Memebox: Korean Beauty Box Service

[cfisher]

@@thelavalampgirl When did you join Memebox? 

@@Jane George I'm happy to say I doubt it will ever go back to anywhere near what it once was. ...But I still fear I may be in need of some naughty, naughty's in the not so distant future.  :lol:

 

[TonyaBeans]

I just added mine up as well ... pretty easy since I already keep a list of all the boxes I bought. Adding in the prices was a bit scary ...

$551.55

I think it would have been much less, but the Black Friday restock broke the bank. Speaking of, all of my restock boxes are still in Korea, except for CP2, which should be on my doorstep today (along with Dirty Gal/Hair Salon/Tea Tree and like 3 Julep orders). My poor mail carrier is going to need a massage after carrying it all to my front porch.

 

[Jane George]

Lol. I have points to use so next purchase will be cheap too

 

[Jane George]

I just added mine up as well ... pretty easy since I already keep a list of all the boxes I bought. Adding in the prices was a bit scary ...

$551.55

I think it would have been much less, but the Black Friday restock broke the bank. Speaking of, all of my restock boxes are still in Korea, except for CP2, which should be on my doorstep today (along with Dirty Gal/Hair Salon/Tea Tree and like 3 Julep orders). My poor mail carrier is going to need a massage after carrying it all to my front porch.

Or an operation for a hernia?

 

[blinded]

I keep an ongoing spreadsheet. Every box I buy gets put on the sheet and it totals it for me. That way I know what I'm spending. Mine is actually pretty low because I have a limited budget. Since June, 28 boxes, $371. My average cost/box is around $13, so that makes me happy. 

I want to expand my spreadsheet to add in cost savings. Plus it doesn't account for sold items. Might even through in a ROI.

 

[athy]

I keep an ongoing spreadsheet. Every box I buy gets put on the sheet and it totals it for me. That way I know what I'm spending. Mine is actually pretty low because I have a limited budget. Since June, 28 boxes, $371. My average cost/box is around $13, so that makes me happy. 

For me, since April, 20 boxes, $409 xD Average of ~$20 a box

How is your average so low?! I'm impressed! D:

Seeing everyone's numbers... I'm kind of jealous hahaha

 

[Theblondeangel]

I've bought way to much. Almost every box since Global 5-2. We'll leave it at that xD

 

[Jane George]

82 boxes for me and a few shop orders. Not bad value at all

 

[cfisher]

@@Theblondeangel Finally, I don't feel so alone now.  :lol:

 

[Jane George]

@@Theblondeangel Finally, I don't feel so alone now.  :lol:

If I had a bigger house mine might be more

 

[cfisher]

If I had a bigger house mine might be more

I'm glad I'm moving in a year. I definitely could use the extra space now.  :lol:

Gosh, imagine how much space all those boxes would take up if I had saved them all. Yikes. 

 

[Jane George]

I'm glad I'm moving in a year. I definitely could use the extra space now.  :lol:

Gosh, imagine how much space all those boxes would take up if I had saved them all. Yikes.

Make an extension on the house with them?

 

[cfisher]

Make an extension on the house with them?

We could build a castle with the boxes if all the MUT ladies collected theirs. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> 

 

[thelavalampgirl]

@@cfisher apparently in early August. Thought it was later than that.

 

[blinded]

For me, since April, 20 boxes, $409 xD Average of ~$20 a box

How is your average so low?! I'm impressed! D:

Seeing everyone's numbers... I'm kind of jealous hahaha

I've won a few contests for either points or boxes, plus affiliate points. Also, I joined during the mythical 10 points for signing up, 5 points for a blogger referral, 15 point coupon days. So a lot of my early boxes ended up being incredibly cheap. 

 

[zadidoll]

I've only read the last three pages so I don't know if it's already been discussed but Memebox is getting out of the box game. The Ventured Life interviewed Karl Loo who is the Strategy & Operations at Memebox and this was posted in that article. I've Tweeted Karl to find out if that's true or not.

Memebox is an online retailer for Korean Beauty products. With $1.5 million in seed funding, and the prestigious accolade of being one of Y Combinator’s top 3 startups for Winter 2014, Memebox is poised to make a big play in the online consumer goods sector.  This year, Memebox will transition away from being a reseller of cosmetic products to an online-only cosmetic manufacturer.

 

[Jane George]

@@zadidoll I think we ended up figuring it was written a while ago. Someone mentioned july.

 

[Bunbunny]

This isn't the only time Memebox has had no boxes! Remember the days of Luckybox 1, Global 5-1 & 5-2, and so on? Where boxes sold out in less than an hour after release (despite no e-mails about them)? I suspect Memebox is looking to get that sort of environment back where people are scrambling to get a box so much that they sell out immediately, instead of waiting around and leaving some boxes on the shelves for months. It's certainly working, considering how quickly the BF boxes sold out even though we had literally no idea whether or not they would be CPM repeats.

I've spent $1k on Memebox... and $0 this month.

 

[Fae]

I spent 326,85$ on Memeboxes! Got 17 Memeboxes until now! ^^

Also spent 90 dollars on shop orders! I tend to use my points on shop orders! (7)

 

[biancardi]

This isn't the only time Memebox has had no boxes! Remember the days of Luckybox 1, Global 5-1 & 5-2, and so on? Where boxes sold out in less than an hour after release (despite no e-mails about them)? I suspect Memebox is looking to get that sort of environment back where people are scrambling to get a box so much that they sell out immediately, instead of waiting around and leaving some boxes on the shelves for months. It's certainly working, considering how quickly the BF boxes sold out even though we had literally no idea whether or not they would be CPM repeats.

I've spent $1k on Memebox... and $0 this month.

Most boxes do sell out quickly and before they are shipped out.  They had a glut of what I consider bad boxes (not that they are BAD, but they aren't what most customers want) -  the nail boxes, the brow box, lip box and the worst of them CPM2

I wasn't here back in those days you described - when I started back in May, there were lots of sold out boxes but still several boxes that hadn't shipped but still in limited stock.  

I think we are paying the price of Memebox's bad box choices (the ones I mentioned)   I don't want every box to sell out in hours.  That would discourage so many people and many of us have jobs and a life that we cannot stay up 24x7 to see if memebox has released a damn box or not.