Q Box Subscription Box Review – March 2014

Okay, so I tried to order the recent pikachu box, and when I went to purchase, it would not accept my credit card. The purchase did not go through.
After doing some reading, I am content not to receive this box. I will also be watching my bank statements for possibly any charges…can’t be to careful. Sad because it looked cute. The kawaii box seems better.

This weekend I got an email saying that the June Qbox will be delayed. They are shipping around June 15th instead of around June 1st. – Just wanted anyone who did not get or read the email they sent to know……….For me I got the surprise qbox and June will be my first real qbox. I only signed up for 1 month. I’m hoping it will be better than the surprise qbox.

As a global online shopper, I have to warn you guys don’t buy this box. All merchandises in the box are very popular in Taobao, the Chinese ebay. If some Korean or Japanese product once get popular in Taobao, there will be a lots of copycats that contains toxic ingredients. I saw the merchandise in the Q shop and I am 100% sure they are not cooperate with the Korean or Japanese companies. Some of the products are even mass produced.
It is a scam!!!!

I started with the April box and loved it, although I’ll be attempting to swap an eyeshadow palette in it in Swaps here. 🙂

Cute stuff! Made me smile! Just got an email that my May box is on the way yesterday, so yay.

I did notice that they randomly charged my card 27 cents yesterday — a week after I purchased a box — and I need to call about this to make sure it’s not some kind of a scam where they think I’m not going to notice a random charge that small. They did it last month too, but for a different small amount, and I forgot about it until I saw that small charge yesterday. >:-(

If they do prove to be on the up-and-up, I do like the fact that I can choose each month whether to order this box (based on whether or not I’m broke at the time). I’d probably buy more subscription boxes if more of them were like this.

I would just advise people to check their credit card statements if they’ve been ordering Q boxes. Hopefully I’ll find out from them why they’re randomly charging my card for weird amounts at weird times.

This was my first box and I liked it. It definitely had the value covered. I didn’t think the purse and necklace really fit the typical or stated box curation though. Having lived in Japan and Korea I wanted to see the kinds of things I used to enjoy finding while shopping there rather than a purse I could snag at any Charming Charlie’s. The purse wasn’t even Japanese or Korean in origin so it definitely didn’t fit the theme. All said, it’s a cute sub box but best when it sticks to the stated themed lifestyle items we can’t get in another fashion/lifestyle sub. Especially when the items that don’t fit the box theme are the higher value ones. This thankfully seemed like a departure from past boxes so I’m hoping that June will be back on track. And I agree with the others here that the shipping is a downer but it’s actually very reasonable considering Fancy and other subs like them charge close to if not exactly the same amount for domestic shipping and this is international.

I l-o-v-e everything in this box except the purse. The pouch! The candy! The lipstick! Even the necklace, and I’m super picky with jewelry! I might have to add this box to my ever-growing “wants” list.

WOW – The boxes are sooo cute. I noticed they are taking orders for the June Box … which I just ordered. They have mystery boxes on sale now :), for $20.95. I decided to get 1 of those too. In a way it’s nice because it will be a complete surprise for less than their monthly boxes. One thing is the shipping of $7.50 EACH BOX ( or at least that is what I paid ) makes the box a bit high priced for me because I subscribe to other boxes. After the mystery box, I will have a better idea if I like their boxes. If anything I might unsubsribe to one of the other boxes I get if to get their boxes on a regular bases. One thing I like about their boxes is they seem very unique compared to some of the other boxes I’ve seen. Because I’m not so much into make up I’ll know I’ll be placing the makeup items up to swap.

If you take a picture of the back of the sweets & let me know what you don’t eat, I can tell you if there’s anything you are avoiding in it.

this is the special edition box, not the march box!

I got the special edition Spring box, and I liked it. But I am not going subscribe it, I hate paying $7.5 shipping fee for each box.