I’ve been with Ipsy for around five years. Most of the time I get prompt responses to my emails. During times of major change; like the introduction of the Ultimate memberships along with the option to choose products, there has been a slight delay. It’s typically only an extra day or two but this time it was almost a week, which is quite unusual in my experience.
However, I have experienced the same frustrating issue with their customer service about 80% of the time. That issue is that they typically do not actually read your entire message or at least don’t pay close attention to it. Instead either the employees and/or the software they use scans your message for key words and phrases and generates an automated generic type of response. This might work for a very short, general, and common issue. But if it’s an inquiry that’s new, unusual, account-specific, and/or detailed in explanation or even just lengthy (obviously I tend to be quite “wordy”) you will almost never get a satisfactory or sometimes even a relevant response. I used to keep responding and getting frustrated going back and forth over and over, sometimes never actually having my real issue fixed or even addressed. So now if I get one of their useless responses I reply with a request to forward my message to a supervisor in caps as the first line of my email. Sometimes this works, although occasionally it doesn’t help much because while they may send something that sounds more personal, they’re still sending those pre-programmed responses that may not apply or just still don’t completely address your problem.
The good news is that at least half the time they send me extra products or extra points to try to make up for the confusion and frustration. I’d much prefer they just answer me correctly the first time but at least it’s something.
If I were you I would email again with a request for a supervisor at the beginning or you could try using the contact form on their app/website instead. If I don’t get a response to one way I send it the other way on the second try. This is because my understanding is that when you email a second time you get bumped to the back of the line because their system sees your message as completely new in their queue.
Clearly I am not good at being succinct so I probably have more trouble getting my issues solved than most people, so don’t be too discouraged. But I hope sharing my experience still helps. Good luck!
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