To Hate Jack Wills....pompous, over-priced, con artists.

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I've been on their sodding waiting list for yonks, then today I get an email that tells me 'Don't miss out. You are two steps away from receiving your exclusive Jack Wills Outlet Access. Step 1 - log in on the Jack Wills site; Step 2 - log in on the Jack Wills Outlet site.'

So I follow these two steps, expecting to receive my exclusive access. And it doesn't happen. So I email their customer services. Ha. They come back and tell me I'm stupid. They just meant I was being added to the waiting list. So I go back and say, your marketing is a bit misleading and I thought I was already on your waiting list. And they reply and say, no, you're still stupid, for the same reasons we said earlier!

So, I am complaining. To anyone and everyone that they are a bunch of over-priced, over-pompous shites who just work on being nobbish and charge you loads of money for the privilege. Wouldn't be arsed, but my girl loves this brand and I thought I'd be able to get her a couple of new things for a change, instead of everything being second hand off Ebay :(

I know, I should have better things to worry about, but this had really narked me today...

OOOhhhhh uggmum. Off to find the address of the Halifax outlet shop. I'm not in York...was there for a luscious weekend of snogging my husband without my daughter and dog. T'was a delight :)

Pointyfangs agreed. I was never a mug til I got an 11 year old. Now I fall for all the bullshit hype. Apple ipods, Hollister, Jack Wills and Converse to name but 4 brands I've now had to go for thanks to the girl. I was always more a West Bromwich Market girl myself (hangs head in shame at thoughts of our biting poverty and realises she's overcompensating with only child).

DD is 9 so is into Abercrombie and Hollister - going into their dark, noisy caverns is very offputting for us oldsters. Trying to actually work out sizes in the gloom is a nightmare but she loves them....

I have outlet access too, I think you have to buy from their main site a few times and then you get the access?

The stuff is expensive but is very good quality as had been mentioned. DD had a fur lined hoody which is really thick and warm. She also has a gorgeous gilet which has been worn every day for the last year or so and still looks good as new!

I'd much rather buy Jack Wills than Hollister, it's worth that bit extra - Hollister is very poor quality and falls to bits IME

I live in a student town and one opened here last year. Went in when pg just to browse and rude sales lady came up and said "oh we don't do maternity, sorry" as if I had to be in there to buy! I was a bit and hormonal at the time and replied 'no I can see, you are what the students blow their loan on every term'.
It is unfortunately very true. All students around here are wearing jumpers costing well over 80GBP and look like clones advertising for both Jack and Wills.

9 and into Abercrombie? d'you mean 19?

I bought my first purchase ever from hollister yesterday- skinny jeans for £16 in their sale. They are quite nice but mainly bought them because I couldn't believe they actually fitted and were from a trendy shop! I know it is very sad!

freddiefrog thanks for making me laugh! couldn't agree more! I am truly crusty and flinch every time I go past Hollister

The last time I was in Jack Wills they had a hideous t-shirt which could have been interchanged with several of the primark t-shirts but cost ten times the price. The fabric was thin , it was a horrible boxy shape, a very simple print of only one colour so can't have been expensive to manufacture.
DD bought a thick mug with a rough, unfinished bottom for £8.

Snooty assistants too. I stand there thinking sourly, 'You are the one who's working in this crummy shop for poor pay doing a boring job. I'm the one with the dosh, idling round shops, so why are you looking snootily down at me, exactly.
I have a shirt from M+S (£12) which DD thought was from either Jack Wills or Hollister. I nearly didn't buy it as I thought it was verging on frumpy, but DD thought it was a bit young for me......
Oh, it nearly makes me weep.
So to summarise, no YANBU.

I had to go into hollister in Cambridge to get some of DS1's Xmas presents . Bloody hell . I went in there looking 41 , but feeling 21 , and came out feeling 71 . I had to feel my way round the shop, had the life frightened out of me by some admittedly rather good looking young man ( young man !) who suddenly popped out between the yuccas in the dark , and then having found what I needed , suddenly realised I was twice the age of anyone else .

Next time I'll be doing it online .

I went into with my younger brother to get him a suit, which to be fair was quite nice.

Stripes everywhere.

Pictures of young men and women (children ???) on big holidays in Cornwall and places like that.

Children in stripey shirts working there too. Ok to be fair. Girl child asked me if I wanted to go into the changing room where my brother was getting changed. No thanks I don't want to do incest today, bit creepy.

More bloody stripes.

Signs up asking for a "brand ambassador". Basically some kid to wander round campuses telling everyone "yah, my names Tristan/Horatio/Charlie and I'm really cool and yah, like would you like a stripey shirt just like mine so you can fit in at rugby". Fuck off, you weird man child. Oh well, I suppose "posh" is cool now, just like everyone was trying to pretend to be working class in the grunge era, fair play.

Fuck waiting lists. It's a fucking shop. You like to sell me shit so you can make money.

I forgot what my conclusion was meant to be

Jack Wills is crp. We went to their outlet shop in Bicester and I got my DD a short skirt and a couple of vest tops which still cost £100 and now she never wears them. Try Superdry.

Quirrel, Yes in the States they have Abercrombie Kids (do they have them here?) which are aimed at her age range. Her American cousins send stuff over from there for Christmas and when I go to the States (twice a year) she sends me with a list. I can't say I enjoy going in there (so dark and noisy) but I know it makes her happy. Bought her some red jogging bottoms with Abercrombie down the side in August and she wears them over her jodphurs at pony shows to keep them clean before she goes into ther ring.

Woo hoo I got an email linking me to the outlet site and inviting me to log in to their special weekend saver event.

And the site is broken.