On Sephora's Beauty Talk, people are complaining they can't order for 10 days, or until after 1/1/15, or place orders under a certain dollar amount, or various other restrictions Sephora saw fit to dish out. Too many people taking advantage of promos, sample sets, coupon codes, etc.
I do find it interesting how much of it we hear about here on MUT and on Beauty Talk, because I just think that we are such a small community of people who chat with each other, when looking at the big picture, right? We can see how many people are logged on here and also Beauty Talk, and to me, if I see 1200 users, I'm thinking that is VERY LOW considering the number of makeup users on the planet with a computer...even if you start factoring down using various probability factors, the number is low to the community you are speaking with. That being said - we hear about A LOT of people getting banned or being given a spanking in some way! My point is there must be a much bigger issue that they are trying to address, so they dish mass demerits based on some metric, and the result is innocent shoppers get banned, and not so innocent shoppers get caught. I don't know. Clearly I have nothing better to do on a Wednesday afternoon than think about 'what's behind the banning!'