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Originally Posted by Mrs30009 /t/140919/popsugar-special-edition-resort-box/1380#post_2339676
Oh I am so sorry with your experience at PS. So frustrating to have not have PS check the quality of the items before they were sent. I am surprised to that the designer would have ok'd these clutches to be sent out. Have you contacted PS? They are really good about replacing items. One of my boxes is for me and I will never use the clutch in the way it is supposed to be used so I only asked to replace one of them. Looking at it again it had the two different colors on the leather too. Having these defective clutches does take away from the rest of the box. I really love the towels. So your twins (quadruplet) set is awesome. Do you like anything in the box?
I do think that Social Bliss is great. Loving the curation of their boxes. And with the last bag they gave the offer to send a strap for the purse. And it was sent out pretty quick.
Aw thanks I sent PS a dozen photos last night of all the different quality issues on both clutches and bracelet. I requested that I not get replacement clutches as the quality is atrocious and that other things should be sent instead. This happened previously with the Gorjana jewelry rolls (February?). Numerous factory defects with the zippers, snags, the leather color staining the fabric and when people were sent replacements some of those rolls had issues too.
I liked the theme of the box; I'm a huge beach bum at heart despite living in Chicago. I didn't like the execution.
Hits:
-Towel
-Mist
-Gel
-Taffy
Misses:
-Eyeliner - This color combo is one that most people will not wear on any sort of regular basis, the Santigold collection has some very nice lipglosses and eyeshadows which would have been more useful. Or perhaps an eyeliner that was copper/gold or silver/gold instead of blue(!) and yellow(!).
-Bracelet stack - I like where they were going with these but these particular bracelets do not look like high-end ones. I may be biased due to the chunk missing on one of my stones. Perhaps something from Kenneth Jay Lane would have looked less cheap?
-Clutch - I'm not sure what I can add to the discussion of these. Wow are they poorly made. I'm a huge designer purse fan and after seeing these I will never buy anything from RB of McD.
C+P of prices from reviews:
Cuyana Turkish Towel ($55):
Sisco Berluti Bracelet Stack (~$100):
Epicuren Discovery Tropical Lave ($24)
Clutch from R. B. of McD ($~100)
Clark’s Botanicals Cellular Lifting Moisture Mist ($25)
Smashbox Cosmetics’s The Santigolden Age: Double-Ended Limitless Eyeliner ($24)
Salty Road Salt Water Taffy (salty caramel apple) ($6.50)
Roughly 33% of the box is something that works for me, the eyeliner is a miss but it’s functional (not broken) and I can most likely sell it or wear it at Pitchfork, Lolla or another festival this summer. One box I ordered has 60% of the merchandise damaged (clutch and bracelet) and the other box has 30% damaged (clutch only). Considering the clutch and bracelet were supposed to be the big items in the Resort Box this level of quality is completely unacceptable.
It’s one thing to have items break in shipping, leak, freeze, whatever. That happens despite the best efforts. The clutches went through two and possibly three sets of quality checks before being placed in the box: the person manufacturing them, QA at RB of McD and QA at PopSugar. If this is what passed I’d hate to see what failed.
I think a big problem with some of these designers that are included is they’re trying to design merchandise to meet a lower price point than what their used to. So they skimp on everything; quality of materials, visual inspections, zippers that work. If we’d received a clutch in all fabric that was stitched correctly, had no color transfers, pulls, no zipper malfunctions, a liner, then that would be fine. But since RB of McD does leather goods they skimped on the leather and that’s something that’s very noticeable.
As a side note the tagline of RB of McD is: “R.B. of McD was conceived in DTLA by the air you breathe, by the booze in your cup, and by the passion that pushes you every single day of your life.†(bolded by me).
Originally Posted by Mrs30009 /t/140919/popsugar-special-edition-resort-box/1380#post_2339676
Oh I am so sorry with your experience at PS. So frustrating to have not have PS check the quality of the items before they were sent. I am surprised to that the designer would have ok'd these clutches to be sent out. Have you contacted PS? They are really good about replacing items. One of my boxes is for me and I will never use the clutch in the way it is supposed to be used so I only asked to replace one of them. Looking at it again it had the two different colors on the leather too. Having these defective clutches does take away from the rest of the box. I really love the towels. So your twins (quadruplet) set is awesome. Do you like anything in the box?
I do think that Social Bliss is great. Loving the curation of their boxes. And with the last bag they gave the offer to send a strap for the purse. And it was sent out pretty quick.
Aw thanks I sent PS a dozen photos last night of all the different quality issues on both clutches and bracelet. I requested that I not get replacement clutches as the quality is atrocious and that other things should be sent instead. This happened previously with the Gorjana jewelry rolls (February?). Numerous factory defects with the zippers, snags, the leather color staining the fabric and when people were sent replacements some of those rolls had issues too.
I liked the theme of the box; I'm a huge beach bum at heart despite living in Chicago. I didn't like the execution.
Hits:
-Towel
-Mist
-Gel
-Taffy
Misses:
-Eyeliner - This color combo is one that most people will not wear on any sort of regular basis, the Santigold collection has some very nice lipglosses and eyeshadows which would have been more useful. Or perhaps an eyeliner that was copper/gold or silver/gold instead of blue(!) and yellow(!).
-Bracelet stack - I like where they were going with these but these particular bracelets do not look like high-end ones. I may be biased due to the chunk missing on one of my stones. Perhaps something from Kenneth Jay Lane would have looked less cheap?
-Clutch - I'm not sure what I can add to the discussion of these. Wow are they poorly made. I'm a huge designer purse fan and after seeing these I will never buy anything from RB of McD.
C+P of prices from reviews:
Cuyana Turkish Towel ($55):
Sisco Berluti Bracelet Stack (~$100):
Epicuren Discovery Tropical Lave ($24)
Clutch from R. B. of McD ($~100)
Clark’s Botanicals Cellular Lifting Moisture Mist ($25)
Smashbox Cosmetics’s The Santigolden Age: Double-Ended Limitless Eyeliner ($24)
Salty Road Salt Water Taffy (salty caramel apple) ($6.50)
Roughly 33% of the box is something that works for me, the eyeliner is a miss but it’s functional (not broken) and I can most likely sell it or wear it at Pitchfork, Lolla or another festival this summer. One box I ordered has 60% of the merchandise damaged (clutch and bracelet) and the other box has 30% damaged (clutch only). Considering the clutch and bracelet were supposed to be the big items in the Resort Box this level of quality is completely unacceptable.
It’s one thing to have items break in shipping, leak, freeze, whatever. That happens despite the best efforts. The clutches went through two and possibly three sets of quality checks before being placed in the box: the person manufacturing them, QA at RB of McD and QA at PopSugar. If this is what passed I’d hate to see what failed.
I think a big problem with some of these designers that are included is they’re trying to design merchandise to meet a lower price point than what their used to. So they skimp on everything; quality of materials, visual inspections, zippers that work. If we’d received a clutch in all fabric that was stitched correctly, had no color transfers, pulls, no zipper malfunctions, a liner, then that would be fine. But since RB of McD does leather goods they skimped on the leather and that’s something that’s very noticeable.
As a side note the tagline of RB of McD is: “R.B. of McD was conceived in DTLA by the air you breathe, by the booze in your cup, and by the passion that pushes you every single day of your life.†(bolded by me).
/emoticons/
