Glossy Box

A question about : Glossy Box

Hi

Not sure if this is the place to post this. But my friends have just showed me this site

www.glossybox.co.uk

Looks quite good but I'm a bit skeptical. You fill in your profile and they send you 5 samples each month. My friend said they are of quite good sizes but it's Ј10pm and from next month they are charging for postage too.

What does everyone think?

Best answers:

• registered March this year , domain ownership is hidden, possibly to a German web site
  Registrant's address:
  The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
  address omitted from the WHOIS service
  edit found this , they are not full size items
  GlossyBox (Beauty Trend Holding Company) is a new start-up of Rocket Internet GmbH.
  Rocket Internet has been a strong partner to various successful internet companies such as eDarling, Groupon and Zalando!
• I have been quite tempted to sign up for this actually so I've been keeping an eye on it (because I know it's a totally unecessary purchase but I still feel tempted!!). There are quite a few reviews out there from beauty bloggers etc on the contents (although they could have just been sent a 'special' one - who knows).
  They do seem to be full sized samples from the pictures though.
  I notice Latest in Beauty is now doing a similar thing but for Ј4.95 - I'm not sure if they are just larger samples or full sized bits though.
• I can vouch for Glossybox being good. For my birthday my friends clubbed together and said I can have Glossybox for a year on them.
  I've had 3 boxes so far, all of which are fab. It seems to be that in each box you get at least 1 full size item and a few smaller sized items. They're all of decent size though - none of these freebie sachet things you get in magazines.
  I love it and look forward to my box arriving each month for my next lot of goodies!
• The packaging looks brilliant! The latest in beauty Ј4.95 ones, is a one off special and it states the quantity you get in each. They do larger samples which gives free p+p but costs more than a Ј1, but again it states the size that you receive.
• thank you elisebutt65. I didn't realise there were others out there! i mean I love the idea but I bet I don't regularly spend Ј10 each month on beauty products lol. I'm not much of a make up person either.
• hahah I remember when I use to buy perfume and they would give you a bagful of sample perfumes, but not anymore. That was the perk anyway for me. 3 boxes a month sound a lot. I mean I wouldn't use the hair products either but love moisturisers perfumes and body creams...will definitel have to think carefully abou it!
• I'm really tempted to try one of these but cn't decide which one to go for.
  I was thinking about ordering one then cancelling the subscription then doing the same next month with another company and so on. Are they easy to cancel and which companies are most recommended?
• OOO i am really tempted..............................
• LOL @ some comments
  I thought the first glossybox was good but after the poor one this month I have cancelled the subscription - its too hit and miss for me
• There's also Boudoir Prive which is very similiar to glossy box only it offers 6 products rather than 5. They have a code for your first for half price: 1BOX12 which makes it a fiver for the first one
• https://www.boudoirprive.co.uk/
  Looks quite good, may be worth a punt? I hope you can cancel after the first one though if it isn't any good / what you were looking for?
• Do you all know about the Latest in Beauty Ј1 beauty box, although thats little samples but still, Ј1!
• Discount code for a half price glossy box GLOSSYTUBE2012 Please see beautyboxreviews . blogspot . com for all the latest codes in beauty boxes xxx
• Thanks for all the tips ladies
  Couldn't get Boudoir Prive code to work, could anyone else?
  Voucher code "1BOX12" is not valid.
• Yeah, that one expired a while ago. Boudoir Prive is now Joliebox.
  I am going to cancel Glossybox, I think it's the worst one of the lot, Carmine and Joliebox are much better (and cheaper) plus the new She Said box looks interesting. There are different variations of the Glossybox every month and it's pot luck whether you will get the best or the worst. This time the two star items were a Becca cheek and lip tint worth Ј20 and a hair oil treatment. Some people recieved both, many others, like me, got neither. My full size 'luxury' item was a Ј1.99 bottle of liquid soap! So Glossybox used everyone's payments of Ј12.95 to budget for a few nice items which the majority of us didn't get. As some have said on twitter it's like we're subsidising the minority who get the good stuff! Until Glossybox formalise a system so we all get a chance to try the nicer products, instead of the random system now which seems to favour the same people over and over, I'm going to unsub.
  (Sorry I went on a bit of a rant there, too much caffeine before bedtime)
• Thanks for the help gentleorange.
  Can't believe glossybox do that!! I have actually just signed up for the half price box but it's highly unlikely I'll carry on with it unless it's amazing.
  Was thinking of trying the SheSaid one too, there's 25% off right now.
• Yes thanks chuck. Was just about to subscribe to Glossybox but I'm not subsidising anyone.
  Thanks for the heads up.
  x