Memebox: Korean Beauty Box Service

[Alidolly]

After that they admitted it was most likes won on that comp. I gave up with their comps then. Nowadays I don't want to do their comps, I just want to be treated well as a customer

unfortunately you aren't even getting that Jane after the brush fiasco.

 

[Jane George]

unfortunately you aren't even getting that Jane after the brush fiasco.

Still ongoing

 

[BlackMagwitch]

I personally don't participate in their competitions, so I don't pay close attention to how they are conducted. Given that they are shady, disrespectful to customers, unlawful with their use of intellectual property, and have a devil-may-care attitude in everything they do, I would not put anything past Memebox. That includes arbitrarily rigging their own contests. Which they probably wouldn't even consider unethical. Was this last comp a legit contest?? Who really knows for certain? Either way I don't think the winner can be held accountable for their shady practices. Who wouldn't be happy for the opportunity, or want to win? Whether she won legitimately or whether there was some dodgy posting and positioning to get there, it's all on Memebox.

@@Alidolly I understand that you're frustrated with this situation. It's been a bizarre couple of months with Memebox. I think a lot of us are riding that fine line of 'just-one-more-thing' and you've obviously hit your threshold. Just the way others already have, and many are bound to in future. This is definitely the place to come and air your frustrations and be offered some understanding since we're the only group of people that could possibly get this completely weird Memebox thing. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[Alidolly]

Thanks Blackmagwitch - I've calmed down now (3 days of daughter not being well, high winds battering the house so little sleep and insomnia taking its toll!)...guess that was the final straw. I've loads of products and ordered a few bits and bobs from other sites so will have a memerest for a few months. I'm also waiting on a few things to arrive from them (Christmas mask box, Boxing Day 2 etc) so don't need anything else. Will see if they improve (so will pop back to see what's happening here and spoilers etc) but just won't be parting with hard earned cash. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[detroitjewel]

Its sad that all of you with well known blogs are scared to enter memebox contests. I think that speaks volumes.

Like @@Alidolly I am most peeved because the winner didn't follow the rules of the contest.

I had my eyes on her entries- because my gut was screaming that she would win. On the last day I thought in my overly competitive brain, "aha! Koreandoll is out of the competition!"

In no timezone on the planet was her entry on time- she even knowingly back edited a quote she posted as a an "entry".

I'm not trying to attack her or bloggers, its all memebox. I'm just chiming in with alidolly- its about the rules being ignored.

 

[Luxx22]

Its sad that all of you with well known blogs are scared to enter memebox contests. I think that speaks volumes.

Like @@Alidolly I am most peeved because the winner didn't follow the rules of the contest.

I had my eyes on her entries- because my gut was screaming that she would win. On the last day I thought in my overly competitive brain, "aha! Koreandoll is out of the competition!"

In no timezone on the planet was her entry on time- she even knowingly back edited a quote she posted as a an "entry".

I'm not trying to attack her or bloggers, its all memebox. I'm just chiming in with alidolly- its about the rules being ignored.

I stopped entering Memebox contests due to them not following their own rules...the time and energy I've wasted being peeved off because of that was not worth it anymore.

 

[Lorna ljblog]

there are 59 night care boxes and over 100 of the cleansing boxes left, i can't believe how slow these are selling nowadays, people really have put there feet down,and i feel people will only buy now once all spoilers or card has been shown.i don't think the 5 products will help either,

 

[biancardi]

plus they don't offer express shipping on 2 or more boxes - I totally understood in the past, why they didn't let you "bundle" your own boxes into express shipping, because they came out at different times, but when you have these boxes shipping out the day they are released, why not let people select them and get express shipping for the price of one box at standard shipping?  Or even the price of ONE express shipping box?   It is pretty sad, that they are doing this.

I am sure they will still do well, but they have taken the love out of their service. 

 

[starry101]

I think the $29 price tag is making people hesitant to purchase without spoilers/reveals. The Night Care box is nice, but not enough to make me want to pay about $42 with shipping and exchange to Canada. The $23 boxes are more appealing to me when I don't know the contents of a box. I would also love to see more mini boxes, like the boxing day #2 box.

 

[blinded]

Spoiler for the new cleansing box is posted on the site. I can't find anything about it anywhere online. I'd like to see any ingredient list because brightening products can contain ingredients that don't play nice with my skin. 

 

[LisaLeah]

I like the spoiler for the cleanse box!

thanks @@blinded for mentioning it.

 

[biancardi]

Spoiler for the new cleansing box is posted on the site. I can't find anything about it anywhere online. I'd like to see any ingredient list because brightening products can contain ingredients that don't play nice with my skin. 

I just purchased Skinfood's deep sea water toner, which is a brightening one, so I think I can pass on this box /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[Lorna ljblog]

It doesn't scream buy me with that toner TBH. And I still have no tracking for the night care box for my friend I'd ordered as they still have t delivered the Xmas boxes I had originally ordered . Boxing Day 1 finally landed in the uk on Saturday . Which is a joke really. When other parcels shipped from Asia the same time and are already here .

Anyone else had shipping for night care yet . I mean it was supposed to ship on the day yet no tracking had arrived by Friday and it still says processing .

 

[Alidolly]

Received shipping notification this morning for the night care box...my last for a while.

I'm not annoyed with @koreandoll as there were no T&CS posted for the competition that I could find (I think someone even asked on Facebook about it being US only and were ignored by memebox..,as usual). Not sure about the legalities of running a comp overseas but in the UK we have pretty tight rules about having clear T&CS which are enforced (I'm a comper too when I get the time!). The rules should have stipulated that each image had to be posted on consecutive days beginning on the 1st January and ending on the 7th January (at a specific time). Had they said that, Koreandoll would have been disqualified given several of her entries were submitted on the wrong days and her last entry wasn't submitted within the timeframe at all. As there is nothing, Memebox will claim they didnt put an actual time limit on it so she won. Fine, not her fault....just wonder if the "specially selected box" they send her will be leftover CPM2 items and those panda eyemasks that are past their sell date mwah, ha, ha!!! (Sorry, couldn't resist...me bad!)

 

[raindrop]

Memebox really needs to figure their shit out, of they want to keep running contests in the US. The golden ticket contest? There was no way to enter without purchase, which is 100% illegal. When I called them on it, they sent me a link to enter without purchase, but of course, I never heard back from it. When I emailed back to ask what happened with my entry, they asked me for my order number, and then just never responded when I explained my situation.

The Attorney General is serious about contest law, and of memebox doesn't want to spend what little money they are currently making from us on legal fees, I suggest they get it together.

 

[biancardi]

@@raindrop what pisses me off about the golden ticket contest is that "every box" was a winner, right? Well, no it isn't, if you get the same code in different boxes. That is wrong. I still haven't heard back from memebox on that.

 

[Lorna ljblog]

@@raindrop what pisses me off about the golden ticket contest is that "every box" was a winner, right? Well, no it isn't, if you get the same code in different boxes. That is wrong. I still haven't heard back from memebox on that.

I got golden tickets but I also received 4 boxes all in the deal and no golden ticket was included . So not every box in the golden ticket offer had tickets placed inside as stated . And yes 2 tickets had the same code and emailed them 4 times in till they

Unlocked the code for me to use .

The golden ticket thingy also broke the uk and European laws which they also convienantly ignored out emails as well

 

[Alidolly]

Yeah, I've got 4 ordinary golden tickets plus the 4th prize one. I managed to use 3 of them but not the other 2 as they changed the "rules" half way through to stop people using codes they'd found online. They should have tied the code to the box purchased e.g. If you bought hair care one it had a different code from the other boxes. They could also check if you had actually purchased that box...and if more than once, allowed the code to be used to that number of purchase . If you didn't buy, you couldn't use that code...simples. However, I fear their orders database isn't sophisticated enough to handle something like that...

I would really like to know whether they are governed by any Korean competition laws as well...I'm guessing there must be some as most countries have something (otherwise you could raffle your Granny's kidney etc which I'm pretty sure wouldn't be allowed..well, not while she was alive at least lol!). Unfortunately I don't speak or read Korean so there's very little chance of finding out..

 

[ZeeOmega]

Wow, it sounds like Memebox is violating a lot of contest law, which in the US will vary from state to state. It's usually why you get a bunch of legalese in contest rules to exclude the residents of whatever jurisdiction the contest is not legal in. I became very aware of this having grown up in a US territory, which are almost always excluded. The state of Rhode Island is a particular nightmare for many national contest holders. And poor Canada often gets the short end of the deal because one of the provinces (Quebec, I think) requires that contests be based on skill and not luck. 

 

[detroitjewel]

@@ZeeOmega I didn't know that about Quebec! That's interesting and I like that idea! I'm so unlucky at random contests /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />