Beauty chat - freebies/gifts with purchase/offers THREAD NINE

[OvaHere]

New thread because we can't stop chit-chatting and failing our low buy resolutions.

Everyone welcome to join in, new and old alike. This thread is a bad influence zone though so be warned all who enter! 😂

Ill add to basket and wait for a gwp or code 🤩

Mine was dispatched fairly quickly. I probably won't be home tomorrow when it arrives. Luckily it will just be one small innocent looking box. 😂

A few of the usual codes have been working on them. I only paid full price for the very first one when they were new enough for no codes to work. The others I paid around £33. Not quite as much of a deal as £25 but definitely no need to pay RRP now they've been out a while.

Wow, the one day I didn't check this thread! I wondered why there were 100 new posts 😆 It's lucky really that I missed the code because there's nothing in my CB wish list which means I'd have been buying for the same of it and would probably have regretted it. I'll keep telling myself that anyway!

This is the second time in a week CB have pulled codes almost immediately after they were posted on here.

I wonder if they are reading this thread!

I love the YSL blushers so I'll be pleased if the gucci is better. I bought the arctic rose, I hope it's nice.

We've got through this thread in 2 weeks, is that a record @OvaHere

Only one of my CB parcels has been dispatched so far, the extra stuff that I bought with the AC, that's the one that I'm least excited about receiving 🤣

I guess they spot the pattern in the orders coming in. The question that interests me is what the code was for in the first place and why it appeared then reactivated weeks later.

On the surface it seems like it's a reference to Wayne Goss but to the best of my knowledge they've never sold WG products or certainly not for a few years. Is it a personal influencer code meant for WG or some other Wayne that somehow gets activated and leaked?

If so how and why? Is it CB employees needing to hit some month end sales targets so a quick leak for a few hours onto the internet artificially boosts them?

There was another code that Coupert was picking up for a while (may still be active) LOVEFROMCB that offered a good discount, not 40% but maybe 25 or 30. That sounds like a Valentine thing but I don't remember it being one promoted by CB on the website.

I shall put my tin foil hat on and ponder this. 😂

That was the first one I bought. It's lovely.

Yes I think it is a record. I suspect your lovely, chatty self @JoRaRaRa is partly responsible. 😂

Interesting ideas @OvaHere

I mean, I'm not complaining at all, just mildly curious. 😁

BBWayneG40 = Birthday Boy Wayne Goss 40??? 🤣 It’s his birthday on 5 March, but he’s turning 48. Theories abound.

@OvaHere Haha! 🤣 Possibly, I'm so grateful to have you all to chat to 🩷

It is the same code as the one we used at the beginning of January. I wondered if maybe they allowed the code to be used so many times before it's blocked again 🤔 But it does seem like it could be linked to Wayne Goss, I just googled it and it seems that CB and Wayne Goss did some edits back in 2019. How strange! And why has it been reactivated? Pass me a foil hat!

New thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5493574-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-ten

Thanks for the new thread @OvaHere 😊

Just had an email from CB cancelling one of my 40% off orders - I certainly didn't ask for it to be cancelled so wondering if more cancellations will follow?

Posted on the wrong thread...

Oooh no 😔 that's annoying!

That’s interesting, I ended up with 4 separate orders in the end. Two have been dispatched and I have the Royal Mail emails and two are still processing.
Luckily the items I really want are in the two orders already dispatched.

Another one checking in at the end of a long day and seeing 100 new posts, suspecting that something was up! Made me go check the edit I had been keeping an eye on. The Lisa Potter Art of the Everyday is sold out. https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/p/beauty-box/cult-beauty-x-lisa-potter-dixon-the-art-of-everyday-edit-worth-over-150.00/17684539/ I only wanted the Kevyn Aucoin Eyelash curlers in this, so didn’t get it. No discounts and no eyelash curlers appearing on resale sites either.

I don't know if the code worked on this. I don't recall anyone saying they got it with the code.

Shiseido eyelash curlers are good and can be picked up quite cheaply on K beauty sites.

The code didn't work on the newer edits @BakeOffRewatch - you're safe

@BakeOffRewatch sets didn’t seem to be in the code so you probably didn’t miss out.

Yeah that’s why I didn’t buy it at £45 wouldn’t be worth it for one item.

@BakeOffRewatch definitely didn’t work on that set - I tried.

my order has been dispatched and delivery randomly upgraded.

I didn't get this one otherwise I would have happily sent you the curlers. Keep checking Vinted, they might show up when people declutter in a fit of 'why did I buy this'. 😁

I was expecting mine to come with Evri which is usually the case with CB but looks like it's RM next day, maybe that's to do with it being a weekend.