**SPOILERS*** November 2013 Popsugar Must Have Box

[LisaLeah]

Are there any PopSugar codes floating around?

I want to upgrade my account before the price increase!

Thanks in advance!

 

[CuriouslyAmanda]

Quote: Originally Posted by LisaLeah /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  Are there any PopSugar codes floating around?

I want to upgrade my account before the price increase!

Thanks in advance!
I think REFER5 (for one month) and POPSUGAR10 (for three months) still work, but not sure.

 

[LisaLeah]

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  I think REFER5 (for one month) and POPSUGAR10 (for three months) still work, but not sure.
thank you!

 

[Momsgotmail]

Quote: Originally Posted by wisconsin gal /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I'm going through subscription box withdrawal.  I only subscribe to Popsugar, but with the limited edition boxes coming and going, I need my November box.  I don't want to wait another 2 weeks to get it.  I need a cheap subscription, that gets here at the end or or the beginning of the month.  Any suggestions?  November Popsugar, I need you!!!!
Julep and Sample Society both come at the beginning and are $20 and $15 respectively.  Glossybox is usually toward the end of the month at $21.  If you want something other than beauty, Whimseybox comes at the end of the month (craft) and is $15. 

 

[northwest22]

I get weekly Graze boxes. It's a snack box. They are $6 per box, super tasty and its nice to get a treat in the mail each week. You have to have an invite to join, but if you check out their Facebook page there are a ton of invites posted all the time.

 

[LisaLeah]

Quote: Originally Posted by wisconsin gal /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I'm going through subscription box withdrawal.  I only subscribe to Popsugar, but with the limited edition boxes coming and going, I need my November box.  I don't want to wait another 2 weeks to get it.  I need a cheap subscription, that gets here at the end or or the beginning of the month.  Any suggestions?  November Popsugar, I need you!!!!
How about Starlooks? It's all makeup (their own brand which is pretty good stuff) and it comes at the end of the month.

The price is $15 plus tax. They gave us a spoiler for the December box and its awesome w/ a $100 value.

May be worth signing up until then.

Here's the spoiler in case you are interested.

It's one of their 15 eyeshadow pro palettes. These aren't the colors. But wanted to show you what the palette looks like.
 

 

[emmzk25]

The Oxford trunk used to do a box for maybe 25$ that was accessories, I got it for a whole - some of the stuff I liked some I could have done without(typical sub...😉) they took them down for a while but are supposed to start up again soon - new and improved

 

[honeybee7]

cashmere socks.lets send out cashmere sock vibes-and dark chocolate and fancy coffee, and a snuggly assed candle, with eye cream!!!!

 

[junkiejk]

Quote: Originally Posted by honeybee7 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  cashmere socks.lets send out cashmere sock vibes-and dark chocolate and fancy coffee, and a snuggly assed candle, with eye cream!!!!
I could not agree with you more and I would not change a thing!  Fancy socks is a great idea.  Fingers crossed...

 

[meaganola]

I absolutely love Pop Sugar except for the fact that our preferences don't seem to matter. I have been a subscriber for over a year, and I I know we can expect to always receive our first choice in deviations. I would also think that I wouldn't get my least favorite choice every time,but that has been the case. I wanted the pink watch and I got blue. I wanted pink spa wrap and I got white.Wanted purple bento and I got blue.My Cynthia Vincent shopper was absolutely not my taste. Does anybody else get annoyed by this?

What in the world are you talking about? How would they know you prefer one color over another? And they specifically say they're not personalizing boxes. This post just baffles me.

 

[luvmymac]

Several months ago Popsugar asked us to fill out a survey asking about our preferences, so they could make our boxes more personal. As an example I stated I liked silver jewelry,but so far I have only received gold. I'm not expecting to always get my first choice, which I stated in my post. However, if I go through the time to tell them my preferences, I would hope that it would happen sometimes. I know it's a gamble and I have never posted a complaint about any box. I was just curious if there were any others out there who never get their first choice.

 

[meaganola]

Quote: Originally Posted by luvmymac /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Several months ago Popsugar asked us to fill out a survey asking about our preferences, so they could make our boxes more personal. As an example I stated I liked silver jewelry,but so far I have only received gold. I'm not expecting to always get my first choice, which I stated in my post. However, if I go through the time to tell them my preferences, I would hope that it would happen sometimes. I know it's a gamble and I have never posted a complaint about any box. I was just curious if there were any others out there who never get their first choice.
Uh...  The closest thing I've seen to a survey about preferences was the profile they asked us to fill out for the purpose of curating boxes and *specifically* state that they are not personalizing.  Emphasis theirs:

Quote:  While we're not sending out personalized boxes, we will be taking your preferences into consideration when curating our monthly boxes.
Curating is *not* the same as personalizing.  Curating is where they decide that this month, we'll send out this nail polish, that box of quick bread mix, these coffee mugs, and those bracelets *to everyone*.  And they didn't drill down to pink/blue/etc. in the survey, so I have no clue where your complaint about specific colors comes from.  *And* this preferences survey didn't come into existence until well after February, so the parts about the watch and spa wrap colors make *no* sense.  

I'm just completely confused by your complaint because they have *never* said that they would be picking specific colors to send to specific people, which seems to be your big issue here.  And given their goal -- brand exposure so you will go out and *buy more of these products* -- it actually doesn't make sense for them to always send out a first-choice color.  You like the bento box/watch you received, but you wish you had it in green instead of purple?  What a coincidence!  You can go *buy* that green whatever!  I get annoyed at specific items in the boxes, but I have *never* had the expectation that they would send a particular color to me due to my response to the survey.  I *did* expect them to send out pink stuff in October, but that's simply due to the fact that it was Breast Cancer Awareness month, and *everyone* usually has pink everything that month.

 

[MoiSurtout]

Even knowing it's random, it's still a disappointment when every box has the last option you'd want. This hasn't happened to me with popsugar, but it happened with another sub. At least PS say they don't take the surveys into account; I suspect neither do Ipsy, Glossybox or others, but they just won't admit it. 

 

[nicepenguins]

I always think of it as "luck of the draw," like the time I got the ugly orange and yellow nail polish combo plus the cashmere wool wash while I had an infant at home and wasn't exactly wearing much cashmere. I think I washed smartwool socks with it and that's about it. But I know about the brands now and I tried the polish to see how the formula works. I do take the idea "discovery service" literally.

 

[luvmymac]

Thank you for understanding! I have been getting this box for over a year and have never made any negative comments. I just thought by "putting it out there" maybe my luck would change. I always end up searching eBay to get my first choice,but it would be nice if I occasionally I didn't have to go through the extra step!

 

[miniminiluv]

Hope they start sending the boxes very soon!! Hoping to gift some of the items to my mom for her Bday which is on the 22nd.

 

[CuriouslyAmanda]

Quote: Originally Posted by miniminiluv /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Hope they start sending the boxes very soon!! Hoping to gift some of the items to my mom for her Bday which is on the 22nd.
I hope they're coming soon too! It hasn't been long since October's but I can't wait for the next one!

 

[CuriouslyAmanda]

Quote: Originally Posted by nicepenguins /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I always think of it as "luck of the draw," like the time I got the ugly orange and yellow nail polish combo plus the cashmere wool wash while I had an infant at home and wasn't exactly wearing much cashmere. I think I washed smartwool socks with it and that's about it. But I know about the brands now and I tried the polish to see how the formula works. I do take the idea "discovery service" literally.
Exactly how I feel as well! It's all about being exposed to new products. (Like crispycakes ... dangerously addictive things.)

I also get the chance to try things that I normally would never try. I'm a silver person and I do not wear hot pink but I actually enjoyed sporting that bracelet. It was fun and I appreciate having something different. Similarly, the cookbook was definitely geared towards someone with a lot less experience in the kitchen but it has some interesting recipes to try despite that.

Discovery service indeed. 

 

 

[boxesandboxes]

What in the world are you talking about? How would they know you prefer one color over another? And they specifically say they're not personalizing boxes. This post just baffles me.

Think she's just saying she's ended up with bad luck when I comes to variables in the boxes.

 

[meaganola]

I absolutely love Pop Sugar except for the fact that our preferences don't seem to matter. I have been a subscriber for over a year, and I I know we can expect to always receive our first choice in deviations. I would also think that I wouldn't get my least favorite choice every time,but that has been the case. I wanted the pink watch and I got blue. I wanted pink spa wrap and I got white.Wanted purple bento and I got blue.My Cynthia Vincent shopper was absolutely not my taste. Does anybody else get annoyed by this?

Think she's just saying she's ended up with bad luck when I comes to variables in the boxes.

The thing is that I see a huge difference between "our preferences don't seem to matter" and "bad luck when it comes to variables." The former makes it seem like there is an expectation that they actively do something to assign specific boxes to specific people. The use of the word "seem" in that first sentence gave me the impression that there was an expectation that they *would* send out specific colors according to preferences. That is what I was responding to and was confused by.