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You people really need to get a life. Boxmonthly has not made a dime off any of this in fact it cost me a lot of money, especially since I sent everything priority mail.
As a company whether or not you made a dime is not our concern. The fact is items seen in your customers boxes look exactly like the items from Birchbox and considering you have a Birchbox account it seems as if you're just reselling stuff from your Birchbox under the guise of a subscription service.
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I purposely sent the Pureology box so you would realize that it came from the Pureology company. I guess that didn't click. You just really have to find ways to turn everything into negatives and make up horrible, rude, ugly rumors. I don't get it. Really.
Posh Pod, another independent company, bought their products from EBay. This is what has people concerned when a company's box looks... well messy as yours has looked... they're concerned. Can't blame them for questioning where you obtained your products.
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I do not know who made you the Sample Box police. You are making up ridiculous accusations and lies about what is involved. For you to go to all this companies about Boxmonthly is horrifying. You have already found out that companies have agreed to work with Boxmonthly. Are you aware that there are sample boxes who just buy everything and send them out in a box? Boxmonthly did not. I am just letting you know. Are you going to go to all the companies that do this or are starting to and screw with them or is it just anyone who does beauty products?
It's a beauty community where people gather to share ideas and concerns. People reviewing products from beauty box companies is very popular on MakeupTalk and generates us over 1.7 million views per month. We have over 75,000 members of which we have over 27,000 users and guests per day visiting our forums - including the owners of various companies, representatives for various beauty box companies and even celebrities. Who made us the "Sample Box Police"? Why everyone should be and if a company sounds fishy then people need to talk about it and provide facts about why it maybe a scam. Look at Posh Pod - similar situation as you, even made similar threats - and in the end it was discovered they bought their products from EBay and sent out counterfeit merchandise to people as well as old and discontinued products (old as in hasn't been on the market for YEARS).
Actually one person found out only one company was willing to work with your company. I haven't contact Jesse's Girl (yet) and I'm waiting to hear from my contact at BeFine. I have the luxury now to have insider contacts with many companies - including at other beauty box companies - so if something seems odd I can go to any one of my contacts and ask them. Are you aware that not all beauty box or sample companies BUY their products but rather work in conjunction with companies to send out samples in exchange for an advertising fee or a portion of revenue generated by sales? Each company works differently but the most successful do NOT tell people to "get a life" or make threats against those with questions and concerns.
And to answer your question on contacting companies to "screw with them" (how professional) the answer is, yes if there's a reason to be concerned. When Posh Pod came about people were wary about Gina/Silver's business because - like you - she posted things that seemed odd. In her case she posted images of counterfeit Chanel eyeshadow palettes, counterfeit MAC products, images from Glossybox (
wasn't there concern from a member here about you posting images from other box companies?) along with making comments about cancer which oddly enough you brought up to someone in an email along with things about your family and your own life which just didn't add up.
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You know so little of what you speak of. Are you going to say my parrot doesn't really talk, I just faked him talking? Seriously. The man I interviewed wrote the book, Google+ for Business. You seem to just take bits and pieces and twist it to suit your ferocious remarks.
What does your parrot have anything to do with your subscription service? That makes no sense. Why are you deflecting?
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Please stay out of my personal business and my life. Do not use my name and take this board and all my information down. It is really scary that you are doing this. If you don't stop posting all of my private information, twitters, emails, websites etc... I am getting a lawyer and this website will be charged with harrassment and invasion of privacy and will be shut down.
Good luck with that as that's the same position Posh Pod took and what happened to Posh Pod when we were threatened? Oh that's right, the thread about them remained up, members dug up more information about Posh Pod including discovering and verifying she was buying her products off EBay.
Also, your name is plastered ALL over your websites (which are public information... including the Who Is on your domain name which includes your address and apartment number). Websites are public information and unless you secured it behind a secure website then it's not private information. (Seriously, you should have added privacy to your domain since your address and phone number are listed in a public Who Is on Godaddy.com. Are you going to sue them too?)
As for harassment, no one is harassing you. Questions have been raised due to people posting images of the products they received from you. Because your a company selling or reselling goods people have - under FEDERAL law - the right to ask questions about your company and do research. The FTC actually has written on their website that people should investigate a company if it seems to be too good to be true, look for reviews, etc. No invasion of privacy has been posted on MUT as your personal address and phone number have no been posted while the rest of the information that has been - including your name - is public knowledge due to YOUR posting on a public wall on Facebook. Also remember that in order to file a lawsuit against a person you have to do it in that person's jurisdiction, you're in New York, are you willing to attempt to file a lawsuit against MUT in California which is where the forums are based much less against the members on MUT who live across the US?
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I also know people who work for Facebook and I know one of you has taken Facebook pages and put them on a website with photos of individuals. You are all breaking copyright laws by taking information off pages and websites and using them on this and other websites to defame me or anyone else.
Copyright law also allows for FAIR USE.
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Instead of trying to hurt other people and businesses, you should learn what is legal and how many laws you are breaking.
Do you have a business license in New York City? Do you have a business license with New York State? Do you have a reseller's license in New York State? These are fair and legitimate questions which can be found via a search on the NYC or NY state business department websites as well as the NY state revenue department website. No? Yes? It's also against Federal law to resell products as new when it's not (this is why tags on mattresses are required, for example).
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It is one thing if you want to know about the company itself. It is another for you to go into my personal life and knock and criticize and defame me and everything about my life.
You shouldn't post your private information online if you don't want people to discuss it. By sharing your personal information on your websites you again opened yourself up to people looking into your company and into you. Did you know that a former Miss Texas or Miss Texas Teen director (I can't recall which pageant) was found guilt of embezzling money along with fraud YET had the gall to say that the girl (they ended up dethroning) was not of good moral character? The girl sued, won in court to get her title back. If it weren't for that public information then the girl could have lost her case. Your personal life reflects on your business and that's a fact of life. In my area there was a recent scandal where an accounting manager for a county department turns out he was investigated by the FBI for embezzling and that he had been arrested and convicted of embezzling (late 80s/early 90s)... yet no one wanted to out him from his most recent job because they were afraid of being sued. Well guess what happened.... that's right he embezzled MILLIONS again because no one wanted to out him. He's currently in jail waiting trial for this latest. It's all public knowledge but people were afraid to act on it so he got away with millions for years.
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You really should be ashamed of yourselves. If you read anything I wrote on my website or Facebook, you would know I never said it was strictly a beauty box. This is really a shame, because my objective was to help other women with their self esteem, health and beauty. Yet your goal seems to have been to destroy mine.
Whether you're a beauty box company or a sampling company the fact is one of your customers received a box filled with products in which a product(s) was leaking. Your reply to her was rude, filled with a sob story about mother, about yourself and about how you give to people with cancer (or something to that effect). None of that had any bearing in pacifying that customer. A professional person would have apologized and offered to refund or replace the product instead of giving a sob story. Another member, who posted here, showed the condition of the box your shipped the products in as well as the condition of the products which raised even more questions and alarms. I have to admit, I may dislike Go Go Girlfriend (GGG) and Eco-Emi however their packaging on their boxes was far more professional then what appears to be a homemade label printed from an ink jet printer and torn off before being glued or taped onto the box.
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I do not want to continue this since I refuse to be harrassed any more by this Mean Girl "Beauty" community, who makes everything so ugly.
No one is being mean to you and calling you fat or ugly or anything like that. People ARE questioning your honesty though as well as your ethics and professionalism.
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You don't even realize that using Paypal is safe for customers and in the consumer's favor. I myself tried to stop Julep Maven and was not able to without many phone calls even after they charged my accounts multiple times.
What does Paypal have anything to do with it? Paypal is not always safe as many of the members here at MUT have experienced with GGG and were unable to get a refund despite not getting ANY products from them for months. What does your inability to cancel your Julep account have anything to do with your company? (BTW - email them to cancel so you have it in writing then dispute any charges with your bank account/credit-debit card holder once you have cancelled.)
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Sample Society charged everyone twice yesterday by mistake. There are many other companies and issues that you can talk about if you want to find fault.
And they also posted here on MUT about it and made us aware of the problems. As for other companies - have you read the posts about "BeFinegate"? Did BeFine threaten MUT to remove the post? No. Instead I was given the chance to interview one of their representatives about it and he explained - in a professional manner - what had happened. Have you read about the other issues members have had with Birchbox? No? Well, most recently I had the chance to talk to Katia - co-founder of Birchbox - about what had happened, again in a professional manner. What about Beauty Army and the issues they had in recent months? That's right instead of threatening us they explained what had happened. Remember the big MyGlam scandal between January and March 2012? Again, instead of threatening to sue they invited many bloggers - including myself - to visit their offices and warehouse plus give input on how to improve their company and as a result their service and products have steadily improved over time. Now as for the companies that have made threats - such as Posh Pod - those companies ended up out of business because they rather blame everyone else instead of taking responsibility.
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Funny, when I signed up here it was under the assumption that this community was about beauty. How wrong I was.
It is but there's nothing beautiful about being scammed.
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The fact that I was contacted for Boxmonthly to advertise on MakeupTalk and spend a minimum of $250 is horrifying to me. I am so glad I didn't follow through yet.
Really? You were contacted by a member of our advertising team? I'll have to ask about that.
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Anyone who has not yet received a box will be refunded and your accounts cancelled.
You should refund those who did get a box and were dissatisfied by either leaking products or what appears to be used products.
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Again, I expect this board to be terminated and any personal information deleted. If not there will be a major lawsuit and the business, Makeup Talk will be legally liable for copyright infringement and personal and financial damages.
MakeupTalk will not delete the forums much less this thread. As for your name posted on the forums, it's public information as you had posted it on your Twitter account(s), Facebook account(s) and website(s), oh and on GoDaddy's Who Is as your domain name is not private (you should have paid the $11 per year to get that set to private).
