Liberty Beauty Drop Subscription Box Spoiler Part 6

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Shiny new thread

I have noticed in store that some of their longer term staff seem to have gone recently. My dog had a few favourites who I haven't seen since before Christmas.

In the past I never used my £5 birthday vouchers as I don't live near the store and the postage would cancel it out. It has been handy to order low value items with no postage cost.

I’ve cancelled mine today too. I’m not happy especially as I’ve just committed to pay for a years subscriptions for my lovely DIL as a gift so will have to pay hers whatever.

Yes would love to find how many cancel in the next week.

Spoke too soon. When I searched for the birthday email it was there, I just didn’t see it when it arrived as it came in the early hours of January 1st!

I've just cancelled!

I'm out ✌️

Darn shame. They’ll lose a lot of incidental business from this too as I happen across other things when I’m browsing to find what to spent my saved money on. I’m also less likely to buy a Liberty AC as there are others out there which attract - any remaining funds were a good incentive to get Liberty rather than another.

They are going to haemorrhage subscribers and they were being naive if they believed they wouldn’t.

Or maybe keeping the BD small is the ultimate aim?

I'll be cancelling, such a shame 😞

I’ve just cancelled too.
I was impressed with the idea at first and wanted to support Liberty (that first box was fabulous!), but I never loved the idea of my money being completely locked in to spend there (Naked Wines/Angels for eg. take the money monthly but you can withdraw it in full any time you want, they just keep it like a bank rather than with a commitment to spend).

During a family finances audit recently DH questioned the subscription and I explained why I wanted to keep it, but ever since I’ve been umming over whether to retain it or not.

This email, sadly, made the decision for me.

Agree with you. Gutted though

For those wanting to get a GWP, last year's spring offering came out on the 3rd of may. It was for a £175 spend so you would receive free shipping anyway.

I'm umming and ahhing about how longer to keep mine for, I may be one of the (few?) people who ends up staying in it for a bit longer. It prompted me to browse the website to see if I wanted to redeem my credit - there's a perfume (exclusive to Liberty) which I should have bought with their recent beauty-wide offer, it's gone back up to full price now. Doh!

I think I'm out too. I really enjoy it and have been signed up since the beginning, finding a lot of interesting new products as a result. But I'm not paying £60 for the privilege.

Such a shame as I suspect the model won't be sustainable any more.

Not worth it for me (although might hang on for one last box). I only joined because I'd be buying a beauty AC anyway, and had liked the look of Liberty's the previous year, so it worked out well to spread the cost while also getting freebies. I might as well just stick £20 aside each month and choose whatever beauty AC I most like the look of.

Well I’ve been a member since the inception of the Beauty Drop but that has given me the push to cancel. I have so much credit and vouchers that I am struggling to spend. Too many beauty products are constantly out of stock - I’ve wanted a Lisa Eldridge lip gloss but it’s never in so it’s pointless having £20
a month building up. I now have all the nice Liberty bargains I could ever want (silk Liberty print dressing gowns etc plus a good collection of wash bags!
I also worry about the state of Liberty finances too, when I have £200 sitting there that I’ve had nothing of interest to
spend it on it makes me a bit jittery. Liberty have endless sales now. For the past couple of years thE GWPs have been a shadow of their former selves in the main. Advent calendars too disappointing. So no, £60 for nothing is not appealing. Liberty, you are being somewhat greedy - you have large sums of our money in your coffers for sending us essentially samples. And now you want more.

Agree - the boxes are not worth £60

Also agree that I’m gutted! Thought it was a great scheme and got me spending at Liberty instead of Space NK or similar.

is it worth me waiting for next box / GWP or shall I cut my losses now..? Decisions decisions…

It sounds like I’m the only one keeping it!
I don’t mind the extra fiver a month, happy to stay in.
The boxes are always mixed for me, don’t think I’ve ever had one that was a total hit but every one has given me at least one new thing I’d never tried and went on to buy again full sized.

I’m really torn! I love it and some of the products that we received have become firm favourites. I like trying new products but is it worth it? Would I put the money away and spend just on me if it wasn’t being ‘banked’ by Liberty? Probably not tbh.
I think I might decide after the next box although will probably try and spend some credit/vouchers before then just in case this is the beginning of the end. I will cry if Liberty ever ceases to exist and will probably go into mourning

Better to spend your balance before cancelling in order to avail of the free shipping.

What’s GWP?

I don’t know whether to cancel as well. Such a shame as I’ve loved the scheme.

I'd probably have stayed in for an extra £5 if that was added to credit. It becoming a sunk cost isn't OK for me, especially as I tend to buy in store so don't benefit from free shipping outside of the boxes.

I’m out too. The boxes have massively gone down hill. I didn’t even get a couple of the bits in the last box- £15 for four samples as mine was would have been massively overpriced.

Also got both emails but I’m assuming that they’ll be upping the cost immediately as I’ve been a member since the start.

@VoleChomper good point re spending the balance while getting free shipping!