Dragon's Den

[nicanary]

Anyone watching? All five Dragons wanted to invest in the personalised football comics, impressed by his first 3 months' turnover of £100k, yet none of them, as far as I can see, asked him his net profit or the more important factor, what licence fees he had to pay the Premier League or the clubs themselves.

Did I miss something? The Premier League are a greedy bunch who think of a figure and then treble it. It ain't going to be cheap. Plus if the company's a success they're going to want a bigger wedge when the licences need to be renewed.

[TonyRPH]

I've just been trying to watch it, and someone needs to have a word with the producer / director.

The camera work is awful.

Constant zooming in and out, focus changes etc.

It's a mess.

Maybe they're trying to add a bit of drama or something.. But I found it unwatchable.

[bazza white]

He turned over 180k and and stated 100k profit. Id presume its margin not net. Could be net though depending on what deal he has with a printer and how automated order to printer process is. Could be a bit of a cash cow business enabling him to carry on working full time.

[mgtony]

Didn't he claim the net profit was £100K??
Couldn't really get excited about it, anyone want a personalised cricket book or tennis book?

The board game girl, why don't they just agree to take the investment at that point in the show as they can always pull out or change their minds further down the line.

[kev1974]

The Cadbury guy, if and when he does ever become big enough for Kraft's lawyers to notice him, will just get swatted like a fly, in spite of Peter Jones rousing speech. There have been a number of takeovers and mergers in the Cadbury corporate history of nearly 200 years, unless he can show continued parallel chocolate making activity in the family through all that time he is done. I have links to Warburtons in my family, pretty sure I can't just set up my own bakery next week and claim to be the new generation of Warburtons.

Surprised he would want to be associated with Cadburys now anyway, given how grim their chocolate is since Kraft took over.

His comparisons to Hotel Chocolat were laughable.

[MitchT]

Anyone else think his branding made the product look more like a scented soap range?

[mgtony]

Bad delivery.

[Pericoloso]

Shambles and then they had a fight in the lift on the way out.

[Cupramax]

Soooooo

[condor]

Pericoloso said:

Shambles and then they had a fight in the lift on the way out.

I got the impression the middle one with his red, watery,bleary eyes was either high on drugs or had drunk way too much before going on.

[Laurel Green]

Oh goody, something to look forward to later.

[Laurel Green]

They looked really off before even venturing into the den - like a bunch of thugs, perhaps.

Pleased to see the inventor is pulling out of the deal as looked like they were taking advantage of his business 'acumen'.

[hungry_hog]

Laurel Green said:

They looked really off before even venturing into the den - like a bunch of thugs, perhaps.

Pleased to see the inventor is pulling out of the deal as looked like they were taking advantage of his business 'acumen'.

The two sales guys from the first pitch came across like characters from Football Factory - surprised they didn't accuse the dragons of mugging them off or threaten to come back with shooters

[Laurel Green]

Love Rocky but don't think he'll get a deal.

[SydneyBridge]

Hands up who wants a cream egg and custard pie though ?

[Laurel Green]

SydneyBridge said:

Hands up who wants a cream egg and custard pie though ?

For once a year think I could stomach it.

[Driver101]

Peter is furious. He thought he had it, or part of it.

[Driver101]

Too many people making gin now. The market is completely saturated.

[Laurel Green]

Driver101 said:

Peter is furious. He thought he had it, or part of it.

I think it's OK to say he was not best pleased.

Well done Debbie.

[miniman]

When did the background music get added? Gah.