking the oul grow rings but cant see them getting cash.

Such a cost effective idea in fairness and i think there would be demand for them.

JonathanAnon

glasso wrote: »

would be shocking if she has managed to invest and lose that much... :eek:

that's what I thought... but from the way it was reported, I thought that they were both sunk? The report went along the lines of "DJ Carey and Sarah Newman's company folded with losses of two million euros".. which gave the (possibly false) impression that she was indebted by the company as well..

I tell you though, if yer man had used that "female gardeners generally dont like using DIY tools" with Sarah, she would have immediately declared herself out and sulked for the rest of the show..

rosco p coltrane

Pity the growrings.ie site is down. Not very good, especially when the idea is being broadcast on national tv. Very Poor. Surely this was filmed months ago.

jimmynokia

i heard Sarah had some kind of argument that is why she left

keith16

why are they all asking for 40k? I wonder if they just pull these numbers out of the sky sometimes! And yeah, bad form that the website is down! Even if it was filmed months ago, they must have known the broadcast date in advance!

Gingersnaps

rosco p coltrane wrote: »

Pity the growrings.ie site is down. Not very good, especially when the idea is being broadcast on national tv. Very Poor. Surely this was filmed months ago.

For that reason......I'm Out!

JonathanAnon

I'd say yer one hit the fridge hard when she went home..

Bigcheeze

rosco p coltrane wrote: »

Pity the growrings.ie site is down. Not very good, especially when the idea is being broadcast on national tv. Very Poor. Surely this was filmed months ago.

Have seen that happen before on dragons den. Site gets a load of traffic during the show and falls over. One time it was an ecommerce business they had set up so totally inexcusable for it to go down.

eh i dunno

This Eamonn Coughlans younger brother??

JonathanAnon

JonathanAnon wrote: »

that's what I thought... but from the way it was reported, I thought that they were both sunk? The report went along the lines of "DJ Carey and Sarah Newman's company folded with losses of two million euros".. which gave the (possibly false) impression that she was indebted by the company as well..

I tell you though, if yer man had used that "female gardeners generally dont like using DIY tools" with Sarah, she would have immediately declared herself out and sulked for the rest of the show..

ill never forget the sulking she done when her age wasnt within the target market of one pitch

JonathanAnon

rosco p coltrane wrote: »

Pity the growrings.ie site is down. Not very good, especially when the idea is being broadcast on national tv. Very Poor. Surely this was filmed months ago.

I'd say he will tear the web hoster a new ring in the morning..

JonathanAnon

that growrings website is up now.. maybe it just wasnt able to handle the volume of traffic... ?

Groom!

Just tried Growrings site but it's crashed again.

I think the idea of the treasured memory boxes is good but surely to God she could get them made in Ireland.

Bigcheeze

Groom! wrote: »

Just tried Growrings site but it's crashed again.

I think the idea of the treasured memory boxes is good but surely to God she could get them made in Ireland.

The memory box thing was awful in its execution. It looked like something you'd buy from an undertaker to remember a child who died. I couldn't get comfortable with it.

Birdsong

Thought the Grow Ring was very similar to what the Quick crop guys had on the farming entrapenuer programme about 18months ago, Quick crop was better as far as i remember.

The memory box was awful, too big and too expensive also.

jimmynokia

as one of the dragons pointed out it was a bit morbit
it looked like a small coffin

JonathanAnon

Memory Box: I'm not superstitious, but would a lot of women not feel that getting one of those memory boxes was tempting fate, or just bad karma.. The problem with this product is that it looks like something you would either have for a) somebody who was dead or b) burying in the ground (like a time capsule).. Personally, I think it IS morbid.. Given that it is for somebody who is actually still alive, it should be much brighter, not in the guise of something that you would bury in the ground, and having a name that doesnt have the word "memory" in it (as there is a direct association with memorial cards / death etc etc)...

jimmynokia

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Memory Box: I'm not superstitious, but would a lot of women not feel that getting one of those memory boxes was tempting fate, or just bad karma.. The problem with this product is that it looks like something you would either have for a) somebody who was dead or b) burying in the ground (like a time capsule).. Personally, I think it IS morbid.. Given that it is for somebody who is actually still alive, it should be much brighter, not in the guise of something that you would bury in the ground, and having a name that doesnt have the word "memory" in it (as there is a direct association with memorial cards / death etc etc)...

talk about putting somebody into an early grave :eek:

Feileacain

If you don't mind me saying from a bereaved parent's point of view, we would have given anything to be given a memory box when we lost our daughter's. We eventually got a suitable one that we liked from England. It's a place where we keep all our keepsake's as they form part of our memories with them before we buried them. So good on them for trying to do this here.

Bigcheeze

Feileacain wrote: »

If you don't mind me saying from a bereaved parent's point of view, we would have given anything to be given a memory box when we lost our daughter's. We eventually got a suitable one that we liked from England. It's a place where we keep all our keepsake's as they form part of our memories with them before we buried them. So good on them for trying to do this here.

The problem with their idea is that they weren't trying to make a box for a child who had died but that's what it looked like.

JonathanAnon

Thought that Gavin Duffy was childish and disrespectful to the guy with the remote control voice activation stuff..

nlgbbbblth

true, but the guy came across as a total spoofer.

Norah Casey = amazing.

JonathanAnon

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Norah Casey = amazing.

I wouldnt go that far, but she adds far more to the show than Sarah Newman..

didnt like the smug
"ooooh, how would that look on Shrewsbury Road,.... "*guffaw, guffaw, guffaw*

uncalled for.. they seem to have got more arrogant and aloof despite of the recession.

Birdsong

Love Norah too, she offers some good advice to people & when going out is always nice about it, not like Sarah Newman who was just rude

Mr Magners

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I wouldnt go that far, but she adds far more to the show than Sarah Newman..

didnt like the smug
"ooooh, how would that look on Shrewsbury Road,.... "*guffaw, guffaw, guffaw*

uncalled for.. they seem to have got more arrogant and aloof despite of the recession.

I have to agree with you here.

All of the dragons seem to have gotten carried away with their own importance and there are a lot more snide and mocking comments being used. I have to say Gavin Duffy, particularly has become extremely nasty and I thought the way he dealt with the voice activitation idea was very offensive. Even if there was a certain amount of spoof in the presentation it was so unprofessional the way he declared himself "out".

crisco10

Mr Magners wrote: »

I have to agree with you here.

All of the dragons seem to have gotten carried away with their own importance and there are a lot more snide and mocking comments being used. I have to say Gavin Duffy, particularly has become extremely nasty and I thought the way he dealt with the voice activitation idea was very offensive. Even if there was a certain amount of spoof in the presentation it was so unprofessional the way he declared himself "out".

Hadn't seen any of this series but thought the Dragons came across awfully last night with the voice activation thingy...Arrogant, mean and childish.

STIG83

Norah is alot better than Sarah Im Out Newman.
They guy with the frost protector for the stopcock was crazy to turn down Gavin's offer, why didnt he try and haggle to 30%?

jimmynokia

first two offers are failures No matter who invested

JonathanAnon

Well Jim, I think what is edited for the final show is a VERY subjective view of each of the inventions.. I dont think it's fair that for some of these people, who have invested a lot of time and money in their work, that the one thing that will be remembered of their appearance is some smart-arse quip by one of the dragons ... Gavin Duffy and Sean Gallagher seem to have spent more time preparing one-liners than actually going through the people's business plans...

jimmynokia

fair play to terry with who has it site i know terry myself yeah they seem to like one liners as an exit but they all know this on entering what the attitude is and can be i would of went on myself but choose not to and doing ok maybe next year when i finalise my new idea one thing i will not take is snide remarks we all started from scratch and the dragons can forget that at times that idea for bins was good and bobby was a bit greedy your man was right to decline

Mr Magners

jimmynokia wrote: »

Fair play to Terry who has it right. I know Terry myself. Yeah, they seem to like one liners as an exit but they all know this on entering what the attitude is and can be.

I would have gone on myself but choose not to and I'm doing ok. Maybe next year, when i finalise my new idea. One thing I will not take is snide remarks. We all started from scratch and the dragons can forget that at times. That idea for bins was good and Bobby was a bit greedy.

Your man was right to decline.

FYP to make it more readable.

I agree with you about Bobby, he really pushed it to try and take half the business from Terry, it was a bit much if you ask me.

jimmynokia

LOL was posting from my mobile there thanks:D

Gavin Duffy so wants to pork the new woman on the show Norah Casey!