To wonder how Kate Hudson sleeps at night (Fabletics)?

[evenmoreforthemoor]

Yet another friend duped by Fabletics and their offers.

It relies on busy people, usually without much cash thinking that their offer is too good to be true before they find out a few weeks later that another £44 has gone out of their account and that they actually signed up to a subscription for leggings.

It's just such a seedy way for someone who is already well off, who lives a pious yoga/spiritual life splashed all over Instagram, to make more money.

@RaspberryCoulis

I was a member of a music subscription thing in the 80s - that long ago there were no websites and they'd write to you each month telling you what the album was for that month. You'd tick the yes/no box on the postcard and send it back.

Britannia! My Dad was a member. I remember the card with the cross was always waiting to be posted back!

@LovePoppy

Looks like you’ve signed in before? I’m sure at one point the landing page was there with all the obviousness.

It’s not their fault she didn’t remember or read it then

I go back to my original point. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that's how I made my money. Relying on people misunderstanding my business model or forgetting info they had seen possibly months earlier so I could take money from them for stuff they don't want.

Oh x posted while I was signing up😂 accidentally for men's section😂

If you have an account it takes you to that page when you're logged in, so your friend will have seen the splash page before that.

Clear as day on their homepage that you'll be charged monthly. Only people 'duped' are those that choose not to read it. I could understand if it was in small print which was hidden away on their site, but it isn't.

@9bt9

If you have an account it takes you to that page when you're logged in, so your friend will have seen the splash page before that.

Yeah she said she had made an account a couple of years before so that makes sense.

Very clever of them to ensure you miss that front page as soon as you have signed up, means you aren't reminded of how it works.

[quote FitterHappierMoreProductive]@RaspberryCoulis

Or can’t read as well as they’d like? But who cares about them, right?[/quote]
Why don't you show it to your oldest child and see if they'd understand if it was a subscription or not.
If they don't,or find it difficult to read, then you'd have a point. Atm,you're just assuming that.

@vanillandhoney

I haven’t said it’s immoral or unethical- just that they use that business model cynically to catch all the money of people who don’t cancel their subscription. And I say that because whilst I can conceive there might be a —vanishingly small— number of people who actually do want leggings every month, it is not in the same order of things like TV or food that people do naturally want month in month out.

But there actually is an unethical element because the monthly subscription aspect is in very tiny type (only the become a VIP Member is large type and who knows, that might be free? Costs you nothing to be an H&M or Gap VIP) and some people’s literary skills are pretty low.

@ViciousJackdaw

Yet another friend duped by Fabletics and their offers

Do you and your friends not tell each other much then? You're implying that at least three pals have bought from Fabletics and consider themselves 'scammed' yet none of them appears to have warned anyone else about it.

Ive got a number of friends who have never ever met each other

It would not be outside the bounds of possibility that i would be talking to one friend about a subject and they said ‘oh my god that happened to me’

@ViciousJackdaw

Yet another friend duped by Fabletics and their offers

Do you and your friends not tell each other much then? You're implying that at least three pals have bought from Fabletics and consider themselves 'scammed' yet none of them appears to have warned anyone else about it.

Yep, it's 3 of them now.

And my friends aren't all friends with each other.

Really you wouldn't be able to sleep at night because you sold leggings and sports bras by subscribing. A tad dramatic it isn't Kate Hudson companies fault that 3 of your friends lack understanding and just thought ooo leggings !

I sympathise a bit with the OPs friend really. You'd be surprised at the number of people out there who struggle to cope with what most people on here would think should be obvious. I used to work in advice work for benefits and people in debt. Particularly with financial stuff some people honestly can't cope with even basic stuff

I've actually just googled it and the average reading age among adults in the UK is 9. 9 years old! And that's the average

This is why we have warning labels on everything and no proper socket in bathrooms

Since flabletics were on shopping channels it was clear it was a clothing "club"

@Mrsjayy

Really you wouldn't be able to sleep at night because you sold leggings and sports bras by subscribing. A tad dramatic it isn't Kate Hudson companies fault that 3 of your friends lack understanding and just thought ooo leggings !

Honestly, I wouldn't.

It's very important to me that what I do for a living and where my money comes from, and goes to, is ethical.

I’m sure they assume most people DO read and DO want their products.

I wouldn’t be signing up for things without re-reading things.

But I guess I’m just privileged.

@Mrsjayy

Since flabletics were on shopping channels it was clear it was a clothing "club"

I like the Freudian slip

Oh and btw, people DO complain about other subscription businesses, especially those with an introductory offer for a fixed period.

They moan about Netflix,Prime, food ones,toiletries ones , apps on their phone etc, because they didn't see/they didn't understand/they forgot .

Fabletics is part of a huge company called Tech Style Fashion Group (used to be called Just Fab), they have 5 million members and 800m revenue. It's a portfolio of brands that collaborate with celebrities, the new Rihanna range is part of it I think.

It's not Kate Hudson operating out of a spare room! Fabletics have 522 employees on LinkedIn alone!

Next you will tell us a friend of yours was "conned" by hotels charging for the room mini-bar..

@AccidentallyOnPurpose

Well he qualified for a reader and scribe for his GCSEs, so I’d say the chances are high. (And he doesn’t have cognitive impairment, his IQ is 139).

But sure, I’ll show him the site and see what he says.

It is pretty simple. You sign up and take advantage of the offer. Once it arrives and you want to keep it you cancel the subscription. Not rocket science.

@400rabbits

I sympathise a bit with the OPs friend really. You'd be surprised at the number of people out there who struggle to cope with what most people on here would think should be obvious. I used to work in advice work for benefits and people in debt. Particularly with financial stuff some people honestly can't cope with even basic stuff

I've actually just googled it and the average reading age among adults in the UK is 9. 9 years old! And that's the average

Well that’s just terrible.

Also athleisure is normal clothing now. Many people don't only wear leggings to workout. The industry has boomed over lockdown, same as lounge wear.

I live next to a sweaty betty and everyone round me wears this stuff all the time. Workout or not.

Yeah she said she had made an account a couple of years before so that makes sense.

Only if this was the only website ever which kept you logged in for couple of years... Otherwise she would get the normal homepage