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Originally Posted by blueangel
I think the "prize" was not really a prize at all... but a desperate attempt at ratings. So far, it's all been about T&A. Bikinis? Models? Playboy mansion. Bunnies? (I'm sorry, but that may be a reward for the men, but for the mostly female team?)
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Exactly. Trump likes to emphasize that this is a "job interview," but apparently it's a job interview where you might have to model swimwear (they had to come up with 6 designs but only got 4 models), go to the Playboy mansion (that had to be fun for a nin-member team with only two guys on it, only one of whom is straight), and where you get asked by your prospective employer if you are gay.
The show, which so far has done very poorly in the ratings, is almost a parody of itself.
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Originally Posted by valkyrie
I thought Carey was pretty cool, and there are plenty of guys who would've worn that suit.
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"Would've" doesn't equal "should've," however.
Very few guys have the necessary BMI to, shall we say, carry it off. (And Trump is not one of them.) Of the ones who do, most are going to chose something more, for want of a better term, masculine, like board shorts. Bottom line: regardless of how many men
could wear Carey's design, a pretty small slice of the market
would.
Carey most certainly should have been fired. He lost sight of the task (stupid and irrelevant to working in "The Trump Organization" as it was). The task was not to be creative and cutting edge. It was to design swim suits that the prospective buyers would actually buy. While there is a market for the trunks that Carey designed, it is a niche market. This was not the time to cater to a niche market, it was a time to cater to as broad a market as possible, so as to have as many sales as possible.
Carey was in charge of the designs for men's swimsuits. His team sold over $19.5K in women's swim suits and $360 in men's. Two of the three men's swimsuits didn't sell at all. When other team members questioned Carey's designs, he blew them off instead of thinking, "hmmm, if they feel this way, maybe the buyers will, too." His designs, which were based on his failure to grasp what the task was about, were why they lost.