Caroline Hirons #27 Kim Jong Hirons, Too Hectorial For My Taste

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Whatisgoingoninworld said:
What happened with beauty pie? I don’t know the story!
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They launched a few years ago as a ‘member only club’. You paid a monthly membership fee, for a given ‘allowance’ to shop their products at cost price. They were big on transparency - if a product cost £5.42 they’d tell you split - ingredients, manufacturing, testing etc

A couple of years ago they upped their membership fees but essentially gave close to unlimited allowance under the new membership scheme. At the same time, the ‘cost’ prices of their products also massively increased. They said it was due to covid, but they also removed the transparent pricing element on each product page, so I’m guessing that wasn’t the whole story.

members who had accrued a lot of allowance were quite annoyed, as their allowance sort of became worthless, and they then had to pay a lot more for their products.. Many people cancelled.

They now pay lots of influencers including Hirons to promote their products. So their whole ‘cut out the middleman’ and ‘we have no marketing budget’ thing doesn’t really ring true anymore
 
marthaedwards11 said:
They launched a few years ago as a ‘member only club’. You paid a monthly membership fee, for a given ‘allowance’ to shop their products at cost price. They were big on transparency - if a product cost £5.42 they’d tell you split - ingredients, manufacturing, testing etc

A couple of years ago they upped their membership fees but essentially gave close to unlimited allowance under the new membership scheme. At the same time, the ‘cost’ prices of their products also massively increased. They said it was due to covid, but they also removed the transparent pricing element on each product page, so I’m guessing that wasn’t the whole story.

members who had accrued a lot of allowance were quite annoyed, as their allowance sort of became worthless, and they then had to pay a lot more for their products.. Many people cancelled.

They now pay lots of influencers including Hirons to promote their products. So their whole ‘cut out the middleman’ and ‘we have no marketing budget’ thing doesn’t really ring true anymore
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Not forgetting that all those years ago it was Nellie that encouraged most Freakoids to sign up to Beauty Pie using her discount code.
I foolishly signed up.
Thankfully it was only £5 a month but then you feel stuck because if you missed a month you’d lose all of your accrued spending allowance. I kept it going for way too long because I had paid the equivalent of £60 a year to be a “member” and I didn’t want to feel like I’d wasted my money. Then they upped the minimum monthly subscription to £10.
I did a couple of orders to use up some on my accrued allowance (it didn’t even make a dent in it!) and then cancelled.
I wish I’d never signed up to it in the first place but back then I trusted Nellie when she said how great it was.
If Space NK/Cult Beauty, etc said I could only buy their products at RRP if I paid £60 a year membership otherwise I’d have to pay the overinflated price then I’d never shop with them.
I was so stupid. Sadly I wasn’t the only one.
 
50sGirl said:
Not forgetting that all those years ago it was Nellie that encouraged most Freakoids to sign up to Beauty Pie using her discount code.
I foolishly signed up.
Thankfully it was only £5 a month but then you feel stuck because if you missed a month you’d lose all of your accrued spending allowance. I kept it going for way too long because I had paid the equivalent of £60 a year to be a “member” and I didn’t want to feel like I’d wasted my money. Then they upped the minimum monthly subscription to £10.
I did a couple of orders to use up some on my accrued allowance (it didn’t even make a dent in it!) and then cancelled.
I wish I’d never signed up to it in the first place but back then I trusted Nellie when she said how great it was.
If Space NK/Cult Beauty, etc said I could only buy their products at RRP if I paid £60 a year membership otherwise I’d have to pay the overinflated price then I’d never shop with them.
I was so stupid. Sadly I wasn’t the only one.
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It all just sounds so dodgy. Like, why not just make a product and sell it?
 
When I left I had loads a 'credit' built up and a week to use it so it was lost. Some of their RRP's I think are plucked out of the air too.
They remind me off the dreadful FM perfumes MLM in a way 'our products are made in the same labs by the same scientists but you arent paying for advertising' tit but now theyve got celebs and influencers on board they'll need paying
 
Whatisgoingoninworld said:
Yikes! So you have to buy something every month to keep your credit? Is that right? Let’s get more people in debt hirons!

Did anybody get the email that the kit is sold out! But when i looked the kit was not sold out. Must be a tactic to get the FOMOs buying
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You don’t have to buy something every month but if you cancel your subscription you’ve only got a limited time to spend your “allowance” so yeah it gets the FOMO going. Anything that makes the actual price of something so difficult to figure out is a scam.
 
Whatisgoingoninworld said:
That sounds like a pain in the ass. Can’t we just buy something ? Geez. Anything that renews every month is not for me. I end up wasting money by not using it.
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I don’t need an “allowance” I’m a grown-up. Lol
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They are now trying to push the annual membership. £59 a year for the privilege of being able to buy their products - please note the £59 does not come off the price of your products, you pay for those on top!
 
50sGirl said:
They are now trying to push the annual membership. £59 a year for the privilege of being able to buy their products - please note the £59 does not come off the price of your products, you pay for those on top!
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It’s just a big fat scam. Overpriced meh products. And anybody who says otherwise is only justifying their membership to themselves and everybody else. Very good marketing of underwhelming products
 
Sleepy_No0dle said:
I remember BP putting prices up during lockdown and that didn't sit right for me, then it transpired that their dark foundations were cheaper than their light ones. Of course they didn't realise. Okay 🤥
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That is understandable, I can see how different pigments may be more or less expensive that others. However, if I were Marcia/BP, I’d have averaged out the cost across the shade range. I expect that if you ask most makeup brands if there was a price difference across their shades in the same foundation they’d agree that there was.. but the optics of this were terrible!!
 
Someone I know started working for CH last year and made a big song and dance about how it’s her dream job etc etc. She’s just posted about how proud she is for “leaving a toxic, emotionally and physically draining workplace” even though it was her dream. Looks like the oaf is just as vile in real life as she comes across online 👀 ☕
 
honeymelon5 said:
Someone I know started working for CH last year and made a big song and dance about how it’s her dream job etc etc. She’s just posted about how proud she is for “leaving a toxic, emotionally and physically draining workplace” even though it was her dream. Looks like the oaf is just as vile in real life as she comes across online 👀 ☕
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Oh wow good on your friend for leaving then!

I still occasionally think about that person who posted here a while ago. Come back and tell us more please!
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Eewwww who tf wants that!
 

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