[Closed] The Apprentice - can somebody please tell me why...

Slo the child can use it in different cars, and more likely for the parents to tell everyone, they saw it on the apprentice,along with how much they paid.

not watching it, what type of child seat? if its like a high chair type thing i can kinda see the point. we have one that folds into a little bag type thing. thats real useful.

It's a child's car seat. Using it in different cars kinda makes sense but how many times do you yomp across town with a car seat wishing it folded smaller. It's infinitely more likely that you'd change it on the drive surely.

Anyway, they're all cockweasels.

my kids often get sent to school with a booster seat, so that a non-working parent can give them a lift to/from off-site events like sports or music during the school day

since they walk to school I reckon they'd like a foldable one

(I'm a bad parent, aren't I ? 🙁 )

Didn't see it but would it be useful for air travel?

A mate once flew into Jerez with his kid only to find their car seat never left Stanstead. The girl at the *no brand* desk nonchalantly said "its ok you don't need one in Spain, technically it is illegal but the police aren't bothered"

er...

Anyway, they're all cockweasels.

This. Except Tom, who should really walk out and go back to inventing stuff.

Even if it has no other practical purpose you could use it to bludgeon that Melody to a pulp.

This is it

http://www.trunki.co.uk/products/boostapak_9/boostapak_21

Looks really useful

[i]I can see no good reason for this product to exist.[/i]

although you could say that about lots of things...

45 QUID, wouldnt a cammel bak do the same job.

I wouldn't buy one either, but la redoute are obviously confident someone will. Helen seems alright as well I thought.

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Even if it has no other practical purpose you could use it to bludgeon that Melody to a pulp.
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Plenty of good reasons to buy it.

Air travel, we have been quoted 50 per seat to hire for 2 weeks from hire car company.

Lots of people drop kids off at nursery and other parent collects, would save buying seats for both cars.

Travel by taxi usually involves no booster, this would solve that.

I'd buy one.

@m_f
Part of me doesn't want me to share, it wants sole credit for her demise. But that would make me just like her, thinking only of myself. So yes, we could put out an open invite, hire a coach, pack a picnic and some beers and make a day out of it.

Definatley a good product, our twins could take them on the train and put them in their grandparents car at the other end.

Beers? Stella I think... 😈

Even my non-violent wife has decided she'd like to punch Melody in the face repeatedly. I think, in general, the only one who hasn't come off as a total moron is Helen (I think) who has at least managed to stay polite and keep a little dignity. Wouldn't work with any of them though.

This is quite wierd - just finished watching it on i-player and the first thing I said to my wife when it finished was, "Damn! I have a massive urge to find her and punch her hard in the face". My wife would normally give me 'The Look' for uttering such thoughts, but happily, she concurred.

Right, I think we're all agreed. Someone get a coach booked.

You've got it all wrong......... It's going to take at least 3 coaches.
I can't wait for her to be sacked, and she will be.

So everyone agrees Melody needs a whack but WHY does Sugar commend her behaviour?!I understand she's got a drive to win but really?!! She needs her business to be global as no-one wants to meet her twice!

Lots of people drop kids off at nursery and other parent collects, would save buying seats for both cars.

No particular reason why you can't take a normal booster seat as handluggage on a plane or on a train, and I'm completely missing the point of the fold up bit to cover the seat (not watching the Apprentice, have just looked at the website linked above). However the idea of making the inside provide storage is quite cunning, and does make it dual purpose - I'm sure there's a perfectly good market for such things!

I thought the seat was a half decent idea on paper. Kind of thing parents would buy, then realise it is far too chunky for a child to strap to their back and lug around, and spend the rest of it's life confined to the attic. Perfect product for an online retailer. 😆

Some classic quotes from last night,
"I speak a little French, petit pois (small peas)." Jim
"I drew a picture of a teapot, that was my contribution." Leon

Melody also said something fairly derogatory about "The North" at one point I didn't quite catch, among all her other smug comments.

Bunch of fannies as usual, although quite entertaining. I wish the one with the harsh face that worked with Tom would stop saying "Yeah" after every sentence.

The seat is a great idea. Who cares if it's functional (which it is). What the designers have realised is that kids love to wear rucksacks! The trunki brand has already established itself pretty well and people will buy the booster-cum-rucksack on the strength of that alone (apart from actually having to have one from [i]somewhere[/i]).

Can somebody please tell me why people watch this rubbish?

I can see no good reason for this product to exist.

Hi Melody.

Can somebody please tell me why people watch this rubbish?

Looks decent to me. It seems to work pretty well as a rucksack so is a good idea. Price is about double what it should cost though.

Price is about double what it should cost though.

The girl that pitched to La Redoute nailed this one though - fair dues to her - got an order of over €200,000 out of them despite them saying it would be too expensive.

Wasn't that seat on Dragon's Den? Useful for cinema, theatre type things as well. Seemed to sell pretty well...

Wasn't that seat on Dragon's Den?

I think the original trunki pull-along-wheelie-case-for-kids-type-thing was on there...the booster seat is another one of their products.

Yeah but pretty sure I saw that type of back pack on there as well. Maybe Trunki took on the idea and made it better?

Right then, I've got 5 coaches with various pick up points in the north, 3 coaches from the south and a taxi picking up a couple of parisian shopkeepers from the eurostar terminal. If we can get another 50 peeps the nice people at Trunki will do us a special edition Boostapak 'Melody-Breaker' for a bargaintastic 35 quid. One condition - I get first dibs.

I loved (hated) that Melodys transalations;

French person told of rucksack idea: "The best thing since sliced bread, I'd buy 10"

Melody's translation: "They hate it and say they've spent their whole adult life looking for a teapot on a rope and so have the rest of the French population."

I can't believe Sugar'd work with her - she'd stitch him up at every opportunity if she thought it would suit her.

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Just one thing before we all get on the coach though.....

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hmmmmm..... spots.

You want to send that in to Viz for up the arse corner, might win a pencil or something.

Melody has got to stay in the process. I can't to hear her explanation of being personally trained by Kofi Annan and the Dalai Llama, being crowned "woman of the future" and all these other accolades during the interview show.

Squirm.

Melody - if your business is basically bullshit, you've got to be a prize bullshitter.

Tom

This. Except Tom, who should really walk out and go back to inventing stuff.

Agreed; however, it is very useful networking for him, and he is getting to know the mindsets of people in the business worlds pretty well. Useful for when he becomes BIGGER THAN DYSON. I liked him up to that point, WTF? He does need to pull his punches. He didn't sell, does El groucho really want a salesperson, or someone how makes the right calls and can actually do stuff?

Leon shoudn't have gone, he's got the best taste in watches in the process! Tom didn't contribute anything apart from a game of 'paper, scissors, stone' to decide who pitched to La Redoute. When they showed some sort of interest didn't he say the minimum order quantity was 10 or something stupid, obviously didn't have a clue about the size of the buyer.

@gachet - he didnt know the size of the buyer because Melody didn't bother to research them as she was told to. Too busy sorting her own figures out. 10 was still ridiculous mind.

obviously didn't have a clue about the size of the buyer.

* Although going into a meeting that SAS had arranged for them in a very big office with about 6 buyers should have given him sort idea of the company size.
Minimum order of 10 was rather classic.

Tom went about being PM in a very logical manner. He asked the right questions, considered the right issues, made the right choices, but was ultimately let down by his team. As per.

Even if he had pushed for the rucksac, no-one else on his team, especially Melody, would have bothered to try and sell it. They'd have attempted to fashion a mill stone for his neck out of them instead.

He really should have informed himself before walking into the LaRedoute pitch once it became clear he wasn't going to get anything from Melody though.

She's all me me me, hate her, although Tom is looking a bit spineless for not sticking to his guns.

You're all being played like a $2 banjo

They've got the trunki car seats in sainsbury's, they look pretty good.

I'd also like a ticket for the lets kill melody coach.

I think its amazing how Melody can speak to those French people and understand what they're saying.

can't to hear her explanation of being personally trained by Kofi Annan and the Dalai Llama, being crowned "woman of the future" and all these other accolades during the interview show

I think they are setting her up for this, SAS "what's your company" Melody "it's a global consultancy" 🙄

her comments about the North and Manchester were hysterical, I really hope one of the tasks is north of Watford so she can dig herself a bigger hole

Her global consultancy has it's registered office in a terraced house in Leicester, I won't need the coach ticket now - it's only a 10min walk from where I work 🙂

MikeG - epic!

I'm not doubting her credentials as a "youth worker". But all her work to date, including her business, smacks of voluntary work and charity. All very NGO, not very SAS. And even then it seems more about self promotion than genuine desire to help others.

I predict her downfall - she makes enemies within the group (is already), gets dragged into the boardroom every time she's on a losing team, uses her big mouth to talk her way out of the job. Or, she gets eaten alive at interview time and she goes the way of Baggs the brand.

I'm not doubting her credentials as a "youth worker".

I am, when she said what she did for all those awards "youth work" what they should have asked is "what did you actually do", I've a feeling it's 2/3's of nothing i.e. talked to groups about her meeting the Dali Lama and being trained by Al Gore whilst "operating at the UN level", I don't think it's going to be working with drug addicts in the inner city

Her global consultancy has it's registered office in a terraced house in Leicester, I won't need the coach ticket now - it's only a 10min walk from where I work

You just wait your turn MikeG, I didn't go to all this trouble for sloppy seconds. Anyone know how to remove the speed limiter from a coach?

I thought they were going to make more of Melody's 'market research':

Asking people on the Metro whether people travel by car or Metro = massively skewed sample?

I also want to ask her what exactly it was that she learnt from the Dalai Lama. Humility, selflessness, respect for all living things? Or self-aggrandisement, arrogance, selfishness and deceitfulness?

Why. 😆

My boy has one of those rucksack booster seats and they are great. It cost the same to buy as the hire of a booster seater from a car hire company and he can fit in all his toys when we go away. kids like bags, and need booster seats.