Red Carpet Box

[PaulaG]

Earlier this morning Jen was mentioning again how she was just helping her friend, who is seriously ill and started this subscription box to help pay medical bills.  Previously the story was that Patty was sick of being burned by subscription boxes and wanted to start one that offered great items at a good price.  The "illness" excuse didn't come up until after the value of the boxes was questioned.  I do believe she is sick, her facebook page about the illness was created a bit (maybe a month or 2) before the Red Carpet Box page, but only con men play on the sympathy of people to get money for personal gain (ok and maybe politicians).

I feel sorry for Jen, from different chat conversations it sounded like they are virtual friends and Jen is a good person trying to help out.  Hopefully she doesn't get affected by all the blow out.  She has some good PR ideas, but all the items she is putting into the giveaways are from her personal collection so she may end up being another of us taken advantage of .
 

 

[DiorAdora]

So not only do we have Patty with an illness but I have found Jens Intro to herself! Meet the new manager Jen this is her info! I’m a very neurotic twenty-four year old with a major spirit crisis on my skull. I’ve got an odd perspective on life, and sometimes it seems like I’ve already done most of my living. I’m (mostly) clean these days, a recovered addict with a ferocious case of Anxiety disorder.

 

[PaulaG]

YIKES!
 

 

[sky595]

Originally Posted by DiorAdora /img/forum/go_quote.gif
So not only do we have Patty with an illness but I have found Jens Intro to herself! Meet the new manager Jen this is her info!

I’m a very neurotic twenty-four year old with a major spirit crisis on my skull. I’ve got an odd perspective on life, and sometimes it seems like I’ve already done most of my living. I’m (mostly) clean these days, a recovered addict with a ferocious case of Anxiety disorder.

She actually was posting on this very thread (see page 5). Same girl? I thought the profile pic looked familiar! Of course, she was someone in support of RCB /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[DiorAdora]

Wow! I find it interesting because I have been following this closely but just last week Jen wanted to purchase her first box. So she is a manager and has no idea what she is promoting because she has just received a box or will just be getting a box! So she jas no idea what contents are in the box! Its laughable!

 

[zadidoll]

I emailed LBB about their chat being used to promote other businesses and sent them the screenshots taken from above. Here's LBB's response.

Thank you for contacting Little Black Bag. And thank you for letting us know about this. We have following up with these users now to let them know that chat is not the place to promote other businesses. We appreciate you letting us know and we'll see you around the site!

 

[mellee]

...  what exactly is "a major spirit crisis on my skull"?  Did we just pick random words out of a hat and string them into a sentence?

 

[glamourdolleyes]

LBB has a chat feature? Lol

 

[Amanda ToyLady]

Lbb does not consider RCB a competitor and gave their blessing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiuFp5pZX0&feature=youtube_gdata_player New box!!

 

[glamourdolleyes]

Junk, junk and more junk. I do have a suggestion for you patty, get some eye brow things in your box.

 

[kawaiimeows]

it all just looks like cheap wholesale products, i'd rather pay $32 dollars and get 1-3 nice things like that at target.

 

[Honicakes]

Originally Posted by kawaiimeows /img/forum/go_quote.gif

it all just looks like cheap wholesale products, i'd rather pay $32 dollars and get 1-3 nice things like that at target.

Orrr for 2 dollars more you could get a Popsugar box with items like a bestselling book, 2 movie tickets, a designer scarf and more...

https://musthave.popsugar.com/

Same price - NO comparison.  

Honestly - if people are happy to get closeouts/expired products/and cheap junk for 32 bucks - more power to em... but I won't be hopping on that bandwagon again.

 

[kawaiimeows]

i find this suspicious. working with bloggers on reviews? seems like they're sponsoring people to review them.

 

[glamourdolleyes]

i find this suspicious. working with bloggers on reviews? seems like they're sponsoring people to review them.

Working with vloggers/bloggers isn't an issue to me, paid for their own box or not. If they're truthful of not is what I hav an issue about. I don't see how anyone can be genuinely happy about getting this crap.

 

[Robinssa]

What about these bags helps with breast cancer awareness? Are a portioned of proceeds being donated or are they just using the phrase to get people's attention?

 

[kawaiimeows]

Originally Posted by glamourdolleyes /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Working with vloggers/bloggers isn't an issue to me, paid for their own box or not. If they're truthful of not is what I hav an issue about. I don't see how anyone can be genuinely happy about getting this crap.

I agree totally. which was kind of my concern if she promotes reviews on their facebook that are from friends or family it might be a little misleading to people who are interested as customers, i mean we know for a fact that all of the negative reviews were deleted from the fb page, so people won't know the true concerns about the box unless they came here or to youtube.

 

[calexxia]

Originally Posted by Robinssa /img/forum/go_quote.gif
What about these bags helps with breast cancer awareness? Are a portioned of proceeds being donated or are they just using the phrase to get people's attention?

Maybe because she included a "beautiful pink purse", she considers that to be participating in breast cancer awareness? Pinkwashing at its finest...

 

[glamourdolleyes]

You know, that REALLY bugs me having breast cancer spread into my family for someone to capitalize on that. I hope shes not using that as a sales pitch. Quite honestly from the video (I was watching from my iPad so I can't say for sure how the lighting is from her video to my iPad and so on) it looked white, or even a pale pink, not even a "breast cancer" pink.

This is quite sick. NOTHING should be "breast cancer pink" unless percentages of profits are GOING to BC research and has a logo on it. Stop Patty, just STOP!!

Originally Posted by Robinssa /img/forum/go_quote.gif

What about these bags helps with breast cancer awareness? Are a portioned of proceeds being donated or are they just using the phrase to get people's attention?

Originally Posted by calexxia /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Maybe because she included a "beautiful pink purse", she considers that to be participating in breast cancer awareness? Pinkwashing at its finest...

 

[kawaiimeows]

Originally Posted by glamourdolleyes /img/forum/go_quote.gif

You know, that REALLY bugs me having breast cancer spread into my family for someone to capitalize on that. I hope shes not using that as a sales pitch. Quite honestly from the video (I was watching from my iPad so I can't say for sure how the lighting is from her video to my iPad and so on) it looked white, or even a pale pink, not even a "breast cancer" pink.

This is quite sick. NOTHING should be "breast cancer pink" unless percentages of profits are GOING to BC research and has a logo on it. Stop Patty, just STOP!!

this exactly. i was watching that video and that necklace she said was breast cancer pink looked green (or maybe i'm seriously blind), wtf?

 

[zadidoll]

If she's not donating portions of the money she's raising using breast cancer awareness then isn't that fraud as well?