Birchbox Select Beta Full Details + Coupon

Um so let me get this straight, instead of purchasing $15 of product in the store and earning points on that purchase, you have the option to pay $15 for points to spend in the store, that you don’t earn points on. What mental gymnastics did they do to come up with that?

I wonder if you select the pick one, skip one option if you also get to choose the monthly sample choice. That may be worth $15 to me.

I had joined up for the February curated box that was supposed to have Dr Jart water drop and one other item I wanted. Then they changed the curated box. In the meantime I still got the January box and immediately cancelled. I didn’t get a choice and didn’t have option of curated box. I got very small samples including one foil sample and a perfume vial. So unimpressed. I do not see how this increase will make it better. I recently canceled Ipsy due to product overload but still have Sephora, Look Fantastic, NM Vanishing Cabinet because I can get new exciting products of high quality. The small sizes are fine when the quality is high.

I literally do not understand why I am supposed to want to pay $5 more a month for this.

All it’s managed to do is make me want to cancel my Birchbox subscription altogether, honestly.

It’s open no wait list. I’m going to try it . This might be worth it. You need to read it’s not the same thing that they ever done you get to choose different curated boxes designed for your profile you get to change out products that normal members don’t get options for you can swap your box 4 times a year for 150 points equal to 15$. Starting April. It’s 5$ if it makes it better less samples unused makes you happy and gives you more control than go for it. I see ppl saying switching to boxycharm I have it and got so many repeats that I’ll never use and so much eye shadow it is getting old. Glossybox lies about your products that you should receive and lots of repeats the limited edition boxes is nearly all their worth I cancelled! Ppl wanted more control better choices better options now you have it and it’s all complaints wow never ceasing

I don’t understand how any of those new options benefit subscribers when they all seem to benefit Birchbox themselves.

This May will mark my 5th year with Birchbox. I was tempted to drop when they cut their review program (still rankles me) but it’s only $10 and I’ve gotten some really good samples. I never do sample choice. Well, almost never. I think I may have selected like a month where everyone was getting a Stila lippie and we got to select a color. I’ve never picked a curated box. I’m been perfectly happy paying $10 and getting surprises, and I will continue to do so. I only hope that I’m not penalized by getting smaller samples. Some boxes as of late have had some pretty skimpy sample sizes.

It goes to show that the profile and surveys filled out meant absolutely nothing if they now want to charge $5 more for tailored curation and the option to just friggen load your money onto their website. Shoulda stuck with “We are not in the business of selling people samples” and let this sub die along time ago.

God Birchbox just angers me every time I read anything about them now. Which sucks because I discovered some cool brands like Cynthia Rowley and Well People through them. Even bought my first coveted By Terry Ombré Blackstar with hoarded points. I still have a stack of my favorite box designs sitting out for decoration, too. Sigh… the good ole days.

As someone that’s already been toying with the idea of dropping Birchbox, and upgrading to Boxycharm, there’s no way I’d pay 5 dollars more for nearly the same thing I’ve been getting, when only another 5 bucks would get me 5 full sized products. I do like the idea of more control over what I get, as one of the reasons I signed up for Birchbox in the first place was the fact that you could pick one of your items, but too much control and it loses the fun of the surprise element, one of the reasons I never choose a curated box. And getting a 15 dollar credit when you skip a month is just pointless to me. I’d rather just cancel and keep my cash, thanks.

What happened to the $15, $16, $18 “choice” debacle for Birchbox? With different customers being charged varying prices?

Birchbox is offering to charge their customers EXTRA for what Ipsy offers for free (included in same $10 price)? That makes NO sense.

If Birchbox wants to rebuild their dwindling reputation, they need to bring back points for reviews. If they want to do a beta test, they should offer their Aces these extra perks for free- just because they are Aces- for customer loyalty.

Birchbox can’t seem to tailor their boxes to their customers now- I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve gotten the incorrect product type for my hair type, or some other category- which ends up being a wasted sample. And they can’t seem to fix it, regardless of emails to customer service, numerous reviews, or just plain utilizing the customer profile like they’re supposed to.

Come on Birchbox, it’s not rocket science. Start taking care of your customers. Value them. Don’t go from bad to worse. There’s plenty of competition out there. Plenty.

this business strategy worked so well with blackberry.. raising prices for the same mediocre products, asking a consumer to pay more for customer service that is already provided by a competitor at no extra fee and in today’s competitive market try to dictate the entire market being a single producer alone.

What I’m scratching my head about the most is the option to skip the box and get $15 in points instead. Where is the incentive in that? It would make more sense to model this like Julep: have the option to skip the month and not be charged $15. It makes zero sense for me to spend 15 real dollars in exchange for 15 imaginary dollars that can only be spent at one store. The points exchange for the skipped box should be higher – say $20 in points.

I loved birchbox when they had the reward points for review of sub items. It was like getting my box for 5$ n i always got the curated box. It was my fav for this reason. But no more. I dropped birchbox when they dropped the rewards points now i gave them a chance again when i got a code for a free bonus box. While it was way better this time it still wasnt worth it to me bc i got items i hate!!!! That i even indicated i hated!!!! So until something better comes along or if this service was offered at the 10$ price point like ipsy ….

I just can’t wrap my head around this? I think if they were implementing this for free (like Ipsy is right now) they could possibly redemption themselves a bit. But to charge people money? When you’ve already turned a big portion of your customers off, just a bad idea. My last Ipsy bag had a value of around $75, I got to pick an item and request 2 not have categories, all for $10. I dunno, I just don’t see where their heads are at.

No. No additional product or bigger sizes.

Ipsy is doing this for free and better, I don’t understand why I should pay $5 for nothing…

Definitely not worth an extra $5/month for things they should have done to try and fix their sub in the first place. SO glad this is my last month.

Now to wait (semi) patiently for my spot to come up on Notoriously Morbid’s waiting list. At least I managed to snag a one month trial subscription to tie me over.

A price increase but no extra product? It doesn’t cost more money to tailor boxes to people’s prefrences.

Sounds promising… I hope they can redeem their reputation this way. It’ll all depend on what they wind up sending out…