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Bigcheeze · 20-02-2011 11:51PM

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 · 21-02-2011 12:14AM

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 · 21-02-2011 05:23PM

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

JonathanAnon · 21-02-2011 07:01PM

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 · 23-02-2011 08:06PM

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 · 24-02-2011 07:05PM

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 · 25-02-2011 11:40AM

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 · 27-02-2011 11:02PM

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

nlgbbbblth · 27-02-2011 11:04PM

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

Norah Casey = amazing.

JonathanAnon · 27-02-2011 11:11PM

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 · 27-02-2011 11:12PM

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 · 28-02-2011 02:46PM

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 · 28-02-2011 04:42PM

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 · 28-02-2011 07:18PM

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 · 06-03-2011 10:51PM

first two offers are failures No matter who invested

JonathanAnon · 06-03-2011 11:22PM

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 · 06-03-2011 11:36PM

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 · 07-03-2011 07:36AM

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 · 07-03-2011 08:25PM

LOL was posting from my mobile there thanks:D

10-03-2011 09:40PM

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

10-03-2011 10:59PM

glasso wrote: »

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

Ah sh*t thanks now I've that image in my head

Shelflife · 10-03-2011 11:37PM

I have to agree with previous posters with regard to the petty and snide comments that the dragons are coming up with.

by and large these are novice entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance as much as money, they are probably nervous enough just doing the presentation without throwing in the cameras.

The smart comments are childish and unprofessional and they really should know better, as a viewer its offputting to say the least.

11-03-2011 12:18AM

it's tv - they are probably encouraged to make comments like that and what you see on tv is edited in any case - the actual interviews last a lot longer in reality and the producers / editors cut this to produce the tv bit...

13-03-2011 10:42PM

Gavin Duffy on the scissors gizmo offer - needs control as yer man would be a nightmare to deal with!

Exclamation Marc · 13-03-2011 10:43PM

Pfff getting sick of Gavin and his stupidly high equity demands, his stupidly high 51% offers.

He was my favorite Dragon previously, but now he just comes off as almost a bully of an investor.

JonathanAnon · 13-03-2011 10:43PM

I hate the way these people come to this Irish nationally broadcasted show and say "I'm having them made in China for 5 cents each"...

JonathanAnon · 13-03-2011 10:45PM

FireballPitcher wrote: »

He was my favorite Dragon previously, but now he just comes off as almost a bully of an investor.

I disagree.. I think his only option was to take control of it if anything was going to happen with the product.. This guy invents as his "hobby" as he said himself, so I'm sure he's not gonna be able to sell it himself.. I dont think it's a great idea anyway..

Exclamation Marc · 13-03-2011 10:47PM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I disagree.. I think his only option was to take control of it if anything was going to happen with the product.. This guy invents as his "hobby" as he said himself, so I'm sure he's not gonna be able to sell it himself.. I dont think it's a great idea anyway..

That guy I agree with but he was the same last week with someone else. He can take control and push the product to the high heavens without making the inventor a minority shareholder. It's not like not having 51% means that he's hugely restricted.

jimmynokia · 13-03-2011 10:50PM

your man should of let him take control he looks like he is near retirement and he could of let gavin make him the money, sit back and relax for Mr scissors

13-03-2011 10:52PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

your man should of let him take control he looks like he is near retirement and he could of let gavin make him the money, sit back and relax for Mr scissors

he also was way off on the real market potential that GD saw and seemed very headstrong so getting control was the only way to do it IMO

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